MC's career as foreign lord

"Of course, no problem, Master!" Mosa casually sprinkled a few packets of bone meal, allowing the somewhat weak Tree of Life to gradually thrive.

The soil here indeed lacked nutrients. They could see the life essence rapidly disappearing while the Tree of Life was growing quickly.

Traces of gray soil quickly appeared on the surrounding land, but Zhou Ren didn't want to dig it up this time.

This place couldn't be used to plant original MC plants because it lacked sufficient magic power. The crops produced would likely be ordinary.

But for ordinary people, even the merchants and other races who came to trade, these ordinary foods should suffice, right?

"We can do a simple experiment first!" Zhou Ren said, burying an ordinary plant seed in the soil. Then, he slowly retreated, watching the Tree of Life's radiance spread around.

Visibly, the seed gradually sprouted and grew, turning into a tiny sprout. This visible speed was indeed somewhat shocking.

This also meant that, at least within half a month, the tree's seed would fully mature. If even a tree could mature, ordinary plants would naturally be no problem.

"It seems we've solved another big problem!" Zhou Ren said with a smile, wondering what the Jin people would think when they saw him using the Tree of Life as various auxiliary items. Anyway, he was quite happy himself.

By the time he and Mosa finally finished touring the territory and returned to the base, having placed the remaining Trees of Life in the open areas, the several visitors in his territory had already left.

"Master, I'll go down and check on their excavation progress!" Mosa blinked slightly, leaving Zhou Ren to himself. Now, sitting beside him in the pavilion was only the Elf Princess.

"Have they all left?" Zhou Ren asked, hinting at something.

"The teacher is taking the elven legends away. The Silver Dragon King and the others are also looking for a place to settle down nearby. Anna and Liya are still across the river!" Hia pouted, "Now it's finally just the two of us!"

She boldly walked over for the first time, grabbing Zhou Ren's hand. In that instant, she, still a maiden, seemed to grasp the entire world.

Zhou Ren smiled, holding the elf maiden's hand in return, "If you stay to help me, will they object?"

"What if they object? The Empress Mother has allowed it. Can they forcibly take me away?" Hia said, her eyes twinkling as she looked at the person before her.

Zhou Ren smiled silently, "Since you've decided to stay here, I'll take you to do something you've never known before!"

According to the plan, he needed to make a Tinker's Construct smeltery today. Compared to the previous dabbling, this time was a real deep dive.

The Elf Princess was already wearing the slime boots he had made, still adorable pink boots. This was one type of Tinker's Construct tool.

But most Tinker's Construct tools required something more important to make: the Tinker's Construct smeltery.

This wasn't just a simple furnace or a complicated crafting process, but a set of connected structures, a smeltery that might become very large in the future.

This was a huge furnace made directly on-site, and everything would be put into the furnace, turning into rows of colored liquids.

This was also the special function of Tinker's Construct. They would turn a large amount of material into liquid and store it within, then discharge it to cast and shape when you needed to make various metal tools.

The size of the smeltery was at least 3x3 and at most 11x11. This was a very terrifying size. An 11x11 furnace could hold 121 items, and there was no special height limit, meaning you could make many layers.

The place Zhou Ren brought Hia to was deep in the underground mine. Here, the many skeletons had completely excavated the face of this underground canyon, completely revealing it to the two of them. Those glittering ores also revealed their identities.

"Wow!" she exclaimed, her eyes full of sparkling stars.

"This is the truth buried underground!" Zhou Ren said, revealing this secret. Of course, he had spent some time doing self-psychological construction.

The temperature on his hand couldn't help but rise. The Elf Princess held his hand very tightly, "I won't tell anyone else, unless... I become the mistress here..."

She smiled, her beauty radiant, her smile charming!

"Of course, I believe you. If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have brought you here!" Zhou Ren said silently. The two slowly descended with the hydraulic elevator.

The power that originally only covered a tiny bit of Hia's authority also covered her entire body at this moment. This was another direction of the MC rules. If it wasn't someone who completely trusted him, the rules themselves wouldn't have a huge inclination.

And once they gained the favor of the rules, it could generally be assumed that this person believed in him wholeheartedly.

The two of them continued forward, arriving at an open space they had already prepared. Some skeletons still clearing the space didn't hesitate to turn around and leave after seeing Zhou Ren, their master, had arrived.

"What a magical power! Such a large hollow, yet there's no missing piece!" Hia exclaimed, then took out her iron pickaxe and was about to walk towards the minerals.

"Hey, hey, hey, come back!" Although mining has always been full of a lot of magic, Zhou Ren still didn't want her to put all her energy into these underground minerals.

If they really wanted to mine, the two of them would have to go to the mine. Why would they run here?

Hia smiled shyly and stopped her hand.

"I always feel that these minerals have a magical power that makes me unable to stop myself!" she said.

Zhou Ren naturally deeply felt this feeling. He had also encountered it. He clearly wanted to do one thing, but couldn't stop himself after seeing the minerals, and a day had passed when he remembered it.

This wasn't an isolated case, but a special charm triggered by a sense of accomplishment that was fixed in reality.

These blocky creations were unmatched in attracting people, but there was no need to worry. After all, the charm of construction was about the same. This time, they came to make a huge, usable furnace.

Tinker's Construct tools had many benefits that ordinary tools couldn't match. For example, when they broke, they wouldn't explode and disappear like ordinary tools, but would become discarded tools that could be repaired with the Tinker's Construct workbench.

Moreover, by attaching some items, you could directly choose the enchantments you needed instead of relying on luck to stumble upon them.

This kind of thing was too important for non-chiefs.

Not to mention the combat badges that grant temporary invincibility and the artifacts useful in battle. If your reaction speed is fast enough, enemies attacking head-on won't be able to hit you.

However, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. To create these things, they still need a lot of preparation.

Just like the previous two modules, these things are never accomplished overnight. All the processes of Tinker's Construct need to start from scratch.

Moreover, he couldn't trust the newly arrived races, so he could only let them do some less important work. The truly important things were all buried underground.

The Tinker's Construct smeltery, of course, wasn't made right away. At the very least, he had to make all the prerequisite workbenches first, such as the crafting station.

This is something a bit like a workbench. You just need to put the workbench in the crafting grid, and it will automatically turn into a crafting station.

It's a workbench that has lost its large base and now stands on four legs.

The function of the crafting station is exactly the same as the workbench. The only difference is that when all these crafting tools are opened and placed together, using one will cause the others to respond in the same way.

This is also a small trick used by Tinker's Construct, which can better help them synthesize new objects and save time as much as possible.

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You don't need to retreat from one tool and enter another for use, like with other tools.

This greatly improves their work efficiency.

In addition to the crafting table, the remaining four work items are the stencil table, the pattern chest, the part builder, and the tool station.

To make these four workbenches that involve stencils and parts, a special item is needed, which is the blank pattern.

This is a tool obtained by placing two sticks and two planks diagonally. Its effect is that it can create various different patterns.

This is a bit like the preliminary step for printing or mold making. After making a blank pattern, you can not only use it to create the remaining workbenches, but also process it into various patterns in the stencil table.

From sticks to axes, to pickaxes, to various knives and swords, there are actually formulas here. The knives and swords created here are different. They have the inherent characteristics of Tinker's Construct, not only being sharper than the original versions but also requiring fewer materials.

Zhou Ren suddenly thought of something. If the dwarves were to make these, wouldn't that mean the required materials would be cut in half again?

Moreover, after ordinary ore is put into the Tinker's Construct smeltery, the smelted slag can be melted into two metal ingots, which means their mining efficiency is immediately doubled.

In that case... using dwarves can save half the materials again. With this in and out, they would gain four times the minerals out of thin air. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

He took out some newly harvested minerals from the dragons. The materials here were truly all-encompassing, even including various kinds of wood.

These dragons, who have ruled the continent for tens of thousands of years, truly have an unbelievable amount of treasures. However, as he expected, there were no enderium alloy, diamonds, or emeralds among them.

After all, these are exclusive minerals of Minecraft. If they really had them, that would be terrible!

Zhou Ren complained. He suddenly felt that these finished metal ores were a bit of a loss. Next time when those races come to send ores, he should just tell them to throw in ore blocks.

Moreover, the metal ingots smelted by these guys have an exchange ratio with Minecraft. Each of his metal ingots is 1/9 of a metal block, using a significant amount.

However, the metal ingots of ordinary races, including the dragons, are very standard fist-sized. A cubic metal block requires more than 200 metal ingots. With this back and forth, he seems to have lost a lot again.

"Lost, lost!" Zhou Ren muttered silently. Although the dragons gave a lot of materials, he felt a little distressed when he thought about the materials that those ores could have produced.

These materials were piled up by him in the boxes next to him. Dozens of storage drawers have already been sorted and placed here. The tools, minerals, and various materials that will be made in the future will all be stored here.

On the other side, Shea was also working very hard to make all the wooden workbenches, stacking them neatly in a row.

After the Tinker's Construct smeltery is made in the future, this place will become very important, and a large number of synthesis tasks will be completed here.

Both of them have almost finished their tasks. Next comes the most important part of the Tinker's Construct work: the construction of the Tinker's Construct smeltery!

Apart from the things that can be synthesized in ordinary workbenches and crafting stations, other equipment in the Tinker's Construct series needs to be made in the smeltery. This furnace, which can even melt obsidian, is the most terrifying thing.

As the hardest substance in the original game besides bedrock, the hardness of obsidian itself is terrifying. Even the Wither cannot destroy it very quickly.

However, in the smeltery, it can be quickly burned into molten liquid and then turned into new obsidian material.

This is also a brand-new feature of the Tinker's Construct mod: directly burning substances that cannot be shaped into liquid and reshaping them through patterns.

By doing so, a special material concept can be easily formed without minerals, which is a high level of mining ability.

In the Tinker's Construct series of tools, a tool cannot mine high-level minerals if it does not have a sufficient mining level, but obsidian happens to have a very high mining level and can be used as an additional material.

This means that he can even attach obsidian material to a stone pickaxe and directly use it to mine diamonds. This is too comfortable.

Without even needing to consume precious metal materials, it can be made simply with a stone pickaxe plus a little obsidian material, and then assembled on the Tinker's Construct tool station to give it a special obsidian enchantment.

This can also be considered a unique enchantment method of Tinker's Construct. With the blessing of this special substance, some very bizarre functions can actually be created.

Most of the other things also have this effect, such as the paper weapons that are rare but indeed very useful.

This is a tool with very low durability and attributes, but it has a special engraving attribute that can increase the reinforcement slots of tools or weapons.

Other characteristics are varied and need to be carefully explored later.