Automated Farm

But going by how MC works, this was literally skipping a tier.

It completely skipped stone and jumped straight to collecting iron ingots.

That left Gu Changge a bit speechless.

Still, the reward for this task was quite generous.

First was a fixed reward: the Chain Collection Module!

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

That meant it would randomly give you three modules, and you picked one from them.

What you actually got depended on luck.

But regardless, getting two modules at once.

The return rate on this task was still pretty high.

So even though Gu Changge had complaints, he accepted it willingly.

Now that the village had been found.

The Iron Farm definitely had to be set up.

And since there happened to be Water Lilies here, Gu Changge was definitely going to place the Iron Farm on the water surface.

After all, the water surface had the natural advantage of isolation.

Even if a slight error occurred during construction.

The Iron Golem wouldn't just spawn outside like in the game, right?

So, no time like the present.

Using the Water Lily's effect, he placed a Wood Block on the water surface.

Then, with that Wood Block as the center.

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

After that, he went straight over to Dugu Bo and Ye Guanlan.

Hefting his Pickaxe, he started digging stone alongside them.

No choice!

Not enough materials!

If the Iron Farm was going to be built on the water.

The amount of stone needed was nearly sixteen stacks, over a thousand blocks.

So digging was unavoidable.

After that, there wasn't much else.

The three of them, bent over with their butts in the air, went at the mountain beside the lake, chipping away tirelessly.

Time flowed silently, and an afternoon passed quickly.

By evening.

The digging team was at full capacity.

Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Mu Qingyu, after collecting clocks, cutting down the Cherry Blossom Trees, and replanting them.

Came over to help dig stone too.

With a total of six people mining at full force.

In one afternoon, every reachable part of the mountain beside the lake was basically hollowed out.

And the stone collected exceeded the initial target for building the Iron Farm.

Reaching over a hundred stacks.

During this process, they mined five stacks of Copper Ore, two and a half stacks of Iron Ore, three Diamonds, forty-six Lapis Lazuli, ten stacks of Coal, and over thirty pieces of Redstone Dust.

Worth mentioning, during the digging, the interior of this mountain connected to an Underground Cave.

A large portion of those ores was dug out from that Underground Cave.

But compared to the ores, the Dripstone in the Underground Cave was the most useful.

After all, with this stuff, the amount of lava could be continuously expanded.

What?

Where did Gu Changge get lava?

Borrowed it from the villager brothers, of course!

Even though this village was pretty lousy, with only ten villagers, one of them an idiot.

The stuff they gave was equally lousy—no iron, no diamonds, no equipment.

Just three measly bread, two apples, and a few strings.

As for the blacksmith brother gifting an anvil, don't even mention it.

What?

Iron Golem?

Heh!

Ten villagers and you want an Iron Golem?

What are you thinking?

Different version, brother!

But then again.

This little dump of a village is trash, no vision.

But luckily, there's a blacksmith here, a Blast Furnace, and two buckets of lava under the furnace.

So, you tell me, isn't this Dripstone timely?

With all this stone, resources, plus the Dripstone.

The business of Smelting Iron, Smelting Copper, and building an Iron Farm definitely can't be delayed.

And the work of Smelting Iron and Smelting Copper has no operational difficulty.

Just like burning coal, mention it once, and everyone knows how to do it.

Only the Iron Farm, Gu Changge has to handle himself.

But as a Block Person with over two and a half years of practice.

This puts zero pressure on Gu Changge.

With plenty of stone, while explaining the principles to everyone.

With everyone's help, he quickly paved the previously marked Eighteen by Eighteen flat floor entirely with stone.

After finishing the floor, he built the walls, three meters high, then capped it, edged it... ah, no, built guardrails, plus laid water.

As a veteran Block Person.

This whole process, Gu Changge executed absolutely smoothly, no rework needed at all.

After laying the water, for the internal cells used to judge the Iron Golem.

Gu Changge used Glass.

After all, there's Sand by the lake, quite a bit.

No reason not to use it.

After a set of operations, placed the Signs, poured in two buckets of lava, shifted left and right with no leaks, done!

"That's it?"

Everyone had followed Gu Changge's steps the whole way.

They maintained extremely high interest and curiosity about this so-called "Iron Farm."

"That's it!"

Gu Changge smiled and nodded: "But it definitely won't take effect today. Let's go, while it's still light, we'll set up Animal Husbandry too!"

"Animal Husbandry? You mean those little animals?"

Dugu Yan perked up with interest.

"Exactly!"

Gu Changge nodded: "Those are the main food source in this world, and also a collection channel for some daily necessities!"

Gu Changge explained the uses of food, Leather, Wool, Eggs, and such to them.

At the same time, he quickly used Wooden Fences to build two Square Shapes on the eastern part of Lake Heart Island.

One Square Shape was for raising cows, sheep, chickens, plus Second Senior Brother.

No need for Gu Changge to do this himself; Ye Lingling dragged Dugu Yan, and soon they grabbed all those little creatures on the island by the neck and stuffed them in.

As for the other Square Shape, naturally, it was for farming.

But this farm wasn't the simple kind—throw seeds, till the land, then wait for harvest.

Instead, it was a quadruple-linked Automated Farm.

In each of the four plots, Gu Changge stuffed two villager brothers.

And at the intersection of the four fields, he locked in an extra villager brother who could see but not touch.

The villager brother stood on a Hopper, and under the Hopper was connected to a Chest.

With this move, Gu Changge absolutely pushed the trait of a Block Person being inhuman to the extreme.

Why say that?

Dugu Bo and the others were also curious.

"Changge, are you sure these... villagers can help with farming?"

As for these villagers whom Gu Changge called "villagers,"

Dugu Bo and the others still couldn't accept the concept that they were "people" of this world.

Whether in appearance or intelligence, they didn't seem human by any measure.

"Although they don't look like people, and their behavior isn't like people, you can't deny that they are the essence of humanity in this world!"

Gu Changge said with a smile. "Since they are people, they naturally possess some human traits. For example, compassion for the weak, and a willingness to help others!"