Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

But can Bell be an ordinary bamboo rat? He doesn't even get heatstroke, which is a pitiful, thick barrier separating him from ordinary bamboo rats.

Bell gnawed at the plank he had chosen very quickly, and in no time he had broken the long plank into nine pieces.

A wooden plank as big as Bell's body will be accepted by the inventory.

Place the four planks into the four crafting slots, and with a 'ding' sound, a nine-square grid block appears in front of Bell.

"Getting the 'Minecraft' achievement, hmm, that's a good start."

After getting the workbench, Bell was in a great mood after dubbing his own voice.

He picked up the remaining five planks, first using two planks to make a stick, and then combining the stick and planks to make an axe.

The axe in Bell's hand was about the same size as his short arm; if it were in a human's hand, it would look more like a toothpick.

The axe's design is very simple, as if it were pieced together from a series of small pixel blocks.

After swinging his arms a few times in the air, Bell didn't produce a powerful or impressive swing; instead, he looked rather dazed.

But Bell never underestimated the power of the wooden axe in his hand. He walked to the new plank and swung the axe repeatedly.

Every time the axe in his hand touched the wooden plank in front of him, a pixelated crack appeared on the plank. With each swing, the pixelated crack continued to expand.

"Thump thump thump~~ Smack!"

After swinging it about six times, the wooden plank in front of Bell separated from the main body of the large wooden plank and fell off, turning into a smaller wooden plank block, which Bell then pocketed.

After a series of operations, Bell removed nine more wooden boards in less than a minute.

"Wow, that's the charm of blocks!"

Bell grinned from ear to ear as he collected the planks with his wooden axe.

When Bell first saw this familiar inventory, he wondered how much of the item's characteristics would be retained if he crafted a crafting table and then crafted new items.

After some hands-on testing, these tools still retained a lot of the game features, which made Bell very happy.

The more game features the inventory and Minecraft tools retain, the more creatively Bell can make of them.

"With a workbench, everything will be much easier. Now I'll prepare a full set of armor for myself, make a set of basic tools, and collect twenty or thirty sets of resources while I'm at it."

As a veteran Minecraft player, Bell wasn't in a hurry at all. He wasn't a speedrunner; Bell preferred to plan carefully before acting.

Forget about the fire-chewing hyenas and attribute differences; Bell says that once he has twenty or thirty sets of resources, the outcome is still uncertain.

With that thought in mind, Bell put away the workbench, took the planks and sticks with him, and strode away from the place.

Just now, Bell heard someone coming this way, it seemed to be the noise he made that attracted the attention of human adventurers.

However, even so, Bale has no intention of going back to Edu and staying put. Now that the night is perfect, Bale is going to continue causing trouble.

He wants to go down into the mine!

Chapter 28: 100% Pure!

Compared to the patrols around the mining camp, there wasn't much of a guard force near the mine itself.

Located in the heart of the mining camp, surrounded by many miners, this place is considered very safe.

The small-statured Bell quietly made his way to the front of the mine, where no one was watching.

The mine entrance had been deliberately widened and meticulously carved. Normally, while the miners were working here, oil lamps would be hung at intervals to provide illumination.

However, at present, perhaps due to the conflict between the adventurer groups, there are no workers in the mine.

In the stillness, Bell made his way forward in the dark, and in just a few steps, he reached the mine.

"This oil lamp is nice; it's mine now."

He easily climbed up the rough stone wall to the top of the cave, took down a lamp that still had a little bit of fuel left, lit it, and walked deeper into the mine.

The fuel in the oil lamp was a solidified mixture of oil and grease, and Bell, who was extremely sensitive to flames, could clearly sense that it was a high-quality fuel.

"My body tells me that this material can start a big fire. I can stock up on some of this oil in the future. It might come in very useful."

With the oil lamp on his head, Bell slowly entered the depths of the mine. The further he went into the mine, the more man-made tunnels he found.

To be honest, Bell didn't know how to identify ore; all his knowledge of mining came from various survival games.

If Bell were to start from scratch in this unfamiliar world, randomly finding a pristine mine to mine ore, he would be completely lost and wouldn't know where to begin.

But this was, after all, a mine that had been excavated by human miners for many years. When Bell went down into the depths of the mine, he could always see many traces of the mine being half-excavated.

"I'm not stupid. If I keep fiddling with the traces left by human miners, I can always find some usable ore."

Arriving at a mine tunnel that was only partially excavated, Bell stopped in front of a section of excavation marks that revealed a metallic sheen and emptied all the items from his inventory.

Instead of digging directly, Bell collected the scattered rubble from the surrounding mine tunnels and used the crafting function in his inventory to combine the rubble into square stones.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

With the three cobblestones, Bell easily crafted a stone pickaxe, which was better at digging than a wooden pickaxe, using a workbench.

"Completed the achievement 'Upgraded'. Although I skipped the step of crafting the wooden pickaxe, it doesn't matter. Now it's time to mine."

With a non-existent achievement sound effect playing on him, Bell, wielding a small pixelated stone pickaxe, vigorously dug at the spot where there were signs of human excavation.

"Clatter~ clatter~ clatter~"

Holding a stone pickaxe, Bell began his digging at a fixed pace.

Amidst the soft sounds of excavation, numerous pixel cracks appeared in a square area in front of Bell, before it shattered into a small pixel cube with a 'pop'.

The pixelated cube was automatically absorbed into Bell's body and received its related information.

Iron ore

Bell is no stranger to this thing; it's one of the easiest things to acquire in the early to mid-game of Minecraft.

The obtained ore material, iron ore, can be turned into iron ingots after being smelted.

Iron ingots are the most cost-effective and versatile material in the early to mid-game of Molten Core, bar none.

In combat, iron ingots can be used to craft iron armor, swords, and shields. Iron armor provides a significant boost to survivability through its formidable defense. Iron swords, on the other hand, possess considerable attack power, capable of quickly eliminating various monsters in the Minecraft world.

In resource extraction, iron ingots can also be used to craft tools such as rails and mines to assist in resource extraction. Tools such as crucibles and anvils can also provide tools to produce more resources.

Furthermore, by using a sufficient number of iron ingots to forge multiple solid iron blocks, one can create a powerful iron golem, a formidable helper in the Minecraft world. Such a powerful companion is capable of taking on three or five monsters without them being able to get close.

"Having iron ore is a guarantee of the right to survival, and I believe this is true in the world as well."

Bell used his stone pickaxe to dig out twenty-six iron ore blocks in one go before stopping mining.

It wasn't that Bell was tired from digging; it's just that after mining twenty-six iron ore blocks, his stone pickaxe ran out of durability and shattered into a pile of pixelated particles.

"Ugh... the durability is dropping too fast. If this were a game, I could at least dig up a few dozen more blocks."

Scratching his backside, Bell had to stop digging because of the explosion of the stone pickaxe.

However, while mining iron ore, Bell received another surprise besides the material itself.

[Experience +6]

The increase in experience points made Bell feel good and full of energy.

With this experience, Bell's upgrade progress has reached (11/30). At this rate, it won't be long before Bell gets another level up.

"However, now is not the time to continue digging; it's time to do something else."

Having withdrawn from the excavation, he had no intention of continuing. It was already close to midnight, and Bell still had many things to do.

Turning around, Bell explored the mine shafts for a while, collecting a large amount of rubble. He then successfully crafted another classic Minecraft item using a crafting table:

【stove】

This stone stove, which is often placed next to the workbench, may look square, but it is very powerful.

As long as fuel is provided, the stove can be used to process raw food and refine mineral raw materials. While burning, the stove can also provide lighting, making it a versatile and powerful appliance.

Twenty-six pieces of iron ore were placed into the furnace. The cube-shaped furnace in front of him, about the same size as Bell, perfectly accommodated the twenty-six pieces of iron ore.

In order to refine the iron ingots, Bell did not hesitate at all and threw all the wooden planks on his body into the ingot.

After all, he hasn't found a coal mine yet, so he can only use wood, a fuel that is consumed very quickly.

Since smelting iron ore takes a long time, Bell didn't have enough wood, forcing him to run out of the mine several times to collect more planks with his wooden axe, eventually exhausting the axe's durability and causing it to break.

Time gradually passed as Bell tossed and turned, and the night that enveloped the bamboo forest gradually faded.

"But it was all worth it; the iron ingots were fired."

Deep in the mine, Bell took out the finished iron ingots from the furnace.

After being forged, these iron ingots automatically took on a uniform and orderly shape. When Bell added the iron ingot to his inventory, a clear comment appeared below the item:

Congratulations, you have obtained a 100% pure iron ingot.

Chapter 29 Qualitative Change in Defense

"Iron ingots with 100% purity. I dare say that even in another world, such metallurgical capabilities would be enough to make us stand out from the crowd."

Playing with the pixel-like iron ingot in his hand, Bell knew that as long as he threw the ingot, these small, pixel-like iron pieces would suddenly expand and turn into a large, heavy iron ingot.

But regardless of the shape of the iron ingot, its 100% purity indicates that this material is extraordinary.