Chapter 237: Food Sources
After arranging the construction of the farmland, Yang Yi then found the little fishman empty wine barrel and the kobold sandtooth diviner. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This kobold diviner is basically too old to work, but he can command other kobold slaves.
So Yang Yi explained the construction of toilets in Ratchet Town to the little fishman empty wine barrel, and asked her to take a kobold earth diviner and other kobold slaves to dig some pits in the dense area of the fishman hut in Ratchet Town.
Yes, Yang Yi currently only plans to have kobold slaves dig open pits to serve as fishmen's toilets.
In the barren land, it basically only rains for a short period of time when the rainy season comes, so you don't have to worry about the filth in the pit overflowing due to heavy rains most of the time.
The open-air thatched pit is a bit embarrassing and smelly for humans, but it is the first time for the fish-people that there is no fish-man mind what is open or not.
Using an open-air pit to defecate is only a small step forward for the Fish-People in Ratchet Town, but it is a big step forward for the Fish-People!
In the course of the development of the Fish-Man civilization, the great thing of starting to use the Maokeng is enough to be written into the chronicles of the Fish-People.
Yang Yi arranged the farmland and toilets, and explained to the fishman merchant the oat seeds and farming tools that needed to be purchased, which was considered to have temporarily dealt with the matter of planting oats in Ratchet Town.
After that, Yang Yi rode on the giant turtle mount, and took Ben Boba and Mozamus to inspect several places in Ratchet Town.
Yang Yi went to the valley where wild animals are raised in the north of Ratchet Town, the gravel pit under the cliff wall of the highlands in the northeast, the fish-man livestock farm by the sea, and the seaweed and sea mussel breeding farm in Ratchet Bay.
These places are the main food supply sites in Ratchet Town, and before the oats in the farmland can be harvested in large quantities, Ratchet Town will mainly rely on these places for food.
Originally, there were all kinds of beasts in the valley, including velociraptors, chocobos, wild boars, Kodomon, zebras, gazelles, etc., and it can be said that what kind of beasts the fishmen in Ratchet Town can catch, the fishmen in the valley will be enclosed and raised.
Yang Yi listened to the opinion of Jia Gu, a stranger, and with the current situation in Ratchet Town, it was not suitable to raise so many kinds of beasts at the same time.
Therefore, when Yang Yi came to the Valley of the Beasts, he immediately called the fishmen and asked them to slaughter carnivorous beasts such as velociraptors and chocobos first.
Next up are herbivores like zebras and gazelles.
Although zebras and gazelles theoretically only need to be fed with forage, the fishmen in Ratchet Town don't know how to feed them, and they haven't grown many catties of meat after raising them for a long time, so Yang Yi decided to slaughter them to fill the fishmen's stomachs.
In the end, only boars and kodomons remained in the valley of the beasts.
Wild boars are omnivorous, and the leftovers of the fish people can be fed, and they can also cut ragweed to match the feeding, so they don't waste food when raised.
At the same time, because there are methods for orcs to breed wild boars in Ratchet Town, and also the secret recipe for training fighting wild boars from the steel-maned boars, these spotted wild boars are not bad.
However, in Yang Yi's eyes, raising spotted wild boars is only temporary.
According to Jagu, these spotted wild boars, which were caught by fish-man hunters running to Durontal, are wild and untamed, and they are easily restless in small pigsty, which is not conducive to growing meat.
It is better to raise pigs that have been domesticated for many generations.
As for the steel-maned boar people training battle wild boars, Yang Yi also learned that the spotted wild boar was not the best choice, and it was best to choose a pig called a fighting pig to train.
The situation of Kodo beasts is similar to that of wild boars, which can be described as neither good nor bad.
After some teaching by the minotaur Jerek Gaoshan, the fishmen of Ratchet Town have a little understanding of raising Kodomon.
In addition, Slark learned to refine a pacification potion from Jerek, which can effectively calm down the irascible Kodomon.
Therefore, the grassland Koduo beasts fed in the valley of the beasts are growing well.
It's a pity that the fishmen haven't been able to train the Kodomons as mounts or fight the Kodomons, and they can only find a way to see if they can make them qualified Cargo Kodomons.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to be a cultivator.
After Yang Yi's large-scale screening and massacre this time, only two beasts remained, the Spotted Boar and the Grassland Kodo Beast.
Spotted wild boars are kept in pigsty of different sizes in groups according to their size, while the steppe Kodo beast is collectively stocked in a small valley covering an area of two or three hectares, and the two beasts are now fed by special fish people.
In this way, each fish-man in the Valley of the Beasts only needs to learn to feed one beast, and will not be in a hurry because the fish-people don't have enough heads as before.
When he left the Beast Valley, Yang Yi had a preliminary plan for the future development of the Beast Valley, so he said to the two little followers, Pember and Mozamus: "You two remember that we need to ask the merchants to help contact the orc farmers during this time, and try to buy as many little piglets as possible to raise them. In addition, it is also necessary to organize the fishmen to go to the plains at the foot of Thundering Peak to catch some Kodo beasts and come back. ”
"Yes, Boss!"
The two little followers scrambled to puff up their chests and shouted yes, for fear of being preempted by the other party.
The reason why Yang Yi told these things to the two little followers was because there were too many things to deal with in Ratchet Town, and he was afraid that he would forget them.
After leaving the Beast Valley, Yang Yi went to the gravel pit under the cliff wall of the highlands north of Ratchet Town, and now the entire gravel pit has been covered by huge thorn vines, and the original appearance is completely invisible.
Various mushrooms are mainly cultivated under the thorn vines of the gravel pit, among which the red spotted mushroom is the most abundant.
In addition, Yang Yi had already arranged for several kobold slaves to dig caves in the cliff wall, intending to start trying to grow red leaf potatoes, one of the staple foods of the wild boar people.
Whether it is the cultivation of red-spotted mushrooms or red-leaf potatoes, it is the strength of the wild boar people, Yang Yi decided to invite some wild boar people to come to Ratchet Town, this time to let the wild boar people live forever, until the fish people learn the planting skills.
So Yang Yi told the two little followers about inviting the wild boar man again and asked them to write it down.
Out of the gravel pit, Yang Yi went straight to the beach and came to the fishman livestock farm.
The Fishman Livestock Farm has now been upgraded to a level 1 medium-sized building (level 1 in a small town), and it has been required by Yang Yi from the beginning to mainly keep crabs and turtles, and previously it mainly housed Dulongtal's wave crabs and mud and stone spiny shell turtles in the dust swamp.
Some time ago, Yang Yi took the Gollum sisters to Thanalis, and as a result, two egg stealers stole back a lot of turtle eggs from the wave turtle.
As a result, there are now many more wave turtle cubs in the Fishman Farm.
The Fishman Farm has always been managed by two Fish-Man Tidewalkers, both of whom have now been upgraded to Level 2, and the two Fishmen are responsible for feeding the Wave Crab and the Mudstone Thorny Shell Turtle respectively.
Yang Yi knew that the qualifications of these two fish-people tide walkers were not high, they were E and F, but fortunately, they both had the expertise of training animals.
It's good that the fish-man with F-level qualification can become a fish-man tidewalker, unless Ratchet Town focuses on cultivation, otherwise he will be upgraded to the top now.
Another E-level Fish-Man Tidewalker has some potential to tap, at least a good chance to upgrade to the intermediate level, and then raise the level to level 4.
Yang Yi called the E-level qualified Fishman Tidewalker, this Fishman brought a wave crab and was the head of a small Fishman Village before coming to Ratchet Town. Later, he was left alive when he led the villagers to attack Ratchet Town, so he stayed.
This fishman, who has been the head of a small village, is quite a little capable in management, so Yang Yi specially designated this fishman to take care of these wave turtle cubs.
If these wave turtles grow up to be as smart as the wave turtle couple he saw in Tanaris before, Yang Yi is ready to domesticate them in large quantities and use them as combat pets for fish-man beach walkers in the future.
After leaving the Fish-Man Farm, Yang Yi went to inspect the seaweed and seashell farms in Ratchet Bay.
The cultivation of seaweed and seashells was, is, and will continue to be one of the most important food sources for Ratchet Town.
However, seaweed and seashell farms have many requirements for environmental conditions, such as suitable sunlight, water temperature, ocean currents, depth, tidal flats, dew tide time, and so on.
So although Ratchet Town has built many farms along the coastline of Ratchet Bay, there are not many that actually produce it.
Yang Yi has estimated that there are about 100 seashell farms with stable production and about 150 seaweed farms with stable production in the area of Ratchet Town, and these farms have basically been upgraded to the third or fourth level.
According to previous statistics, a Class 1 seashell farm can feed 5 adult fish people by breeding small mussel shells, and a Level 1 seaweed farm can feed 15 adult fish people by breeding purple ribbon algae.
It was later discovered that the production of these two cultures had almost doubled after they had been upgraded to three levels.
That is, a level 4 seashell farm can now feed 10 adult fishmen, and a level 4 seaweed farm can feed 30 adult fishmen.
So, these 100 seashell farms plus 150 seaweed farms provide food for 5,500 adult fish-people in Ratchet Town.
It can be said that most of the fishmen in Ratchet Town rely on these two farms to feed their stomachs.
One of the two farms has a great advantage over farmland is that they don't need fishman farmers, they just need to send fishmen to watch them and not be stolen.
However, the disadvantage is also obvious, due to environmental constraints, it cannot be cultivated like farmland of thousands of acres or 10,000 acres.
Therefore, Yang Yi is considering that when the seaweed and seashell farms in the ratchet bay are almost developed in the future, they will continue to expand beyond the bay.
If you can find a beach with the right environment to cultivate seaweed or seashells on a large scale, it will be extremely beneficial to the development of Ratchet Town.
The seaweed and seashells in Ratchet Town are all widely stocked and do not need to be managed by fishmen, but Jiagu, the goldfishman, still gave Yang Yi some advice.
For example, some thorn algae can be mixed in the purple band algae farm, as long as the proportion of polyculture is appropriate, the thorn algae planted on the level 4 seaweed farm will also grow well.
As a kind of herb, thorn algae is a low-level material commonly used by beginner and intermediate alchemists, and it still has good economic value. Ratchet Town had only relied on fish-man herb pickers to search and collect seaweed, and didn't know how to grow it.
In addition to gathering and hunting, these places are basically the source of the current food supply in Ratchet Town, and Yang Yi asked the two little followers to memorize the things to be dealt with after making rounds one by one.
The key to the future development of Ratchet Town in these places is that only by properly handling the food problem can Ratchet Town have the foundation for rapid development.