Buildings > Desert Obelisk

Standard Obelisk

Ah, the Test of the Obelisk! What a glorious waste of resources!

What you get from this is...the satisfaction of having built a mucking huge, perhaps decorative (but otherwise useless) monument to the excess of effort. Oh, and you might well pass a Test of Architecture.

Find out more about the details on the page about the test itself. What you're here for is the answer to "what does it take to build one?"

To build:

Construction costs:

• Bricks
• Boards
• Clay
• Dried Flax
• Flint
• Linen
• Slate

Amounts vary with size - see below

Built: in a small construction site

Skill/Tech required: Obelisk Construction

See Also: Cut Stone Obelisk, Hardwood Obelisk

Resource requirements by size

size	bricks	boards	slate	dried flax	clay	linen	flint
7	231	23	5	3	24	7	1
10	390	40	9	7	36	11	3
20	1180	120	27	27	86	27	10
40	3960	400	89	102	226	71	40
80	14320	1440	318	392	666	205	152
100	21900	2200	484	608	966	296	234
110	26290	2640	581	733	1136	347	281
120	31080	3120	686	871	1320	402	335
130	36270	3640	799	1020	1516	461	391
170	61030	6120	1341	1734	2436	736	663
200	83800	8400	1839	2392	3266	984	913
300	185700	18600	4063	5354	6900	2064	2037

(data collected by Deohotep)

More complete data above and below a certain point may be found Here.

I obtained the following approximations with a web applet designed to solve systems of three equations. If someone has access to MATLAB, these equations could use refinement. -Deohotep

Resource	Equation (x is cubits)	Equation in fractions
bricks	2 (x2) + 19 x	2 x2 + 19 x
boards	0.2 (x2) + 2 x	(1/5) x2 + 2 x
dried flax	0.0588 (x2) + 0.2 x	(1/17) x2 + (1/5) x
flint	0.0222 (x2) + 0.13 x	(1/45) x2 + (1/8) x
linen	0.0196 (x2) + x	(1/51) x2 + x
slate	0.043478(x2) + 0.53 x	(1/23) x2 + (1/2) x
clay	0.066666(x2) + 3 x	(1/15) x2 + 3 x

Round fractional results down.

The Clay formula fractional form is a little rough, but it seems to work. -Dravis