Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

The mines in Stardew Valley are darker and more damp than those in Mineral Town. The mines in Mineral Town can be said to be a paradise for miners, as they are bright and spacious.

Here, there were only a few torches occasionally stuck on the wall, the cave was winding, one cave inside another, and the mineral town was square and clear at a glance.

Looking at this environment, the two could only see the minerals on the ground and had not seen anything dangerous, but they did not dare to be careless.

"Gray, you knock on the ore here first. I'll go look around and check out the environment."

"Okay, just be careful."

Gray took out a mining lamp and placed it on the ground. The lighting area of ​​the mining lamp was about 5 meters. Lin Xia had put on protective clothing before going down the cave. Now he directly turned on the hidden searchlight above his head and walked forward with a bow and arrow in his hand.

Don't be fooled by the small size of the searchlight on your head, but its lighting distance is much farther than Gray's mining lamp, and Lin Xia chose that the light is only visible to himself, which means it will not disturb other things and will not make other things notice Lin Xia because of the light. This is also safer.

The cave on the first floor has varying lengths and widths. Some places are very narrow, while others are very spacious. In one corner, Lin Xia also found six wooden barrels and wooden boxes stacked side by side.

After looking around, Lin Xia didn't find any danger. He could only hear Gray knocking on stones not far away. So Lin Xia put the bow and arrow on his back and took out the hammer to start knocking on the ore.

It is worth mentioning that in Pelican Town, it seems that the tool used to knock out ore and stones is a pickaxe, while in Ore Town they use hammers. Before coming down, Clint asked the two if they needed to buy a pickaxe, but they both refused.

Just kidding, colleagues are enemies. If I choose a pickaxe here, doesn’t it mean that Cebala’s hammer is not as good as the pickaxe in Pelican Town? That’s absolutely not possible.

It turns out that both hammering and pickaxe are equally effective in hitting ore!

Lin Xia knocked repeatedly, but unfortunately, the ore recovery rate here was not very high. Basically, what was knocked out was stone. Only occasionally could one or two copper mines be seen. Moreover, these copper mines were particularly small, only the size of an adult's fist.

You know, the gold, silver and copper ores in Mineral Town are all bigger than a human head!

After knocking around, Lin Xia only found two small copper ores and a dozen stones. Making a furnace requires 2 copper ores and 20 stones. It seems that stones are easy to get, but copper ores are hard to find!

After knocking over all the surrounding stones, Lin Xia became interested in the broken wooden barrels and wooden boxes in the corner, so he took out the rusty sword that Ma Long had given him and swung it at the wooden barrels. His original intention was to test whether the barrels were strong or not. As a result, the three nearest barrels shattered when the sword was swung!

The sound of "crackling" not only startled Lin Xia, but also scared Gray who was not far away, who kept asking what happened.

Lin Xia quickly comforted him and said it was okay, then began to look through the broken barrels to see if there was anything else besides the wood chips. After picking around with his sword, he discovered that two copper ores and a "cave carrot" had exploded from the three barrels.

Lin Xia was immediately happy. Copper ore is so hard to find, but two of them appeared here at once. This sword is quite powerful!

As for the carrot in the cave, when Lin Xia took it in his hand, he also knew its information. It can be eaten directly to restore physical strength and health.

The physical strength value is understandable, but what is this life value?

"Lin Xia~ I knocked on the stairs, come here quickly!" At this time, Gray's excited voice suddenly came.

Lin Xia didn't dare to waste any more time, and immediately swung the sword in his hand towards the remaining wooden boxes. The wooden boxes shattered, but this time he didn't get anything particularly good, just two pieces of wood.

Lin Xia accepted all the gifts and after collecting them all, she ran back to Gray.

The two of them went down the stairs to the second floor. As usual, they observed the situation around them first. Then, Gray stayed near the stairs to knock on the ore while Lin Xia continued to explore the cave.

Suddenly, Lin Xia was hit hard by something on the left side of her body and she almost lost her balance. She immediately turned around and looked. As the light above her head shone over her, she finally saw clearly what hit her - slime!

A mass of blue-green, mud-like thing would suddenly jump out and attack people. At this time, Lin Xia was very close to it, only a few steps away. The bow and arrow were not very effective, so Lin Xia immediately swung the sword in his hand.

Fortunately, although the sword was rusty, it was still effective against the slime and quickly pushed it back a few steps. However, seeing as it was about to rush up again, the sword's damage was very limited!

While Lin Xia was swinging her sword vigorously at the slime, she shouted to Gray, "Gray, pay attention to your surroundings. There are monsters on this floor. They are slime monsters that will attack people. Be careful!"

"Oh, okay, you have to pay more attention to it. I haven't noticed it yet over here." Gray yelled back.

Fortunately, the slime's health was not high. After Lin Xia waved it away dozens of times, the slime finally exploded into a ball of something called "slime mud" and died heroically.

Lin Xia wiped the sweat from his forehead, let out a breath, put away the mud that he didn't know what it was used for, and looked at his physical strength. Huh?

I saw a red progress bar appear next to my original stamina value, showing my health value, which was no longer full!!!

What is going on?

Suddenly, Lin Xia touched the painful part of her left lower back, and she thought she knew what was going on - this health value should be the damage value caused to herself when the corresponding monster attacked. If the progress bar is empty, her life may be in great danger.

It seems that I need to be more cautious. Fortunately, I was wearing protective clothing, otherwise I would have been completely unprepared and hit hard. The injury I suffered would definitely not be as simple as a slight pain.

After Lin Xia killed the slime, she immediately returned to exchange information with Gray. Considering that Gray did not have as good protective clothing as herself, she decided to take the lead. After determining the safe area, she left Gray there to mine, while Lin Xia was responsible for dealing with the sudden monsters.