Wall of Passed Time

The Wall of Passed Time is an art project undertaken by Gone Walkabout Guild.

Rana developed the idea and design for the wall. Building and construction of the wall is done by Zhukuram. Rana provides all the jugs for the wall and Kaa provides the bricks. Rana and Zhukuram do most of the flaxing and flax processing while Kaa provides wood and boards.

The wall is a lattice work of jugs and bricks and extends across the game map of Egypt. The starting point is at 770,4400 River Plains and extends westward towards the Chariot Stop at Four Corners.

While the totality of the wall cannot be seen due to limitations of draw-distance, running along the road provides an interesting dynamic as the wall continuously pops into view as you move along the roadway.

Statistics and other trivia about the Wall of Passed Time are in the following sections of this page.

The project will continue throughout Tale6.

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Wall of Passed Time Trivia

The Wall of Passed Time starts at 770,4400 River Plains and runs westward towards the Chariot Stop at Four Corners.

The wall currently covers more than 229 coords from the starting point. (09/02/2012)

Design and early prototypes started in January 2012. Various options and materials were evaluated during that period.

The final design for the wall was selected at the end of January 2012.

Preparation for construction began in early Februrary 2012,

Construction of the actual wall started Februrary 27, 2012.
- 100 coord milestone reached 06/12/2012
- 200 coord milestone reached 08/29/2012

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Wall Statistics

**Wall of Passed Time Milestones**
Date	Sculpture Bases	Jugs	Bricks	Boards	Linen	Rope
08/29/2012	85	1020	1020	8500	340	850
08/21/2012	79	948	948	7900	316	790
08/13/2012	77	924	924	7700	308	770
07/10/2012	71	852	852	7100	284	710
07/05/2012	65	780	780	6500	260	650
07/01/2012	59	708	708	5900	236	590
06/20/2012	53	636	636	5300	212	530
06/14/2012	48	576	576	4800	192	480
06/12/2012	41	492	492	4100	164	410
04/04/2012	37	444	444	3700	148	370
03/27/2012	33	396	396	3300	132	330
03/22/2012	29	348	348	2900	116	290

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Hidden Gems

There are a few hidden items in the wall. Can you spot them?

a broken jug
a lost shovel
some left over bricks
a forgotten workman's drink
an abandoned nest
a used bag of mortar
a rabbit
a wheelbarrow
a spool of measuring twine
some sprouting weeds
the missing pepper mill from a worker's lunch box
stacked wood for making the wooden pegs
fossil fish skeleton

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Wall Construction

The wall consists of multiple sculpture bases.

Each base contains 12 jugs and 12 bricks
Each base is made of 100 boards, 4 linen, 10 rope
- Every 3 linen is made from 80 flax->80 lint->1200 thread
- Every 3 rope is made from 5 tow->15 twine

Boards are planed using @7000q iron carpentry blades hand made by Zhukuram
Each blade cuts approximately 555 boards before breakage
- Iron must be mined and smelted at 500 iron ore + 20 charcoal for 15 iron
- Each carpentry blade takes 1 iron to make

All jugs are made by Rana
- Clay is gathered by using water in jugs
- Jugs are processed on a pottery wheel
  - 1 clay makes 1 wet jug
- Wet jugs are fired in a True Kiln @ 12 wet jugs + 6 wood per firing.
  - Each True Kiln requires 48 Firebricks to build
  - 10 silt + 2 sand makes 12 Wet Firebricks
  - Wet Firebricks are fired in a True Kiln @ 12 Wet Firebricks + 6 wood producing

Bricks are made by Kaa
- Bricks are made from 2 Sand, 4 Straw, 6 Mud in an Improved Brick Rack yielding 12 Bricks
- Straw is made from Grass which is dryed in a Drying Rack.
  - Grass was predominately gathered by hand using a scythe and a papyrus basket.
  - A greenhouse now provides the grass needed.

A Greenhouse is made of the following items
- 32 Sheet Glass
- 1 Thermometer
- 500 Dirt
  - Dirt is collected using a shovel.
  - Shovels are constructed by blacksmiths using iron or other materials
  - High Quality shovels were obtained thru trade
  - Early shovels where made from 2 boards and 1 stone blade
    - Stone Blades are made from 2 slate
    - Slate was collected by Rana
- 6 Canvas
  - Canvas is made from tow a by-product of flax
  - It is spun by a distaff into twine
  - It it then placed into a loom to be converted to canvas

Thermometers are made from the following items
- 1 quicksilver
  - Quicksliver is made in a Fleetfurnace
    - It takes 24 hours to make 1 quicksliver
    - 10 Red Sand
      - Red Sand is collected from special resource areas
    - 20 charcoal
- 1 Glass Pipe
- Finished Thermometers were obtained by trading quicksilver and glass pipes for finished items

Fleetfurnance is constructed of the following items
- 30 Cut Stone
  - Cut stone is made from Cuttable Stones
  - These are obtained by "Digging" with a shovel
  - Almost all the stones where obtained at Rabble's Public Dig Events
- 600 Firebricks
- 1 Iron Pot
- 60 Leather
  - Leather comes from slaughtering sheep or camels
- 40 Small Quartz
- 40 Small Diamond

Sheet Glass and Glass Pipe are made in a Glaziers Bench
- Sheet Glass or Glass Pipes are made from 2 Potash, 1 Lime, 10 Sand
- Glass Pipes are made from 2 Soda, 1 Lime and 10 Sand
- Zhukuram made all the sheetglass and pipes
  - Rana, Kaa and Zhukuram collected Soda and Lime
  - Rana and Zhukruam grew flax and papyrus to make the potash
  - Zhukuram converted all the flax and papyrus to potash

Potash is made by
- Burning Dried Flax, Dried Papyrus and/or Leeks in a Firepit to get Ash.
- Boil 5 Ash, 25 water in jugs, and 28 wood in a Kettle to create 5 potash.

Glazier's Bench
- Glass must be separated by type: Soda and Normal
- Normal Glass is used for Sheet Glass and Glass Pipes
- Soda Glass is for Glass Pipes
- Two Glazier's Benches are needed, one for each type of glass
- Each bench is made from the following
  - 200 Firebricks
  - 400 Bricks
  - 1200 Sand

Iron, Quartz, Diamonds come from mining
- All were obtained from public mines or by trade
- Iron pots where obtained by trade with eldar & RP Ironworks
- Kettles were obtained thru trade with eldar & RP Ironworks

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Wall of Passed Time Photo Gallery

**Wall of Passed Time**
Wall of Passed Time 100th coordinate segment June 2012	Wall of Passed Time 200th coordinate segment August 2012
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Wall of Passed Time First Segment	Wall of Passed Time First Segment