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.

Priorities

What are we stuck on? Behind with? Not gonna worry about sticking to a schedule - this is a game after all, but we can use the 100-day goal to determine what we're behind on.

Currently the focus should be on infrastructure, building the machines that do things with little tending needed. Choose a part you can supply, then note where you've put it after it's done.

1. Greenhouse parts for 1 of 6 more
   • 32 Sheet Glass
     • Terrible at glass? Maybe just supply mats then?
   • 500 Dirt
2. Barometer - to gauge true land height for tower raising
3. Cut Stone - for Small Warehouses
4. Digs for more Cuttable Stone and also Cement mats.
5. 1500 Boards await treatment in NPAA #1

Planning Notes

Caveat: Most of this information and planning depends on info from previous tales. Some of the initial capacity for Raeli tiles will be directed toward Funerary Temples for the guild members, and stored at -1305,2700 until ready to distribute.

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. A spreadsheet is currently maintained by Ikuu that calculates the individual tower costs given terrain elevation at each location. Using worst case numbers of 40' elevation at the end of otherwise flat terrain along the tower routes produces the following needs for each segment of the aqueduct:

Item	Longest chain (to SArch)	Branch to SThought	Branch to CS	Branch to UArch	east of SArch extension	Total
Bricks	440,750	134,500	20,500	37,000	6,250	639,000
Concrete	13,950	3,700	420	840	90	19,000
Cut Stone	10,474	2,780	316	632	68	14,270
Pipe segments	350	133	28	46	10	567

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:

Item	For the full 82-tower aqueduct system	Single path to CS
Raeli Tiles	331,000 - 207 days	310,000 - 194 days
Treated Boards	50,000 - 100 batches, no estimate.
Marbles	300 - 21 quarries, no estimate.
Bricks	575,000 - 44.4 Greenhouse-days, 53.2 Brick Machine-days	353,000 - 27.2 Greenhouse-days, 32.7 Brick Machine-days
Concrete	34,640 - 770 Medium Stone, 139 Concrete batches	24,920 - 554 Medium Stone, 100 Concrete batches
Cut Stone	12,369 - 25.8 Rock Saw-days, 8.6 dig-days	8210 - 17.1 Rock Saw-days, 5.7 dig-days
Pipe Segments	573 - 95.5 Vault Kiln-days	341 - 56.8 Vault Kiln-days

• 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.
• 6,390 Bricks/day - 22 Brick Machine runs/day, 22 Greenhouse harvests/day.
• 346 Concrete/day - 1-2 batch/day.
• 6-person dig every 4 days with all Cuttable Stone going to project.
• 5.7 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	258/50000
Greenish Raeli Tiles	1815/30000
Yellowish Raeli Tiles	1922/30000
Pinkish Raeli Tiles	2254/30000
Black Raeli Tiles	399/50000
Any color of Raeli Tiles	8187/100000
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 Towers

Item	Quantity	Notes
Pipe Segments	22/567	These need 100 Clay to make a Wet Pipe Segment on a Pottery Deck then fired in a Vault Kiln for 4 hours.
Cistern	1/82	1/tower
Copper Pipe	0/410 NONE	5/tower
Bricks	0/639,000 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	10/4100	50/tower
Greenish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Blueish Raeli tiles	0/4100 NONE	50/tower
Concrete	0/27,200 NONE	100/tower + 19,000 for raising costs of chain
Cut Stone	0/14,270 NONE

Infrastructure

Two sites are established along the route for creation and storage of the needed bricks, tiles, etc. The pump site holds the material needed for the pump and the initial 11-15 towers. The western site holds the material for the central towers. Also, sites at Voyna's and Ikuu's for the towers near their respective areas are assumed.

Item	Quantity	Notes
Raeli Oven	13/11 DONE	See oven info on pages: Asylum, PsS, ours and Mystivia's. Also have some others.
Small Warehouse	5/20	At Pumping Station Site, need 2 at western site
Greenhouse	2/4	At Pumping Station Site
Brick Machine	4/6	At Pumping Station Site
Vault Kiln	4/3 DONE	2 at Voyna's 1 at Eaglior's 1 at Zotep's