I experimented for two days, and as I suspected, the sea grass wasn't very great for soda ash, but the vines with the float sacs, which I'm going to call float vines, yielded enough for the process to be worth it. The process involves burning the pnts in a closed kiln, then dissolving as much of the ashes in water as I . After that, I mix in sked lime, which chemically pulls out a bunch of the other impurities, then I boiled off the remaining water, leavih soda ash, or sodium carbonate. The step is going to be experimenting with mixtures of soda ash, silica, and lime until I make some det gss.

  I spent two weeks tinkering with various different powdered rock alongside soda ash and lime, until I made a half det mixture of gss. As it would turn out, if I phtstone as the basis for the gss, the final produes out almost transparent when I add about 10% soda ash and 10% lime.

  I got a little bold with some of the cast gss, and tried to stone shape it, whided with an odd result. It initially seemed like it might work as bits of the gss seemed like they were moving like a liquid, simir to normal stone shaping, but quickly, the gss shattered into small bits, and any influehat I seemed to have on it was lost. I attempted to stone shape the shards, but they wouldn't merge bato one piece, they'd only move about trying to take the form I was trying to make.

  Unfortunately, the whole gss making process is quite involved to get all the prerequisite pos. I'll be able to make some for the window I wanted with some more work, but I'll probably o teach a stone shaping goblin the whole process if we want to have lots of gss. Given we currently only have the one fe, I'd also o make a new paking gss. So for now, I'll table the idea.

  After three days, I'd made two moderately sized windows, which I installed in the dots room of the academy. During the daytime, they let enough light into the room that I have the doors closed and still see plenty, so that should be enough for now. In an ideal world, all the windows in the whole building would be gss rather than just open holes, but I'd like to handle one industry at a time, and I currently have two others that are waiting to be developed.

  Speaking of, the bargas are at the point where they could be sheered any day now, and the calves are getting big enough that they'll need separated soon. So my course of a is to finally get w on developi. Not only will felt help with paper produ, but it should be a step up from our current pnt fiber clothes, at least when it es to durability.

  Between sheering the bargas, and experimenting with their wool until I got a sembnce of a useable product, I spent a whole thirty-three days on the felt making process. It really is quite involved to get a det product out. There are a lot of intermediate steps, alongside many preparatory steps, which is why experimentation took as long as it did. Ultimately, I've succeeded in maki, but as I worked with the wool, I realized that we should also be processing the wool down to use as strands, much like how we're currently using pnt fibers. However, given my need for felt and our low amount of wht now, that will probably have to wait for some time before I try to dive into that process.

  Right now what I want to do from here is process all this wool into felt, so I make felt sheets that I use and re-use for paper making. Given the number of bargas we have right now, I probably won't be able to make as much felt as I'd ultimately like for making paper, but it should be a pretty good start. Plus I'll have to spend a few days experimenting with the felt as part of the paper making process to see just how much different the final paper result is.

  Turning all the sheered bargas wool into felt took a week, mostly because of my rudimentary apparatuses for doing the work. If I ever upscale the industry, there are a lot of improvements that could be done, and some automation would also go a long way. Then, experimenting with paper usi sheets ate up awo weeks of time as I experimented with the paper some more as I worked through the improved process.

  Ultimately, the felt did allow me to make thicker, sturdier paper, and evehinner paper was markedly higher quality. Felt has the ability to pull water out of the drying paper, allowing it to evaporate off more evenly allowing a more even drying process, even when sandwiched in an alternating pile of paper a. I'm quite pleased with the result, and I think it's time to ramp up produ.

  Thankfully, the stru crew has been busy w iy itself for this time, and hasn't built the pnned seill yet. Before, I had just pnned on making it a generic mill that could be adapted to whatever process I might want, but I want a paper mill now, and I don't think the previous building's yout will suffice for what I need.

  What I want is a longer building, which has space for all the various processing needs for paper making, along with a area f the paper, which will o be kept free from rain, while also having plenty of airflow. Sure, these could be two nearby buildings, but that would still shut the whole process down if it rained. So instead, I'm thinking of making a much mrand building. Given the number of maes that paper making takes, having two fans instead of one seems like a good idea as well. The whole building is going to end up taller than the first mill, just to make sure that the building isn't hit by the fa any point.

  That doesn't mean I won't be re-using a lot of the design though. I'm basically just putting two copies of the existing mill on top of a different building, elevating them. The bdes on the first mill still need repced with roofed wood that we'll o make with the materials we got from the mert. So I'll pn on making all the new fans at once, rather than separately. First though, I o talk to the stru department to get permission to build.

  It was actually surprisingly difficult to get time to talk with Zeb, as he's been busy not only running the stru department, but experimenting with his own building designs. I didn't arrive early enough at city hall on the first day, and I didn't want to interrupt the work that was being done oy, so I spent that day w on designs for the internals for the paper mill. It's a bit more plicated than the flour mill, sihere is more than one mae that needs meical power. Instead of having all of them hooked up, I io make a gearshift to determine where the power actually goes from the two fans.

  On the sed day, I did catch Zeb before he headed out to work, and discussed my pns for stru. He was fih it, but wanted me to mark it on the map that I'd made before. When I looked at the maps, I was surprised to see that many ges had occurred. None of them were drastic, but it seems like as buildings went up, some things shifted in their design, and they've been doing a lot of pnning ohings should go.

  When I finished with that, Zeb pulled one goblin from each of the two stru teams to help me with the project, which I appreciated. The stru teams have a det number of individuals on them, so I didn't feel too bad about pulling bor away for my paper mill. For the city itself, it's getting to the point where Zaka will start summoning new residents, which means the stru crews will likely start switg some of their bor to expanding food resources again. We currently overproduce food, but that's on purpose, as underprodu is a signifit issue when it es to food.

  Thanks to all the things I'd learned while building the first mill, this seill's stru came along much faster. Betweera bor and the ability to pre-order a lot of the things necessary for the stru, rather than having to wait to show what I each step, we mao get the skeleton of the mill up along with the basic meical internals iy-six days. From this point, the stru goblins won't be any more helpful than regur manual bor, so I returhem to the stru department.

  The only items left to make are the fan bdes and the paper milling maes, along with their respective axles for driving them from their power sourbsp; For the fans, I just o expin how to use the roofing material to the carpenter so that he build those to standard. However, the maes are going to be a little tricky. I'm going to have to work with Karsh for a little while to manufacture what I need.