I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 222 - 96: Baby Ke’s Latest Trick Shocks All Players! Player: Damn! Report him for malicious freebies!_2

Chapter 222: Chapter 96: Baby Ke’s Latest Trick Shocks All Players! Player: Damn! Report him for malicious freebies!_2

Although a large part of the mine is made up of ordinary ores,

there is also a small portion of rare ores.

These ores are embedded with copper, silver-gray, or gold textures, allowing one to tell at a glance that they belong to copper, iron, or gold mines.

In Stardew Valley, these minerals are quite useful.

They’re not only needed for upgrading tools but also are a core component in making many convenient items.

Nu Liu is currently wanting to make a basic sprinkler, which requires a copper bar and an iron bar, but there’s no stable way to acquire them yet, so for now, she can only spend money to buy them from the old blacksmith.

But if the quarry opened up, one could come every day with a pickaxe to mine.

By then, one would nearly have achieved a basic freedom of rare ores.

Nu Liu felt that just thinking about it was exhilarating...

Besides, after the fish tank area is restored, Junimos can remove the glittering boulder blocking the flow of water next to the mine and also gift the player with a Gold Pan.

Players could pan for gold in any river throughout the town, and the gold mined would amount to a tidy sum of income.

Restoring the boiler room area would unlock an abandoned minecart.

This would allow the player to quickly move between two places without having to travel all around, essentially providing convenient fast-travel points.

Restoring the vault unlocks the bus.

The bus could take the player to a whole new desert map.

Restoring the pantry unlocks the greenhouse.

Plants grown in the greenhouse are not affected by the seasons; spring plants can bloom and bear fruit all year round in the greenhouse, surrounding one with the joy of harvest even in the barren winter.

It can be said that although each of the sacrificial conditions is stringent, once collected, the change they bring to the player’s overall gaming experience is not merely incremental but transformative!

When the rewards are substantial enough, the process of gathering materials is no longer torture, but anticipation.

Every time materials are submitted, the anticipation grows even more!

The viewers who had just been criticizing the community center’s design started changing their tunes after seeing the rewards.

"What did I just say? I was saying how ingeniously Baby Ke designed the community center, right?"

"Only six areas? Shouldn’t there be 60? Are you underestimating us, Stardew Valley villagers?"

"60? Six hundred! As long as the rewards are good, I have no objections to tearing down the NPC houses to make room for the community center!"

"Case closed, the reason why it’s called Stardew Valley is that due to the NPCs not having houses, they are covered in dew and stars every night/Dog Head."

After making a round through the community center, Nu Liu’s anticipation was equally drawn to these rich settings.

She had already been amazed by the depth of the game’s mechanics after an hour of experience.

But now, with the community center unlocked, it felt like the doors to a new world had been opened once again.

"This won’t do, I would take ages to do this alone. Let’s call Zhuangzhuang over to farm together," Nu Liu said, walking out of the streaming room. In a short while, she brought over her own younger brother, Zhuangzhuang.

This also sparked heated discussion among the viewers.

"What? This game has multiplayer?"

"Things are starting to get interesting."

"I was just thinking playing by myself might be too lonely. If you had told me it had multiplayer, I would have gone to download it!"

While the viewers chatted among themselves, Nu Liu quickly taught Zhuangzhuang some simple gameplay techniques.

And invited him to join the farm.

As the screen gradually dimmed, when the image came back,

there was another small, rundown cabin added to the left of the protagonist’s already lonely farmhouse.

Zhuangzhuang’s character came out from inside it.

"You just stay at home to watch the house, collect the crops, chop wood, clean up the farmland, and by the way, take a look around and pick any wild spring crops you find and put them in the box. I’ll go outside to fight monsters and provide for the family," Nu Liu said.

"OK, let’s do it!" After roughly getting a handle on the gameplay, Zhuangzhuang rolled up his sleeves, ready to get to work.

After the two had divided the tasks.

Nu Liu, carrying a fishing rod, joyfully ran off to continue fishing by the sea.

It must be said, with an extra helper, the game’s progress was indeed accelerated.

Nu Liu just needed to maintain a stable fishing income, then convert the excess Gold Coins into copper and iron ores to create basic sprinklers.

One can never have too many of those – at least ten sets are needed to start with.

Zhuangzhuang was left in charge of everything at home.

By the third day, they had already completely unlocked the spring crops bundle.

But halfway through spring,

Nu Liu noticed something was amiss.

"Hold on, where’s my money?"

"I remember the green beans at home should have ripened, and you’ve been planting potatoes in batches during this time, too. Why haven’t I seen any money?"

She only got the proceeds from fishing every day.

The fishing rod was about to smoke from use, but her total assets hadn’t changed much.

"I’m preaching here," Zhuangzhuang said. "I just started playing this game, I don’t really understand."

And the ever-helpful viewers commented,

"Zhuangzhuang quietly pocketed all the money, I saw it with my own eyes on his stream."

"Zhuangzhuang is purely mischievous, suggest a thorough investigation!"

Nu Liu, suspicious, opened Zhuangzhuang’s stream to take a look and immediately saw stars.

This little rascal!

He had quietly amassed nearly 20,000 Gold Coins, and at that moment was controlling his character to sneak off to the NPC carpenter’s shop, all the while whispering in his stream,