Most of the goblins in the vilge have prestiged at least onow, due to the amount of trees we've been cutting down, and there is still a rge amount more to cut to make way for new fields of s beets. The primary focus thus far has been on the goblins that we expect to bee the guards and soldiers in the vilge, but letting everyo some occasionally as well. From here on out though, I think we'll be fog it down to people who really use the boost.
The soldiers and guards who I would like to evolve are first on this list. is Zaka. He's actually recovered quite a lot over time thanks to his Improved Regeion. He's actually gotten to the point where the stub of his leg is about where his foot should start. In an emergency, I think he could hobble without his crutches now. However, if he prestiges again, or evolves, I'm pretty sure he'll be pletely recovered, which is somewhat remarkable. is myself. Every level equates to a longer period of time that I work without needing to recharge at the bathhouse, which means I get more work done in a day. For the same reasohe two goblins breaking stone, and the carpenter are also on the list.
Everyone else, who has beeing a tree or two a day until now, are going to no longer be included iask. The fishergoblins and handful of hunters haven't been cutting trees this whole time anyway, as they actually do gain some levels from their respective prey. Speaking of those groups, the hunters have retly been gaining Improved Dexterity and Improved Perceptiohey prestige, which I think is likely thanks to using bows over spears.
After eleven more days, the road to the o is finally plete. Zeb should be finishing up his work in the vilge soon too. There won't be a for the goblins w for either of us though, as the hing on the agenda are the ne beet fields and the new salt evaporation ponds.
Both of those tasks require less stone shaping than building a road does though, so in the meantime, I'm going to make another apartment style building while my group of goblins dig the salt evaporation ponds to the level where I o do a small amount of stone shaping to finish the design.
It still takes the usual eight days to finish the apartment building, and by the time the building is done, Zeb has also finished with all the new guardhouses araes to the wall. Moving forward, Zeb and I are going to trade off building new housing buildings while w oernal projects like the new fields and salt evaporation ponds. The carpenter and his assistants are also only a few ballistae from being finished with that portion of work as well.
Shasta asked me a few days ago about the ballistae and trebuchets, "Why do you need all these rge ons, there doesn't seem to be much of a threat on the isnd?"
I didn't have the heart to say that their most likely use would be fighting her brethren if she 't vihem to let us peacefully live, so instead I told her "We've had multiple ued attacks in the past that cost us many lives, so it's best to be prepared." Which is also true.
At this point, the two dwarves and the elf seem resigo the fact that it'll likely be a long time before they return home. As such, they've sort of settled into the vilge. Aside from Shasta, who's demon nguage skills have improved to near fluency, the other two have started to pick up basic phrases for unig with goblins that they work with on occasion. Seeing that makes me a little embarrassed that I waited so many years before even trying to learn the nguage.
It took seven days for me to finish up the new salt evaporation ponds, and the two goblin stru help crews are busy clearing tree stumps and digging out areas to flood to grow the s beets. Sihe beets require sy terraiually have to cut some sto from the bottom of the field so we cut els from the stream to flood them during the drier months. The previous fields were built that way as well, but never on this scale.
There is a lot of extra dirt being produced that I'm currently unsure what to use it for. For now it is being piled carefully behind the fields, creating a dividing hill between the forest and the fields. Perhaps it will disce the rger ground birds from running amok. If we iure, we know where we get it.
Zeb should be doh the apartment buildiher tomorrow or the day, so while I wait, I'm going to work on expanding the artificial tide pools that we use to gather sea life to eat. Each yer gets more time ing to build because eae is a progressively rger ring around the bay, but that also means it provides more food. For now, my i is to actually cut a few aircases down to the bottom. If there are going to be moblins traveling up and down, it'd be best if they aren't all trying to move past each other all the time.
After two days, Zeb finished up his apartment building, so I began my turn, pleting the task in the usual eight days. Iime where I worked on the new housing, Zeb got one of the new fields built, and then took a few days to see how the goblins in the reservoir were doing. While they've been maki progress, they've also disrupted the liness of the design. He spent a few days ing up and leveling areas in the reservoir as needed.
With the remaining time, he ended up cutting out massive blocks from the reservoir so that the goblins w there could simply break the blocks down and haul them out, keeping the area more han it would be otherwise. I'm a little worried what might happen when water floods ba if those blocks aren't fully broken down and removed though. I told Zeb that moving forward, he probably shouldn't do that unless he's certain that the stone will be removed. It probably would be fine, but if something like a ndslide occurred due to a bad rain storm, that rge stone block could cause a lot of damage.
In sixteen days, we eapleted another apartment building, and around a third of the new fields are pleted now. I've also been steadily w on expanding the artificial tidepool areas. It's taking a bit of time, but between the new road, the excess stone in the vilge, and the extra helping hands about, I've made pretty det progress on the sed yer. It'll probably still take another few weeks to plete at the current pace, but that's still much faster than when I worked alone.
I've decided on a V-Shape for the overall filter on the bay. Basically, each tiered area will have about five feet of separation from the previous level, and a minimum six feet of filter above it at the bay exit. That way the whole filter stays ected, and fish are enced to remain trapped as the water slowly recedes iificial pools I've made.
I've also decided on putting filter material around each tier at a railing. First, so goblins don't actally tumble the five feet down to the yer, but also so that fish don't hop out of the pool they're stu ohe water recedes to the o. They flop out for a little while, but ultimately they'll have o go, preventing them from overfilling the lowest level over time.
In Zeb's off time, he's been trying his hand at designing his own building. Since he's been replig mine for a long time now, I figure he should be fio experiment. It's his free time after all, plus I think it'd be way more useful if he could work on designing his own projects, rather than it always having to be me who builds them. As for what exactly he's designing, he said it's a secret.
We've had two goblins evolve into hobgoblily, and quite a few of the guards have prestiged t degrees. sidering we're almost done felling all the prees, that seems like that'll probably be all the new hobgobli. Zaka is getting close to his prestige point, and Zeb is about a third of the way to his.
As for myself: