The limiting factor for how muitrogly rodues down to how much fish fat we recover and vert to glycerol daily. Teically, having a rge enough amount of sulfur dioxide is also a limiting factor, but currently, we've still got a rge amount of solid sulfur we burn, and if we find more sulfide ores we could also easily vert the old roasting facility to produg sulfuric acid as a product of roasting them as well, relieving that issue.

  After taking some daily measurements, we recover about 150 pounds of fish fat each day after cooking and waste is sidered, which gets turned into about 20 pounds of glycerol. In theory, we increase that amount by utilizing the fishiies to catch rger fish, and dedicate them to primarily produg fats, which I've now put the work order in to do so. We'll need a lot of nitrogly to kill a leviathan, and we'll probably waste a lot on our first attempts.

  With that in mind, after ten days of research I began designing the nitrogly produ facility with the idea that it would be w with 100 pounds of glycerol a day. Based on initial testing, I went with five pounds glycerol processing per produ line per day. Meaning each line processes less than one pound of glycerol an hour, which should keep explosive risks retively low. All of the pleted nitrogly is then verted into dynamite using paper to make it signifitly more stable and safe to store.

  Beyond that, we're also limiting the amount of dynamite that be stored at any one location, instead relying on spaced out ste facilities built partially down into the ground to direy actal detonations upwards into the sky. Each ste chamber is desigo hold 3000 pounds of dynamite, with a gravel barrier on all sides underground and piles above ground around the hole to reduy through-ground shockwaves from detonation. Eae will have a simple roof desigo block the rain but easily fail if a bst happens. Then, the ste chamber will be built 200 feet away, and so on.

  Ideally, I want 25 of these ste holes for dynamite, to provide us with 37.5 tons of ste capacity. Even at maximum produ, it'd take about nine months to fill all the ste with dynamite, sidering the dynamite is about 35% nitrogly by weight. If we o engineer a better ste facility iure, we , but for now, it's a quid easy design to utilize while I begin trying to design an explosive bait barge to use on the leviathans. Personally, I'm actually a little worried that it might not be enough nitrogly, and that we'll o potentially increase produ to much higher amounts to kill a leviathan.

  Dynamite is iing to work with as the main explosive po. Nitrogly is really sensitive, but by soaking it into paper it provides built-in shock absorption into the explosive, making it harder to detonate. Though a small detonation will still cause a casg effect through the eick of dynamite, which will in turn cascade through any other nearby sticks. I've started work on the initial barge design based on my initial assumptions whie testing seems to prove might work.

  I want the barge to be as simple as possible, so that we waste as little material as we . In short, it's just a rge wooden craft that we'll load up with dynamite, with a few medium sized gss ampules filled with nitrogly and stoppered with a wood plug. Those ampules will sit in a few small crates stuffed full of shreded paper and bargas wool to dampen any shock that the barge might experieurally. The hope is that when the barge is properly attacked by certaihans, they'll shatter one of the crates, and jostle an ampule enough to begin a casg explosion with all the dynamite.

  I've e to realize that certaihans are less vulnerable to this than others, however. For example, the crab leviathans mostly attack with their itially, ahans we haven't seen that are on the sea floor may never even e up to attabsp; However, eel and fish leviathans that we've wittag with their jaws are the most likely to actually die from this bait attabsp; Being able to kill some leviathans is still better than none. We'll cross the bridge whe to it. Plus, if we severely damage a crab leviathan, we might be lucky enough that a differehan fi off.

  As for propulsion, the barges will utilize a simple propeller and small mana eo drive them forward and out to sea. I debated using sails, but relying on favorable winds with a rge amount of explosives just sitting onboard seemed unwise. We're also going to simply stone shape a little material oside of the barge to roof it. If we tried to cross the whole o, it'd crad fail with this barge design, but we only really to st a few hours.

  In the 35 days that I speing and then making the first barge with help, two of the produ lines for nitrogly have been pleted, and I spent a little time getting individuals trained on the careful operation and handling of the explosives. The ultimate location that was selected for the produ and ste facility was in the valley on the far side of the isnd, where our natural bay and ships are located. There was some bad forth about the exact location we should choose, but we settled on the farthest edge of the valley, where the old road leads to the craggy portion.

  Since we now have the tuhrough the mountain, the old road is somewhat obsolete, but it still provides some use to us this way. The ste for dynamite likewise be kept retively far from any future development while still having a road we use for transport without fear of too much jostling during transport.

  All-the-while, the glycerol facility and the nitrid sulfuric acid has slowly been stockpiling more and more material to eventually get made into nitrogly. After the nitrogly facility is pleted over here, I do want to build a sed nitrid sulfuric acid pnt nearby to provide a more ready supply for produ, rather than having to transport the materials to this new facility.

  I basically want to pletely load up our small barge with dynamite, which I estimate it'll hold about 30 tons. Meaning it'll take us just about 200 days to actually produce that amount of nitrogly in the form of dynamite. That's a long time to wait. I'll sider ramping produ up further depending on our avaible glycerol produ. In theory, there is signifitly more fish avaible than what we're actively harvesting, but overfishing could hurt us long term.

  After another 44 days, the rest of the produ lines came online for nitrogly, and only one had to be rebuilt after a hobgoblin dropped a small tainer of nitrogly, aonated himself and his produ area. As unfortunate as his death was, the facility worked as intended, and only that one produ line was destroyed. We're still about 170 days out from testing the first barge. I've also given the go ahead on a few project upgrades to the whole of the produ line.

  With me fish being caught and processed, a request was made for each of the jetties to have a fish processing area plete with the necessary tools and tainers so that more time could be spent fishing. With excess fish being caught, we've started to chum the water around the jetty with the waste fish, returning it to the ecosystem, and being able to do most of that work close to each jetty should increase overall productivity, increasing our fat produ.

  The sed addition is more produ and ste flycerol, which retty simple matter to approve. However, the final step, making more nitrogly, will require a few additional buildings. First, we'll o make more of the nitrid sulfuric acid produ lines, which we'll put o the existing nitrogly facility, but not so near as to be affected by a catastrophic explosion. After that is dohen we add in more nitrogly produ lines.

  Since almost all of these projects have already been built ohere isn't a lot for me to design. Expected pletion for all these projects is about the time the first barge will unbsp; In the meantime, I've gotten some bad news about the eagle we had drugged. It never seemed to recover from the brain damage, but further, even after it's wings healed, it remained overly aggressive, and ended up fighting anle to the death, and perished in the fight.

  Perhaps because the dwarves weren't quite in oails of the situation, they actually weren't very bothered by an eagle killing anle. It apparently happens every so often at the capitol. We've since had two more eagles arrive. There were some tussles between them and the existing eagles, but they ended up settling into the s we'd already made, so we haven't o attempt another relocation thus far. I'm a little ed about what winter will bring. We've now had five eagles arrive this year, and it's all been in spring and summer. I'm sure by now they've started to notiething is up on the mainnd.