A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 118 The Furnace
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When the first rays of morning sunlight shone into the house, Leon opened his eyes.

The quality of sleep last night was very high. Not only did he have no dreams, but Leon didn't even turn over and slept very soundly.

After getting up and moving around a bit, Leon clearly felt the changes in his body.

Leon speculated that it was the improvement in his physical abilities as a reward from yesterday's battle and mining upgrades. After a night of settling down, his body had completely absorbed these strengthening effects.

After a quick wash, Leon took out a piece of bread from his backpack to fill his stomach, then went out with a watering can to water the plants.

After watering a circle, Lyon did not rest as usual. Instead, after taking back the watering can, he practiced Tai Chi for a while. The increase in physical strength greatly enhanced his physical fitness, and his body was now in a very excited state.

"Leon, your farm is much more beautiful than I imagined."

Leon, who had just finished practicing Tai Chi to adjust his breathing, noticed Clint coming to the farm.

"Is it beautiful?" Lyon was stunned when he heard that, then he looked at the farm. Except for the area near the wooden house which had been reclaimed into fields, other places basically remained in their original appearance. Lyon didn't understand how Clint thought it was beautiful.

"Here are the manufacturing drawings of the furnace. Take a look at them. If you have any questions, you can ask me."

Clint didn't answer Leon's question, but took out a brand new piece of parchment and handed it to Leon.

As soon as Leon took the blueprint, he heard the system prompt.

"Furnace blueprint detected, recording in progress. Recording completed. Furnace formula unlocked."

"Thanks, I think I've learned that."

The system's prompt made Leon a little happy, but he still pretended to look at the drawings. After looking at them for a few minutes, Leon said to Clint.

"Have you learned it yet?" Clint looked at Leon blankly.

"Well, the information described in the drawing is very detailed, and there are also instructions, so it's very easy to understand." Lyon answered against his conscience. If it weren't for the help of the system, he might have to study the details of the drawing and then slowly follow the steps in the drawing to figure it out.

"If you are worried about wasting my time, I can tell you that you don't need to worry about it, because I have a backup of this blueprint, so I can give this one to you and you can study it slowly by yourself." Clint thought that Leon didn't want to delay him, so he roughly wrote down the general content so that he could go back to work, and explained immediately.

"Okay, thank you. That's a great help." Faced with Clint's kindness, Leon did not refuse. After taking the blueprint, he suggested to Clint: "Have you had breakfast? I'll make you one."

"No, I have to go back to take care of the blacksmith business. I'll leave first." Clint declined Leon's proposal.

"Walk back?" Leon asked.

"No, I have a car, it's parked outside the farm," Clint said, and then he waved goodbye to Leon and hurried away.

Looking at Clint's back, Leon shrugged his shoulders. He didn't quite understand why Clint was so anxious. He also wanted to ask Clint if there was any way he could help him mine the meteorite on the farm. After all, Leon had no way to deal with it now.

However, Leon remembered the favor of Clint sending him the furnace blueprint. If Clint has any problems in the future, he will definitely help. Of course, he must be able to help. Leon will not risk his life to help someone with something too outrageous.

After taking the furnace blueprint into the house and finding a place to keep it, Leon opened the system panel and checked the furnace formula unlocked by the system.

"Furnace: Smelts ore and coal into metal ingots. Each smelt consumes five pieces of ore and one piece of coal. Raw materials: Copper ore * 20 * Stone * 25." "That's a bit of a high material consumption."

Looking at the materials required to make this furnace recipe, Lyon felt a little distressed. After all, stones were fine, and he had enough reserves, but copper ore was also required as a material, which was a bit of a luxury for Lyon.

After all, Leon was busy in the mine for a whole day and only collected 122 pieces, which were only enough to make six furnaces.

If Leon had not obtained fifteen smelted copper ingots from the former miners' rest area, he would definitely not have been willing to build multiple furnaces to improve work efficiency.

However, considering that this was a one-time investment and that the furnace would be able to help him smelt four types of ores, namely copper, iron, gold and iridium, in the future, Lyon gritted his teeth and chose to directly build five furnaces.

This is the consumption of 100 copper ores and 125 stones. Although it hurts, five furnaces are enough for Lyon to use now.

The recipes provided by the system are very simple to make. You only need to select the items you need to make in the recipe bar, and then store enough making materials in the system backpack, and you can complete the conversion of materials into finished products in an instant.

Looking at the sharply reduced amount of copper ore and stones in the backpack, as well as the five gray-black furnaces that looked like drum washing machines, Leon took them out of the backpack.

Five furnaces were placed in front of Leon in order. They were of the same style and the overall shape was like a stone tablet. There was a hole with a diameter of 20 centimeters in the middle. Above the hole was a large drawer with a pull ring that could be pulled out.

It looked quite strange, and was very different from the image of the smelting furnace that Leon had seen from the drawings provided by Clint.

However, appearance is not the key point. Whether it is easy to use is the basis for evaluating whether a tool is good.

However, Leon was not in a hurry to experience the effect of this strange furnace. Instead, he put it back into his backpack, then chose a location not too far from the wooden house, and placed the five furnaces one by one and arranged them in a row.

After all, the furnace was placed too close to the wooden house and farmland. If he started to smelt metal ingots directly there, Lyon was afraid that the high temperature emitted by the furnace would affect the growth of his crops or burn down his house.

Anyway, the farm has a lot of space, and moving it a little further away is just a matter of walking a few more steps. Production safety should still be put first.

After making sure that smelting here would not affect other places, Lyon prepared to try to smelt his first copper ingot.

But when faced with this new thing, Lyon didn't know where to start for a moment.

After all, the recipe unlocked by the system doesn't even have an instruction manual, and the shape of this furnace is completely different from the furnace style provided by Clint. Naturally, the system's modified version of the furnace cannot use the instructions on the drawing provided by Clint.

Fortunately, the system provided the method of using the furnace in time.

"Place the coal in the cavity, and the raw ore to be smelted into the drawer above the cavity."

Upon hearing this, Leon immediately took out a piece of coal and five pieces of copper ore from his backpack and stuffed them into the hole and drawer respectively.

Then Leon noticed that a light appeared in the cavity of the furnace, and then a raging flame filled the cavity of the furnace.

At the same time, the heat emitted by the furnace made Leon unconsciously take two steps back, away from this heat source that was like a small solar heater.

But Lyon didn't go too far. He wanted to see how the furnace smelted the raw copper ore into real copper ingots.

(End of this chapter)