Covenant Development
I'm going to make a lot of assumptions. Shout if people think they're unreasonable.
My understanding is that at the start of the covenant, we have:
- Enough dressed stone to create one more building.
- A convenient local forest.
During the first season, Gregorius successfully creates a group of average quality seasoned wood. I'm going to assume this is sufficient for the beaming on one house. This is possibly slightly generous (base individual is one cubic pace, so there are 10 cubic paces worth of wood).
According to City and Guild (pg 68), a carpenter can construct two townhouses a season. Due to shortages of materials, and lack of fully trained assistants (who I'm assuming are mostly the "teamsters"), I'm going to assume our craftsmen take a season per house. I'm also going to assume that houses are either constructed entirely out of wooden frames and daub (i.e. no stone), or stone with wooden beams for things like the roof (i.e. wood and stone). Mostly the latter.
I'll assume wood takes one year to season to building quality, so wood cut in Spring 1226 will be ready for use in Summer 1227. For the purpose of simplicity, I'll also assume that one season of woodcutting produces enough wood for two seasons of construction. Ditto stone produces enough in one season to build two houses. I have very little idea what actual production rates are, so this is wild guessing hopefully on the side of miserlyness.
We're also getting the quarries up and working. My understanding is that we'd decided to start at a new site, to avoid people carting stone past the magi's laboratories. There are also plans to try and meet up with the main quarry, and essentially drain off the flooding. They'll try to site the new quarry with that in mind. I'm assuming, again, that at least initial one season quarrying provides enough stone for one season's building.
One consequence of this is that the quarry is probably going to be outside the Aegis. This is less than ideal; on the other hand, it's not as though the forestry isn't inevitably going to be as well.
To try and minimise potential disasters, and to aid in locating veins of stone, Niketas will be brought in to dowse every now and again. Specifically, he's being brought in to dowse for water to check the miners aren't going to flood anything they weren't expecting to. Dowsing total is Dowsing 5 + Per 3 + Aura (2?) + die (probably simple in this case) = 8 + Aura + die, so he should be able to locate water (ease factor 9) reliably.
I'm assuming that the Carpenter has Profession: Woodcutter experience and the Autocrat can both build and quarry.
Autocrat (Mason)
Spring 1226: Autocrat begins quarrying operations. Initial work doesn't produce any useful stone (getting to quality rock).
Summer 1226: Quarrying production under way.
Autumn 1226: Directs team to construct forge for blacksmith.
Winter 1227: Quarrying production under way.
Spring 1227: Quarrying production under way.
Summer 1227: Quarrying production under way.
Autumn 1227: Directs team to construct carpenter's workshop.
Carpenter
Spring 1226: Carpenter directs initial tree felling. Wood mostly used up by Gregorius.
Summer 1226: Carpenter directs tree-felling operations.
Autumn 1226: Carpenter assists in building forge for blacksmith.
Winter 1227: Carpenter directs tree-felling operations.
Spring 1227: Carpenter directs tree-felling operations.
Summer 1227: Carpenter directs tree-felling operations.
Autumn 1227: First lot of seasoned timber ready. Assists in building carpenter's workshop.
At the end of the period, we have 3 lots of timber and stone ready to build things with - the project is just about to take off.
Plans for future buildings:
- A infirmary for Petrus. The storeroom he was using can then be changed into a guest lab, and the patients can get out of the cave with the negative living conditions modifier.
- A proper workshop for the mason, probably down near the quarry.
- A barracks
- A stables? Damianos is pushing for one, although there isn't much actual need yet.
- A sanctum for Gregorius.
- Assorted other sancta for visiting magi.
- A dedicated library.