As for where the excavated stone e from, we've got food locations fetting a signifit amount of stone. First, I'd like to have a sed tunnel dug to the neighb valley down by the artificial tide pool bay. For now the tunnel wouldn't have much be, but iure it would give us further access to the valley over for development, which we'll probably need within a few years time anyway, so getting it down now saves us the effort ter when we would done.
The sed location is auhis time closer to our city, going to the sed valley, ultimately exiting not far from the destroyed vilge of the exiled goblins. With three rge tunnels eg the two valleys, that should really allow both valleys to fun together well without having too long of travel times between locations.
The third location is the tried and true reservoir excavation projebsp; Over the years, the reservoir has been expanded further and further, but that's been a boon overall. If we tio expand it, it should tio help smooth out our water flow rates between seasons, and further help manage our water demands.
The fourth location, should it be necessary, is to tinue digging the escape tunnels from uhe city. The reason this is the st on the list is just due to the difficulty and speed at which stone would be excavated pared to the other locations. Due to the size ah of the tuhe hauling of stone from the tunnel would be signifitly slower thaher options, but it might be potentially worth it to resume this excavation in case an emergency situation arises again.
After two days of deliberation, Zeb agreed to assign one of the stru teams to start work on the fishiy. As part of the project though, I have to go and clear the float vihat is growing where the jetty is going to be structed, so that it isn't wasted. sidering I want the jetty to stretch out about 1500 feet into the o, there will be a lot of float vio cut down. I will need a lot of them fss making though, so it's more of an inveniehan a problem.
The sed stru team will also work on the project, albeit ily. Since we pn oing two unnels dug to the valley, they'll work on building roads to the two tunnel locations, to aid in stone hauling. One goblin from each team will also be dedicated to digging the escape tunnel as well, which should start providing stone for the road strus. Since more trees will be cut in the road digging process, the goblins that are manually breaking stone in the reservoir will be brought along to help elevate them to stone shaping goblins. Zeb thinks that ohere are about four more stone shaping goblins, he'll form a third stru team and reahe existing teams.
Acc to him, a few of the goblins are probably close to being lesser earth demons. That itself at least provides them with rger mana pools, which should improve their productivity. It also seems to grant access to improved stone shaping, which would drastically improve their stru speed. As it stands, a goblin with stone shaping is about half as productive as a lesser earth demon, which itself is a quarter as productive as a lesser earth demon with improved stone shaping.
I worked at harvesting the float vines for twelve days, until I had to stop because the float vines were too far uer for me to properly harvest. That, and I had a bit of a frightening sighting of a very rge fish while I was headed out to harvest more float vines. Most of the fish I've seen here have had horizontal tails, and while this one was also horizontal, uhe others it was bifurcated. That, and it was almost twice as long as I am tall, with an exceptionally rge mouth.
On one hand, I'm gd, because it means that the fishiy will almost certainly actually give us a new source of levels. Oher hand, it obviously makes this whole o-reted endeavor way more dangerous than I had previously expected. I've taken the opportunity to warn Zeb about the potential threats during stru, just in case.
I've also started the process of turning the float vines into soda ash. I've actually gained a couple of levels from harvesting the float vines as well, which has been a nice bonus. It isn't quite as much as I'd get from an equal amount of trees, but it's more than many pnts give, so they're probably many years old based on my w hypothesis for how levels work.
The stru crew started building out the jetty right after I stopped harvesting the float vines, and after ten days, they'd made quite the progress. The location that I decided to have it built is just o where our stream s to the o. Previously, we'd redirected it, so that it would no longer drain into the artificial tide pools for sanitation reasons. Following that logic, I figured it would be good to also put the jetty betweehe tide pools aream exit meet the o. We'll just want to put an indicator that fishing shouldn't be done directly on that side of the jetty for a few hundred feet for the same sanitation reasons.
They're piling the ks of roto the water, and while they do, the stone shaping goblins are taking turns diving uhe water and fusing the various piled stoogether ily sized tact areas. They've also started building the highest walkway, so that they more easily haul more stones further out to tinue building with. They've already gotten about sixty feet built, although their pace is slowing down as the depth of the water tio increase further from the shore.
They've also built a stairwell down to the o floor on both the left and right hand side at their curreh, which should make harvesting more float vine easier. So I'll probably resume harvesting it soon, as the jetty is quickly catg up to where I cut it down to before.
While they were building the jetty, I was w with the leatherw goblin on the steps in the leather produ as well as starting to tinker with a design for fishing rods. The jetty should be funal even before it reaches it's maximum distanbsp; I have even more evidence of that thanks to havihat massive fish within the float vine fields somewhat close to shore.
In the remaining twenty-three days until what would be set of academy csses I carefully cut more of the float vine fields down that were in the way of the jetty, worked on the leather process, helped with some of the felt designs, and made it further in designing a fishing rod. Boggs hasn't returned since I've seen him st, so I haven't been able to introduce him to our now over one hundred foot loy. It'll probably take some time for the fishing to actually be good from the jetty though, si's new, and the fish are probably quite wary of the new stru.
The stru crew also fihe tunnel down by the bay, whiyone ow walk through to reach the other valley, along with where it meets the o. This tunnel also had some water leaking from it, although it's a lot less water than the first tunnel had. I suspect that distao o probably pys some role in how much water the rock holds, although that is nothing more than a guess.
The new roads to both this tunnel, and the location for the unnel are plete, so I don't expect there to be much of a slow down for jetty stru, although I do suspect that there will be many moblins doing hauling jobs now that the distahat the rock has to travel is much higher.
We won't actually be having the academy csses this cycle, as there haven't been new goblins summoned. Both stru crews were busy with other projects, so no housing was made. The stru department added two new members, which wasn't quite enough to warrant the creation of the third crew yet as well. I'm thinking about recruiting some of the goblins that we want to get stone shaping to help cut down some of the float vio get them to the point of prestige. That should also give me valuable insight into just how effective regur goblins would be at harvesting the float vines, since long term, others would be in charge of it rather than me.