there were nice deco pieces in the mod. this comp had issues with them. not sure why, could been mod order related. the training pieces were dark, like black not colored and all the horses had saddles.

the CC brins the musket training pieces and a few other fort parts. they require inputs of various supplies to function with low outputs. per CC with its material chains, the end values may b better but the amounts of goods is low. they are functioning. in an RP sence they do work to employ more ppl at the fort without them producing much, kinda like troops would do.  combined they do produce a couple of trade goods but at a high cost of iron and firewood.

there is no perfect world to Banish to keep all the mods 1 wants. always a give and take.

Chapter 10


  Luckily the temperature warmed quickly; there were no coats.  There was not much leather but the tailor had been busy making linen from flax and there was plenty of linen to make coats with.  The food and tool supply was good.  Housing was needed.




  Two stone huts were built and a 3rd one started back behind the cemetery where the last 3 thatch huts had been built.  One of the families that moved into one of the stone huts had a daughter named Virginia who was 15 years old, marriageable age.  I was only 14.   I saw her talking and laughing with Aries several times.

  We planned to build a large complex against the mountain behind those stone houses.  It would have some stone and thatch houses on top and some sets of rooms for families below.  The project would take a lot of stone but it would house many families.  The natives called our plan Machu Picchu, whatever that meant.  We called it a boarding house.

Quote from: brads3 on April 09, 2026, 10:49:57 AMyes, I removed it with this last overhaul to the mod order.  I did like the wall design. I often used the hunting towers. due to computer memory limits, some things always get cut to add other mods. it is such a give and take. there have been many many mods over the years that I wish I could pull a piece or 2 out of and keep.

i would have think all the other things i've put inside.

this is a fort , and the guys need to train and excercise their skills, i would have expected to see some training grounds... combat dummies... archer stands and archer targets ... it is the only source of things like that

y20

we more than doubled our forests. 2 large KIDD forests work across the river from the pine forest and south of the lake. the sawmill nearby should keep the fort supplied with firewood.

east of the new forests, the Iroquois have established the 1st Indian village. they hunt, fish, and farm. they will supply us with tobacco for trade.

yes, I removed it with this last overhaul to the mod order.  I did like the wall design. I often used the hunting towers. due to computer memory limits, some things always get cut to add other mods. it is such a give and take. there have been many many mods over the years that I wish I could pull a piece or 2 out of and keep.

Chapter 9





  We were surprised, that with all the new people who came through town or decided to stay, that we did not have any serious illnesses or diseases.  The herbalist healer was doing a good job keeping everyone healthy but by the time the snow began to fall, we stated building a healing hut just south of our village. 



  The logs and firewood were again in short supply mainly because of all the new huts.  We were out in the cold and snow cutting trees and gathering branches.  There was little thatch to be found.  We considered building another thatch farmer but it would have had to be further away than was practical.  Instead we built another woodcutter's hut on the road from the first forester's hut by the small stockpile.  The new woodcutter would cut firewood from logs rather than making it from thatch.  With the 2nd forester's hut close by, there should soon be enough logs for building needs and firewood.



  In spring, 15 migrants with 1 child came from the southeast and wanted to stay here with us.  Aries and I were glad there were other young single alone in huts now who could temporarily house the newcomers until more huts were built.

1 mod is missing from your list for your fort .... TrainingCampDeco.pkm

y15

  the fort construction continued.  it now has a church, a bakery, and a small trading post. the walls are completed and armed with canons. muskets and canons are made for our miliary.  settlers and the cavalry are trained here before heading out on the trail.

Chapter 8




   A hut had been built next to the hunter's hut and Regenia moved out from her parent's hut and into it; she became the hunter.  There must have been a problem at home because her father and older brother moved out and into a hut nearby leaving her mother alone with a toddler and newborn.  Sometime later, her father moved back in with her mother, leaving her brother alone in the nearby hut.



  A new hut was built for a family of 4, another for an older couple, and yet another for a couple with a child who just became old enough to start school.  A 2nd forester's hut was built over to the east and a young single girl moved into the hut that was built next to it; her name was Malisa and she was a year younger than Regenia and 2 years younger than I was. 



  Three new huts were built across the stream from our huts.   Two of the huts were for single young males who had just arrived and one was for a young girl from one of our original families who became an adult just before the school had been completed.  All the new families were now in their new huts and the native hut closest to the school finally got upgraded from a grass hut to a thatch one before winter.

Chapter 7




  Every spring we were short of firewood.  When the migrants left, we collected branches and thatch for the woodcutter.  The natives relied mostly on collected branches, they even collect branches that had fallen in the old cemetery.  We tried to convince them to let us upgrade their grass huts to thatch huts that were warmer and used less firewood, but they didn't understand; they thought we wanted to move into their huts.
 


  The family in the grass hut by the fishing rock on our side of the stream understood; they had older children who had picked up a few more of our words than most of the others.  The hut was soon upgraded.




  Because the children were quick learners, we decided to build a school for the children, but adults were welcome to join the language classes. Those first classes were rather fun; everyone brought different berries and our words and the native's were repeated several times for each type of berry.  Later in the class the student who could name a berry in both languages got to eat the berries. The children got most of the berries. 

  Communicating with each other got a little easier after those classes.  More natives understood about upgrading the grass huts but only the hut closes to the school wanted theirs to be upgraded.  They would have to wait a while because the builders were busy building a stone fence around the old cemetery which we cleaned up and weeded.

  It was late spring that 9 more migrants with 3 children arrived from the southeast, they agreed to stay. We got a 3rd forester, another thatch farmer, and another builder.  We needed more thatch and more huts.