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  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.

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152 mods

I updated my notes and adjusted the mod order.  added the DS Globe Theater and RED;s Hermitage Museum to my base mod order. I think those 2 will be useful additions to any city maps. and RED upgraded the ChooChoo mod.

Goal- mainly just to test things.

It has been 10 years since the start of my Settling of America series.  the game and mods have changed a lot over the years. I have done many maps along our journey. a Landing Fort from which settlers were sent to other maps. a CC zoo map, several Monument maps, a Sothwest map. just to name a few.

  to that end, this map will be the Lewis and Clark Expedition map. 3 Indian villages will be built, the Iroquois from the northeast, the Plains, and the Pacific Northwest Indians. We'll start at the Fort of St. Louis.

the fort will provides covered wagons and animals for Pioneers. the fort  has a coffeehouse, barber shop, school, and a jail.
it is a combination of CC and KIDD buildings. a pine forest is to the north.

Chapter 6




  That winter we got our first good look at the wild grouse that roamed the area leaving nests of eggs here and there.  The grouse came right past our gatherer's hut looking for berries that had not been picked.  The hunter came, but like the deer, the grouse quickly fled the area.  The gatherer went right out to gather the eggs that were left behind.




 Farther over to the east, the gatherer spotted a herd of wild boar.  We knew those animals could be dangerous and hoped they did not venture closer to our huts where young children often played outside.  A hunter's hut was built near the gatherer's hut, and a hunter would be on the lookout for any boar that came to near.



  Our supply of food was good but it often required a trip to a few crates and barrels to find what was wanted, and then sometimes none was found.  We decided it would be helpful to have an inventory of what we had and what we didn't.  We built a townhall across from the storage barn and not only took an inventory of goods, but we took an inventory of the natives in the huts by the river and the folks across the stream who came from the mission as well.   We often referred to the other side of town as the Huts by the River.  Together there were 60 of us, 32 adults and 28 children; all were healthy and happy.



   I don't remember if it was the spring the townhall was built or the one after, but 2 springs in a row we had migrants passing through.  Three families with a few small children came one year, and a group of 12 adults with children came the next.  The last group had stopped at the mission where we came from.  They had a few supplies with them but not much.  Aries and I were still alone in our houses so we took them in while they were here.  They said there were a lot more folks wanting to leave the area that seemed to get hotter year after year; they were headed north or west.  We consulted with the natives before asking the migrants to stay, but both groups wanted to move farther away.  We gave them a few more supplies to take with them.  Aries and I were happy to have our houses to ourselves again.  No, eager explorers, none of the migrants that came here ever mentioned seeing any portal.

Chapter 5




  The next thing we built that summer was a tailor 's hut behind the storage barn, there were no coats to be had.  We had to hunt through a lot of storage crates to find leather.  The natives rarely hunted even when deer were nearby; they were too busy fishing.  There were a few large herds of deer but they were mostly just passing through from one grazing place to the next.  When they did stop nearby, it wasn't for long.  They were usually long gone before a hunter even got near.

  The tailor said coats could be made with cloth or linen made from wild cotton and flax when there was not enough leather available.  We could see some of each growing near the tailor's hut so we built a gatherer's hut right behind the tailor; there wasn't much of either but chances were they would be stored in the barn by the tailor.  Gathering the wild foods would save the laborers some work.





  Another gatherer's hut was built by our huts; the area was larger and had more flax and wild foods.  The forester to the north gathered cotton and flax along with logs and thatch.  A herd of deer came down the road from the forester but left as soon as the hunter appeared; a little leather and some venison went into the storage crates.  We were sure to have some new clothes and coats before winter. 

Chapter 4

  It was our first winter here and we had never seen snow before.  The natives brought us pieces of leather to wrap around our feet and legs and leather strips to tie the pieces in place.  We had already begun building some roads, but the leather winter-footwear sure helped keep our feet warm and dry.



  The winter was short and mild and it was soon spring. Firewood was in short supply but there was still foods left that stored well over winter plus freshly picked wild foods.  Our 3 patches were growing well and the natives were on their rocks spear fishing and out with the canoes.   We started building more roads when we realized we were out of tools and clothing.  The weather was warming nicely so coats could wait but we needed tools immediately.




  A blacksmith's hut was built near the stockpile but facing away from it so a spark from the smith's fire would not set the thatch on the stockpile ablaze.  The smith would let the fire burn low on windy days.  We knew the natives would be impressed with iron tools, they'd been working with old handmade wood and stone tools.

Chapter 3


   We asked if we could stay, and if we understood correctly, they said we were home.  They pointed out the stockpile and then pointed across the small stream, so that is where we built our huts out of thatch; there was plenty on the stockpile.  We built 6 huts, and we cut more thatch to replace what we used.   There were 4 families with 6 young children and 3 adult children, myself included.  An adult boy, named Aries, and I had our own huts; his was next to his parents by the small stream.  My parents were next to him, and I was next to them.  The 2 other families were north of all of us.  My name is Clarie, and I really liked Aries and was glad his family came here with us.  I was hoping then already that he and I would get together someday, but Regenie in one of the north huts had the same idea; wherever he was she seemed to be too.



  Aries and I were both builders and Regenie was a laborer.  After the huts were finished, we began building a woodcutter next to the stockpile.  We gathered branches but knew we would not have enough for our 6 huts when winter came.  We asked permission to build there; we were all getting good at sign-language and got an okay.  When finished, the woodcutter used the fodder to make firewood.  There were not many logs on the stockpile. 



  We notice that whatever the natives stored in the old cart got rained on in summer and snowed on in winter, so we asked to build a storage barn on the other side of the stockpile.  It would be about an equal distance between the native huts by the river and ours across the stream.  The native seemed surprised that we asked for permission, again they said we were home.  The barn was built and the cart was put inside.



  Fall fishing was good and the natives put fish in the barn and in their crates and barrels and ours.  They did the same with their corn, squash, and beans.  We planted patches of pumpkins, cabbage, and potatoes with the seeds we brought from the mission and made sure some got into the barn and their crates too.  By the first snowfall in late autumn, we had built a fodder farm a short distance north of the woodcutter, and farther north across the stream we built a forester.  Both the farm and forester could have 3 workers each but only one was cutting and planting fodder and 2 were doing the same with trees.

Chapter 2



  The natives must have been surprised to see you arrive through the portal, eager explorers; one of their fishing rocks is very close.  When we arrived, one of their grass huts was there too.
 


Another fishing rock, 7 more grass huts, and a short pier for their canoes were across the river.  It is much the same today as it was then except for the grass huts; 2 of them were upgraded.  They still have the 2 farmyards like they did back then, growing corn, squash, and beans. 



  They had a large stockpile and a big cart, and there were several storage barrels and crates by the huts.  There were logs, stone, iron, and quite a bit of thatch on the stockpile.  They had 2 bins for firewood, but it was mostly branches they gathered and unloaded from the two small old carts they had. Their diet was mainly fish plus the foods they gathered from the wild or harvested from their 2 small farmyards.  They were living basic simple lives.

  The old graveyard was full of weeds and branches when we arrived, and there were a few gravestones here and there near the huts on the river.  These natives had been here for quite some time apparently.  There were 8 families with 8 children of various ages.

  Larger picture is so much better, nice

I think production numbers and cost adjustment will make a nice difference.  Even a small herd will produce a good amount of food. Good job on mod    Glad I could help.