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Storage and farm buildings

Keeping the harvest, the animals and the tools dry and free of rats: granaries and cellars first, then barns and cold stores.

Shelter Levels 1–4 3 steps written
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Level 1 · Foothold · 1 of 3 in this track

Granary and root cellar

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Preserve the harvest

Cross-listed. Its home is Food & Agriculture › Storage and preservation.

Still be eating in March what you grew in August.

Needs first: Plant staples (Food), Containers (Materials), Fire, and keeping it (Energy)

Unlocks Prevent deficiency disease · Health
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Level 2 · Forge · 2 of 3 in this track

Barn and byre

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Level 4 · Engine · 3 of 3 in this track

Cold stores

Unlocks Antibiotics and vaccines · Health

Everything in this track

Every guide, build, reference sheet and book reached from the steps above.

Field guides

Level 0
Fish and water foods

The highest calorie-return food source available to a group with nothing — and the one most often worked in the least productive way.

 Level 1
Food preservation

A glut eaten in the week it arrives is a feast. The same glut dried, salted, fermented or cellared is the difference between March and a famine.

 Level 3
Micro-organisms

The two dozen that decide who lives where there is no doctor: what each does, how it spreads, what kills it and which step stops it.

 Level 3
Biology

Life from the cell up: the human body, microbes and immunity, inheritance and epidemics. Each result with what it lets you do and who first found it.

 Level 3
Physics

Force, energy, heat, light, electricity, relativity and the atom: the laws every engine, wire and lens obeys, each with what it lets you do and who first found it.

Builds

Sundanese rice granaries on capped posts. Seed held back is next year's food.
Level 1
Raised granary

Keep a year of grain dry, cool and away from rodents — the single highest-return building on the site.
A turf-roofed stone root cellar built into a slope at Elliston, Newfoundland.
Level 1
Root cellar

Cold, damp and dark, without power — how a harvest survives to the following spring.

Reference sheets

Drawn overview sheets, each with its corrections printed under it. They orient; they are never the thing you identify from.

Common freshwater and coastal fish, the water each holds in, the methods and baits that take them, and the handful that are toxic or regulated.
Fish: species, habitats and fishing methods On: Fish and water foods: Read the water first
Ten passive water traps — basket, funnel, weir, V-weir, box, basket weir, lift net, baited cage, stone-and-log, and dammed pool — each with side and top view, bait, and the mechanism that stops an animal leaving.
Trapping: passive capture methods in water On: Fish and water foods: Methods, ranked by return per hour
What a shoreline yields — bivalves, gastropods, crustaceans, echinoderms, seaweeds, intertidal animals and eggs — and where on the shore each of them is found.
Animal and shore foraging On: Forage, trap, fish · Fish and water foods: What is safe to eat — and what will kill you
Shore species to leave alone: toxic shellfish, venomous snails and fish, stinging and spined animals, protected species, and the contamination that makes an otherwise safe species unsafe.
Animal and shore foraging — what to avoid On: Fish and water foods: What is safe to eat — and what will kill you

Books and archives

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