Ohing I wao spend time testing before, that I couldn't really risk at the time, was figuring out why the trees are difficult to cut down. I suppose I try to fashion myself another axe and maybe a hand saw, and try my hand at cutting trees down again.
I six days, the pavilion floor has made det progress. My tree experiments however, have not. My first test, if a saw bde could cut through the trees when they hardeed in failure. I did learn a few hings, but none of it has resulted in a felled tree. First, the hardening seems to be localized oree. If I chop far enough away on the same tree, I still get a single good chop in before that area hardens as well. Unfortuhat distands up being too far to be useful, bei away iion. I did learhing that could eventually be useful. The hardening only seems to st for a day or so. By the day, the already chopped area seems to lose its hardening property, at least until I chop into it again. I tried sawing into the soft area, but after the saw removes just a small amount of wood, it hardens, so I've given up on using a saw for now.
Which leads me to my curre. I've got tehat I'm chopping into once a day along a far edge of the clearing where the goblins stay. I'm trying to see just how feasible it will be to cut trees down. I think it's doable, but it'll probably be a little different than how it happened oh. Instead of going tree by tree, we're going to have to cut all the trees a little at a time, and then within a short period of time have a whole bunch of trees felled.
In the meantime, I've started trading the goblins for rope again. It's a good idea to have it stockpiled, but additionally, I'm thinking of teag them how to make palisades once I've cut these trees down. If they build some basic defenses for themselves, that would probably be beneficial for all parties. The less Zaka o repce his goblins, the less I'll be bothered moving forward.
It's now been eleven days, and the smallest tree has fallen in my wood cutting experiment. It was about 7" in diameter, so not very rge. Ohing that is iing, which I sort of noticed before when I was gathering fallen branches, is that the wood is soft. I thought before it might just be the trees on the mountain, but everees seem soft. Mind you, it's not balsa wood levels of softness, but still fairly easy to work with, which is why I think I was able to fell this tree so fast. Each full power swing of the axe would gouge pretty deep into the wood.
The tree itself is about 20 feet tall, although most of the wood won't be useful. The downed part of the tree is actually all easy to ow, which makes me think the hardening was definitely a defense meism. I cut an approximately 13 foot se of the main body of the tree, which I pn on sharpening the top of. This will be the first palisade piece when I'm doh it. Of course, there is plenty of branches and leaves which I'll o remove, but I don't have much else on my schedule while I wait for mana to replenish, so I remove all the branches while I wait. Most will probably be used to fuel fires, but if I find any good ones for tools or spears, I'll set them aside.
When I go to check my mana levels when I think they'll be full, I notiething a little off. Namely, before I cut the tree, I was level 37, and now I'm 38.
I'll have to check after my ree to see if maybe I just happeo passively gain a level at that moment.
I firipping the tree in five days, and as luck would have it, I did find a few brahat would be useful for making tools, and the hand saw actually came in handy after I made multiple tweaks to it. Namely, it actually o be better supported, as the bde would cra half whenever a snag would get hit. So the final saw bde is shorter, and is more like a serrated khan a saw, but it works well for smaller bits of wood. I also ended up stripping the bark from the tree as well si was being loose as I worked.
I firipping that tree just in time, because I felled the ree just that m. Slightly thicker, at 9 inches, and it's a little taller, but sadly not quite tall enough to cut multiple palisades out of. Holy, I think most of the trees we cut down should probably be about this size or a little smaller, the bigger trees are going to take a long time to cut down, and I'm not sure that they'll even be useful for this. Holy, I'll probably just halt the cutting process on the bigger trees for now. I'm not sure what we'd use them for anyway, and it currently seems like it'll take between fifteen and twenty days to cut down trees about this size, which means I'll have to firees that are about the right size to cut down in the area.
I gained another level as well, which is really leadio believe I'm gaining levels from cutting these trees down. Maybe food measure, I will cut one big tree down in addition to the other trees, just to chebsp; I've been marking down what levels I along the way as well on some ablets in my house, for recordkeeping purposes, obviously.
Some ood news is the pavilion floor is almost done. I've ended up putting slits into the floor io let some natural light down into the basement, as it's starting to get dark in pces underground there. The dowo this is obviously the extra ing that will o occur thanks to extra dirt falling in. All things sidered though, the extra lighting was very necessary. Many of the goblins are intrigued as to what it is I'm building here, as well as the why and how I'm cutting trees down. I'll be able to expin both soon enough. Especially if Zeb's nguage skills keep improving.
It took twenty more days, but I finally fihe outline of the pavilion. I've still got to build all the ste tainers in the basement, but the firepit and roof are done, plete with cooking grills for the goblins. Most of the goblins are out hunting right now, so I get the wood piled in, in anticipation for them returning. I'm quite proud of my work here.
I have other work as well to do though. I've had a few rees felled retly, and every day I'm getting a few more. Many of them are a little ways into the woods though, so I've basically left them where they lie. I also felled the one big tree that I was cutting down as a test, and sure enough, I gaihree levels when that o down. Between the small trees and the big one my level has grown quite a bit.
I'm only felling 20 small trees initially here, because I want to show the goblins how to make a palisade, thehem do the work themselves to protect their vilge. Although, given the levels I've beeing, I might have to rethink that. I've also noticed that it seems to be raining less and less now, and the weather seems to be a bit warmer than it was. I wonder if it's a seasonal thing, or if this is how it's going to be from here on out. I just hope that with the giher there will be no more lizard attacks. We haven't lost any goblily, and I'd prefer to keep it that way.