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Bab 29: Chapter 29 - Sharing Information and the Start of Pottery

After coming out of the game I went for a jog and at the same time, I scheduled a meeting with Evan and Sabrina. I checked the forum after my jog and did not see any new information which means either people have not found out about the technology tree or people are hiding the information. Hiding the information is a perfectly valid strategy to get ahead of the rest of the players since there are a lot of black rectangles which means there is a lot of technological milestones.

I decide not to think too much about it until I meet up with Evan and Sabrina. I instead look up information on the creating of pottery. Since it was partially complete that means that something the NPCs in HavenFall correlated to pottery. It might be referring to the wooden bowl created by old man Hus. So I searched the internet for information on creating clay pots and other uses of clay. Surprisingly, I found out that clay can be found in canyons and near river banks which means there is a change that the river below HavenFall has clay. With the addition of clay, we can make pottery and structures. There would be less reason to create mud walls and houses because clay can be used to create bricks. I keep researching more on the applications of clay until it got closer to the designated meet-up time.

I take a train to the city and walk towards the game store where I see Evan and Sabrina arguing in front of the store. I wave towards them and said my greetings.

"Why is it every time I see you two I see you both arguing? Are you both dating or something?"

"NO WAY WOULD I DATE THIS GUY! It's this elf-loving idiot's fault. He told me the meet-up was 2 hours ago and I've been here since."

"HEY! HEY! I said I was sorry. Plus I got you some ice cream."

"WHATEVER LOSER!"

Evan sighs as he looks at Sabrina pouting next to him.

"Ian, let's go in you said you wanted to tell us something important?"

"Yea, lead the way."

We all walk toward the private rooms again and after closing the door I got straight to the point of the discussion.

"Do either of you know about the Technology Tree?"

The pair showed confused looks before shaking their heads.

"Okay, well in the game I discovered a new feature. The Technology tree appears after you have completed 3 technological advancements. In my case, I achieved Archery, The Wheel and Masonry. Let's call the new feature Tech Tree for short. The Tech Tree is extremely big it has a lot of uncovered technologies waiting to be discovered and implemented. I do not know which ones you both had achieved but once you have done 3 you will unlock it. I suggest we all share whenever we achieve a technological advancement, that way all of us can proceed through the Tech Tree. Any questions?"

Evan and Sabrina stayed silent for a bit before Evan proposed a question.

"What are the terms of completing a technology?"

"I don't know yet. I plan to test it tonight. The game shows partially completed technologies too which means that so long you are on the right track you can figure out the rest of the technology. My partial technology is pottery and tonight I plan to find clay and create a wooden pottery wheel to create a clay pot. Hopefully, this succeeds and the pottery technology will be completed. I achieved The Wheel technology by creating a wheelbarrow. You can create something similar that uses the wheel and I would assume the technology will be completed."

"Hmm, I can only think of Archery completed for me since one of my NPCs made a bow and some arrows. However, nothing comes to mind when I think of technological advancements"

"That's fine Evan, I wanted to tell both of you this information because I do not think I was the first to find out about the Tech Tree. The system did not reward me for coming first which means that someone else has done this and not shared the information."

"THOSE SNAKES! Even though Evan puts so much information on the forum. "

I jumped a bit back after Sabrina's sudden outburst. It seems she cares about Evan a lot more than she shows. After more talking about the Tech Tree and methods I used to potentially achieve my advancements we parted ways and I went back home. I had dinner and relaxed in bed before going back into the game.

Once back in the game I still see everyone celebrating. I smile as I look at the scene before me and my body felt warm. I let everyone celebrate a while longer while I went over towards the Goblin Hut. The next goblin is to spawn in 10 minutes so I decided to stay nearby. Gobi noticed me heading over towards the Goblin Hut and he followed as well. I inform Gobi again about his leadership duties and the importance to guide and integrate the new goblins into HavenFall. The goblin's tasks will be to dig up the trench while Howard or David will shovel the dirt into the wheelbarrow and transport it towards the cliff edge in order to create another wall. Luke or Oscar will be gathering thick pieces of wood from the forest while foraging for more food. Owen, Lucina and Robin will be tending to the field and slowly expanding it to create 4 fields of equal size next to each other.

Once the new goblin came out I introduced myself to him and let Gobi handle the rest. Old man Hus was sitting near the fireplace sharpening the spearheads. I walk towards him and proposed a new project for him.

"Old man Hus, now that we have created a wheel how about we create something else that uses the wheel."

"What is it lad?"

"It's called the pottery wheel. We will find another piece of wood much like what we used for the wheel only this time we need it thinner. We then dig a hole and place a log over the hole and create a hole through this log. We then create find two sticks, one needs to be hollow to some extent and one needs to fit inside the hollow stick. We attach the solid end to our wheel and insert the stick through the hole to make a stationary axle and the wheel can spin around horizontally. We then make another hole near the edge of the wheel where we can put jam another stick there to turn the wheel. It will be faster than turning it by hand as well as more convenient. What do you think old man Hus interested?"

Old man Hus thought for a bit while scratching his chin before smiling and looking at me.

"Lad, you have some very interesting ideas. I don't know what this pottery thing is but it will eventually be something I will be doing too so this is just the first step. Leave the construction to me I will ask Luke to help me find the materials."

I nod at old man Hus's words and move off towards the river. It's time to find some clay!


Bab 30: Chapter 30 - Clay

Thinking back to the research I had done before coming back to the game I start to search along the river bank for clay-like soil. Further down the river, I notice the soil color changing from a red to a greyish hue. The following instruction on the internet I bend down and touch the soil and notice it had a different texture to the dirt and soil I had previously been walking on. It was glossy and smooth with an almost plastic-like texture. I further test out the clay by going towards the river and cupping water in my hands and then spreading it over the clay wetting it and then digging into it grabbing a handful. I knead the clay into a ball and notice that the ball tends to resist breaking as well as feeling sticky. I simile to myself since I had just discovered natural clay.

The next step is to transport and store the clay which will become a problem. There is no way to store the clay without the use of an air-tight container, the next best thing would be to dig up the clay when needed.

"Well no big deal, let's make a small stone kiln here and see if I can make a clay pot."

Remembering the tutorials on the internet, I start gathering large stones and place them in a rectangular formation make sure to leave space in the middle for wood. I mixed some mud to secure the rocks on top of one another and continued to pile them around until they were knee height. I made a small hole at the bottom on one side so I could feed it with more wood when needed and another closer to the top where I have placed some flat stones between the sides to make a stone bridge. It looked like a two-story house with two holes one at the bottom and one near the top. The roof of the kiln was made using thin flat stones as well by covering the sides with mud I eliminated the small gaps.

I after making the kiln I went back up to HavenFall and gathered some tinder and wood. I lit one of the branches I found on fire and carried it back down to the kiln where I tossed the tinder at the bottom and lit them up with the branch. I slowly fed it with more small sticks slowly increasing the temperature.

Now it is time to make the clay pot. I found another flat stone to use as a table and gathered some of the clay making sure to wet the surface of the stone before placing the clay on top. I kneaded the clay together into a ball and started to wedge the clay. Wedging is the method to push air out of the clay and it is similar to kneading bread dough. Placing the clay on the stone and pushing down and forwards before picking it up turning it on its side and repeating the steps. I constantly added a little bit of water each time when I felt like the clay was becoming dry and slowly wedged the clay. The less air in the clay the better.

Since it was my first time and I had only seen videos online on the process I did not know when to stop wedging. I kept doing it until I felt satisfied with the job before tearing a piece and flattening it into a circle. This circle is the base for HavenFall's first clay pot. I score the edges with a stick and precede to tear off another piece from the clay ball and roll it out into a long sausage shape. I add more clay in places and make sure to keep it wet before scoring it again on one side. I place the clay coil on top of the base and squeezed the ends together to form the full circle. I repeat until I used up all the clay and I was able to create a pot 7 coils high which I end up placing to the side in order for it to dry.

For the rest of day, I kept making different-sized pots and cups while maintaining the kiln's temperature by adding wood every so often. I had made 11 small cups, 2 small bowls,3 large bowls and 1 small pot using this method. To help with the drying process I placed it near the kiln in direct sunlight until sunset. It was time to fire the clay pots. I place the clay cups and bowls on the flat rock which I had suspending in the middle of the kiln carefully making sure they do not touch each other and then put in more wood. I went to wash off all the dirt and clay and then went back up to the main fireplace. I could smell the fish cooking and the vegetable broth and after such a hard day's work, I was famished.

I talk to Lucina and Robin about the farm and they informed me that they have tilled one section and planted different sized cuts from the potato-like vegetable. They will continue on the second field tomorrow when they wake up. Luke and Oscar had brought old man Hus the material for the wooden pottery wheel with only needing to create the holes and smoothing down the wheel left to do. Howard had got to work by digging the dirt and transporting it to the far side of the cliff edge where David had started to make the mudbricks. Gobi had named the other goblin Gomi and they both were having fun digging the trench with Howard and interacting with the other residents.

Everyone was doing their part in making HavenFall a better place and it made me feel warm inside. Before sleeping I made sure to add more wood into the kiln and all that was left was to wait until tomorrow to see the result.

Tomorrow came faster than normal and the first thing I did was rush to the kiln. I could still feel the heat from the ashes radiating out of the holes and carefully with a long stick, I nudged out the clay pots. I could see from the top hole that some pots had burst into small pieces but there were 5 surviving pots. 2 small cups, a small bowl, a large bowl and the small pot had survived the kiln. The moment I held the clay pot the familiar blue screen greeted me.

[ Pottery Technology Completed.]

There was no reward but the message itself was rewarding. With this, we can create more pots and hopefully create large kilns to fire larger clay structures. Once old man Hus has finished with making the pottery wheel there will be no need to create a clay pot from using coils the production will be faster as well. Training a goblin to be a potter may even be better since they have smaller hands and longer fingers. New ideas ran through my head but first I needed to wash off the pots. I went to the river and carefully rubbed off the ash on the pot and once it was completed I see my grayish brown clay cup. It was rough to touch and did not look pretty but this is the first step towards civilization.

I bring up my creation to show old man Hus since he will be creating something similar to this using the pottery wheel.

"Incredible lad. It is very different front the wooden cups I had made. The texture is rougher but it feels more solid. With a little fine-tuning in the design process, you can make any shape for the cup. This is fascinating and you say with this pottery wheel you want me to make I can do something like this?"

"Old man Hus, with the pottery wheel you can make something even better. You can make it smaller, thinner, taller, wider. You can make it a different shape. There is an endless amount of designs."

"Well, well, well what are we waiting for? LUKE, OSCAR hurry up and start digging a hole and quickly sand off the bark of the log. Smooth it as quickly as possible I want to get to work as soon as I can!"

I laugh at the scene. Old man Hus seemed to be acting like a child with a new toy.

"Old man Hus while the boys do that why don't I show you where to get the clay and how to fire it in the kiln."

"Lead the way lad!"


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