MC's career as foreign lord

Previously, the reason I had Jim build such a huge pool was mainly to prevent him from falling from the sky and causing irreversible consequences.

After all, he doesn't have Elytra, this kind of super-god-level item, and there's no way for him to circle back to the original spot when descending from the sky.

Even if I gave him a firework, he wouldn't dare to use it. Without a protective device for falling from the sky, wouldn't a firework just send him further up?

After all, the fall damage in this world is cumulative. How long you float in the air, all of it will be calculated as fall damage, and this kind of accumulation, in a sense, has no limit.

So those guys who were killed by the iron golems were not wronged at all. Before they even fell from the sky, they were continuously knocked further up.

And once they fell, they had already accumulated at least a dozen knockback preloads. Even an iron golem should be killed by falling under such circumstances.

But now that he has the Slime Shoes, the pressure from the air will all be concentrated on the shoes and then released. In this way, he doesn't have to worry about being killed by falling from a high place next time.

Moreover, the crafting difficulty of these shoes themselves isn't high. He has a lot of materials on hand, and those Slime saplings that are about to be planted can also provide a continuous supply.

So, he glanced at the pool below and chose to temporarily seal it. Simply put, he made a downward-flowing hole in the middle of the pool, and then used something as a barrier below to ensure that the water flow wouldn't continue to fall. Then, at the very bottom, he created a simple isolation layer with lava.

This way, the monsters that fall down will be burned to death by the lava, and their drops will flow very safely into the space below, then be picked up by hoppers and stored in the chests below.

The method for this is very simple, just a few signs will do. He first dug a 2x2 hole below and didn't activate the pool space above. Instead, he first paved the bottom with lava.

The bottom and top of the lava all have signs as barriers to prevent water and lava from coming into contact, and also to allow the monsters to be retained well.

And the bottom-most block is empty. Besides the scorching lava, there is a row of very simple 4 hoppers. The things dropped from the monsters burned to death in the lava should all be retained, except for spiders.

After all, as the head of one-block creatures, spiders themselves possess completely different attributes from other creatures. They only have a height of one block and can freely travel on the surfaces and upper levels of various buildings.

All kinds of fall traps have no way to kill spiders. In the previous version, his method was to go around the top of the mob farm again, leaving a hole that could be climbed up, and then light netherrack fire there.

The permanently burning flames would burn all the spiders that climbed up from below to death. Even if there were no materials, it was better than these things running over to make trouble one by one.

Now he's doing the same. The lava can very well handle some of the water flowing down from the spiders, making it impossible for the spiders to climb back up. This leaves them with only one option besides being burned in the lava: getting stuck at the bottom.

After the bottom trap mechanism was made, he naturally returned to the top. Previously, he had only made such a base, and none of the arrangements above had been made.

He had no choice but to return home, take some shears, and go to the tree farm.

At this time, he especially envied Forestry, after all, that's a mod that can automatically chop trees and automatically collect drops. But Tinker's Construct can also do many things. Next time, he can find some time to get the Tinker's Construct stuff done first.

And now he needs to collect many, many leaves with shears. The size of the previous pool was based on the size of his mob farm, which itself has a huge face width of 40x40.

This will mean that if the mob farm is completed, even if each block only spawns one monster per second, it will have a terrifying number of nearly 100 monsters.

Moreover, the location where the monsters spawn is less than twenty blocks away from the pool under his feet. He suddenly thought of a brand new solution for the pool.

Zhou Ren doesn't plan to tear down this pool anymore. He directly paved a layer of as many as 400 bottom slabs on top of the pool at the 40th position.

The bottom slab is a very special material. It occupies half of a block, but the top is not empty, but has an untouchable air block barrier.

This will cause that even if you walk on the bottom slab, those whole block objects will not be attached to it, but will be suspended by half a block.

In this way, this block will not be judged as a complete block, so naturally, there will be no problem of monster spawning.

This is also the roof-making method of many buildings. After all, compared to those roofs that require inserting torches or placing light sources, and even require regular cleaning, this kind of ordinary roof that simply doesn't spawn monsters is more suitable.

Moreover, this kind of light source occlusion will make the blocks below the mob farm that are used to spawn monsters more suitable, especially under the cover of leaves. The monsters that should have spawned on the blocks will directly spawn in the void next to them and then fall down.

Even spiders are not immune to this. In a place they cannot rely on, they also have no way to attach to the adjacent walls and will be directly washed into the lava by the water flow below.

"In this way, I can even directly make a prototype of the bottom of a mob farm underground, create a simple falling distance, and then harvest experience points!" Zhou Ren pondered.

The original mob farm needed a falling distance of 24 blocks, so that all the creatures had no way to resist the fall damage from the high altitude, leaving only half a point of health.

In this way, he only needs to attack the feet of these monsters at the very bottom to easily kill them and obtain the experience they drop.

Moreover, compared to the work above his head, the work under his feet will be very easy. He only needs to move the hoppers and chests below that receive the monster drops downwards to easily complete this final step.

Thinking about it this way, the work of making a mob farm doesn't seem very difficult!

Zhou Ren suddenly gained confidence, and even the speed of splicing blocks in his hands became faster. As the sun was about to set, he successfully spliced together 400 half slabs.

Naturally, there were several falls in the middle, and relying on the jumping power of the Slime Boots, he miraculously bounced back to the platform. Thinking about it this way, it seems quite fun.

Next is the production of the real monster-dropping spawning platform. This requires the use of a special knowledge, which is the theory of blocks.

In the setting of this world, transparent blocks are not counted as blocks, but what is more interesting is that glass, snow, and leaves are also considered transparent blocks.

However, although these three blocks are transparent, because they are not calculated within the main world blocks, they possess a collision body, which is the so-called collision!

This is the real origin of this monster spawner. The solid blocks themselves can spawn monsters, and this spawning method is random. However, they will inevitably appear above the solid blocks, which is also one of the important theories of world generation.

If leaves are placed above these solid blocks, the creatures that should have spawned on the solid blocks will not spawn on the leaves. Instead, they will be squeezed out by the leaves and appear in the space next to them in the instant of generation.

The space next to them will be directly excavated to form a transparent space. In this way, the monsters will fall from the transparent space into the pool below and flow to the hole at the bottom with the surging water.

This design now forms a perfect closed loop.

Since there wasn't much time left, Zhou Ren didn't think too much and simply built this thing layer by layer, starting two blocks above the water flow.

This is a very delicate number. If it is lower than these two blocks, the monsters will be stuck by these solid blocks suspended in the air and unable to flow to the middle.

If it is higher than this number, the monsters may break out of the pool and swim to the edge.

This point is just right. It not only saves space but also controls the movement of the monsters. He also plans to build a wall around the pool later to ensure that these guys can't break through.

However, compared to the previous monster spawners that required creating water flow direction, ensuring the falling distance, and even bringing in villagers to attract monsters, this one is indeed much easier.

He had just built two or three rows of spawning areas and placed the leaves not long before monsters began to fall from above.

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Moreover, those skeletons that fell down seemed to want to aim at him with bows and arrows, but the surroundings were full of suspended stones and various leaves. Even if they wanted to aim, most of them were submerged in the space, so he wasn't too worried.

However, the sky was gradually darkening. If he didn't go back now, some troubles might arise again.

Just like when he took Shia and the two of them to the forest, he wouldn't go to the densely forested areas next to them, but only to those sunny places, wasn't it just to avoid monster spawns?

Ordinary monsters are nothing, but creepers that cause chain explosions are everyone's nightmare. Zhou Ren doesn't want to encounter them. When he has thoroughly researched Tinker's Construct and has a set of advanced combat equipment, plus two combat badges, he might consider it.

As for now, even if the roads in this area are brightly lit at night, there is no need to stay outside any longer.

He embarked on his return journey, watching the two elves, one big and one small, giggling and laughing as they arrived at the station in a minecart, seemingly very happy.

"Have your tunnels been completed?" Zhou Ren asked. He could see a new track extending from a distance. Mosa was sitting on it, seemingly experiencing the feeling of riding a train for the first time.

"Of course, it's done. We made a track that can cross the river and land directly in the flower sea. We also built a small house there!" Leah said, "We can put a bed and a small table there in the future, and we can live there!"

Zhou Ren smiled and touched her head. "If you like, you can build a big house there. You can even move your home over there!"

The little girl even seriously considered this suggestion, but after careful consideration, she shook her head. "No, if we really move over, Aunt Anna won't be able to find us when she comes!"

"Your Aunt Anna will probably get a beating when she goes back. It's not certain if she can come!" Zhou Ren retorted.

"Dad will hit Auntie, but he won't hit her very hard!" Leah said, "Dad said that Auntie is too lazy every day and only knows how to sleep. If she practiced her skills properly, she wouldn't be like this now!"

Zhou Ren's face was a "囧" character. The little girl was too serious and couldn't understand his joking meaning, and he suddenly felt very bored.

Shia looked at his expression and just chuckled, "I heard that monsters will spawn here at night. Why haven't we seen them?"

Zhou Ren shook his head: "Why haven't we seen them? Isn't that one coming?"

Following the direction of his finger, sure enough, there was a zombie wandering towards them.

They keenly sensed and also discovered a strange phantom appearing next to the zombie. That was also the shadow of a block, but it wasn't a zombie, but a lurker.

This kind of monster, which only spawns in the darkness of the night, seemed to have arrived at its active time and was walking forward step by step, accompanied by the zombie's footsteps.

The first to act was not them, but the elf girl who had already raised her crossbow. After learning crossbow firing skills for a period of time, the little girl felt that she was capable again.

"咻咻咻!" Three consecutive arrows flew out of the crossbow, and then instantly turned into nine in the air, passing through the zombie's body and then, without stopping, passing through the phantom behind him.

"Peng!" A short falling sound rang out, and both creatures were revealed in the air, then fell down and shattered into nothingness, leaving only a few colorful experience orbs, slowly flying towards the little girl.

Luck didn't seem to be very good. Neither monster dropped anything. It seemed that the little girl's luck for today was really used up.

Zhou Ren sighed, "Leah learns things very quickly. You can make the first move when you encounter monsters in the future!"

At least, whether it's a zombie or a lurker, they are both risky for ordinary humans. Making the first move is definitely the right thing to do.

Zhou Ren was a little worried. Monsters had appeared in this area. He wasn't sure if there were any special creatures in those dark areas.

"Why don't you stay here tonight," he suggested, "Anyway, there shouldn't be anyone in the town now, right? Is your legion still clearing the entire grassland?"

"Hmm…" Shia pondered for a while and nodded. The monsters just now also revealed a signal that the surrounding area was not very safe to them.

In the previous cleanups, the elves also discovered the existence of these monsters, and because of their initial contempt, they suffered two not-so-small losses.

"Then let's stay here for one night!" The little girl next to her clapped her hands excitedly.