Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After Lin Xia finished soaking in the hot spring and recovered her strength, it was already 6pm, and she immediately walked into the mine behind the hot spring. Today, she had worked on the land, and her proficiency in farm tools had improved a lot, especially the hoe and kettle, which were used most frequently, but it was still far from being upgraded.

Lin Xia thought about it and realized that it was too expensive to upgrade farm tools one level at a time. For example, it takes 1000G to upgrade from ordinary to copper, 2000G to upgrade from copper to silver, 3000G to upgrade from silver to gold, and 5000G to upgrade from gold to mithril. However, there is no need to rush to upgrade some farm tools. You can upgrade them all at once, and then you only need to spend money once. For example, hoes, sickles, and kettles will not affect farming if they are not upgraded. It just takes more time and one-by-one operation. Axes and hammers need to be upgraded first, otherwise the boulders and wooden stakes in the field cannot be handled.

If the axe is upgraded to copper, it takes 6 hits to chop the tree stump; if it is upgraded to silver, it takes 3 hits; if it is upgraded to gold, it takes 2 hits; if it is upgraded to mithril, it only takes 1 hit. From a cost-effective point of view, it is more appropriate to upgrade to silver.

There are three kinds of stones in the field. One is the smallest round stone, which can be broken with the most common hammer to obtain a stone. The round stone is very cute, like a ball. When my mother played games, she often used it to make a circle in the field to release chickens. Because if the chickens are released outside, they don’t need to be fed, but to prevent the chickens from running around, they have to be brought back to the chicken coop before the rain, so they must be penned in. But now it is not necessary, now there is a super convenient bell, the chickens will automatically return to the house at night, so they can roam freely.

The second type is an enlarged version of a round stone. This type of stone needs to be hit 3 times with a copper hammer, 2 times with a silver hammer, and 1 time with a gold hammer. After breaking it, you will get 3 pieces of stone.

The third type is hard rock. You need to hit it 6 times with a silver hammer, 3 times with a gold hammer, and 2 times with a mithril hammer. After breaking them, you will get 6 pieces of stone.

In comparison, it is better to upgrade the hammer to gold, but it is only one level away from the final Mithril, which is a bit wasteful. Besides, there are not many rocks in the pasture fields, so the silver hammer is more cost-effective, although each rock needs to be hit 6 times. However, I am short of money now, so I will upgrade it to silver first.

In the past few days, I first cleared all the small branches and small stones in the whole ranch, and then practiced the proficiency of the axe and hammer, and upgraded them as soon as possible. Upgrading also takes time, ranging from 1 to 4 days. Usually, the higher the level, the more time it takes. So in order not to waste time, upgrade the axe first. When upgrading the axe, you can simultaneously improve the proficiency of the hoe and hammer by digging, mining, and smashing ore.

Lin Xia decided to practice axe proficiency in the mine first. Time in the mine is still, so there is no need to worry about running out of time. If you are exhausted, you can go to the hot spring outside to recover. This is the most cost-effective way at present.

So, Lin Xia began to practice swinging the axe. When he was tired, he would go to the hot springs, and after half an hour, he would go back to the mine to practice again. After several rounds of hard work, he finally practiced the axe to the point where he was only 5% away from upgrading to silver. To make up for the difference, he would chop all the branches in the field tomorrow, and he would definitely reach the level of proficiency.

This time, after Lin Xia came back from the hot spring, he hammered all the ores visible to the naked eye in the small mine on the first floor, harvesting 6 copper ores; then he used a hoe to hoe the first floor again, dug up 2 black herbs (black herbs: can be found in the mine market. After eating, it restores a little physical strength and fatigue.), ate them immediately, and a little money. He also found the stairs leading to the lower floor. Seeing that he still had half of his physical strength, he ate 2 hot spring eggs and replenished it. The remaining 2 hot spring eggs were prepared to wait and see. Now there are 6 copper ores and 2 hot spring eggs in the backpack, and there is one space left, which is reserved for the silver mine. After all, you need to prepare your own ore to upgrade the axe, -_-||.

Go down to the first underground floor. The mine on this floor is the same size as the one above. It is not very big. I continued to knock it with a hammer and harvested 1 copper ores and 8 silver ore. At this time, my backpack was full, and there were 1 ores left. I couldn't knock it anymore. Seeing that I had little physical strength left, I ate all the hot spring eggs, so that there was another grid left. Lin Xia continued to knock the remaining 3 ores. With good luck, he got 3 silver ores and 2 copper ore. With the last physical strength, Lin Xia still hoeed the ground. He dug out the stairs leading to the second underground floor, went down directly, and turned back up.

Because, once you have been to that level, next time you come to the mine, you don't have to dig down level by level. You can take the elevator and go directly to the mine level you have been to, which is more convenient. This time Lin Xia reached the second underground level. It can be said that there are no good things in the first two levels. It is purely for practicing skills and wanting to knock out some ores to sell. I don't know if the ores are valuable.

Lin Xia dragged his tired body back to the ranch, and first put 6 copper ores and 2 silver ores into the shipping box, and obtained: 15G/piece for copper ore and 20G/piece for silver ore.

Lin Xia...

I thought the ore was worthless, but I didn't expect it to be so worthless! It seems that mining is not the way to get rich! There are 2 copper mines and 1 silver mine left in the backpack. The silver mine is used to upgrade the axe, and the copper mine is used to keep in touch with Cebala and his grandson Gray.

After doing all this, Lin Xia was really exhausted and went to bed quickly.

As a result, I woke up late the next day!

I used to wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, but today it was already 8 o'clock. I overslept. It seems that I used too much energy the day before, so I need to make up for it with sleep the next day.

After breakfast, I went out and found that Bordeaux had come to water the plants. However, his attitude and efficiency in watering were not satisfactory. Alas, it is understandable that he was dragged here to work with a favorability of only 3 stars, and his proficiency was also zero. You really can't force it!

Lin Xia first chopped off all the branches he could find in the ranch. When he found that there were no more branches left, he checked the proficiency of the axe and found that it had indeed reached the standard for upgrading to silver, and even exceeded it by a little, with a 3% increase in proficiency towards gold. Seeing that it was still early, and that Sebala's shop had not yet opened, he then knocked down all the small stones and obtained a lot of stone materials. He immediately rushed to the blacksmith's house and gave the gift to Sebala. Sebala was very happy and said, "No one has given me a gift for a long time!" His grandson Gray looked very cool, but after receiving the gift, he also showed a shy smile and said, "It's still good to have friends!" After that, he commissioned Sebala to upgrade the axe to silver. Sebala readily agreed and asked Lin Xia to come and pick it up in two days, which was the day after tomorrow, and then sent Lin Xia out the door.