Planning Out The Base Of The House

Notice: For the next four chapters, the story will be focused on the specifics of how the house will be made, so if that's not something you are particularly interested in, feel free to skip this part.

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I was actually able to finish the last two axes right before the clock hit 9, so I decided to go back to the fireplace and get everyone to get to work.

However, to my surprise, while Omar, Daniel, and Gabriel were already awake, everyone was still asleep. So I was forced to work with what I had and just wait for everyone else to wake up later.

After handing Omar, Daniel, and Gabriel their newly made axes, I made them follow me to a tree far enough away from the settlement that it would not change the aesthetic for where the fireplace was.

Unlike before, however, since we were going to begin deforesting the area, I found a tree with a bird's nest. I made sure that everybody looked at me as I moved the nest to a tree near the fireplace to avoid harming any eggs it might have when the tree is cut down.

As for why not make sure there was an egg inside first, well, mainly because although I was showing them how to avoid destroying bird eggs when chopping down trees, it was easier to teach them how to move all nests instead of identifying ones that needed to be moved.

After about 15 minutes and only two accidents, everybody understood how to transfer a bird´s nest, and we proceeded to cut down as much wood as was needed to make a house (at least what I thought it would take, 15).

Surprisingly, I didn´t have to teach them how to chop down a tree; then again, I suppose it was pretty self-explanatory; however, I have to make sure that they cut it facing the river to fall in direction.

Regardless, everyone else that had not yet woken up was imminently woken up by the sound of the trees that got chopped falling on the ground, and they helped us move all of the logs over to where the campfire was located.

From there, we grabbed some of the Suri we had found buried next to some of the trees we chopped down that I had somehow managed to miss beforehand.

As soon as everybody was done, I let everyone do their own thing, as their help was not needed at the moment, and there was no point in overworking them without reason.

Regarding the design of the houses, since they would at most only need to have enough space for a desk, bed, and closet, I decided just to make it 12ft by 11ft as that was the size of my original bedroom, and it barely fit the criteria.

As for the specifics, since I only had to work on the basic structure of the house's base, all I really needed was to create an empty square to serve as an outline that could connect to support pillars at the edges.

Thankfully, since I currently held knowledge on using wood joinery, making the base was really easy. It only required me to use the Hako-Aikaki-Shachi-Sen-Shikuchi technique to connect all four wooden beams that would make up the house's base.

There was a slight modification made to both ends of the four wooden beams, however, making it so that they had a right triangle at each end so that when all four were conect6ed, they would form small cubed that support pillars could be inserted into.

Now that the easy part was over, though, I had to spend half of the time left in my day actually carving the wood into the desired shape, which was especially hard given the tools I currently had on hand.

Once I was done and made the wooden beams' base 1ft by 1ft to avoid any problems down the road bringing the total area of the house 14ft by 13ft, I noticed that although the support beams were stable whenever I tried to put one of them on top of two, there was support missing in the middle.

Thankfully though, the problem was easy to solve. All I had to do was make four more support beams that were 11ft tall (compared to the rest that was only 10ft tall) and carve a slightly less thick cube at the bottom while also making an entrance for it in the middle of every wooden beam that made up the base of the house.

As soon as that was sorted, I noticed that the sun was beginning to go down, so I went back to where everyone was to clock out for the night.

However, before I did, I saw that while I was working on the outline of the house, everyone else had somehow made theirs own a game where they tosed a rock, and the first one to not catch it was out.

Although it was not much, it was still interesting to see them adapt so well to such a great change in their daily lives; after all, they had probably never had any free time of their own.

'I should probably make them a ball as soon as I'm free,' I thought before falling asleep.