Timeline for Making a Functional Village out of Candy
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| Jan 10, 2022 at 15:33 | vote | accept | Nosajimiki | ||
| S Jun 28, 2021 at 17:12 | history | bounty ended | Nosajimiki | ||
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| Jun 22, 2021 at 15:13 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2021 at 9:38 | answer | added | flox | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 14:14 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 21, 2021 at 14:08 | history | bounty started | Nosajimiki | ||
| S Jun 21, 2021 at 14:08 | history | notice added | Nosajimiki | Draw attention | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 14:05 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2021 at 6:19 | answer | added | Trioxidane | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 12, 2021 at 3:47 | comment | added | John | the real problem you have is sugar dissolves in the rain, even deserts get some rain. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 22:38 | comment | added | Luke Briggs | My best guess is a dome, either an igloo style structure or a dome on top of circular log cabin style walls, as that would maximise the usage of compressive strength, and potentially doubled up so there is an insulating gap between the inner and outer wall/ dome. I'm pretty certain it would sheer though due to that significant lack of strength in general, leading to an unscheduled sudden dismantling around our Gnome friends. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 22:11 | comment | added | Luke Briggs | The challenge is tensile strength is unavoidable in a roof structure - an unsupported span of any kind will deflect and be in tension on its underside. I've snapped enough small candy canes to appreciate that they basically don't have any tensile strength at all :p | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 22:09 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 22:01 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @LukeBriggs Keep in mind the Gnomes are 1 foot tall, so when it comes to material strengths, they have the square-cube law on thier side; so, that 6 meter long ceiling support beam in your home would only need to be 1 meter long in a Gnomish home using the same floor plan. There is also a lot you can do with arches to avoid needing tensile strength in your architecture. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 21:43 | comment | added | Luke Briggs | Does the plastic tube of a lollipop count as a building material? :P If not, it looks like the strongest building material available is boiled sugar - candy cane/ rock, essentially - and its compressive properties are not great at all, and its tensile properties are wonderfully disasterous, meaning it has little ability to be a stud or a joist, including at those smaller scales. Hmm lol, a tough one indeed. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 19:32 | answer | added | bobflux | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | A place like Egypt could possibly fit for the story, but too much heat is just as bad for candy as too much humidity... although I suppose some candies endure heat differently than others... | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:51 | comment | added | Alexander | @Nosajimiki candy houses would be much less challenging in very arid climate, but having it Egypt-like is probably not something that you wanted. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Alexander It could be but does not have to be. As long as it is close to farmlands, a forest, a lake, and a mountain I could easily adjust the story to fit most climates. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:46 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:36 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Jack The candy should preferably not be coated in non-food materials. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:35 | comment | added | Alexander | The climate is also similar to 12th century Europe? | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:34 | comment | added | Jack | Can the candy be coated in anything, e.g. a water repellent material? | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:03 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:00 | history | edited | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 16:41 | history | asked | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |