03
Food security and the first camp
Earth parallel: New Stone Age. Goal: stored food, planted crops, real houses, so that people are free to do other work.
| ID | Achievement | About year |
|---|---|---|
| 03.01 | Snares and deadfall trapscatch game while the hunters are elsewhere | 1 |
| 03.02 | Netting needle, fishing net and carrying nets | 1 |
| 03.03 | Basket fish traps and river weir | 1 |
| 03.04 | Outrigger and hide sail for the dugout ⚠steady under sail; the far end of the island in days, not weeks | 1 |
| 03.05 | Drying racks and smokehousepreserve meat and fish | 1 |
| 03.06 | Saltscraped from the salt flats and dried in sun pans | 1 |
| 03.07 | Preserved food storedried, smoked and salted | 1 |
| 03.08 | Raised storehouse with rat guards | 1 |
| 03.09 | Counting board and tally of the storesnumbers kept as marks; the food counted every evening | 1 |
| 03.10 | Rendered tallow and lardfuel, grease, waterproofing, later soap | 1 |
| 03.11 | Tallow lampsteady light indoors | 1 |
| 03.12 | Seed collection and seed storegrains, beans, roots, flax, hemp, cotton | 1 |
| 03.13 | Diet rulewhich foods keep off scurvy, rickets, goitre and night blindness | 1 |
| 03.14 | Cleared and hoed garden plots | 1 |
| 03.15 | First planted cropsfood and fibre | 1 |
| 03.16 | Fences and thorn hedgeskeep animals off the crops | 1 |
| 03.17 | Irrigation ditch and bamboo water pipewater to the camp and plots | 1 |
| 03.18 | Animal pens and captured young stockgoats, sheep, pigs, fowl, calves and foals | 1 |
| 03.19 | Dogs and catspups and kittens taken young and tamed; guards, herders, hunters and rat catchers | 1 |
| 03.20 | Tamed riding and pack horsesrope halter, hide pad and pack baskets; a rider carries news across the island in days | 1 |
| 03.21 | Compost and manure heapkeeps the plots fertile | 1 |
| 03.22 | Log beehiveshoney, and beeswax for casting and sealing | 1 |
| 03.23 | Herb garden and remedy list ⚠wound, fever and stomach remedies; the strong plants (foxglove, castor, senna, belladonna) are grown apart and not used until doses can be weighed | 1 |
| 03.24 | Charcoal for swallowed poisoncrushed charcoal in water, given at once | 1 |
| 03.25 | Managed coppice wood lotpoles and fuel that regrow every few years | 1 |
| 03.26 | Retting pit and cleaned bast fibrelong strong fibre for thread and rope | 1 |
| 03.27 | Hand spindle and narrow loomthread and narrow cloth for bandages, straps and slings | 1 |
| 03.28 | Two settlements and one common groundthe 24 divide into two mixed groups and build about a mile apart, with shared ground halfway between | 1 |
| 03.29 | The common grounda cleared space at the centre with the evening fire, where both settlements gather after work | 1 |
| 03.30 | Wattle-and-daub round housesshared houses at first, then one for each couple as it forms, in both settlements | 1 |
| 03.31 | Communal long housethe first building on the common ground: meals, meetings, storm refuge | 1 |
| 03.32 | Fire rule and firebreakscleared strips between the houses, and buckets and hooks at every door | 1 |
| 03.33 | Refuse pit, covered food and trapsrats and flies kept from the stores and the houses | 1 |
| 03.34 | Games and feast daysLanding Day, the harvest, births and pairings kept on the common ground | 1 |
| 03.35 | Spring box and covered water pointclean drinking water | 1 |
| 03.36 | Willow-bark teathe first painkiller and fever remedy | 1 |
| 03.37 | Honey dressings and leaf poulticeskeep a wound clean and draw out infection | 1 |
| 03.38 | Bites and stingswashing and dressing a bite, what to do for a snake bite, relief for stings | 1 |
| 03.39 | Salt-and-honey drinkputs back what fever and loose bowels take out; saves more lives than any other remedy; never made with honey for a child under one year | 1 |
| 03.40 | Birth hut and birth kita clean place, boiled ties, a flamed blade and two trained helpers | 1 |
| 03.41 | Mother and infant carechecks before the birth, care of the newborn, weaning foods and boiled water for infants | 1 |
| 03.42 | Sick hut and the keeping-apart ruleanyone with fever or flux is nursed away from the camp | 1 |
| 03.43 | Care of teethdaily cleaning with a chew stick and salt or chalk | 1 |
| 03.44 | Burial grounda place for the dead, away from the water, where they are laid to rest and remembered | 1 |
| 03.45 | Worms, lice and fleasmeat and fish cooked through, washing and combing, pigs kept from the latrine | 1 |