Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 26 Plan
[All Things Pickaxe (Bronze) Lv. 1 (Upgrade Requirements: 2 Copper Ore, 20 Magic Crystals)]

[Magic Crystal: 111]

[Space Backpack: 10 (maximum capacity of each grid increased to 200 pieces of the same type of material)]

[Recipe: Creation Workbench (Contains Bonfire Recipe, Homestead Cannon Recipe (can only be crafted on a Bronze-level workbench), Warm Clothes Recipe, Warm Pants Recipe, Warm Boots Recipe, Warm Gloves Recipe)]

The original Black Iron-grade All Things Pickaxe became Bronze-grade, and the level was also reset to Bronze Level 1.

The appearance has not changed much, but the texture seems to be better.

Although Liu Hen himself could not feel the change in weight, after integrating so many ores, he felt that the actual weight of the Pickaxe should be several dozen kilograms.

The capacity of a single grid in the space backpack has doubled.

Just this point alone made Liu Hen excited, and what made him even more excited was yet to come -

[Unlock home building mode. Place a campfire to start home building mode.]

[The defense of all building modules constructed in Homeland Mode will be enhanced by the Bonfire Level. The Bonfire Level determines the upper limit of the defense and construction area of ​​the Homeland building.]

Unlock the "Large Material" collection mode and silently recite "Collect Large Materials" to use this function.

【The ingredients in large portions are impure, so some of them need to be re-collected into smaller portions before use.】

'Large portions? How big?'

Liu Hen had an idea and felt that this large amount of material should be a storage material.

Suddenly, Little Black Stone reminded in a low voice: "Sir, those people have passed by."

Liu Hen came to his senses and poked his head out from behind the boulder, only to see Pang Xuan and his men walking towards the Hongluo camp.

"Everyone at Hongluo Camp, I'm Pang Xuan."

From a distance, Pang Xuan loudly announced his identity to prevent misunderstandings among the people in the Hongluo camp.

As soon as he finished speaking, an exoskeleton armor suddenly rushed out from the Hongluo camp again.

The machine gun on the shoulder of the exoskeleton armor directly fired at Pang Xuan and others.

The person inside the exoskeleton was firing while yelling, "Damn you barbarians! Die, die!"

"Da da da!!"

Dense bullets blasted the nearby rocks one after another.

The sudden scene shocked Pang Xuan and others.

"Boom bang bang..."

Two people in that team were shot to pieces on the spot, with blood splattering everywhere.

The rest of the people's faces changed drastically. They hurriedly looked for obstacles to hide behind and retreated in a panic.

However, the mecha had no intention of letting them go and continued to shoot wildly, obviously venting its anger on them.

When Liu Hen saw this scene, he was very happy at first, with a look of gloating on his face.

However, he soon lost his joy as he considered the possible consequences that might follow.

'Damn, this is trouble!'

Judging from the situation, the Hongluo Camp probably suffered a great loss at the hands of the traveling merchant Hong Ming. Judging from the screams before, many people in the Hongluo Camp must have died.

The Hongluo Camp was unable to do anything to the powerful psychic, nor did they have the courage to chase him into the darkness, but they had to find a place to vent their anger.

And traveling merchants can actually be considered as barbarians in essence, so the Hongluo Camp is likely to vent its anger on other barbarians.

In a short period of time... no, perhaps for a long time, the people in the Hongluo camp will probably be hostile to the wastelanders, or even deliberately target them.

As a result, it will be difficult for the barbarians to exchange food from the Hongluo Camp.

Seeing that five people from Pang Xuan's scavenging team had died and the remaining six had to crawl away into the darkness, Liu Hen also hurriedly took Xiao Heishi and left quickly.

"Although the food on me can last me three months if I'm frugal and just keep myself alive, it's only enough for about twenty days at most if I want to eat enough."

He had to plan for the future; he didn't want to go through the same situation again: having no food to eat.

"Huh? Isn't it already late at night? How can I still see that far?"

Suddenly Liu Hen discovered that his visibility was still about 20 meters, which was twice as much as before.

Not only his eyesight, he also listened carefully and found that the sound of the wind and even the footsteps of Pang Xuan and others fleeing in the distance were clearly heard.

"My physical fitness has indeed improved this time, but it's not that obvious. As a result, my hearing and vision have increased so much."

This is definitely good news, because his stronger eyesight and hearing allow him to detect possible enemies earlier in the dark.

This is a huge advantage. When the time comes, whether to fight or retreat, the initiative is in their own hands. It is not like before, because the two people's vigilance directions are limited, they only know that there are enemies nearby when arrows are shot.

Finally, after walking more than 3,000 meters in one breath and arriving at a safe place, Liu Hen couldn't wait to take out the pickaxe and try out the effect of collecting large amounts of materials.

He came to a huge rock, silently told himself to collect a large amount of materials, and then began to collect.

"Snapped……"

With one hit of the pickaxe, a large piece of the huge rock in front of him disappeared, and a square gap appeared.

[Large Slag +1]

A large piece of slag appeared in an empty cell in the space backpack.

Although it is difficult to tell the size of the boulder from the space backpack, judging from the missing parts of the boulder in front of us, the boulder should be a boulder with a length, width and height of one meter.

"Is this the bulk ingredient?"

Liu Hen was shocked because he had only swung the Pickaxe once just now.

‘Come again! ’

He quickly swung the Pickaxe of All Things again.

"Snapped……"

A huge gap appeared again in front of me, and another large piece of slag was collected.

Suddenly, he became excited and swung his pickaxe repeatedly. Then he saw the huge rocks in front of him quickly decreasing, and in the blink of an eye, he had collected all of them.

The little black stone next to it was stunned, because this scene looked like something was gnawing at the huge rock in front of it, and it gnawed away all the rocks in a short time.

However, she always kept her mission in mind. When her master started working, she quickly entered a state of alert, keeping her eyes and ears open to prevent any possible danger from approaching.

'Very good, very good!'

Liu Hen continued collecting.

"Snapped!"

With one strike of the pickaxe, a stone blocking the road disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a few stone chips falling to the ground.

"Snapped!"

Passing by a huge rock protruding from the ground, he used a pickaxe to smash the rock into pieces, and all its essence was collected.

"It seems like it takes 200 large ingredients to fill a grid. That's awesome."

Liu Hen was excited. In this way, he could store a large amount of materials. Not only would the collection time be greatly saved, but the amount of materials that could be stored would also be greatly increased.

Because he was worried that the knocking sound would bring danger, he did not collect in the same place all the time, but collected as he walked.

So wherever they passed, the rugged rocks protruding from the ground in the rocky mountain area were flattened, and a relatively flat passage appeared.

At this time, a twisted and low tree appeared in front.

Liu Hen had an idea and strode over, using the end of the axe blade to pick the ball down.

"boom--"

There were a lot of cracks on the surface of the short and twisted trees, but unlike the stones, or even unlike the small amount of materials collected at the beginning, nothing was collected this time.

But he was not in a hurry and continued to swing the Pickaxe.

After two more times like this——

"Oh!"

The twisted and low trees in front of me suddenly exploded, turning into debris and falling into the pit, even the roots disappeared.

[Big Wood +3]

Three large pieces of wood were added to the space backpack.

'How big is this big piece of wood?'

Liu Hen thought about it and took out a piece of wood.

"boom……"

The ground shook violently, and a log with a diameter of one meter and a length of three meters fell out.

"...Oh my god!"

Not to mention Xiao Heishi who was on guard nearby, even Liu Hen himself was surprised.

If such a large piece of wood is put into the campfire fuel tank as fuel, how long will it take for the campfire to burn?

He quickly put the log away, waved his hand again, and took out the large slag stone to see its size.

"boom!"

The ground shook again, and a huge square rock that was one meter long, wide and high fell out, smashing a hole in the frozen soil.

"It's indeed a one-meter cube!"

Liu Hen became even more excited, because if this material was used to build a wall, an area one meter long, wide and high could be built in one second.

After putting away the huge stone, he continued on his journey with the small black stone and continued collecting.

Because the collection speed has greatly increased, he no longer needs to stay in the same place to collect slowly, but instead moves at a normal speed, and only swings the pickaxe when he encounters stones or wood within reach.

Even so, the collection speed is much faster than before.

After about an hour, they arrived at the abandoned mine area, which was about ten kilometers away from the Hongluo camp.

"The Home Cannon requires a bronze-level workbench to craft. So, collect some iron ore here and upgrade your workbench to the maximum black iron level as quickly as possible. Then, go look for copper ore."

Liu Hen was wondering whether to choose a mine to collect iron ore first, when suddenly his ears moved, and he hurriedly hid behind a huge rock with Xiao Heishi.

Xiao Heishi looked confused because she didn't hear any unusual sounds.

About half a minute later, just when Xiao Heishi couldn't help but want to ask a question, suddenly, in the whistling cold wind, there was a burst of dense footsteps coming from afar.

'this……'

Little Heishi was shocked. Could his adult’s hearing be so good?
However, because it was already late at night, she couldn't see clearly who was on the road. She could only tell from the hurried footsteps that the person seemed to be in a hurry.

"Is it Pang Xuan's scavenging team?"

Liu Hen saw that group of people walking quickly past about fifteen or sixteen meters away, in a hurry as if they were running for their lives.

"Are they scared by the Hongluo Camp? Are they worried that the Hongluo Camp will hunt them down?"

The reason for such speculation is that the total population of Pang Xuan's team, including the elderly, women, and children, is more than 30 people.

Moreover, the group of people were carrying luggage and kept looking back while they were on the road. It was obvious that they were escaping with their families.

"We've arrived at the mining area. Let's rest here for the night and continue on our journey after finishing late at night."

At this time, Pang Xuan spoke, and then led everyone towards an abandoned mine not far away.

"Are these guys going into the mines? The mines here are very deep. After entering the mines, they must first check if there are any other dangers inside."

Liu Hen's heart moved, and a plan came to his mind.

Immediately, he gestured to Xiao Heishi to keep quiet, and then followed behind quietly with Xiao Heishi.

　Happy New Year to all bosses! In the new year, I wish you all great wealth and success!

　　Asking for a monthly ticket! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)