Building infrastructure in a digital world

Chapter 6 6. Cutting down trees starts with skinning

In short, the more things like gravel in the early stage, the better, never too much, even if you lose yourself, you must leave a space in the backpack to put gravel.

But it's a pity that the three consecutive gravels seemed to have consumed all of Su You's luck. No matter how much she searched for the next minute, all she could find were leaves and branches all over the ground.

Although, this was expected, and Su You didn't feel regretful.

But when Su You searched for the gravel, although she didn't find the gravel, she found a trace that made her feel very nervous and worried...

"This is..." Appearing in Su You's line of sight was a beast paw print the size of Su You's two palms. It is not difficult to guess based on its size alone that it is a large beast.

However, Su You could also tell from the clarity of the paw print that the beast must have left here for a while, because the trace of the paw print was no longer very obvious.

In addition, there are some tiny traces beside the big paw prints to prove this point.

These tiny traces are left by small beasts, and beasts have a very sensitive sense of smell. If the owner of this big paw print has left for a short time, the smell it leaves will definitely make other small beasts afraid to approach, let alone Left marks on the side.

So these traces are enough to prove that the owner of the big paw print has been away for a while... long enough for the smell left by this large beast to slowly dissipate.

But even if the beast didn't leave, Su You didn't need to be particularly afraid, because she also had a blessing from the executive system, which could reduce any creature's desire to attack her.

In other words, as long as she didn't take the initiative to provoke the beast, it was basically absolutely safe.

"I hope I don't encounter it..." Although it can be guaranteed to be safe, it is better not to encounter it if possible, otherwise it may affect her actions.

After analyzing these situations, Su You calmed down, and then continued with what she hadn't finished just now.

She first took out two pieces of wood from her backpack, and then threw them into the workbench together with the freshly baked stone.

【Do you want to make wood*2 and stone*1 into a stone axe*1? 】

[Working on: Axe, estimated time: 120 seconds]

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Using the 2 minutes of making the ax to collect nearby branches, Su You stopped what she was doing, and then took out her first stone ax from the workbench.

【Stone Ax】

Category: Tools

Quality: white
Attack: +1 (Attack Damage: 5)

Durability: 100/100
Introduction: A normal axe, suitable for chopping trees, can also cause a certain degree of damage when used as a weapon.

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In this tool panel introduction, 'Attack: +1' refers to the additional attack value added when the tool is used to collect resources.

For example, if the 'blood volume' of a tree is 10 points, then it needs to be cut ten times with a stone axe, causing 1 point of damage each time. After the 'blood volume' of this tree is cleared, it will become collectible supplies.

Later in the game, better axes can be crafted with better ore materials.

For example, a copper ax made of copper ore has an attribute of 'Attack: +2', which means that a tree with a blood volume of 10 only needs to be chopped five times with a copper ax.

Although the attack of the copper ax only increased a little, it directly shortened the workload by half and greatly increased the efficiency of collecting materials. This is also the advantage of the mining resource points mentioned earlier.

As for the other value of 'Attack Damage: 5', it refers to the damage it can cause when it is used as a weapon.

Su You weighed the axe, came to a round tree, then found a suitable posture and a suitable angle, and used the ax to chop hard at the round tree, but when the ax went down, the original blood volume was '10 'The HP of the round tree remains unchanged.

From the eyes of others, Su You seemed to have a lot of momentum just now, but in fact it was thunder and rain, and the bark was not even scratched when the ax fell down... Oh, it was an exaggeration, the bark was still broken Small pieces even fell to the ground.

But Su You obviously didn't care about this, or in other words, her purpose of that moment was not to cut down trees.

As if she had found a little familiar feeling, Su You's chopping speed became faster and her movements became more proficient, and she successfully stripped the round tree's clothes (bark) with three strikes, five divisions and two.

Looking at the barkless round tree, Su You changed the angle of the ax again.

'Bang—'

As the dull sound sounded, this time, the blood volume of the devastated log finally reached 9/10.

After repeated chopping nine times, Su You finished cutting the tree, and then began to collect the fruits of her labor.

【Obtain wood*2】

【Obtain bark*3】

[Get Broken Bark*13]

Let me first explain her behavior of peeling the bark first and then cutting down the tree - this is not because she has any special hobbies, but because the amount of bark dropped by cutting down the tree is random, and the random value here includes '0'.

As long as anyone can get along with luck, they can only say that they understand everything, and Su You can avoid messing with her.

But manual peeling is different. Although the number of barks finally obtained is also random, the lowest value is '1' instead of '0'.

Bark does not have many functions in the whole game, but the few functions are very important.

For example, now, Suyou needs bark because it is the material used to upgrade the backpack in the early stage.

Suyou's current backpack is level 0, and to upgrade to level 1 requires 'string*5, bark*10'. After upgrading, the number of grids in the backpack will reach ten.

The doubled number of grids not only means that more things can be stored, but also means that Suyou can develop faster.

Because she no longer has to worry about what to put on, what to throw away, and how much to collect so as not to occupy her backpack... For a person who suffers from hamster disease (likes hoarding things), letting her lose something is more painful than killing her.

Su You's luck was pretty good this time, one tree got three barks, which meant that she could upgrade her backpack by cutting down seven more trees at most.

Because her current backpack is full (string*10, gravel*2, wood*5, red berries*50, branches*13), neither bark nor broken bark can fit into the backpack, so She first put together the branches*13 she had just collected and the broken bark*13 that had been peeled off, and then put the bark into her backpack.

In the following time, Su You continued to peel and cut down trees.

Because of previous game experience, Su You knew that the round tree was the tree with the largest amount of bark dropped by manual peeling.

(End of this chapter)