Progress has been steady frowing the extra rge crystal, and I've started expanding the exploratory tunnel again. After the first ten days, I'd ed out all fourteen of the crystal bubbles I'd found during the initial tunnel dig, so I went back to expanding it. I try to haul a cart's worth of stone from the tunnel each evening. Zeb's built up quite a charcoal stockpile as well, and even more than that, has a massive wood stockpile to use for making charcoal. He seems fortable enough with starting work oh again now that he's gained a few levels, which means he'll start needing stone again for stru. I might end up doing a lot more stoting when Zaka returime just to have someohere who actually haul more of the sto.
Another month, and we've made pretty average progress. Zeb restarted stru oh down this month, and at the end of the month, Zaka returned and helped haul stone alongside two oblins. Zeb's pace was a little faster than I expected st month, thanks to him using the already structed se of path with a cart. He himself use the carts t rock down the mountain, and he push ay cart up the ine, so he's actually been able to move the rock he needs a lot faster than I anticipated. He's made it about a hundred feet on his own now. Which, sidering his smaller mana pool is pretty impressive. Part of that has been sending standardized blocks to him. I've been attempting to make sure everything I cut is roughly a brick so that it's easy to fuse to each other. I'm hopeful that his paext month will be slightly faster sihe goblins helped haul stoo periodic points along the path while they were here.
Well, during the st month, I finally regrew the crystal to four feet, and moved it into the nearatus frowing. If this doesn't work, I have no idea what I'm going to do. That said, it'll take a long time to grow the crystal to the size I want, so I'll just keep at it. As for the path, Zeb made it another 120 feet. Which I'd say is pretty impressive. The soil where he's w is more shallow than it was down by the vilge, so he doesn't have to dig as deep, or pce as much stoo build it up to the right height, speeding up his work. I have a feeling it's going to be quite the b rest of the year as we work on these rge projects.
It was, in fact, a b year. These st four months have been a lot of routine work. The crystal is a little more than a third of the way through this apparatus's growth. If I keep this rate up, it'll be done by the end of year. I four months, Zeb's also built the path out quite signifitly for w mostly alone. He's gotten this se to 800 feet, to which I've decided to help build a ptform where he's at right now before we head back down to the goblin vilge for winter.
I was right to say I'd be lucky if I reached prestige by this winter. I've been so holed up inside w that in the months I've been in the cave, I gained as many levels as I did during the winter occasionally cutting trees in the vilge st year, which is to say, barely any.
Zeb, oher hand, gained a det amount thanks to his tree cutting for the path stru, and earlier cutting to make charcoal.
Based on Zeb's growth, I think my hypothesis on Mana Affinity is correct, which means I , for now at least, y that mystery to rest. Zeb's mana is already almost back up to where he was when he was level 100 as an Epic Goblin, so that's been very helpful for stru.
Wheuro the vilge today, Zaka had a surprise for us. One of the goblins in the vilge has gaione shaping. Apparently, the individual iion was going to the reservoir, and manually breaking stoo use for the road, and after a month or so of doing that, they prestiged and got stone shaping, which meant they were able to ieat bricks, instead of poorly shaped ones after that point.
Zeb wasn't too happy to hear this news. He seems to be a little flicted about anoblin having the ability. My guess is he felt special being the only one who also had that ability with me. I assured him that I didn't io take on another assistant. I will, however, gdly leave a bunch of the stone shaping tasks I'd normally do to this new goblin. Heck, I'll even work with them to build them a workshop in the now bustling industrial distribsp; Mostly so that I never have to worry about making stone buckets for the goblins here, or fixing random broken stone objects. They make all the random tools and spearheads, and I'll be free from that responsibility!
As a result of them gaining stone shaping, the goblins in the vilge also extehe path up the mountain by another five hundred feet over the course of the year. After hearing that, Zeb seemed more fident, since he'd made more path alohaher goblin had with help.
As for other developments in the vilge, all the goblins are wearing clothes now, except Zeb and I. When Zaka visited, all the goblins had clothes, but I didn't know if they were wearing them specifically for travel or not. Now I know, they're always clothed. Well, I don't mind not wearing clothes myself, but we should make sure Zeb has some I suppose. The only new shop in town is seemingly a paint store. I guess the goblins have finally figured out a few dyes that they use to paint with, although it all seems to be finger paints at this point. Since I'm already making one workshop, I'll make one for the paint shop as well.
As for the pnt field, acc to Zaka, during the summer, the stalks turned brown, and died off. During fall, when it rained a bit, they regrew the stalks, and are now back to what they looked like when Zeb found them before. The seeds that were floating also sank in the summer, and now there are a few short stalks poking up from that part of the flooded field. Later this winter, I think we'll be able to e up with a good agricultural route to grow these pnts as an actual stable food source for the goblins. If that is the case, I think I should probably build aen houses. I'm sure if Zaka thinks he support them, he'd like to have moblins about.
The goblins that have the meical rope braider have stockpiled a ton of rope, which is good, because we'll soon enough. I was worried about the local vi popution when I saw just how mut rope they'd made, but it seems that they've been responsibly harvesting it, leaving around half the vines. Which has led to them having to travel quite far to harvest the vines, but the backpacks have made that a much more doable task.
One month has passed, I've gotten the workshops done, and the new houses. Zeb and the other Stone Shaping goblio be getting along fine. Their personalities are quite different, so I think Zeb doesn't feel threatened anymore. Zeb's quite inquisitive, and the oblin, Gakus, is the kind of person who enjoys doing monotonous work, repeating the same task over and over. I'm pretty sure if I told Gakus to just cut bricks from stoil he died, he'd spend the rest of his natural life happily cutting them.
They've both been w on road stru while I've been building in the vilge. As such, they've actually made it to the nding, which is just in time for me to get to work on it. After we finish the se, we'll be hitting a bit of a higher slope area, so I think that it'll go a bit faster, since I should be cutting the path out partially from the mountain, rather than building it up from the ground.
Another month down, and we spent it pretty much path building the whole time. We made it to the nding, and even fiwo 600 foot stretches of zig-zag in addition to the 1100 feet of path before that. I think if we keep up this pace, we'll actually make it a siderable distance over this winter. One I have is that some of the middle ses are likely going to need extra stone, and those are going to be quite a distance from our normal stoting locations, which will certainly slow down produ, unless we cut quarries out along the way, which I'm sidering at this point. We'll see whe to that point I suppose.
One more month, and we've cut quite a lot of sto from this se of the mountain for the zig-zag path up here. While I've been cutting the maiions out, I've been having Zeb cut the stairs directly between the zig-zag, so that both are getting do the same time. This month, we've cut an additional five 600 foot stretches before we finally reached an area of lower slope, so we started building another longer path se, which we're only about 200 feet into so far. For this se, we've been re-using sto out to make the zig-zag, so we haven't had to designate a new quarry yet, but I think we'll probably o dedicate a new quarry area soon.
Gakus actually stopped w with us on the zig-zag se, and instead he was still cutting stone from the reservoir area, and started building a huge ft stockpile area outside the vilge walls, where they've started stockpiling all the extra trees that we've been cutting in our way. Then they've transported them back along the path we've finished using carts and rope. At this rate, I'm not even sure what they could possibly use all the wood for. I might set them up with some charcoal kilns, so they vert the wood to charcoal. Wood's fine, but charcoal has a near indefinite shelf life, where as the wood eventually rot, making it useless for things like cooking.
Well, it's been another month, and the spring thaw and rains have finally joined us. We fihe remaining 1000 feet of stru on the current path se, and I set up a location for a quarry up the mountain, near where the nding should approximately be, about 1100 feet up from the st nding.
On some of the particurly rainy days, I built a few rge charcoal kilns outside the city walls near all the wood ste, and then showed Zaka and some goblins how to use them. They'll have to use cy to close off the air holes, rather than stone like Zeb or I would, but even so, I hope they keep up with using them. Gakus seems capable of building at least some basic structures for ste, so ste for charcoal shouldn't be an issue. As long as he mimics my stru, then I'm not too worried.
I'm actually gd he's not the creative type, because without a basiderstanding of architecture, if he got too creative with stru, there is a good eone might get crushed to death. Since he's the type to just duplicate things though, I'm not as worried about that, but I am worried about ing back to a sea of identical covered buildings all filled with wood and charcoal.
The final month in the vilge has passed, and tomorrow Zeb and I will return up the mountain. We built out the path to the current intermediate quarry, and I gave Gakus and Zaka instrus on how to pick out a location for these intermediate quarries, so that they tinue stru throughout the year. If they make it 2000 feet or so, they'll rea-zag se, and I told them to stop at that point if they make it there, si'll be much harder for them to build at those ses pared to doing it myself.
I've also clear cut and designated a floodable field for the new pnts to be grown. I showed Zaka, and some ied goblins, how we've decided to harvest and use them for cooking. They aren't really worth harvesting in their first year of growth, as the new seeds from before still have retively small bulbs uhem. However, at the end of the season, you cut a third of the stalks or so without too badly harming the pnt. We tried cutting more, but a few of those pnts died, so we've set the limit at the safe point.
As for the bulbs, we don't know yet if they'll be worth harvesting at the sed year or not yet either, si's too early to tell, but I'm hoping they will be. I expihe basics of selective breeding also, where you don't harvest the pnts that would be best for eating, and instead let them gront their seeds. All that information won't be useful this year though, and all the goblio do is keep an eye on all the seeds in the new flooded field.