Chapter 48: Brewing Stand, Golden Apple

While he was still dazed, Chen Fan placed a dispenser at the edge of this area, leaving one block of space between each.

The dispensers faced forward so that water could be released later to wash away the fully grown crops.

Afterward, Chen Fan placed hoppers and a large storage chest at the back.

These hoppers were all connected to a large chest in the corner of the basement, ensuring that the harvested crops could be collected smoothly.

Once the storage chest and hoppers were in place, Chen Fan began laying out the redstone circuitry.

However, the signal transmitted by redstone dust could not cover a very long distance, so redstone repeaters had to be used to link them together.

After laying the redstone and connecting the repeaters, Chen Fan placed a lever on the cobblestone at the very bottom.

It functioned as a switch, making normal operation possible once activated.

As soon as the lever was flipped, the entire redstone circuit instantly lit up.

The glow of the redstone signal was not intensely bright; it was red when active and dark red when inactive, making it easy to distinguish between the "on" and "off" states.

Next, following the exact same steps, he constructed another semi-automatic farm on the other side.

This left the basement with two farms. Chen Fan loaded eight water buckets into the dispensers.

When he pulled the lever, water flowed out from the dispensers; when turned off, the water gradually receded.

Li Chengdong watched the entire process from the side, a look of astonishment on his face.

To him, this felt much like an electrical circuit, yet it was distinctly different.

Watching Chen Fan construct all of this with such practiced ease, he couldn't help but marvel at the wonder and absurdity of this world.

This world differed so vastly from their original one, and many things here were utterly unscientific.

Reflecting on how long he had been in this world, he had once possessed zero hope for survival, yet Chen Fan was capable of creating all sorts of things.

Farmlands, weapons, metalwork, and so on.

Almost single-handedly, he had propelled the civilizational progress of this world.

Meanwhile, Chen Fan walked over to the crafting table to craft some cobblestone fences to prevent water from spilling outward when activated.

Otherwise, the food from the farmland would be washed everywhere.

After enclosing the area with stone fences, he needed to place torches so that the crops would receive twenty-four-hour illumination.

By the time he finished dealing with the farmland, it was already afternoon.

Chen Fan decided not to go to the dungeon today; instead, he would get everything fully prepared and head out with his teammates tomorrow.

Afterward, he returned to the first floor and crafted a brewing cauldron.

This world was full of unknowns and possibilities, and perhaps he could make something useful with this cauldron.

If it really worked, he would be able to use fewer gold ingots in the future.

Without a moment's hesitation, Chen Fan first placed a pool of lava at the bottom of the cauldron, then dropped a block of raw gold into the pot.

Before long, a reaction occurred within the pot, causing Chen Fan's eyes to light up at the sight.

After waiting patiently for a little while longer, the gold ore inside the pot truly melted into liquid gold.

Immediately following that, he dropped apples into this liquid gold. Miraculously, the apples transformed into golden apples instantly.

Moreover, after a single pot of liquefied gold transformed four apples, the liquid gold inside was completely consumed.

One had to know that golden apples not only provided a decent amount of saturation, but also granted two minutes of absorption and five seconds of regeneration II.

Taking them along to raid a dungeon would be quite a tremendous asset.

After converting all ten apples into golden apples, dusk began to fall. Having finished dinner and with nothing much to do, Chen Fan casually opened the trading platform and chat channels to take a look.

Today was the most active day for all survivors since they had arrived.

Without the initial panic and terror of entering this world, they were gradually adapting to the Minecraft world, making it less hectic than it had been before the severe winter.

One had to admit that human adaptability was truly formidable.

In less than two weeks, the lifestyle of high-tech civilization seemed to have completely vanished, replaced by a full integration into the survival laws of this world.

In the world chat channel, the primary topics of discussion were food, fuel, combat...

Everyone was struggling simply to stay alive.

Chen Fan noticed that when they had first transmigrated, the population stood at over 8.2 billion, but now the total number of people active in chat was only slightly over 4.2 billion.

Although that still sounded like a massive number, looking at it from another perspective—

In the span of just over ten days, more than 4 billion people had died.

An average of nearly 300 million lives faded away each day. Some starved to death, some froze to death, some were killed by monsters, and some were even killed by their fellow human beings...

In unseen places, individual lives were quietly slipping away.

Chen Fan gazed out at the raging blizzard outside the window, an inexplicable sense of bewilderment welling up in his heart.

Everyone called themselves survivors, but where was the path to survival?

In this world fraught with danger on all sides, could one truly live on in peace?

Roused from his deep contemplation, Chen Fan looked at the lovely woman beside her, broke into a smile, pulled Yang Keli into his arms, and gradually drifted off to sleep.

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Early the next morning, Chen Fan woke up early, placed the harvested potatoes into the furnace to bake them into baked potatoes.

Then, at the crafting table, he turned wheat into sixty-four loaves of wheat bread, tossing the excess back into the storage room.

A single stack of bread was enough for the day's consumption. Following that, Chen Fan retrieved twenty bookshelves, a stack of iron ingots, and lapis lazuli.

He placed one of the bookshelves on the ground and mined it, causing three books to drop.

Approaching the crafting table, Chen Fan placed one book at the very top, two diamonds in the middle row from left to right, and three blocks of obsidian in the bottom row to craft an enchantment table.

To raise the maximum enchantment level of the enchantment table, bookshelves had to be placed around it with a one-block gap in between.

To reach the maximum enchantment level of thirty, at least fifteen effective bookshelves were required.

In order to craft an anvil, Chen Fan needed to further combine iron ingots into iron blocks, with each iron block requiring nine iron ingots.

Finally, at the crafting table, he placed three iron blocks in the top row, one in the middle, and three iron ingots at the bottom, completing an anvil.

Seeing that there was hardly any space left in this room, Chen Fan walked through the hallway into Xu Xinjie's room and placed it right in the center.

Leaving a one-block gap, he placed four bookshelves at each of the four corners, completing the entire setup.

The final anvil was simply placed on the floor to the right. Excitedly, Chen Fan placed his diamond chestplate and lapis lazuli into the enchantment table.

In an instant, three options appeared in his field of vision.

[Consume 1 lapis lazuli: Mending (I), costs 8 levels of experience.]

[Consume 2 lapis lazuli: Fire Protection (II), costs 18 levels of experience.]

[Consume 3 lapis lazuli: Protection (III), costs 30 levels of experience.]

Just as in Minecraft, enchanting required levels as well.

Furthermore, only one attribute could be enchanted at a time.

If one wanted better attributes on their gear, a large amount of experience was needed to refresh the options.

Looking at his pool of sixty-five experience levels, Chen Fan ultimately chose Mending I, and then placed both the enchanted diamond chestplate and the enchanted book (Blast Protection III) into the anvil.

After deducting five levels of experience, the enchantment of the diamond chestplate was complete.

Looking at the diamond sword in his hotbar, which only had three-quarters durability remaining, Chen Fan decided to forge a new one.

He applied enchanted books with [Sharpness V] and [Looting I] onto it.

Deducting another ten levels of experience left him with only forty-two levels remaining, meaning he could no longer enchant items for fear of draining his core attributes.