Chapter 7


  So, eager explorers, you think there would be a market for our linen clothes once we got wool to make warmer clothes for ourselves.  We would have plenty of flax that would not be used otherwise.  There are sure to be settlements to the south where it is warmer who would appreciate the cooler clothes.  That is something to think about.  Our builders sure wanted warmer clothes last autumn and winter with all that building they were doing.  There were only a few very old hide coats in storage, we don't know where they came from.  Perhaps there was a hunter or two among the old folks, or maybe they were goat hides.

  Our coat and tool supply held up over the winter but our firewood supply did not.  We were all out in the woods gathering branches.  Matticus got busy cutting firewood by the stockpile on our side of town and an old woodcutting stump was set up by the stockpile in the old part of town.
 




 While out gathering firewood, we gathered whatever wild foods we could find too, especially wild oats.  Our overall health was low and there were quite a few illnesses over the winter.  We drank plenty of hot rose hip tea with wild honey.  We thought to build an herbalist halfway between the two parts of town.  We planted a patch like our small patch of hazelnuts, asparagus, mushrooms, and wild oats over on the old side of town.  Yes, the old folks said the same thing, eager explorers, that a variety of foods help keep folks healthy. 



  The herbalist got built not far from the forester and the asparagus that grew wild along the roadside.  Our overall health had improved, whether because of the extra wild oats we were growing or because of the herbalist, I don't know.  Probably a combination of the two. 

  On that same road, by the old brick chapel, we built a school.  A few of us knew how to read and write and cypher; we were taught how to keep the records in the clerk's office by our parents.  We could teach those things to the children.  Three of the children became adults before the school got built.   There were 15 young children left.

Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture with hydroponics whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants.




This is an amazingly efficient method to grow crops and farm fish. Of course, modern tractors and farm equipment give rural farming a pertinent edge. However, without these tools, there's a very strong argument that this would be the most productive possible food source. However, needless to say, it requires a lot of work to build. There would be a slight production chain in order to make this.

This would be a strong late-game method of gathering vegetables and fish. Especially in modpacks like MM9, fishing is lackluster compared to other food collection methods. So, it's hard to roleplay a seafood-based society like Japan or Norway.

Chapter 6


  The damaged storage barn had been demolished and rebuilt also.  What little was stored in it was removed and put in crates out front.  When the barn was completed with sturdy new doors, the items were moved back in and harvesting in the hedgerow and fishing from the old pier began.
 




  The fish dryer was also demolished.  Although we stopped drying fish and the drying racks were used as firewood, the bears still returned.  The dryer shack where the fish were cleaned, smelled like fish and still attracted the bears.  They damaged the door and badly scratched up the front of the building where the racks had been.  We hoped our meager food supply would last over the winter.  Our potato harvest was small; most would have to be saved to use to seed the 2 potato fields the following spring.  The field in the old part of town was weeded and prepared for spring planting.  Our small patch yielded some wild oats, mushrooms, and asparagus.



  Our tool supply was getting low.  The anvil in old town was put to use and the worker in the workshop began making iron tools instead of linen clothes.
 


  It was late winter before all the families were settling into warm rebuilt houses.  Roosevelyn and Suellar's cottage by the small stream was rebuilt and they moved in with their twins who recently turned 5.  Gerhardin and Moriane in the house next to the fishing pier moved into the vacant house where Moriane's daughter, Alizabette, still remained.  The house by the fishing pier and the one across from it were both demolished.  Gerhardin and Moriane moved in just in time for their daughter, Thelenor, to be born.  Alizabette moved into the house across from them when it was rebuilt.  Although she was not happy her mother married someone not much older than she herself was, she was thrilled to have a half-sister.

   

@kid1293  I'm very glad that you still think about Banished, because there are a lot of city building games now. Regards

Hi @taniu
No, I am not bored. I have many games to play and I still think about Banished now and then.

Chapter 5




  In our part of town, again thinking of our future food supply, we planted a small patch next to the potato field.  The returning families said they came across several families that were struggling and told them to head this way if things got too rough on their own. We transplanted some hazelnut bushes, wild oats, asparagus, and mushrooms from the wild into our new patch.  There were a lot of mushrooms growing by the lake.  We wondered if one of the returning couples would begin fishing from the old pier; it seemed to be sturdy enough yet. 



  Thor and Ryannabell continued to gather flax, checked their old cottage to see if there was anything left in it worth salvaging, and cleaned up the apple tree hedgerow behind it.  They would start harvesting from the hedgerow as soon as the damaged barn was rebuilt.  Their old cottage was also going to be demolished and rebuilt.  The damaged abandoned house next to the vacant house was being rebuilt for her sister, Brigett.  The 2 women cleaned up the cemetery, and Thor replaced the fences around it and the ones around the flax patch.





  It was early autumn before the cottage and abandoned house were rebuilt and Ryannabell and her family moved into their cottage and her sister into her small house next to the now vacant one.

  Hello taniu, yes the beauty of nature can even make a rundown old town look good.  Poor bears have to go do their own fishing now, no more free lunch for them. 

Stay well, taniu

@Abandoned   poor village, a lot of repairs, but there are beautiful colorful trees, maybe spring has come? , it will be better, and what about the bullies - bears? Regards

     I love spring, the grass is green, flowers are blooming in different colors, trees are blooming, the sun is shining, it's warm, "you can warm up your old bones like a cat" is OK. Warm greetings Kit - you're not bored in retirement, are you?