A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 102 It’s not me who’s wrong, it’s the world!
By the time Lyon reacted, Ma Long had already slipped away.

"I always feel that Mr. Malone is very interested in making money." Lyon complained while looking for the entrance to the first floor of the mine. After a while, he saw a pit with a diameter of about one meter under an electric light.

There is a section of stairs embedded in both sides of the pit. It is made of iron. Although it looks a bit old, it is not rusty. Leon tried kicking it twice and found that the stairs did not shake at all. It is obviously solid.

So Leon climbed down the stairs. While climbing the stairs, Leon could still feel the cold wind blowing on his butt from the bottom of the pit, and he felt regretful.

If you ask Stardew Valley players what is the most efficient way to mine, basically 80% of them will tell you it is bombing, while the remaining 20% ​​of mod players will tell you it is tractors.

Leon is an ordinary player and also a mod player. If he doesn't consider convenient mods like the tractor that modify the stable, then the only option left for Leon is to blow up the mines.

Although Leon has not yet unlocked any bomb formulas, he is a civilized person who has received nine years of compulsory education. In addition to using gunpowder bombs, there are other ways to achieve the same effect.

For example, dust explosions.

However, before entering the underground mine, one can feel a clear airflow just by walking through the staircase connecting the surface to the underground, which means that the conditions are not sufficient to use this chemical explosion method inside the mine.

When Leon climbed to the bottom of the stairs and saw the area of ​​the underground mine clearly, he completely gave up the option of dust explosion. There was no other way because the space in the mine was too large.

The height is at least four meters, and the area is as large as a football field. It would take too much flour to create a full dust explosion here.

Not only may the effort and reward not be proportional, but this kind of terrain can also easily kill you.

"Just knock honestly."

Looking at the rocks in the mine that were not distributed in a regular manner but were in huge quantities, Leon silently took out his pickaxe.

Lyon's impression of mining is to open a channel in the mountain, and then chisel the mountains on both sides of the channel to find ores buried in the rock walls of the mountain.

Mining in Stardew Valley is carried out in a space similar to an underground cave, where people hammer away at large, scattered rocks that are independent of the mountain. In a sense, mining in Stardew Valley is more like chiseling stones at a construction site.

Unlike in the game, the stones in the underground mine all look the same color to Leon. He doesn't know if it's because there's no copper ore on this level, or if the copper ore is actually wrapped in these stones.

He picked up the basin-sized stone that was embedded in the ground closest to him and hit it with a pickaxe. The stone immediately collapsed and shattered. Then Leon saw that the broken stones from the stone melted into the underground rock layer, leaving only a fist-sized stone lying on the hard rock ground.

"Stone (resource): A common material with a wide range of uses in construction and crafting."

Unlike the rubble pile that Leon had knocked on the farm before, the rubble pile on the farm needs to be knocked three times. The rubble pile shrinks each time it is knocked. After the third knock, the rubble pile disappears directly, leaving only the stones that are considered dropped objects.

Originally, Leon had thought the rocks in the mine would follow a similar pattern, but now, with just the first strike, the rocks shattered instantly. Besides a single rock remaining for Leon to keep, the rest of the rubble was actually swallowed up by the mine itself. This discovery was quite interesting, but it also made Leon a little worried. After all, if the mine could swallow the rocks, who knew if it could swallow him too?

However, Lyon speculated that this situation was unlikely to occur. In Lyon's analysis, the behavior of the rock layer swallowing up the gravel was more like a recycling mechanism of the mine itself.

After all, this is Stardew Valley. It is absolutely unreliable to view the world with the thinking and values ​​of earthlings. Leon has long been accustomed to the various magical aspects of Stardew Valley.

After taking the stone and throwing it into his backpack, Lyon chose a larger stone. This stone was about half the height of Lyon and was flat in shape. Its diameter was about five or six meters, making it a huge stone.

When the first pickaxe hit it, in addition to the recoil force, the boulder also began to shrink obviously. When the second pickaxe hit it, the shrinkage phenomenon was even more obvious.

Lyon continued to swing the pickaxe, and after the eighth hit, the boulder finally collapsed, leaving a pile of collectible stones. However, Lyon counted them and found that there were only eleven stones. These fist-sized stones piled together were not even one twentieth the size of the boulder that had just been knocked down.

“I can’t understand it, but I respect it.”

Leon stood there, took a bottle of water from his backpack, took a big gulp, and complained that this way of mining always made him feel like he was still playing the Stardew Valley game, except that it was a panoramic VR experience instead of through the computer screen.

If Leon's mining experience, which was so detached from reality, was caused by the tools provided by the system, then Leon could understand it. But if mining in this world was actually like this, then Leon felt that he should reflect on whether he was a little out of touch with the group.

After all, if everyone thinks something is as it should be, but you are the only one who feels something is wrong, then you are definitely the one with the problem.

Abandoning this philosophical question, Lyon took back the mineral water and did not choose to continue knocking on the stone. Instead, he began to look for the tunnel leading to the next level with the help of the light from the electric lamp hanging on the rock wall.

However, after a tour of the underground mine, Lyon did not find any pits there. Apart from rocks and a small area of ​​brown soil, the most common things in his sight were stones of various sizes and colors.

This made Leon realize that even the entrance to the pit leading to the second underground floor might be hidden under these stones, just like in the game, so Leon did not waste time and continued his journey of knocking on stones.

This process is boring. In the huge mine, apart from Leon, there are only cold stones. When the stones are struck, the sound of metal hitting stone is the only sound in the mine, echoing in the mine.

"Ding!"

Lyon, who was hammering stones, suddenly felt that the force fed back from the stone with the pickaxe in his hand was a little stronger than before. At the same time, the sound of hammering the stone just now also changed significantly. It was no longer dull, but quite crisp.

Realizing that something was wrong, Leon immediately retracted the pickaxe and took out the Galaxy Watermelon Knife. At this moment, the obviously abnormal stone also rose from the ground, revealing the murderous intent hidden beneath the stone.

(End of this chapter)