I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 221 - 96: Baby Ke’s Latest Trick Shocks All Players! Player: Damn! Report him for malicious freebies!_1

Chapter 221: Chapter 96: Baby Ke’s Latest Trick Shocks All Players! Player: Damn! Report him for malicious freebies!_1

Green beans matured on the 10th day after planting and gradually formed trellises, allowing for additional harvests every three days.

After planting 30 packets of green bean seeds, Nu Liu harvested 41 portions when the time came.

Among them were 6 silver-star and 1 gold-star quality.

After some thought, Nu Liu kept the gold-star quality green beans as collectibles in her storage chest, just in case.

She sold all 40 remaining portions along with her fish haul.

She earned a total of over 1600 from the green beans, and over 2000 from the fish.

Each seed packet cost 60 Gold Coins to buy, while mature green beans sold for 40 Gold Coins each.

With the first harvest, she nearly broke even; thereafter, every harvest was pure profit.

In Stardew Valley, a year is divided into four seasons, each lasting a month.

However, each month only has 4 weeks, totaling 28 days.

Additionally, with each change of season, seasonal crops also disappear and can no longer be planted.

For instance, the green beans Nu Liu planted are a spring crop; they would disappear automatically on the first day of summer, and she wouldn’t be able to plant them in summer or fall.

As for winter, the snow covers the land, preventing the planting of any crops.

However, Nu Liu did some calculations.

Harvesting every three days, she would be able to harvest at least five or six more times.

Even at 1500 Gold Coins per batch, this one round of harvesting would net her a hefty profit of nearly ten thousand Gold Coins!

Delightful, indeed!

After the initial ten or so days of pioneering, Nu Liu’s main gameplays were farming and fishing.

And fishing was already a quick way to get rich in the early stage.

At this point, she was quite well-off.

With a bulging pouch of twenty thousand Gold Coins, she was ready to visit the blacksmith to get some copper and iron ores and start making sprinklers.

But just as she set foot into Pelican Town,

she entered a cut-scene.

Mayor Lewis led the player to a long-neglected community center.

Lewis told the player that the community center had been deserted for a long time, but he recently wanted to renovate it and needed some modest help from the players to succeed in the renovations. (To speed things up, a section of the Magician’s tower plot is omitted.)

When Nu Liu walked in to take a look,

boy oh boy.

The community center was in such disrepair it was almost like a haunted house: everywhere there was decay and dust, with visible cobwebs in every corner.

She could also see colorful little sprites that looked like apples (Junimos) running around the community center.

However, they would hide whenever a player got close.

Nu Liu walked around.

Despite its dilapidation, the community had kept its original sections.

A crafts room, pantry, fish tank, boiler room, bulletin board, and vault—each of the six sections had its way of being repaired.

Players needed to collect the corresponding materials and donate them to the Junimos,

and then these little sprites would start helping the player repair each of these areas in the community center.

But when Nu Liu opened the collection books for these tasks, she was at a loss.

Take the relatively simple crafts room, for example.

The repair guide was divided into six different collection bundles.

One for each of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Besides those, there was a bundle for construction materials and an exotic foraging bundle.

Within these collection bundles, there were specific material requirements.

Just for a spring foraging bundle, players needed to sacrifice "Wild Wasabi," "Daffodil," "Leeks," "Dandelion" – four kinds of crops.

But unfortunately, these crops couldn’t be planted by the player.

Meaning, you couldn’t just grow them and then submit them as materials when harvested.

They only grow in the wild during their respective seasons, and players have to encounter and pick them during their daily wanderings to keep them.

"It’s all over... I remember encountering a Wild Wasabi earlier, but I ate it to replenish energy while fishing, what should I do..." Nu Liu suddenly felt like she had missed a fortune that she could have just donated.

At this time, the audience was also stunned.

"Well now, is this the modest help that Lewis talked about?"

"Old Deng understands modesty."

"With six sections in the community center, each containing 4 to 6 collection bundles, and each bundle corresponding to four or five sacrificial materials, this is..."

"Modest help (×) Individual effort (√)"

"Dare to question the mayor? I see you don’t want to stay in Stardew Valley anymore! I’ll be at your doorstep tonight! /Dog Head"

"Honestly, isn’t this part designed by Baby Ke a bit too much?"

"It seems too hard on the players; so many materials, some of which I haven’t even heard of, no clue where to find them..."

"I’d lose interest just looking at it; if I played this game, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t bother renovating the community center."

At first, the audience thought the setting was unreasonable.

Too long and too complicated.

Until, Nu Liu clicked on the rewards for completing each section’s collection.

After fulfilling the crafts room sacrifices, the Junimos would repair the east bridge of the town!

Players could then cross the repaired bridge to reach an open-air quarry.

Nu Liu had taken the viewers there earlier and could only admire from a distance due to a broken bridge.

But she had seen the exposed ores with her own eyes, and so had the viewers.