Homesteading in a fantasy world

“Hi there, little guy. Let’s go and set up a nice home for you.”

I took it into the main house where I gathered some string, fabric and a few wood pieces, using those to make a nest. When placing it inside the nest I had a quick flash of it always having my back.

“How about Goose, little one? Your name will be Goose.”

Opening up my stats again I looked at the new section that now listed Goose as a bonded animal.

Name: Rich Dirt stats:

Species: Human strength: 138

Gender: male dexterity: 114

Age: 12 vitality: 132

homesteader level 5 endurance: 41

true archer level 3 empathy: 22

heroic soldier level 3 intelligence: 24

energy storage: 26

Bonded Animals: perception: 12

Goose constitution: 12

presence: 6

That was quite awesome to see but it didn’t really give that much information, so I used animal inspection on it.

Name: Goose

Species: Stone Mountain Eagle

Gender: male

Age: 0

Health: good

Diet: meat

Evolutions: gigantism(dormant), air manipulation(dormant), stronger feathers(dormant), energy efficient(dormant).

So many evolutions but they are all dormant right now. I’m guessing they will activate when he grows older. His species name is Stone Mountain Eagle. I guess the big bird did look kind of like an eagle and perhaps evolution changed her appearance.

I could hear my apprentices coming thanks to them arguing loudly about what to do with the chickens. I took some food for myself and Goose as we went into my bedroom. For the rest of the evening, I spent with him and worked on my energy circulation and control.

The next day’s breakfast was quite interesting as I heard the plans they had come up with. They were quite standard about building a proper building or housing them in some of the current buildings.

After I gave some input. Eventually, they decided that using the barn and tearing down some of the horse stalls and converting them into a place where the chickens could stay would be the best idea.

I had to agree with their decision. It was a decent one and would save a lot more time than the other plans. The other thing this accomplished was making them start thinking more and not just doing what I wanted them to do. So, when they looked at me with expectant eyes for their next commands all they got in return was me telling them to lead the way.

At the start, they were a bit hesitant especially because I was watching their every move while holding Goose in his nest. I let them make some mistakes and gave some help when needed but otherwise, it was just them doing the job.

The design was solid, but the execution could have been better. It was still satisfactory. I let them have a little bit of a celebration as they finished building, but soon dashed their celebration.

“That was a nice celebration, but your job is yet to be done. I do not see any chickens here. You still have to get them here.”

There were some lovely groans after that statement. I am perhaps enjoying this a little too much, but it’s working quite well because my mentoring skill levelled up thanks to this.

It was quite funny watching them trying to chase down the chickens and then bringing them over. It was good to see the chickens out of the constantly cooler weather, especially the chicks.

This whole ordeal took until evening, so I did not want to make them do anything else today. As I help them clean up, my true nature connection give me a feeling of what the future weather was going to be like.

A huge storm was coming most likely to signify the end of the summer and welcome the coming fall. So, before we went to bed, we secure everything like closing the barn door and every other door and made sure the wind can’t blow them open.

I was woken by the heavy winds and the constant lightning. Looking outside it was a true storm, lightning stayed high up and constantly struck illuminating the windswept countryside.

If I had any grains still on the ground, they would have been flattened completely. Concentrating on my owners land I could see there was so little animal movement, everyone was hunkered down.

This storm's timing was extremely good otherwise the chickens would have been in a lot of trouble outside, now thankfully everything seemed fine.

I woke up in the morning to the wind still howling. It had slowed down a bit, but most likely it will still persist until tomorrow. We all still did our morning chores that were needed but afterwards, it was time to stay inside.

We used this time to focus on the tailoring side of things. Emma showed me useful patterns and how to make strong and durable clothing. She was well acquainted with creating farmer's clothes that were meant for hard labour.

All four of us spent the day making string, rope and fabric. We produced enough for my current needs but working through all the celn we have will take a lot of time. All this work gave us all some levels. I got my basic weaving to level 8 and basic tailoring to level 3.

The next day the wind had died down quite a lot, now it was just a windy day. Nothing bad had happened to the buildings which I was quite happy about. Francis and the cows were quite happy to be outside again, same with Freya and all the puppies.

Today I let them continue with their forging practice of making arrowheads when I worked on my armour using my new anvil.

There was a need to fix the chainmail I looted. Otherwise, it was the correct size although I seem to have grown a bit again. It won’t take too many rings to fix the chainmail, so I used the wire puller to make some 5 mm rings.

The chainmail was only made from 2 mm rings, but it really didn’t matter that much. The most annoying part was riveting them simply because they were so small.

Next, I fixed my brigantine armour, and I was quite pleased with my new anvil especially after I fitted a correct size log base. Then it was so much easier to work with. The only thing missing was a proper forge building and after the dungeon delve that would be my next project.

I made the replacement plates, but I didn’t install them immediately instead moving on to my next goal of making armour pieces to protect my legs and arms. It was a mistake not to make them before the big battle with the goblins but thankfully their weapons were bad enough that the leather did its job.

I made 16 armour pieces that fit into pairs to protect from all sides. 4 for legs and 4 for arms leaving the joints open. The arm joints will have extra protection thanks to the chainmail but the leg joints will be a bit more vulnerable until I have time to make chainmail for them but that will be a winter project. Fixing chainmail is one thing, but making it from scratch takes a lot of time.

The hardest piece to make was the helmet. I had never done anything like that so it took me three tries before I was satisfied with the result. It kind of looks like a Viking helmet.

I simply didn’t want to mess with anything more complicated like making visors and stuff like that. Modifying one of the hatchets into a proper one-handed war axe was quite easy and after that, it was time to make the zombie basher.

A simple heavy steel club meant to bash heads with incredible efficiency. I went back and forth on if I wanted to make it with a wooden handle or full metal. But I didn’t want it to have this fatal weakness when fighting hundreds of undead, but I also didn’t want my hand to ring every time I hit something.

So, I compromised and made it with a full tang so that when I put the handle on it, it would be a lot stronger. Burning the handle onto the tang rod was quite fun as it always is, and it was a great teaching moment as well.

In the evening after dinner, I finished up all the small details like cutting cloth padding for the armour pieces and straps so they could be secured into place. After that, I finished fixing the brigantine armour. I was now ready for the dungeon delve and I wondered what it will be like as I looked at all my upgrades.

skill is upgraded to basic tailoring level 5

skill is upgraded to basic leatherworking level 7

skill is upgraded to basic armorer level 3

skill is upgraded to basic baking level 4

skill is upgraded to basic taming level 6

skill is upgraded to basic identification level 5