SPECIAL FEATURE - As he's quick to tell anyone with a gram of chewing tobacco, an hour of spare time and a low boredom threshold Jack once tried the Oregon Trail.Well, we've managed to pull off a massive coup by getting hold of the 12 days of Jack's diary where he prepared for the Oregon Trail! We copy it here in the hope it'll help all future pioneers aiming to hit the trail...
Jack's always one to do things in the easiest way he can so this will talk you through the quickest and easiest way to get to the trail AND help your neighbours at the same time... We've highlighted the main points.
Jack's always one to do things in the easiest way he can so this will talk you through the quickest and easiest way to get to the trail AND help your neighbours at the same time... We've highlighted the main points.
[Muddy piece of paper used as a bookmark]
Needings:
Have trees!
Have trees!
| With care packages | With just a cabin | With a Ponderosa Lodge |
| 26 Care Packages 175 Wood + 125 Cloth = 25 Fire 5 Saltpeter + 25 Fire = 5 Powder Keg | 175 Wood + 6250 Coins = 25 Planks 25 Planks + 10 Tools = 5 Sawhorses 800 food + 36'000 coins = 40 Batter 20 Fire + 40 Batter = 10 Cakes 72 Cloth + 6'000 Coins = 12 Clothes 4 Chicken Coop or Goose Collections = 4 Downy Feathers 60 Cloth + 4 Downy Feathers = 4 Comforters 175 Wood + 125 Cloth = 25 Fire 5 Saltpeter + 25 Fire = 5 Powder Keg | 175 Wood + 6250 Coins = 25 Planks 25 Planks + 10 Tools = 5 Sawhorses 800 Food + 36'000 Coins = 40 Batter 20 Fire + 40 Batter = 10 Cakes 36 Cloth + 3'000 Coins = 12 Clothes 4 Chicken Coop or Goose Collections = 4 Downy Feathers 60 Cloth + 4 Downy Feathers = 4 Comforters 175 Wood + 125 Cloth = 25 Fire 5 Saltpeter + 25 Fire = 5 Powder Keg |
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Day One: Quiet day today, harvested 10 crops, tended 10 of them there apple trees (I like 'em red) and tended 10 sheep... Must remember to leave some of them sheep for the neighbours to tend later... Planted some trees and swapped saplings with friends, I'll need em later and so will they... Cleared a big space for some debris to grow, note to self: leave wildflowers...
Day Two: Cleared out a bundle of 20 debris today, made sure to leave the wildflowers though, just get the feeling I'm gonna need as many wildflowers as I can. Some friends gave me some dead bugs... umm, thanks folks, I'm sure there's something I can do with them... Tended 40 pigs, those little porkers eat like you wouldn't believe. Tried to remember to get my daily building bonuses early, gotta do em again nice and early tomorrer.
Day Three: Collected three bonuses from buildings, gotta love them there Pony Express fellers. Had a bit of a session with the lumber trees, chopped em 15 times in all. Good to have the saplings I swapped around a few days ago, let me save my grown up trees for later... Had some spare time so visited 8 neighbours.
Day Four: Planted 10 Peach Trees as soon as I got up, gonna need them soon, also bought 25 pigs from the market to grow. Went round the neighbours helpin' out. Tended 20 crops and tended 20 sheep, good thing we left em after Day One, good to help some other folks.
Day Five: Checked and fed pigs. Ruddy varmints, clobbered three groundhogs from crops (couldn't use the traps, they didn't work) and clobbered a bear, glad I had a full grown tree around. Couldn't use them new fangled cannons for either... didn't work. Checked pigs. Tended the 10 peach trees from yesterday which are fruitin' now. Checked pigs.
Day Six: Checked pigs. Bought myself 5 meals. Hired three friends to do some stuff round the stead. Checked pigs. Got hold of 12 prospecting gear. Popped down five cows and five oxen, good for other folks! Planted 30 Peppermint trees. Checked Pigs.
Day Seven: Checked Pigs. Hired two more friends doin' stuff. Checked pigs. Tended 25 neighbour's cows and 10 oxen, sure glad everyone popped em around their homestead. Checked pigs. Got myself 5 sawhorses, I gots em from care packages but others had to make em up with planks and tools. Water Peppermint. Check pigs.
Day Eight: Checked Pigs. Harvested them 30 peppermint I've been growin' up. Cleared 15 wildflowers, good not to have cleared 'em. Checked pigs. Got some newey fangleded glass vials, 20 of 'em from friends. Checked Pigs.
Day Nine: Got rid of some 500 food, was all the out of date veg. Sold them 25 adult pigs I've been feedin' up fer days. Made sure I left five behind for folks who'll need 'em soon. Got 10 cakes, got mine from care packages but I know with a bit of fire and batter other folks made 'em up.
Day Ten: Got 12 clothes, got em from Care Packages but cloth and money is what others be spendin' on em. Ditto those darn 4 comforters, I picked mine up from packages but it seems a bit of cloth and some downy feathers can make em for you. Got 20 heavy boots from friends, they all fit lovely although I aint gonna wear out that many. Just before bed planted 30 corn and 5 clovers...
Day Eleven: Tended 30 pigs for neighbour folks who left em around after selling them there 25 a few days ago. Harvested them 30 corn I started growin' last night, these new crops sure do grow quick. Went round neighbour folks homesteads and watered up some of them there withered crops. Left them 5 clover from last night around for neighbours to revive.
Day Twelve: Damn bears... had to clobber 8 of the flippin' things. Good thing I've left some adult trees around to tempt em out! Crafted me up some powder kegs, 5 in all, with fire and that Salty Paul stuff from the manure collection, got meself 20 hunting knives, think I'm ready to go!
Day Thirteen: Got that there wagon ready, Oregon Trail, here I come! Jack is going to be a name the whole frontier be knowin' soon, adventurer of the adventurers! Women want him, Men want to BE him... hah, Fort Courage here I come!
Day Fourteen: Ran out of Whisky. Floor lumpy to sleep on. Too many wolves. Came home. I'll wait for some young whippersnapper to get their butt here and just order em around a bit and get them to do the Oregon Trail instead... Same difference!
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Day Thirteen: Got that there wagon ready, Oregon Trail, here I come! Jack is going to be a name the whole frontier be knowin' soon, adventurer of the adventurers! Women want him, Men want to BE him... hah, Fort Courage here I come!
Day Fourteen: Ran out of Whisky. Floor lumpy to sleep on. Too many wolves. Came home. I'll wait for some young whippersnapper to get their butt here and just order em around a bit and get them to do the Oregon Trail instead... Same difference!
[Diary Ends]
