I ended up spending five days expanding the underground b space so that I wouldn't interfere with anything Tiberius was w on. I made a new room behind where the medium sized crystal is, so that I could access its mana without interfering with things happening in the first room. I then built a b table, with the bunsen burner design I figured out from before. I also added a chamber for holding water, with a faucet and a removable liquid tainer under a sink space, so I dispose of potentially dangerous or hazardous materials.

  This room is much smaller thaher room, but it doesn't need nearly as much spabsp; I tested a small amount of the heat crystal over the bunsen burner fme, and found that it was non-fmmable, but it did color the fme a yellow-green color. After being exposed to the heat for a period of time, the crystal started to deform. I retested the deformed crystal, and it had lost its maed properties, sadly. After havied the crystal, I reflected on the fact that I'm not using any sort of fume hood, so I could have potentially inhaled something toxibsp; Creating such a fume hood that deep underground would be a moal task though, so I should probably sider the usefulness of making a rger surface crystal in the b for this purpose iure.

  After that destructive test, I decided to move on to the one. Since we've made lead, I've been wanting to get my hands on sulfuric acid. Gss is also funal for f sulfuric acid in the same process I'm going to do, but lead is much easier to form into the shape I want. I want a tainer with a very high surface area, which means I should also fill the chamber with small balls of lead, to maximize the surfaces avaible. Making such a chamber with gss would have taken us some time to make all the gss beads, but with lead, it's a fairly simple casting process, followed by some manual rolling.

  After three days, I'd gotten my rea chamber made. , I needed a gss beaker to store the acid in, so I worked with the gss making goblins for two days until I had a det sized tainer for sulfuric acid to be stored in. The st few steps of the process were fairly straightforward, requiring I heat some potassium nitrate and steam to add to the chamber alongside sulfur dioxide. By cyg the process a few times, I could get some low tration sulfuric acid.

  So, after about six days of tinkering, I had some low tration sulfuric acid in a quart sized fsk. There is a better method for making sulfuric acid involving ammonia, but ammonia manufacturing is a bit more plicated so for now I'm going to be limited to only making smaller amounts of sulfuric acid. If I do end up making ammonia though, then I could easily make the additions to the ore roasting area to manufacture much rger amounts of acid moving forward.

  For now though, I'm quite ied in dropping a bit of the crystals in the sulfuric acid, and seeing what happens. It's actually quite iing running through these sorts of tests. Without the i, or easily accessible knowledge from other people, I'm basically w from a cheat sheet on material discovery. If I had perfeowledge from Earth, I could probably tell from sight what these crystals are, or if they're a new crystal. Since I don't have that knowledge though, I'm basically running through some destructive testing, and trying to use what knowledge I do have to pinpoint what materials are involved.

  Given my with fumes, I did the test with the crystals in acid on the surface, rather than underground, and it narrowed it down enough that I'm fident in what the crystal is. After fuming for a while, the mixture initially seemed to calm down, with the small bit of crystal having rgely beeroyed by the acid. Though shortly after, the gss broke, and spilled on the ground. I used stone shape to bury the spilled material for safety reasons.

  Given what happened, I went through the whole process again, this time with a thicker gss fsk. That took another six days in total to prepare, and after I repeated the test, I observed it more closely. What I saw was that the resulting material in the fsk was eating away at the gss. I could be wrong, but the only material I know of that is formed like this, which also breaks down gss is hydrofluoric acid, which would imply that these crystals are fluorite.

  That es with some good news, since I do know a few things about fluorite. Some lenses for telescopes and cameras were made of fluorite, so it is possible to artificially form and shape them, though the process to actually do so is unknown to me. Fluorite was also fairly on oh, so I'd hope that they're also on here.

  Though, the process of growing them might end up being quite dangerous to fully rediscover. I don't know what behavior pure crystals might have, and figuring out the various inclusions and their behaviors could prove to be fatal if handled incorrectly. It reminds me a bit of the inal researto radioactive materials. Holy, it seems like there are definitely going to be deaths involved in the process. I'll probably want to do some form of informed sent for anyone who decides to work oter, though I get the feeling Tiberius would more than willing to put his life on the line for something like this. Before that though, we'd actually o get our hands on a rge enough deposit of the stuff.

  There are a few ideas I have for making some of the tests safer, like using stone shaping to release the crystal into a mana bath with some ground birds in cages to test the effects of any manufactured crystals. Theone shape to draier to reduce the mana flow to the test crystal again. Evehough, there is going to be potentially fatal sequences.

  Having done what testing I , with what crystals I have, I moved on to other projects. Giveime I spent, I decided to go che the progress of the unnel. The progress is somewhat slow going, sihey're having to be so precise with where they are digging. They haven't found any new yers of rock or anything else of i, but that isn't that surprising to me. The slope of our isnd doesn't increase right away, so until they actually start tunneling uhe higher slopes I don't actually expect them to find anything of value.

  Since everything with the tunnel seemed to be going fine, I turned my attention to a different project that I'd discussed previously. I want to try my hand at making a greenhouse for salt produ. In spring, like it is now, there is far too much rain for us to produy salt from our evaporation ponds, which require there to be more evaporation than deposition of water. During summer, and part of fall, this issue goes away, but it still means we're only using the salt ponds about a third of the year.

  So, what I want to do now that we've got a sea roteg the valley, is build a rge greenhouse over one of the ponds, and make an underground densation chamber with a fan to ence evaporation. If things work well, that one pond might end up being signifitly more productive thaher ponds that we have. The densation should be fresh water as well, which means that it be pumped to the surfad used for drinking water, which would be a nice source for the workers along the shore.

  I'll make a request to the gss making goblins for a signifit number ss panels, while I begin modifying one of the ponds and dig the densation chamber. Ultimately, this single project will probably use up quite a bit of our remaining quartz, but if push es to shove, we always trade for some moving forward.