For the st fifteen days, we've been steadily w on the road, but between the more frequent rain, and the further distahat the rocks have to go, the pace is a bit slower. I've been over cutting rock, and ended up spending a little bit of extra time making a stockpile o the nding where cut stone bricks are slowly piling up. Even with the carts, the goblins and Zaka 't quite keep up with my pace for cutting sto now, and what we're pnning to do is get a whole bunch stockpiled, then vince Kaga to move them all in a day by himself, which I have no doubt in his ability to do.
As for the retch of path, it's only gone a little over 300 feet. These ses are exceptionally slow, and a rge reason for that is the terrain. Down here in the valley that the vilge is in, I'm having to struct the eh up, which is simir to the first stretch up on the mountain. However, for most of the middle of the path, we'll actually be cutting away at mountain in order to make the path, which means no stone hauling to the worksite. I'm fairly fident that those stretches will be much faster for both me ao make.
It's been five days, and today, we didn't work because of the heavy rain. It was fairly warm as well, so I decided to go and watch the reservoir during the rain. I 't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure it helped prevent a fsh flood. Over the course of a few hours, the water level in the reservoir climbed to almost 3/4 capacity after starting at 1/4 before the stream finally calmed down somewhat, and the water level stopped rising. There was enough water that rge branches have been floating into the reservoir, which I've been pulling out if they get close to the edge. I'll have to make sure that Zaka knows that it o be cleared out ohe rains slow down, and also make sure he knows how to opeher valves. I don't want any jams to suddenly cause a catastrophe.
Also, yesterday, I traded Kaga some ools in exge for him helping haul a bunch of stone up to the nding oh. I said it once before, but he truly seems like a monster, pushing two carts full of stone up the path, and theurning aing it until he'd moved the whole stockpile. He easily moved another 200 feet of path's worth of stone up the mountain in one day, by himself. Well, I doubt we'll make it to the nding before Zeb and I return up the mountain even with that help.
It's been ten more days, and we've only made it another 400 feet on that stretch, for a total of 700. Normally, Zeb and I would return up the mountain tomorrow, but I'm thinking it might be worth spending the twenty or so days to finish this stretch of path, si needs another 400 feet or so. We'd basically be losing a month on the mountain, but I think I'd rather have this se finished in one stru cycle.
My estimate retty much spot on for needing twenty days to finish that stretch of the path. We also got a small added be that I wasn't expeg. Ohe rain started to bee less stant, those pnts that Zeb had gathered all flowered, and seeded. Their seeds ended up beily rge nuts that float on water. Zeb seed off a part of the field ahe seeds float there, and we'll see what results it yields year wheurn. More exg than that though, will be seeing how the goblins make use of their new workshops and if they e up with any new ideas while we're gone.
We made it back up the mountain easy enough in one day, but I'm a little upset, because I realized that I made a mistake iimating how long the road up the mountain would be. While the path we id out is about 30,000 feet, the path is going to be siderably lohan that. Probably at least 50% longer in fabsp; The reason for the miscalcution falls o properly estimating the zig-zags we're going to have to do in the middle se of the path given the slope. We decided on about 7.5 degrees for the slope, but when we made the path, we didn't do that, and instead just picked areas that it would be easy to make zig-zags ihe slope was steep. So all those areas are going to take quite a bit longer. The walking path will still be about 30,000 feet though, since we'll be able to put stairs between those zig zags for a more direct path.
Zeb should be prestiging any day now, as he hit 99 two days ago. I thought he'd be prestiging while we were in the vilge, but since he ended up w on other tasks for most of the time, he ended up gaining much fewer levels than I expected. I'm looking forward to him prestiging almost as much as when I myself prestige.
Well, until then, he's at the highest mana capacity he'll be at for a while, so it's a good idea to have him work on as much stone shapied tasks as he until then.
Three days was all it took for Zeb to prestige. He added eight feet of path in those three days, which is pretty impressive sidering he was w alone on it. I ending that time getting everything opened back up, checked over, a up for crystal work to resume. The water colle pool I made up here is full, which means we'll have plenty of water to work with for the foreseeable future.
Going back to Zeb, he didn't evolve, which I somewhat expected, but would have been gdly surprised if he did evolve. Instead, he gaihe mana affinity trait, which I've been eagerly awaiting. First, it's just useful to have rger mana capacity. Sed, I've had an intellectual itch to kly how it works, and I think I finally start gathering a sed set of data to really help me try to solve it.
Although I 't say for certain just yet, but based on my previous data of both Zeb and my prestiges, I think Mana Affinity is granting us ara 5% of carry over from when we prestige, and an additional 10% capacity overall. Further information as Zeb gains levels will either support or deny this theory though. If it's accurate, he should gain about 2.2 mana per level from here on out.
Also, given Zeb's weaker state right now, I'm going to have him just cut trees down in the nearby area for a few levels, and build up our charcoal supplies. Instead of clear cutting though, I'm going to have him only cut dowrees that make travel difficult, so it'll probably end up being around half the trees. That way we aren't clear cutting the nearby area, but he'll still be close enough he run back to the cave if he o for safety.
I myself am going to tih the crystal growing process. The goal this time is a six foot crystal, although I'm not certain that I'll get to that point before wihis year. If the pace I worked at st year is anything to go off of, then it'll be three months before I'm to the 4 foot crystal, and I only guess how many months after that to get to a six foot crystal. In the downtime in the evenings, I'm going to start excavating those extra crystal bubbles that I found while I was digging the exploratory tu year. Given the scale of the crystals I'm trying to grow, having the extra material sooner rather than ter sounds like a good idea.