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Minerals.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 13, 2015, 02:17:21 PM ---They must have something to supply ship construction. If the surface is really that bad, they'd run out of people before "walk out into the jungle, cut something down, drag it back" supplied enough wood for airships and the shipyard/docks complex at Landing.
I'd guess at some sort of fortifications around the bases of the spires to make lumberjacking merely very dangerous instead of totally suicidal. Maybe stone-enclosed fortified paths / tunnels out to the lumbering areas, and bunkers they can hide in if any of the wildlife gets too inquisitive.
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That would make sense. However they do it, it's costly but not so much that it's horrendously scarce, given that it's still used as a Building material.
They grow vegetable in hydroponic vats, I wonder if something similar would be viable for a tree? For some reason I think it would weaken the truck wood to not grow anchored in the ground and supporting its own weight.
Second Aristh:
Idk, wooden doors are seen as a real status symbol with the nobility. Same thing with Bridget's father's counter. I think airships are just that priceless, and much of the available wood resources go directly to the Fleet. Habble Landing is just rich enough to splurge on the wooden structures.
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--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 13, 2015, 04:26:41 PM ---Idk, wooden doors are seen as a real status symbol with the nobility. Same thing with Bridget's father's counter. I think airships are just that priceless, and much of the available wood resources go directly to the Fleet. Habble Landing is just rich enough to splurge on the wooden structures.
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But they built most of the second layer of the thing out of wood, yes? A /Town's/ worth of structures above the first layer, almost exclusively out of wood right? Cost be damned, that's a matter of internal economics. Regardless of how much they charge for it, somehow they were able to acquire the wood in the first place. So either they found a way to grow it in a relatively safe location, or else Lumberjack is the most frightening job description in their culture. Which might be the case; the cost might be a matter of potential Risk in far ranging harvest operations rather than any sort of scarcity from a limited grow footprint.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 13, 2015, 05:21:09 PM ---But they built most of the second layer of the thing out of wood, yes? A /Town's/ worth of structures above the first layer, almost exclusively out of wood right? Cost be damned, that's a matter of internal economics. Regardless of how much they charge for it, somehow they were able to acquire the wood in the first place. So either they found a way to grow it in a relatively safe location, or else Lumberjack is the most frightening job description in their culture. Which might be the case; the cost might be a matter of potential Risk in far ranging harvest operations rather than any sort of scarcity from a limited grow footprint.
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I thought the middle level was built of "masonry".
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 13, 2015, 05:49:28 PM ---I thought the middle level was built of "masonry".
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Enough of it had to be wood in order to burn so well. :-\
Overall, I'd say wood is available in large quantities for a huge price due to the danger of harvesting it from the surface. I don't think it's grown in vats.
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