Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Of the four difficulties, the first three seemed manageable to Xia Hong.

The sheer size of the wooden house would require a massive amount of Goldscale trees.

Mu Dong's rudimentary mortise and tenon joints would necessitate the creation of a batch of different iron tools.

Due to the large structure of the wooden house and its many distinct functions, a certain amount of iron reinforcement would be essential in key areas.

"The most difficult part is driving the ground stakes, right?"

"At a height of fifteen meters, with the structure using entire Goldscale trees, the ground stakes need to be at least two meters deep. Assuming a side length of two hundred meters, that means digging a trench eight hundred meters long, three meters wide, and two meters deep."

Hearing Mu Dong's answer, Xia Hong's eyes went slightly dark.

Lately, when hunting with pit traps, he had only been digging circular pits half a meter deep and one meter in diameter, and that took over an hour each time.

A trench three meters wide, two meters deep, and eight hundred meters long... if he had to dig it alone, even working non-stop, it would probably take him a year or two.

The idea for the new wooden house was based on the radiation range of the iron smelting furnace. He estimated that once it was built, it could accommodate at least eight thousand to ten thousand people, but he never expected it to be completed immediately.

But several years of work was a bit too exaggerated.

"Chieftain, there's a way to shorten the time it takes to drive the ground stakes!"

"What way?"

Mu Dong pointed to the iron smelting furnace and said, "The high temperature from burning coal can soften the ground. Once the ground is softened, even those in the Lumbering Realm can dig. We can place the iron smelting furnace along the route where we need to drive the ground stakes, moving it every so often, digging a section each time. If the coal supply is uninterrupted, I've calculated that it should take just over four months to dig it out."

Xia Hong realized that this was indeed the only solution, and his brow furrowed.

It wasn't that the method was bad, but the problem was that it created a coal shortage. The iron smelting furnace consumed 20 units of coal per day, which was a full 400 pounds of coal.

In reality, burning wood only required 5 units per day, and the temperature increase from the iron smelting furnace burning wood was the same as with coal.

But the problem was that softening the ground relied on the heat emitted by the coal, and like smelting iron ore, wood simply couldn't achieve that, so coal was necessary.

[Resources: Wood 2690 Coal 290 Iron 430 Silver 0 Gold 0]

In the past few days, wood resources had accumulated quickly. He had also visited the coal mine several times while hunting, and as he had heard before, his current strength allowed him to mine at most about 200 pounds a day. Iron was even slower.

Mu Dong's suggestion of consuming 400 pounds of coal per day continuously was simply unrealistic, but it was currently the only way to speed up the piling.

He couldn't really rely on him alone to do the piling, could he!

He still needed enough people in the Lumbering Realm and Earth Burrowing Realm.

Without strength and resources, nothing could be accomplished.

"Let's proceed with this method for now. Cheng Feng, when you lead the lumbering team out to cut trees, try to prioritize Goldscale trees. Mu Dong will communicate with you about the size and thickness of the trees needed. I won't be involved in this for now. Mu Dong, tell me whenever you need any iron tools, and I'll make time to forge them."

"Yes, Chieftain!"

Mu Dong and Cheng Feng nodded and turned to leave together.

Driving the ground stakes was definitely the most difficult part. The other preparations were easier to handle. It would definitely take time to live in a spacious house.

As soon as the two of them left, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng came looking for him.

"Chieftain, the Frost Beast meat for tonight has already been distributed. Our current reserve of Frost Beast meat is 11,300 pounds, all stored in the mine on the south side of the valley."

In six days, adding the extra 1,640 pounds from the first day, the Frost Beast meat reserve was as high as over ten thousand pounds, completely within Xia Hong's expectations.

In these six days, the hunting team had been bringing back two to three prey animals every night, but the consumption was only six to seven hundred pounds, so the surplus was normal.

In the extremely cold environment, long-term preservation of Frost Beast meat was naturally not a problem.

However, considering that the Frost Beast meat reserves would continue to increase in the future, Xia Hong pondered for a moment, looked up at Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng, and said, "The camp's wood, Frost Beast meat, coal, iron, tools, and weapons will all need to be managed by dedicated personnel in the future. I plan to set up a Camp Supply Office. Currently, only two positions are needed, a Director and a Deputy Director. Can you two handle it?"

Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng looked at each other, a flash of excitement on their faces, and nodded to Xia Hong in unison.

Xia Hong was not pretentious and directly called everyone over and announced the positions of the two Camp Supply Officers, with Xia Chuan as the Director and Yuan Cheng as the Deputy.

Managing all the essential supplies of the camp was a crucial task, and Xia Hong naturally wanted to entrust it to the people he trusted most. Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng were the best choices.

The distribution of Frost Beast meat for seven consecutive nights had completely established Xia Hong's authority. Not to mention the ordinary people of the camp, even Luo Yuan, Hong Gang, Huang Yong, and others showed no objection on their faces when they heard his appointment.

"In addition to the Camp Supply Office, another organization, the Craftsman Workshop, will be established, with Mu Dong as the Foreman, responsible for all construction matters in the camp. In addition to the treatment of the hunting team and the lumbering team, the three of you will also enjoy a position allowance of thirty pounds of Frost Beast meat per month."

Originally, everyone had no reaction when they heard the appointment, but when Xia Hong said the last position allowance, everyone's eyes lit up.

"Chieftain, can we join the Camp Supply Office and the Craftsman Workshop?"

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Xia Hong turned his head and saw that it was a young reservist who asked, so he shook his head and said, "You must be a member of the lumbering team to apply to enter these two organizations. Whether you can enter depends on the confirmation of the organization leader and the approval of myself; the conditions for the Craftsman Workshop can be relaxed. If you have special manufacturing skills, you can also enter, after Mu Dong's review and my approval."

With the current material reserves of Great Xia, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng are already enough for the Camp Supply Office, so there is naturally no need to add more people;

The Craftsman Workshop doesn't matter. Even if you don't have the cultivation of the Lumbering Realm, you can still make some wooden utensils with iron tools.

Hearing the conditions of the Craftsman Workshop, many ordinary people in the camp immediately became active. They couldn't break through to the Lumbering Realm in a short time, but if they could find another way to enter the Craftsman Workshop and get a little more Frost Beast meat every month to improve their cultivation speed, it would also be a good thing.

Special manufacturing skills.

Everyone began to rack their brains.

Seeing everyone lost in thought, Xia Hong also had some expectations in his heart.

The camp's current iron tools only include saws and iron knives. The number of wooden tools that can be made is actually quite a lot, but the camp has recently united, and the damage suffered some time ago was too severe, so the wood is not yet sufficient.

So, in addition to some small daily necessities, such as wooden buckets and wooden spoons, nothing else has been made. Even the wooden beds are only available to the hunting team and the lumbering team.

But as the lumbering team continues to go out and bring back more and more wood, and with the Craftsman Workshop system in place, I believe more and more wooden products will emerge.

"The ten saws are currently being used by the lumbering team, and the three iron knives are basically used for cutting Frost Beasts. It seems I still have to help make a batch of iron woodworking tools. Let me think, what woodworking tools did I have in my previous life? Measuring tools, small hand saws, woodworking planes, files, hand chisels..."

Although Xia Hong was not a carpenter, he could use his memory to come up with some tools for woodworking, and then use a sharpening stone to imitate them, which would not be a big problem.

These things only need to be started.

With these tools, so many people in the camp will continue to innovate.