I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 216 - 94: Let me enjoy first!_3

Chapter 216: Chapter 94: Let me enjoy first!_3

Bunches of ripe crops ready to be picked hopped into the pocket.

Bao Jingbi actually felt a surge of indescribable pleasure.

This sensation was akin to the happiness he felt when he received his salary each month.

Although it wasn’t one hundred percent the same, it was very similar.

As this thought surfaced,

Bao Jingbi himself was taken aback.

After all, what level of pleasure was it to receive a salary?

Now he could experience a similar joy by playing a game?

How could this be?

Then he noticed the reactions of his employees.

As expected.

Every one of their gazes carried a certain brightness.

Some even had expressions of eager anticipation.

"No... this isn’t a point to criticize, he did handle this part well. It’s rather my lack of consideration," Bao Jingbi thought to himself.

He had just contemplated making the farming system more complicated, which would be more realistic.

But if he did that, wouldn’t it be putting the cart before the horse?

This simple pleasure was, in fact, the reason players would play a farming game.

Bao Jingbi decided to stroll around.

The farming aspect was indeed mastered by Designer Ke.

But if your game has only farming, that would be too dull.

Players don’t need much, just half an hour of repetitive play and they would grow bored.

"Let me see what other gameplay you have,"

"A game developed in just six days can’t cover everything, can it?"

From the mail at the doorstep, Bao Jingbi knew that there was a small town in this area.

Turning right, he walked through a long and deserted path flanked by trees.

But it looked desolate and lifeless.

Entering a new area, he arrived at the town center of Stardew Valley, and the scene before him suddenly opened up.

In his heart, Bao Jingbi felt a buzz of liveliness.

The entire town was surrounded by lush trees and green grasslands. The streets were lined with quaint and unique stone houses, their roofs overgrown with vines.

Several streams flowed through the town, and in the town center was a spacious square surrounded by a carefully manicured flower garden, its flowers blooming in vibrant colors, attracting pixelated bees and butterflies.

In the square, he could also see NPCs gathered together, chatting.

If he approached, he could converse with them.

But they did not assign any quests to the protagonist.

They only expressed a friendly welcome and enthusiastically introduced the protagonist to humorous, interesting, or warm and pleasant stories that had occurred in the town, assuring the protagonist that they would surely like it here.

After leaving these NPCs, Bao Jingbi took a tour of the town.

Despite its size, the town had everything one could need.

Not only could he enter every resident’s home,

But there were also various shops.

Players could purchase all kinds of seeds/fertilizers/lawn ornaments and other items to build a farmhouse from Pierre’s general store.

They could also sell their crops back to the store for a decent price.

After trading all the rice in his pocket to shopkeeper Pierre, Bao Jingbi earned his first big sum of around 750 gold.

He then flipped through the store’s available seed list.

From among the vegetables, he chose potatoes as his crop.

They were priced at 50 gold per bag, which was the perfect amount to buy 15 bags, considering he had just the right amount of land prepared at home.

After going all-in on the purchase, Bao Jingbi browsed through the other stored.

To the left of the general store was a small clinic, where, after conversing with NPC Harvey, Bao Jingbi learned if the players overexerted themselves at night and collapsed in the field,

Harvey would personally come to take them back to the clinic for treatment, charging a small fee.

Further up was a run-down community center.

However, its doors were not yet open.

Past the community center, in the area behind, was Robin’s carpentry shop.

After speaking with her, she told the players that with a certain fee and some stone and wood, she would help upgrade their house.

Beyond the additional space, an upgraded house would also unlock a cellar and provide the player with a batch of fermentation barrels.

Robin quietly informed him that after a crop was processed through these barrels, one could distill fine products like wine and cheese that could sell at a higher price.

In addition, players could build barns, chicken coops, fish ponds, stables, mills, and other buildings.

Upon hearing this news, Bao Jingbi’s eyes sparkled with anticipation.

Even he couldn’t quite explain why.

But just the thought of unlocking all these features over time—

Besides farming, it seemed like he could engage in breeding, animal husbandry, fish farming, horse raising, and even food stockpiling in the game?

Oh no... This gameplay seemed quite rich; he was getting a little excited...

No, no! This wouldn’t do!

He was here to critique!

Even he was getting carried away.

Wouldn’t that be an indirect admission that Ke Jin, the dark horse of the year, was indeed superior to him?

"It should stop here, right?"

"That’s enough for a game made in six days. You don’t have anything else, do you?" Bao Jingbi muttered to himself, continuing to explore further.

And on the lower side of the map,

At Gus’s Star Fruit Restaurant operated by NPC Gus, a variety of gourmet foods were sold that could restore a certain amount of health and stamina upon purchase.

Crossing a small bridge on the right side of the map, he arrived at Clint’s blacksmith shop.

Here, they could upgrade the players’ farm tools to make them more efficient and also break open the rare and curious things excavated from mining.