Sure enough, oold Karsh that the mountain was clear enough for mining ore, he insisted that I go mine some. He wasn't actually pushy about it, instead me moo go mine as soon as possible. I turned his money down. I myself have a lot of projects I'd like him to work on soon, so getting him plenty of metal to work on those projects with means oals are aligned for now. Plus, I'm sort of the tral bank, money isn't actually valuable to me. Instead, I'm in charge of distributing moo goblins via jobs that would help the vilge, so I'm going to hire a few to help me ship ore back down to the vilge and process it in the rock crushers.

  As such, I've spent the st twe days excavating ore. Part of that time I've had to actually develop a new rail line in the cave system, to help with moving ore out from the ever deepening shafts that I've made. I'm gd that there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for this vein of ore, because buying and shipping ial would be a nightmare to have any reasonable amount of it. Plus high quality metal is currently our most valuable expn the fact I grow gigantic crystals.

  When I made it back down to the vilge today, I was gd to see that Karsh had been hard at work refining the metal. There were still rge piles of unprocessed ore, but there were also a whole lot of ingots in piles. Normally, tailings and sg from processial like this would be a pain to deal with, but with stone shaping they be formed into blocks which we then dispose of by imbedding them in the road stru process.

  Karsh has learned a little more of the demon nguage while I've been gone, although it still remains very basibsp; I took some time to che with him since I was gone nearly a month. His wife and kids miss a lot of the amenities from ba their homend, but Karsh seems happy that he's finally getting to work with the metal that was the whole reason he moved his family here. We took the whole day veying this sort of information bad forth using rge lightstone sbs and charcoal to draw plex ideas to share.

  Karsh had an iing question which led us down aire rabbit hole. The question was basically, "Why do you let the stream flood this much?" It is early spring now, which means that between the snow melt and frequent rain, the reservoir is slowly getting filled, leading to increased output flow. So I went and showed him the dam. Once we returned, he had a sed question, "Why build it so big?"

  That question intrigued me, and I asked him what alternative he'd propose. To which he did some basic drawings that veyed an iing idea. Rather than build a rge dam, which has these plex meisms, the dwarves would put small loose rock dams at various points down valleys where streams would form during rainy seasons. This would slow the water dorevent it from all flooding at once, leading to a more smoothed out river and stream cycle. This is apparently pretty on knowledge among dwarves, siheir try is mostly mountains and hills.

  I hadn't really thought of doing something like that. I went and built a huge engineering project, when I could have just been piling stones up in various pces to aplish a simir feat. I thanked him for the idea after that discussion, and decided to set out to track where the tributary streams form during the spring with the rain a.

  I'll be missing out on the smallest streams, which likely only form at the very start of spring when all the mountain snow starts to melt, but I should be able to find plenty of small streams to demarcate in the valley higher up. Once I get a few of those marked, I'm going to make a few loose rock dams, and teach a few goblins how to make them, then pay them to keep making them along all the tributaries.

  With these dams, you 't just build one on a stream and be doh it. Each stream needs many dams pced every so often to tinually slow the rate of water flow down the hill. If the stream is te, or too rapid, it'll knock the dam down, but for small streams, the water loses momentum hitting the rocks. It then pools up behind the dam while it slowly draiween the rocks. That spreads out how long the water takes to reach the main stream, and by extension the o, and provides a much smoother volumetric flow in the main stream. It should also make the water er as more fine particles drop out of the slow moving water.

  The main dam already handle a lot of water flow, but to add capacity to this dam requires a lot of excavation of stone. Something we sometimes need, but we get a lot more bang for our buck bor-wise by just having some goblins build rock dams. As an added bonus, when we have goblins manually breaking ro an attempt to get stone shaping, we would often have to spend some time doing our own stone shaping on the broken roake it into a shape that is more usable. Instead, the worst shape rocks just be shipped up the roads to be used for making rock dams.

  For five days I followed our main stream upriver and drove two foot tall stoakes into the ground wherever I found a tributary while it rinkling or raining. The work itself retty miserable si was raining. I found 3 tributaries, and then followed those tributaries to find an additional 18 sed-order tributaries.

  A lot of them are a real pain to hike to, but there is a ready supply of stone nearby many of them, so a goblin with a det pickaxe could probably break stoo make the rock dams. Otherwise, an individual with stone shaping will have to be used for some of the tributaries. Iher case, I'm going to spend a few days making a fele rock dams so I teach a few goblins how to make them.

  After five days I've cobbled together three example rock dams. One is quite rge, and sits along one of the major tributaries of the stream. It took the loo build, and required me to stone shape some materials because I ran out of easily accessible rocks in the nearby area. The sed and third dam are in sed-order tributaries, and each shows off a slightly different aspect of things to sider. Oributary had cut a fairly deep gash in the earth, and so that dam had to be first piled into the gash, then raised a bit above that into the surroundings. The other one I built just before a small se of steep elevation ge, where it would be impossible to build a dam inside.

  The idea is that each of these dams help to expin an aspect of rock dam building, so that the goblins know what they're looking for. For now I'm holding off on building any rock dams on the main stream itself, sihey'd either have to be built closer to it's source where the flow is much smaller which would mean a much longer hike for anyone w on that project, or would end up being very rge and take a lot of stone and care in their stru.

  I took two days finding goblins who would be ied in some long term work, and after I found five who were ied enough in building the rock dams, I took them up the mountain to show them the ones I already made. I then took another four days making a few rock dams with them to make sure they uood what work they would be doing. I then showed them how often and where we want the dams.

  I'll pay them slightly more than standard bor jobs, sihey'll have to trek through the wilderness for a rge portion of their work. I'll also che on their work in a month to see hress is ing. If they plete between one and two dams a day, then we should have all of the tributaries mostly dammed by the end of the year. The year during the spring we'll check to see how all the dams are holding up, and whether we o repair any, or ge them.