Growler Industries

Log

June 1001

• Road - 7.8 mi completed at beginning of month, road completed near mid-month. If all goes according to plan.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Wizard's Tower - $142k - completed
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $143.2k
• Vonmek - Armoury monthly expenses increase to $17,262
• Hiring (Vonmek) - $2400
  • 4 smith journeymen@ $200 = $800
  • 8 smith apprentices @ $200 = $1600
  • Total $24k
• Extra-Realm - $12k to Garper for hiring military trainers
  • $4k salary
  • $6667 travel expenses
  • $3333 advertising

May 1001

• Road - 7.425 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Wizard's Tower - $200k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $201.2k
• Military - $57.6k represents back pay for improved troops.
• Extra-Realm - $60k to enchant 12 soul gems

April 1001

• Road - 7.05 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Wizard's Tower - $200k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $201.2k
• Extra-Realm
  • Seed money for Dendarius trading company - $200k
  • Purchase of 12 gems suitable for soul stones - $348,300
  • Total $548,300

March 1001

• Road - 6.675 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Wizard's Tower - $200k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $201.2k

February 1001

• Road - 6.3 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Wizard's Tower - $200k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $201.2k
• Extra-Realm
  • $2000 - actors (from last August)
  • $1000 - training for Grundar
  • Total - $3000
• Switch from Ronabel to our own copper contract.

January 1001

• Road - 5.925 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Guard Post - $54k
  • Wizard's Tower - $200k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $255.2k
• Riverton
  • Public Works - $50k
  • River Cog - $70 k
  • Total - $120k
• 2 metallurgists arrives (1 silver, 1 gold)
• Hiring (Vonmek) - $9600
  • 2 metallurgists (1 silver, 1 gold) @ $2500 - $5000
  • 2 miners (1 silver, 1 gold) @ $500 = $1000
  • 1 muleskinner (silver) @ $0
  • 2 mules (silver) @ $1800 = $3600

Log (future)

July 1001

• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $1.2k
• Vonmek - armoury
  • Increase material cost
  • Note increase in production rate
• Extra-Realm - $12k to Garper for hiring military trainers

August 1001

• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $1.2k
• Extra-Realm - $25k - mercenary light cavalry company

Personnel, Equipment Costs

Costs given are salaries/mo and equipment expenses. Equipment must be paid for at the time of hire and have a two year replacement cycle. Other equipment costs uses the replacement rate stated. Final value is monthly cost which includes both salary and maintenance. All salaries are per month.

• Alchemist - 1500, 2500 (1604/mo)
• Cart (horse) - 680/15 yr (4/mo)
• Carpenter - 750, 250 (760/mo)
• Guard - 500 (can protect $1500 of valuables)
• Horse - 2000 (10 yr), 350 tack (2 yr), 216 feed, (247/mo)
• Laborer - 352, 100 capital (356/mo)
• Machinist - 1200, 2000 capital (1283/mo)
• Metallurgist - 1200, 2500 capital (1304/mo)
• Miller - 740, 200 (748/mo)
• Miner - 400, 500 (421/mo)
• Muleskinner - 500, handles up to 12 mules, no capital
• Mule - 1500 (10 yr), 300 tack (2 yr), 150/mo feed, (175/mo)
• Oxen - 1500 (10 yr), 200 tack (2 yr), 300/mo feed, (321/mo)
• Prospector - 1200
• Smith - 1075, 2000 (1158/mo)
• Teamster - 350, handles ox cart

Royalties

• Gold
  • Prospector - 5%
  • Goblins - 10%
  • Lord Burle - 33 1/3%
• Silver
  • Prospector - 5%
  • Goblins - 10%
  • Lord Burle - 10%
• Copper
  • Lord Burle - 16 2/3%
• Iron
  • Prospector - 5%
  • Goblins - 10%
  • Lord Burle - 10%

Infrastructure

All infrastructure has a replacement rate in years. Monthly maintenance costs are Original Cost / Replacement (years) / 12

• Vonmek - $250 Nov 1000, $625 Dec, $1000 Jan, $1375 Feb 1001 and beyond, $3278 July 1001 and beyond
  • Brewery - $45k/15 years = $250/mo (starting Oct 1000)
  • Guard Posts - 3 @ $375/mo (1 ea starting Nov, Dec 1000 and Jan 1001)
  • Wizard's Tower - $1142k/50 years = $1903/mo (full cost starts July 1001)
• Riverton - $8455 beginning Feb 1001
  • River Cog - $7288 salaries, $1167 maintenance
• Rail System - $1M/50 yrs ($1667/mo, p/o copper mine) - connects copper mine, coal mine, processing plant, and Vonmek. Transportation between those locations is essentially zero.
• Crushers (6) - $80,000 ea/20 yr ($333/mo, 3 ea quarry, gold, copper, silver mines)
• Furnaces (4, 5th 11/1000)
  • 1 improved furnace - $250,000/50 yr ($417/mo) - 4 tons/day of copper, iron ore. (2nd to be completed November 1000)
  • 3 reducing furnaces - $350,000/50 yr ($583/mo ea) - 2 tons/day of gold, silver ore; 4 tons/day of copper, iron ore (3rd completed in May 1000)
• Chemical plants (2) - $200,000/50 yr ($333/mo ea) - 2 tons/day of gold ore
• NOTE - 34 tons of ore storage in the processing plant
• Structures
  • Gold Mine - $40,000/10 yr ($333/mo)
  • Silver Mine - $40,000/10 yr ($333/mo)
  • Iron Mine - $40,000/10 yr ($333/mo)
  • Quarry - $7,000/10 yr ($58/mo)
  • Mill - $70,000/15 yr - but includes the oxen; 70,000 - 6000 = 64,000/15 yr ($356/mo)

Capabilities & Statistics

Alchemist

• Needs 0.025 oz acid/lb of gold ore
  • Original spreadsheet is 0.025019884, based on arcane calculations.
• Market cost of acid is $10/oz
• Can produce 375 oz acid/mo
  • Material costs are $1.5/oz

Laborer

• Crush 66 lbs gold ore/day
• Crush 96 lbs/day of silver ore
• Process 200 lbs/day - leaching (only needed for gold ore)
• Process 500 lbs/day - smelting, cupellation (gold, silver ore)

Metallurgist

• Gold ore
  • Leach - 8000 lbs/day
  • Smelt - 8000 lbs/day
  • Cupellation - 1250 lbs/day
  • Total - 952 lbs/day = 1/(1/8000 + 1/8000 + 1/1250)
• Silver ore
  • Smelt - 8000 lbs/day
  • Cupellation - 1000 lbs/day
  • Total - 889 lbs/day = 1/(1/8000 + 1/1000)
• Copper ore
  • Oversees operations - 8000 lbs/day (200,000 lbs/mo)

Miners

• Daily output
  • 11 ST, BL = 11 x 11 / 5 = 24.2 lbs, x 35% efficiency = 8.47 lbs
  • Gold, silver ore: 8.47 x 1 x 0.25 x 162 lbs/cf = 343 lbs/day (hard rock, broken with pick then shoveled, less due to hardness/mass)
  • Coal: 8.47 x 2 x 0.5 x 78 lbs/cf = 660 lbs/day (between soil and stone, broken with a pick then shoveled)

Mules

• $1500 purchase (10 yr repl)
• $300 tack (2 yr repl)
• $150/mo feed
  • 5 lbs/day @ $1/lb grain
• 250 lbs gross capacity @ medium encumbrance
  • 20 lbs typical tack + feed
• 64 mi/day, average terrain @ no encumbrance
  • 38.4 mi/day @ medium encumbrance (60%)

Oxen

• $1500 purchase (10 yr repl)
• $200 tack (2 yr)
• $300/mo feed

Smith

• Smelt 2000 lbs silver or gold ore/day

Operations

Armory

• Personnel
  • Torbin, Corbin - 2,700/mo ea, $2000 equipment (2 yr replacement)
    • Skill 16 for weapons and armor
    • +1 for facilities
  • 6 journeymen smiths - 750/mo, 200 equipment (2 yr replacement)
  • 12 apprentice smiths - 350/mo, 200 equipment (2 yr replacement)
  • 14,100/mo salaries, 317/mo maintenance
• Facilities - 50,000 for facility (15 yr), 16,300 equipment (15 yr); 363 maintenance
• $2,482/mo required for materials (increases in July 1001)
• Total costs/mo
  • 14,100 salaries
  • 2482 materials (increases in July 1001)
  • 680 maintenance
  • 17,262 total expenses
• Output is $18,000 worth of arms/armor per month (increases in July 1001)

Coal Mining

• Value
  • Smelting - 0.1345 lbs coal needed/lb ore (both gold, silver)
  • Cupellation - 0.0363 lbs coal needed/lb ore (both gold, silver)
  • Copper appears to require 0.0583 lbs coal/lb ore
• Process
  • Mine: 660 lbs/day/miner

Copper Mine

• Value
  • $40/lb
  • ore averages 2.5%
• Process
  • Mine: done by goblins for free. Process 980 lbs/day/miner, greatly aided by the rail system.
  • Crush: 96 lb/day - apparently done by the goblins for free.
  • Wash/Roast: Smiths process 1000 lbs/day. Mostly goblins, but we pay for them all
  • Metallurgist - general overseer can supervise 8000 lbs/day
  • Labor - additional labor provided by goblins for free.
• Payment
  • Sold for $37/lb
  • Goblins get $18
  • Growlers get $19
    • $37/6 = $6.17 to Lord Burle
  • Previously:
    • Growlers: $12.80, of which $3.50 goes to Lord Burle. (Calculated as 10% of $35.)
    • Goblins $20.20
    • Ronabel pays $33.00 at the processing plant.

Farm (Quail Valley)

• Personnel
  • Tascharak & Syredra (700/mo total, although costed as laborers for simplicity)
  • Willie - groundskeeper (p/o laborers)
  • 6 laborers
• Structure - $30,000/15 yr (167/mo)
• Income
  • $11,200 - July, December
  • $200 - other months
  • 1/6 taxation (paid to Lord Kyle)

Gold Mine

• Value
  • $20,000/lb
  • ore averages 0.01125%
• Process
  • Mine: 343 lbs/day/miner
  • Crush: 66 lbs/day/laborer
  • Leach
    • Metallurgist: 8000 lbs/day
    • Laborer: 200 lbs/day
  • Smelt
    • Metallurgist: 8000 lbs/day
    • Laborer: 500 lbs/day
  • Cupellation
    • Metallurgist: 1250 lbs/day
    • Laborer: 500 lbs/day
• Labor Summary
  • Metallurgist: 952 lbs/day (1/(1/8000+1/8000+1/1250))
  • Laborer (excl crush): 111 lbs/day (1/(1/200+1/500+1/500))
    • Crusher reduces labor by up to 18 each

Mage's Circle

• 11,150/mo on salaries
  • Fencallad - 2500 - 16 enchanting
  • Werduul, Noar, Vek - 3500 combined - 17 enchanting (Werduul)
  • Turor - 1750
  • Uhedi - 1300
  • Oimy - 1100
  • Datec 1000 - enchanter, knows teaching
• Powerstones
  • 4 - 10 pt powerstones
  • 1 - 10 pt (recharges only in daylight)
  • 1 - 9 pt (only useful on lightning spells)
• See Mage Circle Spells for current capabilities

Mill

• Personnel
  • Milo - 740/mo, 200 capital (2 yr)
  • 14 laborers - 352/mo, 100 capital (2 yr)
  • 4 oxen - 1500 cost (10 yr), 200 tack (2 yr), 300 feed/mo
• Gross fixed at $16,889/mo
• Structure - Mill $64,000/15 year (356/mo)
• Expenses
  • Wood purchase is $6,500/mo
  • 1/6 taxes - to Lord Burle
• Historically the mill paid $6500/mo for wood and $6430/mo for Milo, 14 laborers, and 4 oxen

Mine Development

• Administration (no capital costs)
  • Gordon - 2200/mo (mine manager)
  • Pol'unty - 2400/mo (head metallurgist)
  • Ostrovon - 1200/mo
  • Prospector - 800/mo
  • Total admin salaries - 6,600/mo
• Seggy's crew - 8983/mo - can be applied to maintenance/repair/construction.
  • Seggy - 1900/mo (5x bonus for repairing equipment, capital as machinist)
  • 2 machinists
  • 4 smiths
• Irdenu's crew - 3802/mo - hand-waving building new stuff
  • Irdenu - costed as a carpenter
  • 1 additional carpenter
  • 5 laborers
  • 500/mo for "1/2 mule train" to carry stuff

Prospector

• A deposit of slate was found June 1001.

Quarry

Can use 80% of tailings from the mine for road production, but must use 5 parts virgin rock with 4 parts tailings. Currently processing 14,475 lbs of ore/day, 80% of which is 11,580 lbs/day, or 145 tons/mo. Three crushers can use 201.6 tons/mo. However, there is a large stockpile of tailings from previous operations that we can utilize.

• 1 crusher
• 24 laborers
• 1 supervisor - 600/mo
• Produces 84 tons good quality virgin gravel/mo, which can be augmented with 67.2 tons of tailings (5:4 ratio)
• It is stipulated that 1 crusher, augmented with tailings, produces enough rubble for 1/2 mile x 1 ft x 1 ft of rubble per month. (Or, 1/8 mile x 4 ft x 1 ft per month.)

Road Crew

• Road chief - 500/mo
• 24 laborers
• 4 horses
• 2 horse carts

Silver Mine

• Value
  • $1,000/lb
  • ore averages 0.125%
• Process
  • Mine: 343 lbs/day/miner
  • Crush: 96 lbs/day/laborer
  • Smelt
    • Metallurgist: 8000 lbs/day
    • Laborer: 500 lbs/day
  • Cupellation
    • Metallurgist: 1000 lbs/day
    • Laborer: 500 lbs/day
• Labor Summary
  • Metallurgist: 889 lbs/day (1/(1/8000+1/1000))
  • Laborer (excl crush): 250 lbs/day (1/(1/500+1/500))
    • Crusher reduces labor by up to 18 each

Log Archive

1000

December 1000

• Road - 5.55 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Guard Post - $54k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $55.2k
• Riverton
  • Public Works - $50k
  • River Cog - $70k
  • Powerstone Cellar - $20k
  • Total - $140k
• 1 metallurgist arrives (1 silver)
  
• Hiring (Vonmek) - $3500
  • 1 metallurgists (1 silver) @ $2500 = $2500
  • 2 miners (2 silver) @ $500 = $1000
• Extra-Realm
  • $4168 income from sale of quirked powerstones.
• Finance Minister arrives - Jack. His salary is $4000, Frail goes to 1/2 time ($2000).

November 1000

• Road - 5.175 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Amort's Reach - $62.5k repairing basement
  • Guard Post - $54k
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Total $117.7k
• Riverton
  • Public Works - $50k
  • River Cog - $70k
  • Powerstone Cellar - $20k
  • Total - $140k
• 3 metallurgists arrive (2 gold, 1 iron)
• Hiring - $195,120
  • 14 carts @ $680 = $9520
  • 28 horses @ $2350 = $65,800
  • 46 mules (32 iron, 14 gold) @ $1800 = $82,800
  • 3 metallurgists (1 iron, 2 gold) @ $2500 = $7500
  • 4 smiths (3 iron, 1 gold) @ $2000 = $8000
  • 22 miners (16 iron, 6 gold) @ $500 = $11,000
  • 105 laborers (59 iron, 46 gold) @ $100 = $10,500
  • 14 teamsters and 4 muleskinners @ $0
• Extra-Realm - $96k
  • $12k - Tylden's hiring expenses.
    • 1667 - cost of living (1 week)
    • 833 - advertising - metallurgist (1 week)
    • 4000 - travel expenses (2 metallurgist)
    • 500 - finder's fee to Castor (30% of salary, 1st metallurgist)
    • 5000 - finder's fee to Castor (300% of salary, 2nd metallurgist)
  • $84k - 60 gems for powerstones x $1400

October 1000

• Road - 4.8 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Seggy - Completes improved furnace (end of month).
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Iron Mine - Spend $40,000 to construct structures for the iron mine.
  • Amort's Reach - $62.5k repairing basement
  • 1 prospector on salary - $1.2k
  • Gnome workshops - $65k (Riverton)
  • Total $103.7k, $65k (Riverton)
• Extra-Realm
  • $24k - Tylden's hiring expenses.
    • 6667 - cost of living (4 weeks)
    • 10,000 - advertising/schmoozing (finance minister)
    • 4000 - travel costs (finance minister)
    • 833 - advertising - metallurgist (1 week)
    • 2000 - travel expenses (metallurgist)
    • 500 - finder's fee to Castor (30% of salary)

September 1000

• Road - 4.425 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Iron Mine - Spend $44,880 to construct path to the iron mine.
  • Amort's Reach - $62.5k repairing basement
  • Brewery - $45k capital expenses
  • Gnome workshops - $65k (Riverton)
  • Total $152.38k, 65k (Riverton)
• Extra-Realm
  • $15k - Tylden's hiring expenses.

August 1000

• Road - 4.05 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 3/8 mi this month.
• Seggy - begins work on improved furnace. This is costed at $300k ($75k/mo) for simplicity, even though it really costs $250k. Takes three months to complete - acceleration costs an additional 25% (of true cost of $250,000) or +$62,500. Completed end of October.
  • 3rd quarry crusher comes online - add crews for crusher, road work
• Vonmek - misc expenses
  • Cleaning up the brewery - $15k
  • Seal off basement (hole in the floor) - $250k over 4 months, 62.5k/mo
  • Total: 77.5k
• Hiring
  • 1 road sup @ $0
  • 16 laborers (road crew) @ $100 = $1,600
  • 2 horses @ $2350 = $4,700
  • 1 horse cart @ $680 = $680
  • 1 quarry sup @ $0
  • 24 laborers (quarry) @ $100 = $2400
  • 2 metallurgists @ $2500 = $5000 (gold mine)
  • 1 smith @ $2000 = $2000 (gold)
  • 1 muleskinner @ $0 (gold)
  • 6 mules @ $1800 = $10,800 (gold)
  • 8 miners @ $500 = $4000 (gold)
  • 46 laborers @ $100 = $4600 (gold)
  • Total: $35,780
• Labor Needs
  • 5 metallurgists are needed when the gold processing expands.
  • 5 alchemists could be added immediately to the gold mine.
  • 7 alchemists could be used when the gold mine expands.

July 1000

• Road - 3.8 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/4 mi this month.
• Seggy Constructs 3rd crusher for quarry for $80k.
  • 2nd quarry crusher comes online - add crews for crusher, road work
• Hiring
  • 8 laborers (road crew) @ $100 = $800
  • 1 quarry sup @ $0
  • 24 laborers (quarry) @ 100 = $2400

June 1000

• Road - 3.675 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/8 mi this month.
• Seggy - Constructs 2nd crusher for quarry for $80k (completed end of month).
• Transport - Start travel prohibition in bad weather.
  • spreadsheet: revert bad weather frequency to 30%.
• Vonmek - Holding pens - construct holding pens for ore. $25,000
• Hiring - costs are for purchase, tack, and initial outlay for personal equipment. Note that muleskinners and supervisors don't incur any such costs.
  • 20 mules @ $1800 = $36,000 spreadsheet: add 4 to silver mine, 16 to gold mine.
  • 1 muleskinner @ $0 spreadsheet: add 1 to gold mine.
  • 5 miners @ $500 = $2,500; spreadsheet: add 2 to silver mine, 3 to gold mine.
• Extra-Realm
  • +$13,000 - ransom
  • -$8500 - tapestry

May 1000

• Road - 3.55 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/8 mi this month.
• Seggy - Completes reducing furnace (end of month).
• Riverton - Start spending $50k/mo.
  • Garper disperses funds.
  • BD in charge of architecture/building.
  • Tylden found several individuals capable of managing a work crew
  • Projects: hiring hall, workshops suitable for gnomes
• Vonmek
  • $25k spent on wall/gate in cavern (project with goblins)

April 1000

• Road - 3.425 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/8 mi this month.
• Finance minister's salary scheduled to increase to $8k/mo.

March 1000

• Road - 3.3 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/8 mi this month.

February 1000

• Seggy - begins work on reducing furnace. This is costed at $300k ($75k/mo) for simplicity, even though it really costs $350k. (Offset by later costing the improved furnace at $300k even though it costs $250k.) Takes four months to complete.
• Road - 3.175 mi completed at beginning of month, construct 1/8 mi this month.

-- FrancisSmall - 28 Jul 2017