First thing I had to do before spring was finish the new dining building that I was in the process of building before the interruption of the eagle and dwarven army. Zeb also helped, so getting that whole building doook eight days. The goblins who wanted a new dining area were quite happy with it, so I'm gd.

  The project that Zeb and I are going to work on is the ied dining area apartment building. I need both of those buildings done before the spring thaw so that Zeb replicate them in the vilge to help expand the popution while I'm busy up on the mountain growing the new crystal.

  Getting the welve person apartment with built in cooking area took a little while lohan I thought. Overall it took fourteen days to get the building pleted. Thanks to how long they take to build, we agreed to only build them on demand from now on. I decided to have a pnning discussion with Zaka and Zeb as well about the future development of the vilge.

  One of the main topics was actually reted to things I learned from the war with the dwarves. I learhat a single yer of defense isn't as useful as I thought it would be. Thanks to mana capacity of individuals, there exists a burst of strength that either side dispy to get through singur problems for a short period of time, if they have the right magics to do so. For us, the steam ons were one such tool. For the dwarves, that tool was the ability to quickly break through walls.

  The clusion of that knowledge is that we should yer defenses. Any future expansions of the vilge should have a new wall built in a new yer, rather than expanding the old wall. That way, defenses be yered, and allow for strategic retreats inward, depleting any sieging army's mana supply. Normally, that would hurt both sides, but with a ma bathhouse on our side, that should give us an edge that means we would win in longer sieges. Not including starvation and ck of water as potential threats, obviously.

  We should also build a new building once we have two wall yers. That building is a tral castle. A t building where siege engines be pced high enough to fire over all the city walls, and big enough that the bathhouse area be kept inside. This facility should basically be the final retreat point for all the vilgers, where the st yer of defense, and any potential underground escape tunnels, are located. Building a castle will take quite a while, and will likely dispce a number of homes, and would require a detly sized workford military to properly support, which is why it should wait until the vilge grows to the size of a proper city.

  As for other buildings, they'll o keep an eye on popution size and food stores to determine if and when they expand any of the fields or the artificial tide pools. Since I'll be gone for almost aire year, I figured we should pn out all the strus we'd need in advanbsp; There were some discussions about where to cut stone from, and it was decided that the escape tunnel should be dug to pletion for stohen the reservoir should be expanded afterwards.

  I spent the final few days in the vilge helping with various stru tasks while asking around to the goblins to see who would be ied in helping me on the mountain. As it would turn out, not many were keen on helping me for the entire year, but many said they'd work with me for a month or two at a time. After doing some scheduling, I had enough individuals scheduled to help me throughout the year that I shouldn't have any issues, outside of retraining them occasionally.

  There were a few goblins that I wao e up murly though. Namely, the building crew. Since we'll be w with crystal material, I figured it would be a good idea to attempt to get them mana affinity, like both Zeb and I. There also will be a need for more trees to be cut down up on the mountain occasionally, so giving them more opportunity to gain levels through that process should also e in handy.

  Overall though, I'm hoping that the year will be pretty b.