One of the problems with pig a springtime resting point for the crystal iher valley is a ck of options. Sure, there are a few pces it go, but none of them have nearly the same impa productivity. Though I also didn't expect the now-submerged crystal just downstream of the dam to have as big of an impact as it did. Though I suppose if I did have a pce where it would be as productive, I'd probably end up making another crystal to permaly reside in the new spot.

  So, with that in mind, I shouldn't really be too picky with where I put it. I should probably just expand the bathhouse iy some to hold another crystal, and that will be good enough. Our current bathhouse could do with some remodeling anyway. Given the current city size, it's a bit small. The old design relied heavily on pumping water and sing it out every so often, while utilizing tree-steeped water as a better mana duit than regur water.

  As a sequence of that, many people iy smell like, well, trees. I didn't really notice it until I came back from visiting Kao's isnd. So, sidering that the stream has it's own crystal he dam which is infusing the water with some amount of mana, I'm thinking that a new bathhouse will have two ses. A mana rechargiion, which will essentially be the current bathhouse with it's tree-steeped water and current fee, and a rger iion, which will be free to use. That se will divert some amount of water from the stream through long and wide pools, which will slowly drain down into the sewers. I'll also build an area betweeream and where it ehe ing pools where the new crystal temporarily be kept.

  This whole idea as a project is getting a little bigger than I initially intended, but if I get help from one of Zeb's stru teams, robably get it built before spring.

  I was able to borrow a stru team for this project, so we were able to get it pleted in a reasonable amount of time, though it took a little lohan I hoped, and we didn't finish it until 27 days into the new year. We did get the temporary crystal's spot finished before spring began though, so that wasn't an issue. The difficulty actually came from needing to hook the water draio the sewer system, aing the flow rate from the stream right.

  Ultimately, I spent a few days designing a float trol valve. Thanks to lightstone being lighter thaal, making the actual float, along with a bunch of spares, was retively easy. Unfortunately, fiuning the float valve took some time before I got it wht. This particur float valve uses two floats. utes how open a gate is, aes the flow into the bath. As the bath gets lower, the gate opens up more. Oher side of the gate, another float actually regutes the height the base of the gate sits at, and is desigo raise and lower the gate alongside the stream's average level, so that seasonal ges don't break the system.

  In the past, this might not work very well due to the daily shifts that would occur iream due to heavy rainfall. Thanks to all the rock dams and the rge dam though, the flow of the stream is fairly stant, though extremely heavy downpours still cause some rapid increases due to all the water joining the stream after the dam.

  I'll leave the new bathhouse to operate while I go up the mountain to start work on the crystal to give to Kao. Before I leave though, I'm going to ask Karsh if he build me another crusher mae like the ones we made before. I'll pick it up in a few weeks to take up the mountain to start dealing with all the pyrite that they've been mining out. I'll also o hire a few helpers to speed up the crystal process again.

  I, once again, decided that the goblins who assist me with crystal making will follow the same schedule as the miners, but I'll stay for ara cycle each time. While they help me during the day with melting crystal material and bringing it to me down in the b, at night I'm busy expanding the exploratory tunnels, and finding new crystal deposits to package for them to use. So, in the handful of days where they are gone, but I'm still w, I started digging out a e area up on the surface, where the pyrite ore will eventually go.

  I did learn a new fact about the pyrite crystals from the mihough. Apparently, stone shaping doesn't work on pyrite crystals themselves. Though initially I didn't think much of it, it's probably worth waiting to crush the pyrite as a result. I'll still crush some, for my ows, but a lot of the pyrite is embedded in other rock material. Rock material that I use stone shaping on. So, rather than crush it all together, it may end up being necessary to trate the ore first using stone shaping as part of the recovery process.

  All that o wait though. I have priorities that I o handle first. If the pyrite is uncrushed, it still move into the e area, I'll just o keep things anized in bins in there so we don't mix crushed and non-crushed materials. Having the ste for it is important though, so it doesn't just pile up everywhere.

  I'm currently a little over a third of the way finished with Kao's crystal, and we're already about half-way through the fourth month of the year. I'd be further along, but I decided that I'll make this crystal about a foot taller than the o the sale, so it's takira time. Pretty soon the crystal at the bathhouse be moved back to the shoreline, and more rapid excavation and stru resume there. After I finish this project, I'll have a few months where I experiment with the pyrite before winter.

  We finally fihe crystal for Kao. It's a bit over seveall, so I hope he appreciates that. I moved the temporary crystal back to the other valley in early spring, and sihen, they've tio work at a signifitly fast pace building the sea wall and digging out the artificial tidepool in that valley. I'd expect that by fall, our valley's sea wall will probably be plete. Then they begin w on the valley's sea wall.

  It's early fall now, the sed day of the ninth month, so I have about a month and a half of experimenting with pyrite before I o get all the things ready for trade this year. I have quite a few things I'd like to trade for, like some of the previously mentioned crystals with effects like causi, so I'm looking forward to winter.

  Outside of pyrite, there are a few other things to hah the mine. It's been produg less and less quartz over the past few months, and the vein has been narrowing somewhat. Though what we lost in quartz, we've made up for in possibly two other occasional ore types, though I won't know for sure until I smelt them. I suspee is galena, and the other is sphalerite, ores for lead and zinc respectively, but until I tinker with them, I won't know for sure. Which probably means that I o make even more ste ses in the mountain for the different types of ore that are ing out of the deposit.

  Acc to the hat Konkur left me, when veins like this gh these sorts of transitions, it's not long until it narrows off even more, and the amount of material that is valuable dwindles. He even put a hat says he included pyrite in what is sidered valuable, despite it not normally being sidered as such by the dwarves. That narrow deposit tinues for some time, but it's generally smaller crystals embedded in more rock than we've been seeing.

  Which means I'll have to make a choice at that point. Do we abandon this deposit in search of another one, or do I have the mining team keep extrag despite the lowered yield? I'll have to look through Konkur's notes more thhly and see if he has any insight. He left me quite a few pages, and while I skimmed it with my limited dwarven reading ability, I've had t pages that I thought were important to the goblins who have been handling our records to transte. It's probably worth taking a few days and having one of those goblins transte all of them for me, so I make a more educated deoving forward.