Build Mine Shaft [1703]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.8.1: Build Mine Shaft [1703]

      Usage:  build shaft ["Name of shaft"]
      Time to learn: 21 days.
      Time to use: Variable.

This skill permits a character to build a mine shaft.

A mine is a deep shaft or tunnel which allows workers to extract valuable resources from the earth, such as iron and gold. Mine shafts must be built in mountain provinces or in another mine shaft; there may be at most one mine shaft in a location. A mine shaft is built with the "build shaft" command. To build a mine shaft, a noble must know [1703] Deepen Mine Shaft. Building a mine requires at least 3 workers and 500 worker-days of effort.

When a mine shaft is completed, it will be "down" from the location in which it was built. Each mine shaft descends 100 feet, so that the initial mine shaft in a location goes down 100 feet; a mine shaft built in that mine shaft descends to 200 feet, and so on. E.g.,

      Province controlled by Revelstone [d53], castle, in Westron Mountains [bo14]
      Ruled by Lord Variol [dw7r], duke

      Routes leaving Landsdrop Mountains:
         North, mountain, to Trothguard [bo13], 10 days
         East, mountain, to Doriendor Corishev [bp14], 10 days
         South, to Ocean [bq13], Balatean Sea, impassable
         West, mountain, to Landsdrop Mountains [bp12], 10 days
         Down, mine shaft, to New mine shaft [g55], 0 days, depth 100 feet

NOTE that an incomplete mine shaft is not "down" from the location in which it was built! You should use "move out" to exit from an incomplete mine shaft, not "move up"!