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I spent several days setting plans into motion, too busy arranging things to leave Hive Supremo.

First, I sketched more ideas for furniture so Researchina could set her people to make prototypes.

Golden nails were so soft, that if you tried to drive them into harder wood, the nail bent before penetrating!

Either the furniture had to be made from mushroom wood (which was much softer than normal wood, but made for flimsy furniture), or the bees had to drill holes for nails with stone knives before hammering.

But it was possible, and soon, all the remaining gold was put on prototypes of tables, cupboards and storage chests. But not shelves—these just didn't work with the wax hive walls.

If you tried to put something heavy on a shelf on a wax wall, the wax would bend and the entire shelf would fall, no matter what! And non-wax buildings were still rarer than the wax ones, even in the most developed Hive Supremo.