by Xcom » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:26 am As with all stories it all began with me joining this game late November this world. I was invited by a few friends who lived in a small fresh settlement close to a bigger factions terf. Not long passed before we got raided and pillaged but before then most of the members of the village already had left for other reasons. Me and my strong like to this game stuck around and built myself a settlement far far away to avoid raging rading partys.
Time passed and I met up with a guy who lived in the area and another friend joined up from another game I played. We focused on building a good base the 3 of us. Former of them quit early on and me and my other friend powered on but eventually he quit to and all hope was lost for me in this game. Then I met my new friend, one with strong ambitions as my self.
My new friend and I talked about different projects to take on and one discussion that always came up was mountains. Early on in this world many times I had joked around with friends to some day own an entire mountain. We had stumbled across a few mountains partially claimed and we always discussed with great admiration of the crazy amounts of LP required and how powerful these people had to be to claim areas this big. I wanted to take on this great task and claim my own mountain. After all these months of playing I was ready for it. It was now time to strike and I discussed this subject many times with my new friend. We both agreed that it would be a great source of curio income and a great way to make a mark in this world.
After scouting for a few days we found the perfect mountain. One that still wasn't claimed and wasn't situated to close to bigger factions. After removing a few P-claims our own mega claim went up. The whole mountain was now ours. But this wasn't enough. We joked around building a brick wall around the whole thing. I think both of us laughed at the idea of how crazy it would be for two people to build such a big wall.
But the joke was soon a reality as I had a guy out digging clay from the nearby nodes. I was dead fixed in making this my ultimate goal. My friend thought it was a crazy idea but I was dead focused and I was going to make this happen. After digging for 2 days straight all the nodes, even the lower quality nodes were all depleted. I had dug over 360 signs of clay caldron full of clay. All of the clay was sitting in my mine and it all needed to be burnt as I had to do this 2 more times to get enough bricks for the mountain. A serious brick factory was needed.
After 3 weeks of constant digging enough bricks were dug. My friend helped a bit.
Now it was time to scout and plan exactly where the walls were going.
Trees had to be removed and it took 2 days to remove them all. Of course trees to the east and west close to the wall had to be removed to ensure non of them fell into the wall after it was finished.
After all the preparations were made it was time to plow the tiles and pave the path. Me soloing the paving as my friend was held up. A full day of paving.
Boars where constant nuisance along the path. Work had to be halted for there removal.
Now it was time to brick the whole thing. Just walking around the mountain made me feel nauseous. The size of this crazy thing was enormous. But there was no time for whimpery and work had to get done. This is me and my friend building while an alt ran out with more bricks. 2 Days of building.
After finishing the mountain a ram had to be made to open a gap for the gate. You never know when you need a gate.
After finishing this mountain I named it after my birth given name.
Linkage to the real mountain it was named after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahand
Just a few interesting numbers.
48 kilns: 2160 clay
92 signs of bricks at start: 27 600 bricks
8 signs + 200 bricks at end of project: 2600 bricks
Total bricks used: 25 000 (Including gate corners and repairs after ramming. Oddly a very round number)
Stones used: 2424
Initial corner post + 6 corners: 40 WI
One gate: 5 Steel
Dimensions:
X Y-plane : 617 x 597
Total tiles enclosed: 348 537 tiles (roughly 80% mountain)
Project time:
3 Weeks getting clay (including time it took for nodes to recover)
6 days total time digging.
Tree removal: 2 days
Paving: 1 day
Building: 2 days
5 days total building time 11 days total work including digging.
I had a very fun time making this wall. Lag or not this game is the best I have ever played. Thank you Jorb and Loftar for this great game.
As of now I hope to keep the mountain for a while at least before it gets pillaged. If you come for a friendly visit. Leave a message on a runestone along the wall, always fun to read those.
. Best of luck to you
