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Goblin Foundry [Crafting & Kingdom-Building Fantasy]

Goblin Foundry [Crafting & Kingdom-Building Fantasy]

by JunTan

AdventureCraftingFantasyKingdom BuildingMagic
Shadow rank ~#2056 in Sci-fi↓106

Every empire in the Infinite Realms of Astra agrees on one thing: goblins don't count. Matthew woke up as one anyway a clay given life imagined into existence by a few unique goblins running on stubborn collective belief power at the edge of mapped space. Carrying Earth knowledge, a civilization-building system, and the slowly forming suspicion that "doesn't count" is the most dangerous thing you can be called before you start counting. The goblins don't have armies. They don't have territory. What they have is a power system that runs on population, compounds over time, and builds things no other species in Astra has the biology to replicate. Give them enough people and enough time and the question stops being whether they matter. It becomes whether anyone can stop them. Nobody's asking that question yet. They will. ----------------Release Schedule: T/TH/S 8AM SG Time; M/W/F 7PM CT Time; 2k-2.8k words/chapter. ---------------- This is a slow-burn kingdom-building novel. While there are moments of conflict and high stakes, much of the story focuses on development, advancing technology, crafting, exploration, and watching a civilization grow step by step. Some arcs intentionally slow down to explore the daily lives of the goblins and the consequences of their progress. If you enjoy seeing a world and its people evolve over time, you'll likely enjoy the journey. What to Expect - Non-Human Main Character- Kingdom Building- Technological Uplift- Crafting and Industry Development- Unique Power System- Exploration and Discovery- Large Universe What You Won't Find - Harem- Young Master Face-Slapping- Instant Overpowered Protagonist --- English is not my first language so I use AI to translate sometimes as it is easier to write my thoughts in my native language and aside from that just for grammar checks. My voice as an author is not compromised.

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#50
Peak Rank
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Followers
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Story Timeline

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OverviewViews and follower statisticsEngagementProseChapters
Ranking History
Track position changes over time
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Favorites
130
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FVR
0.75%
Rating
4.11
Ratings
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RS Days
117
90d
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Rating Breakdown
Overall4.11
Style3.90
Story4.70
Grammar4.20
Character4.40
Streak History

#9

8/11/2026

Peak #1

38d

#8

8/11/2026

Peak #10

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Peak #41

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Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC

Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1

Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1

Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.

Coupled 14-day outlook

rs-joint-entry-copula-v1

Any eligible RS entry

2%

Two or more lists

1%

Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.

Leading bundle: Sci-fi (1%).

Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.

Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.

Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank

~#10009318

#10009 of 12,407 · 9959 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-84/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
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By genre

Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 50–149 chapters
Views
107k
0.7 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 35% of similar stories

Followers
801
0.16 favs / follower

beats 5% of similar stories

Favorites
130
Traffic (last 30d)731 views/day

beats 87% of similar stories

Conversion trend
Coolingrecent 0.7/1k vs lifetime 7.5/1k

Readers arrive, few stick

Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.

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