As far as things on the mountain are ed, the water colle pool oerrace seemed to work well, so lenty of water up here now. Ohing I want to check is the efficacy of the trated bark water now that it's sat for a few months. We're also going to need a very rge amount of charcoal in the ing months, so I'm ined to start chopping a bunch of trees down along the path down the mountain we're pnning on building. Outside of the melting and carrying of the crystal material down to the apparatuses down in the crystal b, we actually both don't o be down there while we wait for the crystals to cool or to apply them to the apparatus, so I have a few projects that Zeb start w on in that time.
The first is the path and cart system outside. While I would like to use a double system of carts, the rope we have avaible to us made from natural fibers would decay too fast due to exposure to the elements. So instead, we'll just use a single system for carts, with the carts themselves resting at the lower position orabsp; We'll still install a winch at the top of the track to help pull carts up and down if they're too heavy, but the rope will have to be brought along to use.
The sed thing I'd like to do is start some exploratory mineshafts in the cavern. The main purpose of these will be to use teise to find new materials, and hopefully, more crystal bubbles. Depending on how big these crystals o get to be brought out into the sun, it's going to take a lot of crystal material, and I don't like the idea of using the bigger crystals for it if I avoid it. This will also give us yet another source of stone for the stair and cart system.
As for what I do while I wait for the crystal material to cool, I either separate lightstone, expand the crystal waste ste, or process more of the metal ore. I'm ined to work on lightstone as much as possible though, si isn't just visually lighter, but it is less dense, so building the carts out of it would be useful. I'll also need even more of it for the rger crystal apparatus. The oer that as well, and so on.
The test with the crystal in the aged bark water had mixed results. From my records, it seems to have lost about 25% of its mana ductivity, which for a few months isn't bad. If we 't repce the water in that amount of time, then at least it's not worthless. We also checked the crystal, and it seems to hold the same charge as before. The step is making a tainer rge enough and thiough to attempt to move it to the surfabsp; We're going to start having an issue with crystal waste soon though if they don't survive at this size. I'm not sure we move a tainer rge enough for crystals any rger than this one.
That said, the thing we're ed about losing is the mystery gas, not as much the crystal material. lenty of solid crystal material stored down in the waste room. Thinking about it that way, we should actually move the crystal further down so that it doesn't charge mubsp; The crystals don't seem to break until they're full, or maybe overcharged, so if we actually get the crystal far enough, then we could make a rge vacuum chamber on the surfabsp; If we could mahe crystal inte chamber on the surface before it breaks, then we at least recover the gas. What a pain to work through. Hopefully it won't e to that.
I'll get this crystal's tainer prepared, and then we'll test this oo determine if we o gh all that hassle.
After three days of work, I've got the tainer made around the crystal, alongside having run a trial with ay tainer with extra weight in it to make sure that Zeb and I could haul it to the surface using the carts. Today, we're going to attempt t it to the surface.
Once all the checks are done and we've draihe crystal, Zeb and I start hauling the crystal up to the surfabsp; Along the way I keep cheg with teise to see if it has broken or not. We actually get the cart all the way to the point where the exit to the cave is a mere minute away before I tell the crystal has broken, although it is taking a while to actually disie. I decide we should take the cart back down to the apparatuses, and drain the gas into them, rather thaing the crystal material first.
As much as I'd like to build a rge furnace dowo melt crystal down, I'm a little too worried about oxygen usage to burn a furnace for hours down here every day. With the carts though, robably heat and transport eight tainers instead of four at a time. Then the crystals will almost be cool enough to use when we arrive. It'll speed up the crystal work, but give me less down time individually.
Since I'm going to be w on this for awhile, I'll spend a day or two getting Zeb set up with the pns for both the exploratory mineshafts and the stairs outside. I'll make him a stone level, like I used with water, except it'll have a line in it with a slope to make all the stairs and mineshafts at. I'm aiming for a seven an a half degree grade. I'll not approximate 30 and 60 degree, then halve the 30, and halve it again to get to that point. It won't be perfect, but approximate should be good enough here. That grade is plenty shallow to hopefully prevent acts, but steep enough the cart will roll us ow. Then he just use the tool to easily keep a regur slope.
Well, Zaka returns tomorrow, and I've just marow a crystal back to the size of the previous one. We've gohrough a lot of charcoal in that time, so it was a good call in cutting trees down from the path down the mountain that we needed cleared anyway. The charcoal we had from before sted until the first few trees started falling from our cutting process.
Zeb and I have been splitting these trees for levels between us. Betweerees I cut before while w on the dam, and these ones, I'm all the to level 36. It isn't that high sidering the amount of time it's been pared to when I was an imp, but oher hand, if it weren't for all the trees I've been cutting down, I probably wouldn't have gaihis many levels either.
As for Zeb, he's also been gaining some levels, but it isn't all that fast either. Plus he didn't cut all those trees dowhe vilge either.
I've been keeping up on taking intermediate notes on previous levels as well, and it's getting quite prehensive. After Zeb prestiges once or twice more, I think I'll start to have a better uanding of the basis for how this whole system works out. Of course, I'd like to have even moblins' values for things, but that sounds like quite the pain to try to find out for now, especially with the projects I'd rather be w ht in front of me.
The current maximum crystal apparatus size is frowing two foot tall crystals. The size I'm going to try to build is for four foot crystals. It's quite the jump, but given how much time is lrowing a crystal from scratch when it breaks, I'd rather jump up quite a bit and trim it backwards rather than gh multiple intermediate steps. This apparatus alone is going to take quite a few days to build, and then I still o build the extra rge vacuum chamber on the surface to put the crystal in for rec its gasses if it breaks.