The next day, Shen Jin knocked on the eight women's door.
They had pushed their eight beds together and huddled under brand-new cotton quilts, all still fast asleep.
They did not even notice Shen Jin coming in.
Taking the items he had left overnight from the [Furnaces], Shen Jin quietly slipped away again.
"Ah, poor things. They were tied up every day before. They probably never got a decent night's sleep."
That morning, Shen Jin dug out another section of the mountain, creating a two-hundred-square-meter workshop.
A ring of long, purplish-red chests lined the walls, making quite an impressive sight.
They held all the supplies he had collected since arriving in D City.
"Ah, that hoarder feeling is back!"
In the middle of the workshop stood a table and stools Shen Jin had assembled from wooden planks.
There was also a [Crafting Table] and five burning [Furnaces].
"After smelting everything from yesterday, I've only got forty-one iron ingots in total. That's nowhere near enough to kick off the industrial age."
Muttering to himself, Shen Jin placed the [Iron Ingots] on the Crafting Table and first made a [Forging Hammer] and a pair of [Plate Cutting Shears].
These were the basic tools for making industrial materials. They could turn [Iron Ingots] into [Iron Plates] and [Iron Casings], or cut them into iron wire for use in various cables.
Those two tools alone cost him a full ten [Iron Ingots].
Both tools also had limited durability and would break after processing a hundred materials.
They really ate through iron.
"Once I have a metal former, things will be better. It can automatically shape materials using electricity and save loads of iron."
Anyone who had played Minecraft knew these two tools were only used in the early stages of industrial development. Later on,