I talked with Zeb about the idea of building rger buildings iy in order to increase poputioy. He seemed ameo the idea, but also wasn't too sure about the stability of taller structures like that. We talked through best practices for structures of that height made of stone, including discussion of addiral pilrs in the lower floor rooms to increase the general stability of the whole building.

  He had his own worries of things to discuss with me though. For instance, many of the buildings they've built sihe war have had to be built different than before the war. The reason being the number of higher prestige hobgoblins as pared to before. Demon biology is weird, and holy, I hadn't put much thought into that problem. I'd experiehis myself when I went from an imp to a lesser earth demon, but it does make me think that we 't really have a singur housing size that will just work forever. Oher hand, f demons to move to a new unity because they've evolved or prestiged beyond their current housing doesn't seem very fair either.

  I'm not sure that there is a good solution that solves both problems at ohough. For new goblins, any housing built for a high prestige hobgoblin would be far te for them to live in reasonably. Currently they've just been moving into new housing if they pletely outgrow their old housing, but there have been numerous pints and people moving around a lot to try and find a new unity. I hate the idea of f a housing administration, but that might be the sort of bureaucratic overhead necessary to hahe issue.

  The administration would hawo things in our current try. First, it'd assign housing to new goblins, and keep a record of where people live. Sed, they'd help demons find new housing when they outgrow their old housing. Basically, I'd want them to have some short list of questions to get a feel for the type of unity the demons want to be a part of, and point them in that general dire for where they should live .

  For example, if they're a fishergoblin, and they've retly bee a hobgoblin, they may want to live near other fishergoblins, so they could be directed to appropriate housing for that want. That might help cut down on the current shuffling for housing that is happening. Acc to Zeb, when a hobgoblin picks a neartment or house, most of the time, they're ba a few weeks, looking for a new one. This cycle repeats between one and three times depending on the individual before they settle on a new home.

  The housing administration could also be in charge of taking sus data. They'd o do it initially anyway, but down the road, as the city bees rger and rger, having a written record of our current popution's situation every so often will be important to making decisions.

  Outside of that issue, he had a sed issue that I was able to quickly remedy. The problem started with the humans, but has since spread to the dwarves. During winter, like it is now, at night the temperature gets quite chilly on some nights iy. The humahe first to request windows to help keep the heat in their house while still allowing light in. Ohe humans started pining, the dwarves also wanted windows for the same reason. The easy solution to that is that I'd been pulverizing quartz already, so I just o show a few members of Zeb's team how to make gss from the quartz so they could make gss windows for him to use. In general, we should have enough quartz that he use it for more than just the humans and dwarves, and I told him that he should pn future strus to use gss windows, and that he might want to retrofit the old buildings with them as well.

  So, I bargained with Zeb to get the warehouse built just outside town in exge for taking some time to teach a few goblins on stru crews how to make gss. So, rather than helping the mining crew when they return up the mountain, I'll first be spending time teag some goblins how to make gss. I'll just pn ourning up the mountain to mine on the rip instead.

  In the fourteen days I had until I pnned ourning to the mine, I mao teach the foblins Zeb assighe gss making process. They only o learn how to make panes, so only needing to teach that made it a little easier. Ultimately, they have quite a few tons worth of pulverized quartz to work with, though I don't know if we're excavating it faster than they use it currently. If it was only for new strus, I think that we're mining more quartz than we use, but if we include all the buildings that need retrofitting, I don't know if the stockpile will st through all of it. Oher hand, since I'm mining as well, we're probably produg signifitly more quartz than we were before.

  I've been w with the mining crew for six days now, and they're returning tomorrow m while I io stay up here for the en days to keep w. I've also improved the overall work speed of miners beyond just myself. The way the mine is currently run, excavated minerals are hauled up via a e out of the shaft. There, they are loaded into carts, and run up to the entrance of the cave. I added in a little extra slot on some of the carts and the e where a crystal charging tray be retively safely ied for transport. As the carts are run up to the entrance, a drained crystal tray is dropped off at the charging room, and ourn trip, a fully charged tray is brought to the mine.

  Ultimately, this has saved an immense amount of time spent moving to and from the crystal charging room for replenishing mana. I did take a day of downtime expanding the room and doubling the number of trays though, due to the new expanded use. The miners productivity being somewhat slow before this is sort of my own fault though, as they didn't want to move the trays out of the charging room without my permission, and I only realized this was an issue after I asked one of the goblins t me a tray so I could recharge and keep w, and he seemed worried about potentially breaking something. I expihat they're not that delicate, and then came up with the improved system.

  Holy, with how deep this shaft is, I'd expect this will more than double the rate of mining, even without my help.

  Well, the first four days were a bust after the miners left. As it turns out, without their help running the minerals and bringing me mana crystals, my rate of work isn't even a tenth what it is with them within the vein's mine. So after a single frustrating day, I spent three days w on other things, rather than being frustrated by my ck of individual progress.

  Instead, I decided to start expanding the exploratory tunnel in a different dire from before by making a jun about half way through its length. Ultimately, I'm just doing this to get access to more mana crystals. We weren't particurly low on them, but it's a job I could do more quickly w solo than what I d in the new mine, so I at least felt like I was doing something of value.

  When the miners came back, it felt good to return t on the project I'd inteo work on. Moving forward, I'll only overstay pared to the rest of the mining team if there are other projects I want to work on, like growing crystals. When I work through the night thanks to my trait, it's not much of a slohile the mining crew is here because in the m they just haul out everything I've cut, and I would make a sirip back up for food on the night, and at that time I'd s out some of the crystal trays before tinuing work, after I ate and did some quartz pulverizing.

  With me helping and the new crystal transport method, Konkur said that we're excavating nearly eight times the volume that they were before in a single six day stint. Though that's not necessarily good, because it means that they spend signifitly longer hauling it down to the city, and he's worried about morale after I leave if the pace is too slow in parison.

  By his estimates though, we'll o adjust to the horizontal cuttihod after the six day stint, which will also mean ging the way the staircases are cut. He said that if I just happen to stop helping after they switch excavation styles it'd be uo affect morale, so I've itted to returning for the six day mining stint, and then I'll stop assisting for a while. I'm just hopeful that with the new crystal tray method, they'll remain w quickly in parison to before.

  Acc to Konkur though, sometimes you'll get bursts of output from these veins if you happen upon a horizontal fracture full of crystals as you tio mihem out, so I shouldn't be as pessimistic about it's output. Plus, it's still only produg quartz and some gypsum, so it's ly valuable.