Flax is actually the reason why I stopped playing this game, as well as having my game crash whenever I'm out at sea and I lose all of my items. I had raided a village of those jerkwad goblins (I can never remember their actual name) that one-hit you if you're not careful and I took all of their flax just to have the game crash and de-sync all the flax I stole. I even returned to the village to find it was all gone. Needless to say that was it for me. Until this game is running the way it's supposed to, expect a lot of heartache.