I had a few things I'd been meaning to work on that have been put on hold during my in-game absence. If you need something to do in town feel free to take on one of these. To Sapling citizens: completing a project from here will count as a contribution for advancing to Acacia rank!

• We need a portal farm for town to fuel our gold needs. This will likely be pricey, unless we mine the obsidian ourselves. I want the farm to be underground and placed so that everyday activity in town will keep it loaded and operational. Key thing here is underground - I want Goodsprings to look nice and a massive portal tower to height limit is ugly as hell.

• Wood orders: Sintralin over in Nox is paying 20d per double chest of wood, and as we are desert lumberjacks this sounds like a damn good deal. SandFalls also has a standing order with us for 4 dc's of acacia logs at 8d per chest. Naturally the khanate will take a small cut of the proceeds from these sales due to tree farm ownership (like 2d from Nox chests), but the vast majority will be split amongst the workers. We value our proletariat!

• We need more newfriend housing, built in the style of the Thracian Avenue houses. Was hoping to build some where the old Loveshack embassy was, as well as a dense mazelike neighborhood in the flats near the spider spawner building. My inspirations have been ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Persia while also maintaining the canals Goodsprings is notable for. Newfriend houses should be reinforced to gs_1 exclusively. Please build with the terrain - we are building a nice city not a sheet of graphing paper or an excel spreadsheet.

• Bunny farming is the way of the future. Aside from sheep they are the only livestock to breed reasonably well in our biomes. Rabbits give us meat and domestic leather, sheep give meat and wool. I hope everybody likes rabbit stew and mutton! Getting these two industries going is important.

• Wiring the farms with redstone and pistons again. We have a few rows lever-harvestable but not all. Getting that online will help us in the future.

• Finding the damn sand Sparky absconded with, and using it to repair the North Desert. He promised it back and instead we found the chests empty. I want his head. Harder since he's an Augustan but if you work with Dan and the active judges his arrest can be accomplished with a minimum of drama. And no, we do not settle for the return of only part of the sand. The law is the law.

• Apparently we have an embassy in Mount Augusta. It could use a bit of rebuilding to be more in line with modern Goodsprings. Design proposals are welcome; I don't have the group for that building though so demolition would be hard.

As I've said I'll be back in 2 and a half weeks - extended vacation without laptop. Keep up the good work and I look forward to returning!