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#81
Village Blogs / Re: Abandoned - Rainbow Falls ...
Last post by Abandoned - March 02, 2024, 06:54:16 AM
Chapter 2


  The first mountain house was built to the left of the storage barn for the children of two of the families; the children were only 11 and 12 years old when the house was completed.  When the snow melted, they discovered a small patch of hazelnuts, wild oats, mushrooms, asparagus, and branches by the rainbow's end in front of their house.   Everyone was surprised when the young couple had a baby girl together the following year.





  Two more mountain houses were built to the right of the stockpile.  One of the families was that of the young mother.  They built a branch cart for firewood collecting.  We were struggling with both our firewood and food supplies.  There was a hedgerow in front of those two house that had hazelnuts, a plum tree, wild honey, and rabbits.  Our food supply would get a little more help.



  Our nice house was built by the waterfall and rainbow.  There was a downed tree extending into the river that we used as a fishing tree although we could also catch fish from the waterfall ponds.  I was fishing until I went to help build the crystal garden by the waterfall across from us.  We needed crystals to build a magic school, to make and enchant hunting bows and arrows, to cast tool summoning spells, and to grow food in a magic garden.  Next to the crystal garden was another hedgerow patch with mushrooms, asparagus, and wild oats.   A third hedgerow patch, just like the others, was over by the third waterfall.


#82
Village Blogs / Re: Abandoned - Rainbow Falls ...
Last post by Abandoned - March 01, 2024, 05:54:25 AM
Chapter 1




  As you may have guessed, eager explorers, we are Elves.  I'm Gillisse and my husband is Erving.  We came through the magic portal from Crystal Canyon; the portal obviously malfunctioned and we came to the wrong place and could not go back.  It was supposed to be a two-way portal.  There were 22 of us, 10 adults with 12 children.  Erv and I had 2 children at the time, a boy and a girl.  Our group was taking wildlife, tree fellows, and tree seedlings to one of the areas that had been severely damaged by tornadoes, but this obviously wasn't one of those places.  Now you tell me that we're on the other side of the world.  That could explain the malfunction and why my crystal ball doesn't show us any places that are familiar to us.  This valley's terrain and climate is very similar to Crystal Canyon's but we were expecting to be somewhere much warmer.  It was snowing when we arrived here.





  Like you, we were immediately impressed by the rainbows and the waterfalls.  We were very glad to discover there were mana crystals here; they are essential to Elven spell casting.  The heat generated by the crystals is what keeps the lakes and rivers from freezing in winter. Oh, you must already know that since you were river boatmen in the north.  Well, the waterfalls and ponds don't freeze either, and when we discovered the third waterfall we named our valley Rainbow Falls.





  We quickly gathered resources and built a medium-sized storage barn where we could store our meager supplies, take shelter from the cold, and house the small animals we brought with us.  The larger animals went to a nearby wood area with a tree fellow watching over them.  We built a tunnel through the small mountain by the stockpile; we saw there were a lot of downed branches we could use as firewood.  We would rather gather branches than cut trees whenever possible.  It was a bit warmer and out of the wind to go back-and-forth through the tunnel for stones and the wood we needed to cut.  We would need a lot of both.
#83
Village Blogs / Abandoned - Rainbow Falls - St...
Last post by Abandoned - February 29, 2024, 06:47:43 AM
Intro


  This is the 2nd story in the New World Series which began when river boatmen, Jenser and Shie, were caught in a storm far north of Smallville and ended up on the other side of the world, shipwrecked.  They reached a small settlement where they helped 4 Nord families developed it into the town of Newburg.  When the town was stable and had a boat builder, Jenser and Shie, along with their 2 youngest children, set off to see the world, heading south down Moon River.  You, eager explorer, went with them. 

  It wasn't long before the river branched off to the east, and in the distance, Jenser and Shie saw a beautiful rainbow.  They knew that rainbows always appear in the east, when a rainstorm is near its end, but it wasn't raining.  It was too cold to rain. They steered their houseboat up that river and into the mountains, you followed them to where 3 rainbows were arched across the river.  It appeared as if the rainbow's end was waiting just around the bend. 







Map seed # 362485972      Mountain one River, Small, fair, Disasters Off, Fairy Tale Start - 5 Families

 
Mods activated for this map and load order are:

Map Changing and Starting Mods:   Banished UI Maps, Labor Window, RK Minimized Status, CC Light Rain, Landscape Nordic, override map, Settler Deco, A8 Japanese Trees, Jinxie Natural Decorations, New Flora Edit.

Tweak Mods:   Fishing Dock +25%, Hunting, Increased CC, 1:1 Alternative (Voeille), override Fairy Clothes, Rock Respawn, Tiny Smoke

Major or Must Have Mods:    An Empty Square, Nomads (Kid), override Uneducated, Kid Workshop, Kid Abandoned Places SE, Kid Fairy Garden, Fid Fairy Tale.

Supporting Mods:   Ds Bridge Crossing, DS Tunnels, Kid Forest Ponds, Kid Hedgerow, Kid Houseboat, Kid Mist, Mega Mod Deco Animals, Tiny Chopper.



   



Welcome to Rainbow Falls, eager explorers.  Yes, the rainbows are truly magical, we thought so too when we first arrived here.  How and from where?  Stay a while and  I'll tell you all about it.
#84
General Discussion / Re: Welcome New Members!
Last post by Baldtwitlion - February 28, 2024, 03:22:41 PM
Hi! New to the forum but not to Banished, thank you to everyone working hard to keep this game and modding community alive  :)
#85
General Discussion / Re: Tiny map
Last post by River - February 22, 2024, 12:44:11 PM
Nevermind. I finally found it. lol Sorry to bug ya'll.
#86
General Discussion / Tiny map
Last post by River - February 22, 2024, 12:39:10 PM
I am looking for the mod that allows Tiny map. I've looked at everything and can't find it. Anyone know?
#87
General Discussion / Re: Found a corrupt mod
Last post by Abandoned - February 21, 2024, 07:54:26 PM
The grow onions mod is not from my story.  I used it in story 68 and a few other stories without problem.  It is an old Black Liquid (CC) mod from that site.  All it does is add an onion crop to the game that the riverboat trader has for trade.  Should not be a problem unless it is conflicting with another mod you are using; most likely CC has later version included.  :-\
#88
General Discussion / Re: Found a corrupt mod
Last post by River - February 21, 2024, 06:18:16 PM
It was from Abandon's Mayville - Story 68.
#89
General Discussion / Re: Found a corrupt mod
Last post by galensgranny - February 21, 2024, 04:55:34 PM
 You didn't need to delete and reinstall the game.  Just disabling the mods is enough. Where was that grow onion mod from?
#90
General Discussion / Found a corrupt mod
Last post by River - February 21, 2024, 04:18:02 PM
Kept crashing my game. So I unloaded everything, deleted the game, reinstalled, then went one by one til I found this. I then tried everything else and it's fine. So, just this one so far. Shame cause I really did want onions. lol.