Shoji processes on his journey. (SJ-15)

After finally attaining enough books to understand crafting steel bars and chainmail, Shoji has made Beep and himself high quality chainmail shirts to make use of. Building a pair of ore miners for faster extraction, one for copper and one for Iron, Anvil is also outfitted with a second-tier steel refinery so that it only needs a single operator. Now that he finally has the knowledge he requires to build himself a proper hive and keep them protected, Shoji begins the long process of making armor, weapons, and finding hivers to use them.