How to build a palisade: a wall of sharpened posts around your whole camp.
Day 34 in Tollan. Someone heard your tree fall, and you can't stay awake every night. Stakes pushed into the ground are too shallow: one shove knocks them over. A palisade is posts buried deep, packed in tight, and tied together near the top.
1. Mark a ring around your camp, about 100 feet around.
2. Cut straight young trees, arm-thick and almost twice your height, and point the tops.
3. Char the bottoms in the fire so they last longer in the ground.
4. About three hundred poles: three days with an axe.
5. Dig a trench as deep as your thigh with a wooden spade.
6. Set the posts tight together, and pound the dirt down layer by layer.
7. Tie a long pole across the inside, near the top.
8. Build a gate, and bar it at night.
Give it a shove. It doesn't even move.
And on the nearest ridge, someone just lit a fire...
Episode 15 of Isekai Engineer: Fantasy Survival Guides.
Missed Episode 14? Watch how to forge an iron axe first.
Next episode: How to Build a Lookout Tower.
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