It took seven days to get the basement finished with basic shelves and tainers for the goblins to store things in. I also have felled the rest of the trees I was w on, and have a total of six ready to make palisades. Which means there are still sixteen that o be worked on. I've also built up such a surplus of straight sticks, that I've started to separate some to make spikes with. If we're building palisades anyway, may as well put some sharp spikes pointed outwards from them to really disce any of the lizards fr anything.
With my first major projepleted, I have another project I want to work on now, since I fear winter might cause the goblins some trouble. If the winter down here is anywhere near as harsh as on the mountain, then I wouldn't be surprised if many goblins starve at that time. As such, I feel as though a smokehouse will be useful. It probably won't be as effective as I'd like, given they don't have salt right now, but it should be able to keep meats for a period of time at least.
Sihe smokehouse won't have a basement, I'll be using stone from the pavilion basement to build with, which means I'll probably be digging a sub-basement at some point for it. I think to do work in a sub-basement, I'll actually need a torch of some kind as well, si's already pretty dark in the main basement. Either way, the smokehouse shouldn't o be that big, just big enough to hang a buneat to smoke with the surplus of wood that we'll soon have.
Before I start on any of that though, I have one small projeplete before I show the goblins how to make palisades. That small project should be done pretty quickly though, after all it's only a dder. I've been able to use the top part of some of the tree trunks to make two 10 foot poles, and I'll just hand drill some joints and use stone shaping to fasten the cross bars in. I should have it dooday, and then I show the goblins how to make palisades.
Now palisades aren't meant to st forever. The wood will eventually rot and need repced, but as a form of defeil these goblins beore skilled I think it'll do just fine. So hopefully in a few years, they'll be well on their way to surviving on their own. What I'll o show the goblins are the steps to assembling a palisade.
We'll o mark where the palisade is going, and dig a trench three feet down to the bedrock yer. If I was doing this for myself, I'd stone shape around the bedropnt the wood into the stone, but sihe goblins will be doing this themselves, they won't be doing that. Ohey have a trench, we'll tie a few of the sharpened logs together with rope, and hoist them upright irench, then fill the dirt in around them. We'll then hoist more ses up a few logs at a time, and tie the ses together, which is why they'll he dder. With the dder they properly tie together both the top and bottom for stability. I'll ultimately leave it up to the goblins where they want the palisades built when they know how. The final step will be driving poiakes oside, pointed outwards, into the ground, but holy, it's not even worth really thinking about that step that much, si should be fairly straightforward.
Zaka and a handful of goblins picked up the palisade stru process pretty well, and got the first 20 pieces up in only 3 days. They've helped me process the trees I cut so far, and have driven stakes into the ground to mark where they want the palisades built. Holy, I didn't expect them to want as much as they did, but they marked off a lot of the clearing, including both sides of the river. Maybe all my stru work has them dreaming big. I hope they don't expect me to build everything though.
Either way, with the measurements id out, I got a rough estimate of the number of trees we o cut down, and it's quite high. I'll have to expin to the goblins the need for proper forest ma at some point. I really don't want them just going wild cutting everything down. They'll literally housands of trees to make a palisade the size they want. A bit over 7,000. There are only about 10 or 15 trees per acre here of the size that will be useful, and only about half of them are actually straight enough to be useful.
servatively, they'll o harvest almost two square miles of trees of this size to make what they need. It's not enough to depopute the forest, sihey're only going to take some of the trees from the area, but I think they'll find the forest notably more empty than before in the nearby area. Well, at the very least it should be a good teag moment for them.
I'm also already starting a pile of wood scraps for fuel as a sequence of the trees we've already cut. Holy, for aion this size, I'm gd that they want as much extra space as they do. They'll have their wood aken care of for a very long time if they properly store it.
I've already made a bunch more stone axes for the goblins, and I'll guide them tomorrow to show them how they o cut trees down so they start the process themselves.
Only around a quarter of the goblins seemed ied iree cutting project when I gave them the initial pitbsp; With those goblins and Zeb ag as my transtor, we went around to a few trees and I showed them what to look for in size and shape, then expined how you only get one chop in a day. What I wasn't expeg was how much less they could chop into the trees than me. It'll take most of them almost twice as long to cut a tree down as I did. That is, except for a single goblin. The ohat prestiged before and seemed much more physically strong. I ended up making it a much sturdier axe than my own axe.
That goblin goes by Kaga, and he holy get through those trees iime than me. I'm reminded sometimes that I shouldn't expect everythio be the same as each other. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of an angry goblin with strength like that. Wheher goblins saw how much more Kaga was able to ost of them decided that Kaga should do all the chopping, and that they'd just help with the processing of the trees.
That in itself would be fine, but I'm a little worried about a power imbance happening if Kaga were to suddenly prestige or evolve a bunbsp; They seem niough, but you know what they say about power. So I insist ihat at the very least, wherees are close to falling, they split the cutting at that point. When I expin the reason, Kaga seems a little upset that they're not getting this apparent windfall, but acquiesces wheher goblins voluo trade him daily meals for this. It really is looking like I've started a barter ey among the goblins here. I guess I should just be gd that Kaga is either kind, or bad at long term pnning to trade free levels for food.
I was initially a little worried that the goblins that were w oree cutting might be the same goblins who were making rope and giving me meals, but I was gd to see that it wasn't the case. Save for some outliers, I 't tell many of the goblins from each other. Ohey've prestiged they usually look a little different from each other, but uhey have a scar, they all look almost identical to me. So I'm gd that it seems like more of the goblins are w on projects of their own now than I initially thought.
In the past three days, the goblins have really been quite productive. There is now a det amount of rope stored in the pavilion basement, and I've made det progress on the smokehouse. Holy, thanks to the goblin's more productive hunting with spears and tactics, they all don't eveo hunt each day, and I've noticed a handful of the goblins have been doing their own trades among each other for food. It seems some of the goblins enjoy hunting more than others, so they trade others foods of their own. A whole tiny ey seems to have formed without me notig.
As for myself at this point, after cutting the remaining trees, and the extra days, I've gained some levels of my own. I've decided that I'll be taking a few of the trees in a few days when Kaga's first batch is done, just to distribute the levels more. He's cutting a hu a time (give or take since he 't t all that well), which means of the goblins cutting trees, eae will get about 15 trees. I'll probably he goblins to also distribute tree cutting to those with the least prestiges wheime es, so that a power disparity doesn't occur.