Wheurn to the goblin vilge, there are a few things that have ged, but not quite as drastically as the st time I was here. It seems the basket backpacks have bee quite the popur item, and I see a few goblins out and about with backpacks carrying various items about, and a few are wearing pnt fiber clothes. There are two new shops as well in town. One looks like there is a picture of a vase above their shop, the other has an offset square from the sign. I'm guessing the sed one has the clothing, and I imagine what the vase shop has, so I'll want to check both out soon.

  A preliminary check of other facilities iown reveals that most of the infrastructure is holding up fine, although I think we'll o clear out the water runoff system soon, as there is a bit of debris built up in it, and I still want to check the dam for any clogs as well.

  It's only been another day, but I looked over the dam. It seems to be funing well, although I had to do some ing as sticks and mud had partially clogged the bottom valve. Mud has started to build up itom of the reservoir as well, which was to be expected. It'll probably take about a week of work to remove the mud buildup. Other than that though, the reservoir is pretty much empty, which was to be expected given the very slow flow rate of the stream.

  After clearing the clogged valve, I went and checked out the two new shops in the vilge, starting with the picture of a vase. What I found had me pretty impressed. There are varying quality of works, all made from bsp; While I was looking around, I was surprised when Zeb entered. After a short discussion, he had apparently been helping this goblin while he was in the vilge st year after they wao make buckets like I'd made. sidering I made mih magic, it wasn't possible for them to make my stone buckets, but they worked with some different kinds of dirt, and after testing, found cy to be useful after cooking it in a fire.

  Apparently this has been quite a successful business, and they've started making bigger pots for st things in. My stone buckets, while useful, aren't infinite, and the baskets 't hold all materials, so the cy pots have e to be a solution to the issue. Zeb had a brief versation with the shop owner while we were there, and apparently, they've gotteh manipution as a trait, simir to myself.

  After the pottery shop, I had Zeb joio visit the other shop with the square on the sign. Ihere are various goblin sized tunics, all woven from pnt fibers. To a side, they have a simple peg board made of wood, likely made by Kaga, that they have some pnt fibers tied to. I'm impressed by their dedication to this, because making pnt fiber materials with just that basic peg board must take forever, and I am a little afraid to think that they were doing this by hand before.

  I have Zeb ask them what gave them the idea to make this stuff. The reason was that they were initially just copying the basket process with bdes of grass, sihey wao also make baskets, but didn't want to practice with the hard to work with wood and vines. After a bit of practice though, they had made a rge square of the stuff, and as they carried it over to show the basket weaver, the wind picked up, so they ed it around themselves to carry. It was a cold day in spring, and it helped keep the wind out, so by the time they got to the basket weaver, they'd had the idea for these.

  After expining that, they'd said that I'd o pce a order for myself, since I'm too differently shaped to wear any standard clothes. That's fihough, I don't really think I need any, my body is way less exposed than a goblin's what with my fur and scales. However, now that there are more shops, I think a few more likely deserve their own workshops, rather than having them tinue operating from their homes. How is it that every time I return to the vilge and I have a few goals to work on, I always find other projects in addition? For the while though, I o finish the dam, a ed out for year.

  Twenty days of work, and the dam and reservoir are plete for now. All the new valves are in pce, and all the mud is ed out. The reason I say that it is done for now, is because I'm going to be expanding it. If we're building the new path up the mountain, we'll need more stone. So if we cut it from the reservoir area, and expand it to hold even more water, that should help with not just flooding, but possibly making the stream have a slightly higher flowrate year round, rather than a few high flow times, and a small trickle the rest of the time.

  With all this maintenance dohe pn initially was to start building the new path up the mountain, but I think alongside that, I want to build workshops for all the remaining goblins that have house shops. The goblin that I want to teach leather actually still has an issue before I teach them to make leather. They need a lot of salt. The o is close, but not that close. I think it's possible to build a salt evaporation pond that the goblins could easily operate, but that will be a whole proje and of itself. While I work on the workshops though, I'll have time to do manual bor while I wait for my mana ten, so I start the process of clearing an area for a salt evaporation pond.

  The shops I o build first are the sea shell collector, the pnt fiber clothing maker, and the potter. Then, I'll build a workshop for the hide worker, and make extra space for them to eventually make leather. I want to make sure to reward the goblins who are brang out into useful ideas with better w ditions after all. I'm also going to talk to Kaga about making a loom for the pnt fiber weaver. A stone loom might be a bit too heavy for the amount of use it gets, otherwise I'd make it myself. I don't know how to make plicated looms, but I at least make an improvement on how they are currently making clothes. The potter's workshop will want a firing kiln for the cy, and I personally want to make a space for the shell collector to keep all their broken shells, since I want those myself.

  Awenty days, and I've gotten those workshops and tools made. In the meantime, while I worked on that, I had Zeb start looking into pnts that the goblins could eat. I wish I could say it had been very successful, but in actuality it's had some hiccups. Zeb got pretty sick trying out one of the pnts after about ten days, and so we put it on hold while he recovered. He had diarrhea for about four days, a quite weak in that time, and only now has he started to feel better. I feel very lucky that didn't happen to me while I was testing pnts to eat. There are some that could potentially be eaten, but none of them have had good agricultural prospects so far. If we find a good pnt for the goblins to grow, agriculture is something I'd like them to start, to have a more stable food sourbsp; I'm quite surprised that there aren't any fruits here, or at the least, that I haven't seen any.

  As much as I'd prefer to be doing the food testing, my ability to work is a lot more valuable than Zeb's. It paio say it, but between my mana pool aer stone shaping, it's just a matter of fabsp; If we were on the mountain, I wouldn't mind doing it, but since we're only in the goblin vilge for a few months, every sed ts. With that in mind, in my downtime while I waited for mana tee, I cut down a bunch of trees in a direct path to the o bay from before, and have almost finished clearing an area he o to dig the salt evaporation pond out.

  Ultimately, it just o be wide and shallow, with stone walls, a el to let o water in, and the ability to close the el. The goblins then harvest the leftover salt when all the water evaporates. Given how close I am to finishing it, I think I'll finish it first, then work oh up the mountain. It should only take about a week until it's ready to operate now. The only part that might be a problem is rain. Duriain times of year, it tends to rain more, so the pond won't be operational at that time.