Finishing The First House:

Genesis February 20th, 0001:

Today was finally the day that I finished the house, after all the only thing that was left was adding the walls and roof in order to be done (I was planning to add doors later if I had time left). And with 12 people available to help me make wooden planks I was more than prepared to finish everything by the end of today.

It was 7:06 AM when I woke up, and I immediately chopped down two tree logs and got everything ready for a demonstration once everyone was awake which was not much longer around 7:30-ish. After eating breakfast I immediately got everyone to follow me to where I had two longs ready and a line dug into the ground.

From there all I had to do was get both logs of wood and put one of their ends at the end of the line on the ground followed by chopping off any wood that was beyond the other end of the said line which was 10 ft long. Once that was done I began chopping wooden planks from the log while it was still horizontal making for 10ft tall planks that varied in length.

From there I just set up the other log I had and grabbed a random newcomer to try it out by using Daniel's axe while I began chopping more trees to make logs for the people that came after them. Although I didn't expect them to get things right on their first try, they would at the very least get one right, plus, it was good practice for the future.

In the end, after 5 hours of hard work, I finally had enough wood planks to fill in the walls of the house. We managed to do this by making it so that two people chopped trees while another four focused purely on making planks while everyone else did their own thing and I worked on axes in order to add more plank makers since the rate at which logs were used was still a lot slower than the rate at which trees were being chopped down.

And as expected although in the very beginning I got almost no usable planks from each log eventually everyone on plank making duty started to get a better hold of how to do things and were able to produce 2-3 wooden planks per log which although still very wasteful was at the very least still a big improvement.

As for why the planks were installed it was by sliding them in downward from the roof. Basically, since the planks were only about a thumb wide I just carved a hole that wide in the middle of the wooden beams used for the base except for the part of the one that was on the right side of the front side of the house as that area would be dedicated for the door.

From there I unassembled the base of the roof and opened up the top of all sides and as stated before just slid the planks in leaving only room for the door before carving the same line I did on the base onto the bottom of the wooden beams that would be used as the base of the roof making it do that it was impossible to move the entire thing unless you bashed against it with all your strength or undid the roof.

From there I just put the roof back together followed by carving the top of the wooden beams used to connect both faces of the triangular prism the roof created into triangles so that a single plank could be fit diagonally from the top to the bottom of either side of the roof. From there all that was left was to just wait.

Thankfully since the roos was a lot smaller than the actual 'body' of the house and the fact that as time went on everyone was getting better at making wooden planks, I only had to wait two hours this time until I had enough wood to put everything together, from there all that was left to do was just put everything together.

As I mentioned before I had made it so that all of the support beams connecting both faces of the triangular prism formed by the roof were triangular making it so that the plains could just be put on top of the open space, so I just did that but carved square holed inside the support beams 1ft apart each and then carved the same thing onto the wooden planks I was using so that I could connect the two by using tiny wooden rectangular prisms.

Needless to day although tedious I was finally able to finish everything by climbing onto a tree and using the upright support beams to stand on as I built the roof. And with that, all that was left was to just make a door and window, which were super easy to make by using leaf weaving to basically create curtains.

All I did was weave one piece of woven leave 'blanket' to put that way, so with the 10ft by 7ft 'blanket', I carved small holed into the part of the roof's base that was directly above the entrance of the house that I could put vines through them, and once there was a vine through all of the holes I put all of them through one of the holes on the leaf woven blanket before tying both sides together.

Basically, the door was like a human-sized dog door since it was just easier to make than a normal door, as for the window it was basically the same thing, except that I had carved a small hole into the part of the wall so that I could insert another small wooden rectangular prism that you could tie a vine at the bottom of the window closer to keep it open.

Just like that, I was finally done, and only had to teach everyone else how to make support beams before I could get to start constructing the settlement in its entirety, after all the only real problem when it came to constructing these was that I had to spend long amounts of time gathering materials, even better, I could also get to work on other projects in the meantime.