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[Helgoland]

10 people per house, and look at our population.

What are melancholy mangoes? What's the gentleman researcher doing?

[GreatWyrmGold]

We could use another house. Let's have some plebs build one. How many plebs would that take?

[10ebbor10]

What are melancholy mangoes? What's the gentleman researcher doing?

They're a player named fruit from several turns back.

"Deep digger?" Hiphoppers in Germany might say that meaning "Deep, man"

What do you mean by industrialize, exactly? Railroads, electricity and metalworking, I assume.
What would be needed for a metalworking industry?
What can we do to raise happiness? It seems to have gone down recently.
Is there a method of long-distance communication in this world?

Don't forget steam
A crude forge and smithy can be made. Then you just need a source of fuel
Do something about the conditions people have to live in. Give feasts, provide entertainment. DOn't have them work in mines filled with slightly poisonous gass.
Heliographs (Kinda like the things they use on the Discworld)

[Helgoland]

What would be needed for a heliograph connection to the mainland?

Chop more wood (15 peasants) and convert some of it to charcoal; then start up a smelter.
When the trader arrives, have a feast with the brandy. Thanksgiving or something.

[10ebbor10]

What would be needed for a heliograph connection to the mainland?

Chop more wood (15 peasants) and convert some of it to charcoal; then start up a smelter.
When the trader arrives, have a feast with the brandy. Thanksgiving or something.

A large tower (needs to be very high, since you're quite far from the mainland), and strong source of light and some mechanisms. (Though a human obscuring and disobscuring the lights work too. In order to recieve messages you'd need a telescope or something similair)

[Helgoland]

How about a balloon? A string source of light seems like a project for Heinrich...

[evilcherry]

How about a balloon? A string source of light seems like a project for Heinrich...

Unless we are less than ~200 km from the nearest relay station we might actually be better off with a balloon shuttle.

As I said, try to turn some wood into charcoal, and make boilers, forges and so on for the iron and copper.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Sounds like a plan. If nothing else, copper should be worth more than ore.

[Helgoland]

Sounds like a plan. If nothing else, copper should be worth more than ore.

In an economy like that, the labor theory of value should give quite a good approximation of market value: We need to process as much as we can as fast as we can as far as we can. The real value lies in manufacturing, not in mining.

[kopout]

poke poke

[Thecard]

I don't think it's getting back up.  Should'a tried to revive it sooner, I think.  Too far gone, now.

[Helgoland]

Someone go punch ebbor in the nuts, that should do the trick.

[wer6]

Well...It was certainly a good Idea!