Farming Games are All About Grinding-Chapter 139 - 133: Beehives and Oil Presses

After leaving the mine, Han Qiwu didn’t forget to pick up some coal on the first level of the mine.

"When I get back, I’ll turn the spider meat into feed and see how it works." Han Qiwu was still very concerned about the terror bird’s egg-laying situation.

Such good eggs, it better not lay just one!

That wouldn’t be enough to eat.

Counting the two spiders earlier, Han Qiwu had now dealt with a total of eight mining spiders. Two more and the bounty task would be complete.

Once he got home, Han Qiwu glanced at the time—22:21.

First, he went to water the mixed seeds and cauliflower. This morning he’d been so focused on harvesting peanuts and potatoes that he hadn’t watered the other plots.

After watering the crops, Han Qiwu went into the sycamore storage area, took out the mining spider meat, and threw it into the feed machine.

After running for a while, the feed machine spit out six bags of feed.

[Delicious feed with added mining spider meat (Silver Star Quality ☆)]

[Effect: After feeding, production intervals will be halved for five days, with a minimum interval of one day.]

Just like the notes on mining spider meat said, feed made with this stuff truly boosted livestock productivity significantly.

"Six bags of feed—a bag lasts five days, which means it’s enough for a month." Han Qiwu stored the feed with mining spider meat and took out a bag to slowly feed it to the terror bird.

"Tiutiutiu!"

Maybe it was the taste of this feed, but the terror bird looked very happy as it ate, occasionally rubbing its fleshy long neck against Han Qiwu.

"It would be nice if the feed boxes could dispense different types of feed separately," Han Qiwu thought helplessly.

From the current situation, chickens needed the feed that increased the chance of large eggs made with mining moth meat, fed every three days. In contrast, terror birds needed mining spider meat feed every five days, meaning Han Qiwu had to manually keep track of timing for feeding them.

Hopefully, the intermediate feed box will have this functionality—the ironworks shop should have something by next week.

As for meat chickens,

There had been plenty of sunny days lately, so they didn’t need feed; they could just eat grass seeds and bugs outside every day.

Since they were bred for meat, the quality of free-range chicken meat should be higher.

It should taste better.

Keep it up!

The meat chicken nestled in the corner of the sycamore suddenly felt a bit chilly.

It felt as though it had been abandoned by the world.

Such a tragedy for chickenkind!

After feeding, Han Qiwu took the opportunity to build a new furnace next to the previous two.

There were more and more places where metal ingots were needed—two furnaces just weren’t enough.

After it was built, he stuffed copper ore and coal into all three furnaces.

Tomorrow morning, there would be three new copper ingots.

After finishing up these tasks, Han Qiwu headed back inside to take a shower, practice "Seven-colored Sunshine" for a while, then laid down to rest.

"Clatter-clatter-clatter" (sound of Gold Coins falling)

February 24 Daily Log

Income...7350 Gold (Potatoes)

Income...6000 Gold (Peanuts)

Farming Experience +3458

Foraging Experience +226

Fishing Experience +0

Combat Experience +416

Mining Experience +657

Character Favorability Changes:

Tu Tou: ❤❤

Current Money: 31448 Gold

Historical Income: 76413 Gold

[Congratulations, your farming skill has leveled up to Level 3]

[Farming Specialization +1]

[Your waist has become more flexible]

[You’ve learned to craft an oil press]

[You’ve learned to craft a beehive]

"Thud-thud-thud-thud"

"Cluck-cluck"

When Han Qiwu woke up, he was greeted by the long-missed sound of the Gatling again.

Although it wasn’t spitting blue flames, not hearing it for several days had been irksome.

After eating mining spider meat feed, the terror bird finally laid an egg.

Ah, satisfaction!

Lying in bed, Han Qiwu didn’t rush to retrieve the terror bird egg but instead leisurely reviewed yesterday’s log.

Farming is truly a gold mine.

Even after keeping so much for himself, he still made over thirteen thousand Gold in revenue.

Hard work pays off!

Now Han Qiwu’s wallet had surpassed thirty thousand Gold.

It was time to start spending.

Later, he’d go buy [Red Sun]!

As for favorability,

Han Qiwu hadn’t anticipated Brother Tu jumping straight to two hearts.

That progress was ridiculously fast!

Why though?

After thinking it over, Han Qiwu figured one reason might be because the potatoes were incredibly delicious, and another might be that Brother Tu had a good impression of him.

A hardworking, non-materialistic university student.

Brother Tu’s favorability reward—now that was something to look forward to.

"Speaking of which, could Brother Tu’s love for potatoes be because he’s also got a smooth, bald head like a potato?" Han Qiwu mused thoughtfully as he continued reading.

The harvest experience from fifty-six crops had directly pushed his farming skill to Level 3.

Though the effects of the upgrade seemed a bit strange.

Why does it make your waist more flexible?

Wouldn’t it be better to improve kidney function?

Even though Han Qiwu was young, he understood the importance of kidneys.

Detoxification—they’re crucial.

Bringing his thoughts back to the present, Han Qiwu started studying the two new blueprints that had appeared. He first opened up the crafting method for the oil press.

[Oil Press]

[Materials: [Slime Mud]×50, [Hardwood]×20, [Gold Ingot]×1]

[Effect: The oil press allows you to produce high-quality vegetable oil]

[Note: Vegetable oil sells at a high price]

It’s here! It’s here!

Peanut oil is finally happening!

Judging by the note, peanuts are best processed into peanut oil before being sold.

Even so, Han Qiwu didn’t regret selling so many peanuts yesterday.

The reason was simple—the materials needed to craft the oil press looked like a real hassle.

Fifty units of slime mud were manageable; he could just accumulate them.

But hardwood—that was something Han Qiwu hadn’t encountered at all.

Based on its name, Han Qiwu figured it might come from those big, unchoppable trees he’d seen before.

To obtain hardwood, upgrading his axe would be essential.

But between buying a fishing rod and building a cow barn, upgrading the axe had to take a backseat for now. Moreover, given his prior experience with items like the bronze water jug and copper pickaxe, Han Qiwu intended to wait until encountering some special copper before upgrading his axe.

As for gold ingots—they required five gold ore pieces to smelt one ingot.

Over twenty days in, Han Qiwu had only ever found three pieces of gold ore in the crystal ball so far. Who knew when the next two would appear?

No rush—slowly but surely.

Peanut oil will come, soybean oil will come—every type of oil will eventually come.

Leveling the farming skill to Level 3 also unlocked another blueprint.

"Beehive? This is something Little Prince would be thrilled about," Han Qiwu chuckled as he opened the crafting requirements for the beehive.

[Beehive]

[Materials: [Wood]×50, [Coal]×8, [Iron Ingot]×2, [Honey]×1]

[Effect: A beehive with resident bees will periodically produce honey]

[Note: Depending on the surrounding flowers, the beehive will produce different types of honey]

"A beehive with resident bees will periodically produce honey? So if there are no bees, there’ll be no honey, huh?" Han Qiwu thought of the generous swarm by the riverbank.

The crafting material requirements were fairly standard. As soon as he had iron ingots, he’d go visit those bees to gather honey and craft a beehive.

This time, Han Qiwu planned to bring back not only the bees but also their honey!

If possible, he’d even bring back their entire nest!

Clean sweep!