With the holidays nearly upon us, if there is interest I could work on releasing one or more of these within the next week or two. Comments and suggestions appreciated.
Simple Changes
- New industry: Stonemason
- 1750-present
- accepts Stone from Quarry
- use the little building stone-church.1.2 and .1.3 along with one new tile to be drawn
- (Perhaps at some point there could be a parameter in the dat file for curiosities and monuments so that cathedrals would spawn a Stonemason, and likewise Colleges and Universities would spawn bookstores...)
- New industry: Fish Pond (see Wikipedia on fish ponds in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_in_the_United_Kingdom))
- 1750-1870. Possibly reintroduced 1950.
- produces a small amount of fish (foods; not 'fresh fish')
- located along a river, perhaps only in the northern regions
Wider changes. New good: "Food oil"
- Update industry: Fishing port
- possibly also produce new good, "food oil" (in barrels) sold to Apothecary, until 1910
- No change: Grain farm
However, this is in keeping with some grain farms producing Flax (see below) - Update industry: Grain mill
- Also produce new good, "food oil" (in small quantities pre-1900) to be sold in Apothecaries (pre-1880) and Grocers (post-1810).
- Industry variant: Spinner's cottage, for Flax
- 1750-1890
- grain -> textiles
- The flax industry seems to have changed more slowly than wool and cotton. Within the limitations of the game I believe it would be fair to continue 'cottage industry' awhile longer for flax, which was being phased out in any case. See Flaxland's history of Flax in the U.K. (https://www.flaxland.co.uk/History.html)
- (If industries could accept "either/or" inputs, ideally we would define a new goods type"Flax" and have the grain mills accept that as an alternative; then have one spinner's cottage that would accept either wool or flax.)
Pull request 132 includes the Stonemason industry -- a 1×1 city shop that receives a little Stone each month... thereby giving a little variety to the output of Quarries.. The industry remains essentially unchanged from 1750 to the present, just like the prototype.
Also included, with a slight rework of the stone building internals, is the Natural History Museum, 5×2 in two rotations with snow images:
(https://i.imgur.com/CTbu5UH.png)
which is available in 1881 as was London's on Cromwell Road, whose architecture this somewhat resembles.
Happy Yuletide!
These are now incorporated as of about a week ago. Thank you to W. Lindley for adding these.