Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After a whole day of hard work, Lin Xia and his companion finally collected copper ore and stones. In addition, they also got a lot of strange things. Some of the ores were given to Gray, while some plant seeds and equipment were given to Lin Xia. There were also some slime, bat wings, crystal balls, etc. whose uses were unknown. The two of them collected them first and planned to ask Clint tomorrow.

The next morning, after breakfast, the two went straight to the blacksmith shop. After presenting 40 pieces of copper ore and 50 stones, Clint immediately started to make a furnace for them. They thought they would have to wait at least two days, but the furnace was ready in less than half an hour. They were both stunned, right?

Isn't this too efficient? Lin Xia couldn't help but glance at Gray. You know, it takes at least 2-3 days for these two people in Mineral Town to make something, right?

Fortunately, Clint quickly gave an efficient answer: "Because we have mature blueprints, as long as we gather the corresponding materials and match the blueprints, we can make it immediately, so it doesn't take much time. However, this is only faster for equipment with blueprints. If it is a tool upgrade, it will take 2 to 3 days."

Gray couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this.

After getting the furnace, the two were overjoyed. Clint also popularized the use of the furnace to them: "Each time the furnace is smelted, 5 pieces of metal ore and a piece of coal must be put in to start the furnace. After the refining is successful, a high-purity metal ingot will be obtained.

The smelting time varies depending on the type of ore. Copper ore needs to be refined for half an hour to obtain copper ingots; iron ore needs 2 hours; and gold ore needs 5 hours. "

Seeing Clint stop and not continue, Lin Xia asked curiously: "What about the silver mine?"

"We don't have a silver mine here, so the refining time is unclear. You can go back and try it yourself."

"It's over. What should we do if we don't have a coal mine? Can firewood replace coal?" Lin Xia suddenly remembered that there was no silver mine here, but there was no coal mine in Mineral Town!

"No, the burning temperature of firewood is far from meeting the requirements for smelting metals." Clint said seriously.

Lin Xia said in distress: "Do we have to dig enough coal here before we can go back?"

"Hey? Gray, does your grandfather also use coal in the furnace? Where does he get the coal from?" Lin Xia suddenly remembered that Sabara needs to be forged at high temperature!

"Usually we rely on imports!" Gray said calmly. My grandfather needs a large quantity, so importing is still cost-effective!

How about taking some from Saibala? This is embarrassing, there is a furnace but no fuel.

"You can consider making another coal kiln." Clint looked at the two curiously, as if he couldn't understand why they were so worried. "It only takes 10 pieces of wood to make a piece of coal, but it takes a long time, half an hour."

After the two looked at each other, they immediately decided to "do it!"

However, how many materials does a coal kiln need? 20 pieces of wood and 2 copper ingots will do.

Very good, after mining, the two of them have to go cut down trees.

Fortunately, after handing in the copper ore for making the furnace, the two still had 26 pieces of copper ore left, and they also knocked out more than a dozen pieces of coal in the mine, which was enough for the time being. After processing 20 pieces of copper ore into 4 copper ingots, they didn't need to knock out copper ore for the time being, and the two immediately went up the mountain to chop trees. Lin Xia was good at chopping trees!

Her blessed axe just came in handy. All the tree stumps within 50 meters can be chopped down with just one axe. So easy!

But when we got to the mountain, we found there was not a single tree stump!!!

Poor Lin Xia could only cut down trees first. This place was recommended by Clint, who said that if people in the town needed wood, they would usually cut it here. As long as they didn't cut down saplings, they could cut down any big trees.

Fortunately, Zhufu's axe was powerful. No matter how thick the tree was, he could knock it down with one axe. Lin Xia didn't care about the remaining stumps. When all the trees had been cut down, he could take down all the stumps within 50 meters with one axe.

The amount of wood produced by the trees and stumps here is slightly different from that in Mineral Town. The stumps in Mineral Town can usually produce 6 pieces of usable wood, while the amount produced by trees varies depending on their size, generally around 20 pieces.

You can get 5-7 tree stumps here, and 13-17 trees. At the same time, after the tree is cut down, you will also get tree seeds and sap at random. Lin Xia doesn’t know what the sap is used for, but the seeds are easy to understand, planting trees!

These are ordinary woods. Before coming here, Lin Xia also asked Clint about the hardwood that Gotz mentioned. He said that the hardwood can only be found in the secret forest. It is a large tree stump, a mahogany stump, which needs a steel axe to be split. One stump can get 6 pieces of hardwood, and there is also a chance to drop mahogany seeds.

Lin Xia learned that the steel axe in Pelican Town was made by upgrading 5 iron ingots. She was confident that her mithril axe and blessed axe were definitely stronger than the steel axe.

So after finding out the location of the secret forest, Lin Xia decided to go and take a look tomorrow when she had time and bring some back for Gotz.

After completing the furnace and coal kiln, the initial task can be said to have been perfectly accomplished. As for the gem forging machine that Gray had been dreaming about, Clint said that he needed further research. Gray had no other thoughts and just followed Clint in the research.

Lin Xia also looked through Clint's equipment list to see if there was anything else she needed. Some of the equipment was quite interesting.

For example, a seed maker: put a crop in it, and it can be converted into 1-4 seeds of the corresponding crop;

Oil-producing machine: Process oil-producing crops into oil (Lin Xia doesn't need this, her crop processing machine has this function);

Loom: Processing animal hair into cloth;

Recycling machine: converts some recyclable waste, garbage, etc. into different materials;

Solar panels: can collect solar energy on sunny days and convert it into batteries;

Feeder: After connecting to the equipment, it can automatically provide materials to the equipment (such as feed boxes, etc., so there is no need for Lin Xia or the dwarf to feed);

Sprinkler: can be connected to a water source to automatically water crops within a certain range every day.

and many more.

Lin Xia asked about some materials used to make the equipment and decided to collect as much as possible while Gray and the others were researching the gem forging machine, and then asked Clint to help her make some.