I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 218 - 95: The stunning new fishing method! The audience in the live broadcast room had a great time watching!_1

Chapter 218: Chapter 95: The stunning new fishing method! The audience in the live broadcast room had a great time watching!_1

"Wow! Is there also a crafting bench?"

"So you’re saying, if we want something later on, we can just make it ourselves?"

"Isn’t this game a bit too exaggerated with its features?"

Shark Platform, Nu Liu’s livestream room.

After half an hour of trial play and a first-hand experience with Stardew Valley,

Nu Liu, along with the entire livestream audience, was amazed by the rich gameplay elements of this newly launched game.

Initially, some viewers in the livestream room called for her to play something else, since it was announced as a farming game,

and just hearing the name makes it sound boring.

However, after half an hour of immersive experience,

the audience in the livestream room discovered

that the farming lifestyle is anything but dull.

Instead, it presents the fruits of your labor directly to the players in the most tangible way.

This immediately sparked a discussion in the chat.

"Damn! Another new genre! And it continues the top player’s usual precision and sincerity! How many more new things does Baby Ke have that we haven’t seen before?"

"Baby Ke’s Gold Content is still rising!"

"Let it rise! Let it rise!"

"Jealous of the Gold Content, to be included by Baby Ke /shy /shy"

"The one in front, you’re terrific... but the problem is, can you not include mine too? /shy"

Ignoring the joking in the chat,

Nu Liu kept her focus on the game.

At the initial stage of clearing the land, she had already harvested crops twice and sold them, accumulating just under 2,000 gold.

She just went to the town and bought 30 packs of green bean seeds, 60 gold each.

Nu Liu chose this crop for a simple reason.

Because it can be harvested multiple times infinitely, until the end of spring.

After the first two rounds of planting, Nu Liu realized how tedious it was to buy new seeds and plant them again after each harvest.

The green beans fit her needs perfectly, with only one required planting and multiple harvests, just needing timely watering each day.

And in the event of rainy days, a great season that requires no irrigation, she could free up all that extra time.

"Indeed, you don’t realize how hard farming is until you try it; for the first time, I understand the feeling of farmers when a long drought meets the rain." The weather in Stardew Valley is random every day, and taking the opportunity of a rainy day, Nu Liu planted all 30 packs of green beans.

Then she started to explore the newly discovered world—the crafting menu.

In traditional games on Blue Star, even if it wasn’t a gacha game, players needed to do quests to get something.

Either keep doing quests to exchange with NPCs,

or defeat monsters and bosses to get loot,

or accumulate enough game currency to buy it from merchants,

or start up the blue and green modifier.

There were only these four ways.

But the crafting bench in Stardew Valley introduced a fifth way of acquiring items for the first time in the game.

Players could make it themselves!

Of course, most of the items in the crafting menu were currently grayed out, and hovering the mouse over them would show the materials needed to make them.

As for some materials, Nu Liu, with only half an hour of game experience, hadn’t even heard of them.

"But no matter what, this sense of anticipation just shot up," she said.

"At least I now know which direction to work toward, instead of mechanically completing NPC quests."

"What’s driving me forward is purely because I want that item, and I will make an effort to gather its related crafting materials. I have to say, this setting is awesome."

Nu Liu voiced what the audience was thinking, and countless viewers in the livestream room felt the same delight when they first encountered this feature.

At this moment, Nu Liu’s gaze was locked on one of the many craftable items—a Basic Sprinkler.

This gadget’s effect was that it could automatically water the soil in a four-tile radius around it every morning.

Seeing this effect, Nu Liu’s eyes lit up.

Although it was her first time experiencing a farming game,

and Designer Ke had already simplified the farming system significantly,

after several rounds of planting crops, having to water each plot of land oneself daily,

the repetitive monotony was indeed tiresome.

But with a Basic Sprinkler, it would be different.

It could completely free your hands, allowing the player to do whatever they wanted.

"Then let’s make a sprinkler first," Nu Liu said as she checked the required materials.

It needed one copper bar and one iron bar.

And the bars had to be made with a furnace.

"Well, let’s make a furnace first," Nu Liu backed off and settled for something else.

She looked at the requirements for a furnace.

pieces of stone and 20 pieces of copper ore.

Stones were easy to come by; her own farm in front of the house was only partly cleared,

and a large area was still filled with weeds, loose stones, trees, and so on, giving her no trouble in finding stones.

But copper ore...

"If I remember correctly, when I walked around the village just now, there seemed to be some for sale at the blacksmith Clint’s shop, 75 gold each, right? 20 pieces of copper ore for 1500 gold? My god, that’s expensive?"

Nu Liu looked surprised.

To think, she had worked for days to barely accumulate just under 2000 Gold.

She blew it all on a bulk purchase of green beans and had only a little change left.

Where was she going to find 1500 Gold...

The chat also teased,

"The power of technology, having fun with you?"

"Fully automatic and never deals with low-end stuff! I have never seen a game involving gadgets that free up hands being cheap."