The day was rainy outside, heavy clouds hid the sun above the sky and thunders were making their presence known as the rulers of the sky.
On days like those, people liked to sit comfortably in their homes, drinking a cup of tea, spending time with the family, or even watching the might of nature through their shelter's window.
But not everyone was doing that, in a well-hidden Clan, in a certain wooden hut, if someone was listening closely, the sounds of a hummer could be heard.
"Finally! I'm done with this painful level!"
With the final shovel made I quickly checked my skills tab.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 6
32/10.000.000
_Enchanting lvl 6
470.130/10.000.000
_Brewing lvl 4
20.500/100.000
_Trading lvl 4
51.500/100.000
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"Level 6 baby! I can finally do something else."
But first I needed to take a well-deserving brake, and Froggy was kind enough to make me a gift.
I can't believe ever since I've been transported into this world I haven't tried this food yet.
I took it out from the chest and pushed the shovels off the table.
It was a cake.
Like in the game, it was all white with red circles on top, but since I had this in real life I could see that it was a chocolate cake covered with white cream and apple slices on top.
Where did the apples appear from since they weren't part of the recipe?
I gave up trying to understand the logic of this world a long time ago.
With a wooden knife borrowed from the others, I cut myself a slice.
Inside I could see that it was made with three layers of chocolate, with a thin layer of frosting in between.
I took the first bite, and I was in love with it already.
The pie was good as well, but this time I could feel the sugar in the food which dearly reminded me of my old world.
I don't know how long I stayed there enjoying the cake while looking at the rain outside, but when the last slice was done I was a little sad that the memory was gone.
"I'll have to thank Froggy for the gift once I meet him, probably going to make one as well."
With the brake done, I got up and looked around me to see that it was a mess.
Golden shovels were everywhere, but not only that, I could see some sticks thrown here and there and even a small pile of golden bars sitting in a corner.
For the past few days a few witches passed by my house to see if I was still hitting with the hummer, I think I even became a local entertainment show, at least they were polite enough not to bother me or steal anything that I left on the floor.
Of course, the exceptions were the shovels, since I was getting rid of them anyway, so if someone was tempted to take one as a souvenir I wouldn't stop them.
But finally, I was done with them, and Redstone items are stackable at least so I didn't have to destroy them.
Slowly I walked around the house and collected everything that was no use for me anymore.
The furnace was still going strong and it would keep going like that for a few more hours, but in the end, I managed to clean everything around the house.
Of course, not all the chests were placed that well, but they weren't going to bother me for a while.
I looked outside once more and saw that it was still raining heavily, but that didn't mean that I wasn't able to enter my secret base.
With a sigh, I took out an iron axe from my inventory and broke a wooden block into the floor where I could see the muddy water.
I took a deep breath and jumped down, the water was more cold than usual probably because of the rain, but I still went down towards my base.
I passed the door, went down the stairs, and finally sat down on the magma blocks waiting for my clothes to dry.
I was getting sick of moving constantly while I was wet, so I placed a few magma blocks to solve that problem.
While I was lying on the warm floor, a black monster four blocks tall looked at me from the other room.
"Hi Violet, how are you?"
I got the classic Enderman noise which I understood as she was ok.
She got closer to me looking in wonder at what I was doing.
"Guess what, I just leveled up my Crafting skill!"
She just moved her head wondering what was so important about that, so I could only sigh and explain it to her.
"That means that now I'm going to craft a lot of Redstone recipes."
This seems to get her attention and make her more excited about my achievement, by giving me one of her creepy smiles.
I shivered looking at her not getting used to it yet.
After a few more minutes I got up and went to a chest and took a book from it.
I have this book from the Underground Ruins, and its contents were filled with crafting recipes including the Redstone ones.
I was glad since I didn't remember all of them.
First, I looked at the most common items used, then took a stack from each chest.
After this, I had Redstone dust, iron ingots, cobblestone, planks, slabs, glass, a bow, a bookshelf, copper, nether quartz, gold, hey bale, Redstone torch, and glow stone blocks.
By the end, my inventory was pretty full, but was glad that I had all the materials necessary for all of this.
"Ok Violet, let's do this."
The Enderwoman was behind me and watching with excitement.
This unexpectedly brought my mood up getting ready for some grind.
I placed some Redstone dust, planks, cobblestones, and an iron ingot on the crafting table, then I took the hammer beside it and started to break the items down and soon they became one.
It was a piston, and I took it with pride in my eyes, then I placed it in my inventory and noted down the experience I got from this craft.
I continued like this with all the recipes that were in the book, and the end list looked like this:
-Redstone block: 10 xp
-Button: 1 xp
-Daylight detector: 500 xp
-Dispenser: 700 xp
-Dropper: 500 xp
-Hopper: 100 xp
-Lectern: 30 xp
-Lever: 5 xp
-Lighting road: 100 xp
-Note block: 500 xp
-Observer: 1300 xp
-Piston: 700 xp
-Sticky piston: 500 xp
-Pressure plate: 3 xp- wood
20 xp- stone
50 xp- iron
100 xp- gold
-Redstone comparator: 1000 xp
-Redstone lamp: 700 xp
-Redstone repeater: 800 xp
-Redstone torch: 100 xp
-Target: 1300 xp
-Tripwire hook: 500 xp
It was an interesting list to look at and my friend in the back was having fun with all of her new toys.
I was looking over the list thinking what would be the most efficient way to grind this level with.
I had to decide on what I should focus on, speed or resources.
If I wanted to get to the next level as fast as possible no matter the cost, I think the best item for this would be the target block.
For this, I only needed a hay block and four Redstone dust, which wasn't a lot in comparison with other recipes but it's not easy to get that much wheat in such a short amount of time.
As for the one that uses fewer materials or less valuable ones, it would be the dropper.
A dispenser would give more xp but it's too much of a hassle to make bows and they're not stackable, so the dropper was the best option.
I made some calculations and if I continued with the dropper I would need to make 20.000 of them, and if I concentrated on the target blocks, I would need to make a few hundred less than 8.000 which was a way better deal.
Unfortunately, that means that I have to make an automatic wheat farm or at least a dispenser that would keep placing bone meals over a piece of tilted dirt.
That's what I'm most likely going to do, and probably also enchant a hoe with fortune to get more crops.
I looked around the room and realized that I didn't have enough room for this project, but I could always make more rooms.
So I took my pickaxe out and mined another room this time smaller only 6 x 6 x 5 so my Enderwoman friend could fit and see what was in this room.
I didn't feel like decorating this room so I left it like this with simple stone and a lamp on the ceiling.
First I had to make a Redstone clock or something that would turn on and off the Redstone dust, and for that, I knew a simple solution.
I made another observer and with the previous one, I placed them in front of each on and connected them with Redstone dust.
Once I connected the red dust, suddenly it started to blink from red light to normal red dust, it was a weird sight to see.
Even placing the Redstone dust on any block was weird, if it was a block it stayed like a normal pile of dust, but if I placed another one beside it, the two of them moved on their own trying to connect in less than a second.
It looked pretty fragile from the outside, but I had to kick it hard to destroy the line, and when I did that, I got it back as an item.
That means I had to be careful with them if I was going to make something more complicated.
I then extended the Redstone line that would soon be connected to a dispenser that would use bone meal to greatly accelerate the growth of wheat.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to make something that would plant the seeds down as well, but with the seeds in my left hand and the enchanted hoe in my right hand, surely I can make it work.
I quickly got back to the storage room and took out whatever bone meal, bones, and bone blocks that I had lying around and crafted them in what I wanted before placing nine stacks in the dispenser.
"Oh, right I have to make the hoe as well."
It's a good thing that I remembered this before connecting the machine otherwise I would've had to use my hands to get the wheat.
"Ugh, I have to make a place where the enchanting table is surrounded by bookshelves for this. I won't make another room, I'll just put down the minimum necessity so I can make this enchantment."
I took another book from the chest and quickly went through its pages before stopping at a certain one.
Fortune 3
"It's more complicated than the other ones as I expected, it would take me a few hours to even copy it correctly. I should probably make two Fortune 2 instead and marge them tougher, that would be faster."
With that plan already made I went to action, I took four empty pages from the nearby chest and started to write exactly as I remembered.
After ten minutes the first pages were done, and in another ten minutes, the second was ready as well.
The Enchanting setup was quickly placed and with a light throw I now had two Enchanted books.
"It's much easier to make books with the help of the System instead of going on my own."
I said with a smile as I placed the two books on the anvil.
A few hits later, I now owned a Fortune 3 book.
Quickly I made an iron hoe and placed the enchantment on it, but just to be safe I also put an unbreking one from the chest that I had around.
It wasn't a high level, but it was better than nothing.
With this, I was ready to do some farming.
With the seeds in my left hand, and the magical hoe in my right hand, I started the machine and soon the wheat was growing at great speeds right before my eyes.
Once it was golden and ripe, I used my tool to cut it in one swift motion, before placing the new seeds down.
I continued this process for a few minutes before a realization came over me.
"Oh camon, why is the Fortune only working on the seeds!"
I yelled in frustration and the Enderwoman who was behind me was laughing out of her belly at my misfortune.
Stupid big monster, I'll get you another time.