Mission: Initially establish a territory of your own Requirements: Enclose a 1,000-square-meter safe area with stone blocks (no Zombies within for 3 days) Mission Reward: 10 World Coins, Diamonds ×5 Current Progress: 0/400 Mission Details: To survive in the apocalypse, you first need to stake out your own territory. Of course, you must ensure no Zombies are hiding inside.
After completing the first mission, a second mission appeared on Shen Jin's task list.
"1,000 square meters? My house and yard cover about 200 square meters, so I have to clear an area about five times the size of this house? Damn!"
"But... five Diamonds are pretty damn good. Worth giving it a shot. Yang Ao needs some proper training."
At the same time, the Module Store changed as well. The originally simple stone wall split into three sections.
Tinker's Construct Mod was on the left, while Pam's HarvestCraft Mod was on the right. Both had shrunk into small spaces and were grayed out.
The words above them read: Unlocking requires 100 World Coins and 1 "World Line."
The stone wall in the middle transformed into a smooth technological wall with a metallic sheen.
Basic Industrial Mod Unlocked: Iron Furnace, Electric Furnace, Combustion Generator, Solar Generator, Energy Storage Unit, Rechargeable Battery, various types of wires and cables, Fluorescent Lamp, Forging Hammer, Plate Cutting Shears, Wrench Upgrade requires 30 World Coins Unlock: Pulverizer, Extractor, Compressor, Solar Still, Electric Heater, Low-Voltage Transformer, Charging Station, and more
"Holy shit! Holy shit indeed!"
"The stuff in a single mod actually has to be acquired through gradual upgrades? Why does this feel like climbing a tech tree?"
At present, the system only had the mod and mission interfaces. Shen Jin closed it and looked over the newly unlocked mod items.
An Iron Furnace was made by combining a furnace with five Iron Plates.
It was an upgraded version of the furnace. Based on Shen Jin's everyday experience, its sealing and heat-retention properties were better than those of a stone furnace.
Speaking of furnaces, he had to marvel at how magical they were!
They could smelt ore and make glass, or roast sweet potatoes, potatoes, and bread. Truly incredible!
It was just that larger items required hotter fuel and took longer to process.
After Shen Jin had seized several high-powered diesel generators from Q City's port, he rarely used furnaces anymore. Their heat was simply too inconvenient to control.
They were nowhere near as handy as induction cookers or gas stoves.
He only occasionally used coal to make some glass for scouting purposes.
The Electric Furnace was much the same—there was not much use for it.
"But the Combustion Generator is badass!"
Before the apocalypse, China's primary method of generating electricity had been thermal power, and its coal reserves were astonishing!
Shen Jin's several large diesel generators had been running nonstop, mainly maintaining the indoor and outdoor surveillance systems and his entertainment-filled life.
But once he used up all the fuel he had stolen from the nearby gas stations, he would be completely screwed!
After getting used to a life with electricity, suddenly losing power was unimaginable!
The anime wives stored on Shen Jin's computer depended on electricity to maintain their intimate relationship with him.
Not to mention those shows with such poor quality that the characters' clothes were practically invisible.
"Perfect. I can use thermal power generation to change the house's electrical setup."
Shen Jin decided to save the diesel and switch to thermal power generation now. Coal was definitely not in short supply.
Leaving aside how long the coal in those cargo ships at the port could burn—
Anyone with even a little geological knowledge knew that most sedimentary mineral deposits in the world were buried deep underground by nature. These deposits were difficult to detect from the surface, unlike open-pit mines, which were easily found. That also meant that vast amounts of mineral resources remained buried underground, undiscovered.
If Shen Jin just dug a few hundred meters down and then excavated in every direction, he would probably find a new coal mine before long.
With the Minecraft system, mining was ridiculously easy for Shen Jin!
"First, I'll test how powerful this thermal generator is and see whether it can handle the appliances in my house."
"Uh... let me see how to craft it."
Everything that could be crafted in the system had a crafting recipe. Shen Jin only needed to arrange the miniature models in the proper order on the workbench to obtain the finished product directly.
Things that were commonplace in games became incredibly fantastical when brought into reality!
Place eight stone blocks with his left hand, and a furnace appeared in his right.
But a system falling from the sky was already fantastical enough, so Shen Jin did not bother dwelling on such details.
One day, he would uncover the truth behind the system!
Combustion Generator requires: Rechargeable Battery ×1, Iron Plate ×3, Iron Furnace ×1 Iron Furnace requires: Furnace ×1, Iron Plate ×5 Rechargeable Battery requires: Tin Insulated Wire ×1, Tin Casing ×4, Redstone ×2
"I have some tin stored away. I'll bring some up later."
Tin was widely used in everyday life. The most common use was tinplate for canned goods and food packaging. There was also solder; as a welding material, tin was soft and had a low melting point, making it extremely useful.
Shen Jin had found an entire container of welding rods in a Q City port warehouse and hauled them all back.
His principle when scavenging outside was simple: stockpile the good stuff first. It would always come in handy someday.
"Tsk, tsk... That warehouse stuff looked useless at first, but luckily I, Shen Jin the hoarding rat and wait-and-see guy, brought it all back. Otherwise, how would I ever revive industry?"
This time, both the hoarding rat and the wait-and-see guy earned a point.
Shen Jin continued checking the crafting chart:
A Tin Casing required using a Forging Hammer to hammer Tin Ingots into Tin Plates, then hammering the Tin Plates into Tin Casings.
Iron Plates were made the same way.
Tin Insulated Wire required using Plate Cutting Shears to cut Tin Plates into Tin Wire, then combining it with a Rubber Ball.
Shen Jin had gotten plenty of Rubber Balls long ago from an auto repair shop.
He had carried off all their tires.
Then he tossed them into a furnace and burned them all into Rubber Balls. Each tire produced twenty Rubber Balls!
Shen Jin had an entire warehouse full of Rubber Balls.
Forging Hammer requires: Iron Ingot ×5, Stick ×2 Plate Cutting Shears require: Iron Ingot ×2, Iron Plate ×3
Right, there was also Redstone!
When he had first obtained the system, Shen Jin had never known where to get Redstone, which possessed such an incredible ability to transmit signals.
He had never heard of any red stone with that kind of function.
Then, on a cruise ship in the port warehouse, he found a huge amount of graphite.
And once that stuff entered his inventory, it could be used as Redstone!
"So... let's begin!"
Shen Jin took a trip to the "Earth" room and brought up Iron Block ×1, Tin Block ×1, Redstone Block ×1, and Coal Block ×1.
Do not think that was little. A one-cubic-meter Iron Block weighed a full 7.85 tons!
Reality differed somewhat from Minecraft's game settings.
One Iron Block could be divided into nine Small Iron Pieces, then further divided into 5,184 Iron Ingots.
Each Iron Ingot weighed about 1.5 kilograms, roughly three jin.
Shen Jin first made one Forging Hammer and one pair of Plate Cutting Shears, then forged and cut the Iron Ingots and Tin Ingots into the required materials.
After a flurry of clanging and banging—
He used eighteen Iron Ingots, three Tin Ingots, two Redstone, and some unimportant supplementary materials.
The Combustion Generator was complete!
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