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.

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. See nearby usable NP Water Towers. Suggestions for possible tower destinations are welcome and currently are:

• The cabbage/leek spot, roughly at -1369, 2011.
  • This is a gamble that the tower built there benefits one of those two veggies.
• Vaguely defined locations near the X.
• Splayed tree pattern to various potential herb foraging squares.

Best route will depend on destinations desired. The options listed seem to all require a chain of towers roughly 50-70 towers in length. Surveying with a barometer is necessary to gauge the correct costs - assuming relatively flat terrain gives 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.

Item	Formula	N=50	N=70
Total Feet = T	N*R + 5*N*(N+1)/2	50*R + 6,375	70*R + 12,425
Bricks	2,000 + 2,000*N + 50*T	2,500*R + 420,750	3,500*R + 763,250
Concrete	2*T	100*R + 12,750	140*R + 24,850
Cut Stone	(3*T + N + 1)/2	75*R + 9,588	105*R + 18,673
Pipe segments	5+ 5*N + T/50	R + 382	(7/5)*R + 603

Resource Estimates

Estimates used in calculations:

• Aqueduct Pump Costs.
• 4 ovens total, 1 producing yellowish, 1 producing pinkish tiles.
• Brick machines used are neither tuned nor upgraded.
• Single chain of 50 towers, with 40' rise.
• Average of 250 tiles produced each day by any single oven (getting a better estimate is in progress)
• Average 45 gravel/medium stone.
• Cuttable Stones appear every 10 seconds in a 6 person dig.

Time and material needed for an aqueduct system:

• 315,000 Raeli Tiles - 315 days
• 50,000 Treated Boards - 100 batches, no estimate.
• 300 Marbles - 21 quarries, no estimate.
• 520,750 Bricks - 120 Greenhouse-days, 48.2 Brick Machine-days
• 31,750 Concrete - 706 Medium Stone, 127 Concrete batches - No Estimate
• 12,588 Cut Stone - 26.2 Rock Saw-days, 8.7 dig-days.
• 432 Pipe Segments - 73 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 goal of 100 RL days to complete an aqueduct, we have the following needs:

• 13 Raeli Ovens - 2 of each specific color, 7 of any color.
• 500 Treated boards/day - 1 batch/day.
• 3 Marble/day - 1 quarry emptied every 5 days.
• 5,208 Bricks/day - 18 Brick Machine runs/day, 36 Greenhouse harvests/day.
• 318 Concrete/day - 1-2 batch/day.
• 6-person dig every 4 days with all Cuttable Stone going to project.
• 4.3 Pipe Segments/day.
• 1 Cistern every 2 days.
• Full Small Warehouse every 5-6 days.

Buildings and Resources

Aqueduct Pump

Item	Quantity	Notes
Steel Wire	300/600	Azure working on this
Copper Wire	600/600 DONE
Moon Steel	0/120 NONE
Cistern	1/1 DONE
White Raeli Tiles	0/50000 NONE
Greenish Raeli Tiles	0/30000 NONE
Yellowish Raeli Tiles	0/30000 NONE
Pinkish Raeli Tiles	0/30000 NONE
Black Raeli Tiles	0/50000 NONE
Any color of Raeli Tiles	0/100000 NONE
Rotproof, Rigid, Nontoxic Boards	0/50000 NONE
Concrete	0/10000 NONE
Oyster Shell Marble	0/100 NONE
Night Granite	0/100 NONE
Grey Star Marble	0/100 NONE

Water Towers

Item	Quantity	Notes
Pipe Segments	12/500	These need 100 Clay to make a Wet Pipe Segment on a Pottery Deck then fired in a Vault Kiln for 4 hours.
Cistern	0/50 NONE	1/tower
Copper Pipe	0/250 NONE	5/tower
Bricks	0/520750 NONE	Kept in Brick Machines until needed
Concrete	0/21750 NONE	100/tower + 16750 for raising costs of chain
Cut Stone	0/12588 NONE

Infrastructure

Item	Quantity	Notes
Raeli Oven	4/13
Small Warehouse	1/20
Greenhouse	1/8	On Site
Brick Machine	1/8	On Site
Vault Kiln	1/2	At Voyna's