A mine that doesn't need a hillside, or a big rock to lean into. A simple door/hatch with a very small hut on top, that you can "desend" into and mine materials. Takes up little space on the surface, placable anywhere. Like the Portable Mine, but less top space invasive. Just an idea.

Chapter 15


  We had enough workers to assign more to the mine.  With 6 miners bringing out stone, the builder's work on the new boarding house was underway, we could reduce the number of miners.




  We realized that since allowing the last group of migrants to stay with us, our food supply had dropped dramatically.  We planted another potato patch by our huts on this side of the small stream.  The hunter hut got a 3rd hunter and could have a 4th if needed.  The same went for the gatherer's hut, it now had its 3rd worker.



  The gatherer's hut on the other side of the stream also got a 3rd worker even though the work area was much smaller.  The native's solution to any problem was the same, they would fish more.  Both fishing rocks had 3 fishermen with spears and more canoes went out on the lake, so the canoe pier got another worker.




  Across the river, the hunter's hut and gatherer's hut each got its 3rd worker.  We thought that the new work assignments would be enough to improve our coat and food surpluses.

Chapter 14




  Work continued across the river.  A forester and gatherer were built as well as a fodder farmer.  They felt a lot safer when a hunter hut was built nearby; there were 2 large herds of wild boar in the area.  Because of those boars, the thatch hut that was built by the hunter's hut was only big enough for 2 residents; there would be no young children roaming around in the dangerous area.  Most of the huts by the river and on the mainland were big enough for 5, but a few would house 4 or 6 residents.




  Because firewood was still in short supply especially in spring, another woodcutter's hut was built on that side of the river.  Firewood would be cut from logs. Our forester huts and fodder farms all had 3 workers.  The woodcutter huts both had 2 workers but a 3rd could be added if needed.  Coats were still in short supply; everyone had one but there were none in storage.  We decided that would not change unless we build another tailor hut; one hut would make linen or cloth and the other would make the coats.  We assigned 2 tailors to each hut.

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22 arrive to establish the Plain's Indian village. it is west of the fort between 2 lakes. they hunt, fish, and gather food and herbs. to keep the trees from growing back, they will  plant and harvest thatch. this they can trade through the fort.  they also supply honey from nearby beehives.

3 different modders made teepees for housing. KIDD made a hunter with a teepee. the other workshops are made from a variety of other mods.

Chapter 13

  Back in year 9, a large group of immigrants came to the valley in early spring from the north, it had just begun to snow again.  They did not want to stay; they were headed south to escape the cold and snow.  They must have crossed paths with the group that came from the south a short time later.  There were 23 adults with 4 children.  They were the first residents of the stone boarding house.  We were glad to have more workers.

  We had no coats to give them; the tailor ran out of cotton to make coats with, and there was only a little leather left.  He switched to making some linen from flax then back to making coats with leather and linen.  The coats went out of storage as fast as they went in.  There was still plenty of tools in storage and plenty of surface iron for the blacksmith to make more, although logs were often in short supply, so was firewood.  We collected branches often. 




  The bridge across the river was finally finished so we could collect more stone.


 We built a mine hut on our side of the stream not far from the healer's hut, but we only had 2 miners bringing out stone; we did not need iron ore or coal.  We had plans to build another boarding house near there, closer to where migrants entered the valley from the southeast like we did.  Our parents remembered when they arrived; when they finally reached this valley from over the steep hills, they thought they couldn't go another step.  It was a good location to house migrants who were just passing through, permanent residents could stay at the boarding house across the stream.  We needed a lot more stone.

I like Machu Picchu very much, it is a beautiful building.  Very interesting to see material get delivered to building site and to watch each step get completed.  When completed I just had to sit and watch the people going up and down those stairs    Very nice.

It makes a nice-looking settlement with the huts and the stone houses.

How do you like Machu Picchu ?

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in between doing the Indian villages, settlers arrive. a group of 29 arrived and began clearing land near the east forests to grow food. others dug a mine.  a colonial school and church are built at the edge of what will b St. Louis.

Chapter 12


  All the needed stone was finally delivered to the building site and construction of the Machu Picchu began.  A wooden bridge was being built across the river to get more stone.  We thought that area would be a good place to build another forester or thatch farmer but the natives said they would not cut trees.




  The stone foundation of the boarding house was built and then the high stone wall with stone stairs going upward.  It was autumn before the upper-level stone and thatch houses were built; there were 4 builders working on the project.   A few trees and shrubs were planted on top and the project was finished.  It looked very welcoming, even in winter. 





Aries and I had a baby girl we named Parisa that winter.  Regenie married Fores, the young adult male in the one of the thatch huts across the stream; they later also had a baby girl.  Aries and I had another baby girl, Selene, early in year 9.  Late the following year Malisa married Evante the forester who had 2 sons; his wife, a forester, died in childbirth in summer.  In late summer another forester, Yaynellis died; he was killed by a falling tree.

Chapter 11


  The problem we had was lack of stone.  There was plenty of surface stone lying around but most of it was around the portal and shrines which the natives did not want touched.  They also did not want any removed from the area around their grass huts; some of those stones marked ancestral burial sites.  We could take some but not all from the valley to the northeast.  It was a breeding grounds for the deer, grouse, and boars.




  There was a large untouched area across the river from the native's grass huts.  There were many trees and a lot of iron and stone, but there again it was a breeding grounds for the animals.  It would take a sturdier bridge than the ones built across the stream to cross the river and to carry stones back across it. That was something to think about.

  I often sat on one of the log bridges that crossed the stream when I had something to think about, especially when my house was full of migrants.  Sometimes, especially in spring, the water was high and I could take my shoes off and put my feet in the water.  Sometimes Aries joined me and we would talk about our house guests.  We had none this spring, but I went to sit on the bridge as usual. I had just turned 15.  Aries came and sat beside me and said he thought we got along well and would be happy together if I married him.  I would have fallen off the bridge and into the water if he had not grabbed ahold of me in time.   I agreed and moved from my hut into his.