MrPineapple|Military: a yearly rotating quater of the male population will be conscripted. a military assisted effort at exterminating the swarms using herbal pesticides has commenced althoguh the herbs required to produce the pesticide have yet to be cultivated making it slow to produce.
I suspect we merely need resources
are we allowed to make gunpowder
Orders have been reopened(sorry for the delay in updates it should be made up for by allowing for faster progress)
Divide our nation into different "regions" there are a few types of regions, currently they are Military, Housing, Industrial, Agriculture, Resource gathering and Business. Depending on the type of region it will be used mainly but not exclusvely for those purposes, regions will also be show on maps.
Other: Look for coal and start using it to light hotter fires, instead of "make better tools" invest more in tool making, make and distribute maps which show the landscape, wildlife, resources, landmarks, cities and mining/fishing sites, this will make travel easier and give people a better sense of where to do what.
prospect for iron, continue preparing the caravan and send out teams to plot the route, make torsion ballistae and man-powered catapults, and begin work on bone and leather gliders with copper fittings (based on eagle wings)
tame snarfradons as compaions, hunters, and mounts(assuming there are any in these mountains), breed the eagles to fly farther and be more intelegent, and a rodent as food, cultivate tea and make copper teapots, make it customary to spen a year in the other valley once you come of age, and start the mandatory military training and other mandates in the second valley,