Finishing The Basic Structure Of The House

February 16th, 0001:

It took longer than usual to set up the fire today, mainly because Francisco wanted to try out setting up lunch by himself. And since I didn't have anything against him starting the fire by himself, I just watched nearby if something went wrong and waited.

Thankfully nothing happened, and we were able to enjoy lunch without any setbacks. Plus, although it did take longer than usual to set up the fire, it wasn't a bad thing, as it had given me enough time to make a leaf ball that everyone else could use.

Although I couldn't make a normal soccer ball by weaving leaves, I could still make a small ball using nearby vines and leaves, using the leaves to fill in most of the ball, and then holding them all together by covering them in vines from all angles.

Before going back to where I had left off, all I knew was that they seemed confused when I gave it to them.

Regardless I had to get going as soon as possible to finish the framework for the main 'body of the house. Even though it was tiring, I actually rather enjoyed it, as it distracted me from everything else happening around me.

Before I could actually start working on the house, however, since I was planning to begin work on the house's roof, and the outline was already pretty heavy, I decided to disassemble and relocate the house to where it would stay once finished.

Thankfully, finding somewhere to put it wasn't difficult since the plan was to have many small houses somewhat forming a perimeter around the campfire, leading me to put the first house near the river as I could while still having enough space for a dirt road.

There was a problem, though, since I did have to cut a tree down to clear up space, and the stump left behind was a sort of hindrance since the roots were all underground; however, I was able to clear out the stump easily by cutting off all of the roots.

Once that was finally set up, all that was left was to connect four wooden pillars (which took all morning to carve) and finally finish the 'body' of the house, allowing me to finally move on to the roof.

I decided to implement the Sampo-Gumi-Shikuchi technique to connect the wooden beams and use simple wooden cube carvings so that the wooden beams at the top could be inserted into the support beams.

From there, since it was only 1 pm, I opted to actually plan out the best way I could make the roof instead of just making everything on the fly and praying for it to work (which I had honestly sort of been doing up to that point).

At first, I thought of just making a flat roof since that would technically keep the water out from the interior, but I would run the risk of the water falling through small cracks between wooden boards as there would be no object to stop gravity from pressing directly down.

So, having scratched that possibility off entirely, I chose to go for a triangular prism design opting to go for small pillars to make up the faces of the prisms rather than trying to form a triangle since I wasn't exactly clear on how to do that.

Now having a plan, I carved 5 holes on the wooden beams that would be the base for the faces of the prism before carving 2 3ft wooden beams, 4 2ft wooden beams, and finally another 4 1ft wooden beams.

By the time I was done, it was already 1:47 pm, so I decided to take a break and decided to have lunch before spending the next 2 hours carving 5 14ft wooden beams that I caved a cube to at the bottom of both ends.

From there, I connected them, basically finishing the main structure of the roof.

Before I moved on to plank production, though, I still had to add more stability to the wooden beams at the front and back of the roof as all 10 were unstable.

Solving the problem was not super hard, though, as it just boiled down to me having to cave holes on all ten wooden beams to connect them to two other poles by inserting a small enough wooden beam.

After that, the roof stabilized completely.

It was 4:39 pm by now, and although I certainly could have begun work on the actual walls, roof, and base of the house, I still had to do my daily workout, so I decided to call it a day.

However, one last thing happened before the end of the day, and that was that everyone else had actually made a small modification to their game after I gave them the leaf ball. That was that they began to kick the ball to each other as well.

I didn't exactly know why they began doing that, but I assumed that when somebody threw the ball to another, they couldn't catch it with their hand and just kicked it or something along those lines.

Since they had gone down this path, though, I decided to try and see if, after finishing the house, I could set up a goal and maybe try to get them to learn soccer, or perhaps another sport depending on what they changed next.