Automated Farm

But by MC standards, this was a damn straight-up level skip.

It skipped stone entirely and jumped straight to collecting Iron Ingots.

Gu Changge was rather speechless about that.

Still, the rewards for this mission were incredibly generous.

First came a fixed reward: the Chain Collection Module!

Second was an uncertain reward: the Random Three-Choice Module.

It would randomly give you three modules and let you pick one of them.

What exactly you got would depend on your luck.

But no matter what, it gave out two modules at once.

The return on this mission was still very high.

So although Gu Changge had his complaints, he accepted it gladly.

Now that they had found a village,

the Iron Farm definitely had to be put on the agenda.

And since there were Water Lilies here, Gu Changge naturally decided to build the Iron Farm over the water.

After all, the water provided a natural barrier.

Even if there was a small error during construction,

the Iron Golem would not spawn outside like it did in the game, right?

So they got straight to work.

Using the Water Lilies, he placed Wood Blocks on the water's surface.

Then Gu Changge used one of those Wood Blocks as the center.

He quickly built an Eighteen by Eighteen square platform frame over the water.

Once that was done, he headed directly over to Dugu Bo and Ye Guanlan.

He swung his Pickaxe and started digging stone alongside them.

There was no helping it!

They did not have enough materials!

Since the Iron Farm was being built over water,

it needed nearly sixteen stacks of stone—close to a thousand blocks.

So they had no choice but to dig.

And after that, there was not much else to say.

The three men stuck their asses out and worked away at the mountainside by the lake.

Time passed silently, and the entire afternoon quickly slipped by.

By evening,

the digging crew had reached full strength.

After collecting the bell, chopping down the Cherry Blossom Trees, and replanting them, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Mu Qingyu

came over to help dig stone as well.

With all six of them mining at full force,

every reachable part of the lakeside mountain had basically been hollowed out over the course of the afternoon.

The stone they collected far exceeded the amount originally needed to build the Iron Farm.

It had reached more than a hundred stacks.

During that process, they dug up five stacks of Copper Ore, two and a half stacks of Iron Ore, three diamonds, forty-six Lapis Lazuli, ten stacks of coal, and more than thirty portions of Redstone Dust.

It was worth mentioning that, during the excavation, the inside of the mountain connected to an Underground Cave.

A large portion of those minerals had been mined from that Underground Cave.

But compared to the ores, the Dripstone inside the Underground Cave was far more useful.

With it, they could continuously expand their lava supply.

What?

Where did Gu Changge get lava?

Of course, he borrowed it from the Villager brothers!

Although this village was pretty pathetic, with only ten Villagers, one of whom was an idiot,

the things they gave were just as pathetic: no iron, no diamonds, no equipment.

Just three pieces of bread, two apples, and a few pieces of string.

As for a blacksmith brother giving him an anvil, that was even less likely.

What?

Iron Golems?

Heh heh!

You wanted Iron Golems with only ten Villagers?

What were you thinking?

Different version, brother!

But then again,

this tiny broken village might have been trash and lacked any vision,

but thankfully, it had a blacksmith, a Blast Furnace, and two buckets of lava beneath the Blast Furnace.

So tell him, had that Dripstone come at the perfect time or not?

And with so much stone, so many resources, and the Dripstone,

they definitely could not delay the work of Smelting Iron, Smelting Copper, and building the Iron Farm.

Smelting Iron and Smelting Copper were not difficult tasks.

It was basically like burning coal. Once he mentioned it, everyone knew what to do.

Only the Iron Farm had to be handled by Gu Changge himself.

But as a Block Person with more than two and a half years of practice,

Gu Changge felt no pressure at all.

Once they had enough stone, he explained the principles to everyone as he worked.

With their help, he quickly paved the previously marked-out Eighteen by Eighteen floor entirely with stone.

After the floor came the walls. The walls were three meters tall, then came the roof, the edging... ah, screw that, the safety railings, plus the water.

As a veteran Block Person,

Gu Changge carried out the whole process with absolute smoothness, without needing to redo anything at all.

Once the water had been laid down, he used Glass

to make the small compartment inside that would execute the Iron Golem.

After all, there was plenty of Sand by the lake.

No reason not to use it.

After that whole sequence, he set down the Signs, poured in two buckets of lava, shifted them left and right to make sure there were no leaks, and the job was done!

"That's it?"

Everyone had followed Gu Changge's every step throughout the process.

They were incredibly interested and curious about this so-called "Iron Farm."

"That's it!"

Gu Changge nodded with a smile. "But it definitely won't take effect today. Come on, while it isn't dark yet, let's get Animal Husbandry set up too!"

"Animal Husbandry? You mean those little animals?"

Dugu Yan became interested.

"That's right!"

Gu Changge nodded. "They are this world's main source of food, as well as a way to obtain certain daily necessities!"

As Gu Changge explained the uses of food, Leather, Wool, Eggs, and other things,

he quickly used Wooden Fences to build two Square Shapes on the eastern side of Lake Heart Island.

One of the squares was for raising cows, sheep, Kun-Kun, and Second Senior Brother.

Gu Changge did not need to do anything for that. Ye Lingling pulled Dugu Yan along, and they quickly grabbed all the little creatures on the island by the necks and stuffed them inside.

As for the other square, there was no need to say—it was obviously for farming.

But this farm was not the simple kind where you scattered seeds, tilled the soil, and waited for the harvest.

It was a four-way linked Automated Farm.

Gu Changge placed two Villager brothers into each of the four plots.

At the intersection of the four fields, he additionally confined a Villager brother whom they could see but not touch.

The Villager brother stood on a Hopper, with a Chest connected beneath it.

This time, Gu Changge had absolutely brought the inhuman nature of Block People to its fullest extent.

And why was that?

Dugu Bo and the others were also very curious.

"Chang Ge, are you sure these... Villagers can help farm?"

When it came to these Villagers Gu Changge called "Villagers,"

Dugu Bo and the others still could not accept that they were considered "people" in this world.

Whether it was their appearance or their intelligence,

none of them looked human.

"Although they don't look like people and don't act like people, you can't deny that they are, in essence, the humans of this world!"

Gu Changge said with a smile, "Since they're people, they naturally have some human traits. For example, sympathizing with the weak and being helpful!"