Guilds/NP Aqueduct Association

Guild info

For organizing an aqueduct for the Test of Life in Nomads' Paradise. Guild Hall is located at the coordinates -797, 2675 at the rivers edge north of the Crossroads.

Planning Notes

Caveat: Most of this information and planning depends on info from previous tales. Towers are used for Test of Life. Some of the initial capacity for Raeli tiles will be directed toward Funerary Temples for the guild members.

Previous Tale Info

• Towers are placed in a regular hex grid pattern, precisely 20 coords apart.
• Drinking from a tower cistern gives +1 to one attribute, for one teppy-day.
• Each tower gives a 3x boost to one vegetable grown within 4 coords of tower.
• Chance that a tower will benefit particular herb foraging within it's 256x256 square.
• Moss, seemingly useful only for research, grows around each tower's cistern.
• Tower height must be 5' or more over subsequent towers.
  • Need good quality barometer to gauge ground altitude to determine tower height.
  • Passing over raised terrain will reduce the costs of raising towers on that terrain.
  • Tower raising costs are incremental, linear and without upgrade penalty. Cost to height F is:
    • Bricks: 2000 + (50*F)
    • Concrete: 2*F
    • Cut Stone: (3*F + 1) / 2
    • Pipe Segments: 5 + (F/50)
• There is no apparent data regarding the cost for height F for the pumping station.

Route

An Aqueduct Pumping Station site has been found and is marked by the GH. An ambitious, potential NP Water Tower route stops at all major population hubs close to X/CS. Route is largely determined by the roads and the geography.

Surveying with a barometer is necessary to gauge the correct costs. If one assumes relatively flat terrain, we get maximal values for the cost of a chain, so these numbers are upper bounds for the cost of a single chain of N+1 towers with the destination R feet above pumping station level. The smaller length chain calculations assume those chains are attached to a longer chain to get access to the pump. Note: R ≠ 0 only for 47 length chain.

Item	Formula	N=46	N=21	N=7	N=2	N=1	Total
Total Feet = T	N*R + 5*N*(N+1)/2	46*R + 5405	1155	140	15	5
Bricks	2,000 + 2,000*N + 50*T	2300*R + 364,250	101,750	23,000	6,750	4,250	2300*R + 500,000
Concrete	2*T	92*R + 10,810	2310	280	30	10	92*R + 13,440
Cut Stone	(3*T + N + 1)/2	69*R + 8131	1743	214	24	8	69*R + 10,120
Pipe segments	5 + 5*N + T/50	23*R/25 + 343	133	42	15	10	(23*R/25) + 543

Resource Estimates

Estimates used in calculations:

• Aqueduct Pump Costs.
• 5 ovens total, 1 producing yellowish, 1 producing pinkish tiles.
• Brick machines used are neither tuned nor upgraded.
• All chains, with a 40' rise on the longest.
• Average of 320 tiles produced each day by any single oven.
• Average 45 gravel/medium stone.
• Cuttable Stones appear every 10 seconds in a 6 person dig.

Time and material needed for the full 82-tower aqueduct system:

• 331,000 Raeli Tiles - 207 days
• 50,000 Treated Boards - 100 batches, no estimate.
• 300 Marbles - 21 quarries, no estimate.
• 592,000 Bricks - 45.7 Greenhouse-days, 54.8 Brick Machine-days
• 35,320 Concrete - 785 Medium Stone, 142 Concrete batches - No Estimate
• 12,880 Cut Stone - 26.8 Rock Saw-days, 8.9 dig-days.
• 580 Pipe Segments - 96.7 Vault Kiln-days
• 18-20 Small Warehouses - unexpanded by Storage Improvements 2
  • Assumes bricks are kept in machines until needed and
  • Raeli tiles are transported to site as they become available.

Note that the building-day is 100% utilization of a single machine for a full day and that a dig-day corresponds to the share of work done by one person in a group. Machines are rarely so well used, so that an individual person usually creates only a fraction of a building-day during any given RL day. Also, the machines used for our purpose will likely be used for other needs as well.

Goal Estimates

Using an arbitrarily chosen, ambitious goal of 100 RL days to complete an aqueduct, we have the following needs:

• 11 Raeli Ovens - 1 of each specific color, 6 of any color.
• 500 Treated boards/day - 1 batch/day.
• 3 Marble/day - 1 quarry emptied every 5 days.
• 5,920 Bricks/day - 20 Brick Machine runs/day, 20 Greenhouse harvests/day.
• 354 Concrete/day - 1-2 batch/day.
• 6-person dig every 4 days with all Cuttable Stone going to project.
• 5.8 Pipe Segments/day.
• 4 Cistern every 5 days.
• Full Small Warehouse every 5-6 days.

Raeli ovens and brick machines do not need ongoing effort to sustain output. Once the infrastructure is in place, the bottlenecks will be the concrete, cut stone, marble and possibly treated boards.

Buildings and Resources

Aqueduct Pump

Item	Quantity	Notes
Steel Wire	320/600	Azure working on this
Copper Wire	600/600 DONE
Moon Steel	0/120 NONE
Cistern	1/1 DONE
White Raeli Tiles	269/50000
Greenish Raeli Tiles	0/30000 NONE
Yellowish Raeli Tiles	1572/30000
Pinkish Raeli Tiles	0/30000 NONE
Black Raeli Tiles	73/50000
Any color of Raeli Tiles	1/100000
Rotproof, Rigid, Nontoxic Boards	0/50000 NONE
Concrete	280/10000
Oyster Shell Marble	0/100 NONE
Night Granite	0/100 NONE
Grey Star Marble	0/100 NONE

Aqueduct Tower

Item	Quantity	Notes
Pipe Segments	20/580	These need 100 Clay to make a Wet Pipe Segment on a Pottery Deck then fired in a Vault Kiln for 4 hours.
Cistern	0/82 NONE	1/tower
Copper Pipe	0/410 NONE	5/tower
Bricks	0/592,000 NONE	Kept in Brick Machines until needed
White Raeli tiles	0/8200 NONE	100/tower
Black Raeli tiles	0/16400 NONE	200/tower
Yellowish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Reddish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Greenish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Blueish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Concrete	0/25320 NONE	100/tower + 17120 for raising costs of chain
Cut Stone	0/12880 NONE

Infrastructure

Item	Quantity	Notes
Raeli Oven	5/11	See Asylum, PsS and our oven pages.
Small Warehouse	1/20	On site
Greenhouse	1/8	On Site
Brick Machine	1/8	On Site
Vault Kiln	1/3	At Voyna's