The townsfolk left behind many pots and pans, but Hardcore Mode corrosion is ruthless, even pottery gets degraded. In Hardcore Mode, the system recognizes fewer and fewer items, with players mainly getting items from the crafting room.
Lin Wu, as Maya requested, collected discarded plastic. The system is sensible enough since the degradation time for plastic is truly long; thus, the only type not affected by Hardcore Mode is plastic, but it specifically only applies to plastic water bottles. Luckily, what Lin Ma now needed was precisely plastic water bottles.
Lin Wu searched through a few homes and miraculously found an extremely rare, even divine artifact: a washing machine. All washing machines in the settlement were broken, only good for being dismantled for parts. And to build a laundry room in the base, you needed one intact washing machine.
