The bespectacled man led Steve through the corridor and pushed open the door to the grain storage room.
Rows of neat supermarket shelves came into view, but the shelves were empty.
Now the camp’s largest food source was Steve’s bread, so the storage room was almost empty.
Occasionally, a few packs of compressed biscuits could be seen lying lonely in the corner, next to a few dusty cans.
The bespectacled man walked to the innermost part, took a glass jar from the top shelf, and handed it to Steve.
The moment Steve took it and he let go, the glass jar was instantly compressed into a flat surface about a few centimeters thick with a glass jar pattern on it.
The bespectacled man almost had his glasses fall off his face.
Is this the legendary dimensional reduction strike?!
[Glass Jar of Pumpkin Seeds].
Steve looked at it again and again in his blocky hand, and tried to drag it into the four-grid crafting table on the backpack page.
It really could be directly crafted into [Pumpkin Seeds]*16.
The bespectacled man watched helplessly as the glass jar that was in his hand just now turned into a few creamy-white… dots in the Block Hero’s hand a few seconds later.
Dots.
Although he had seen many of the Block Hero’s wonders these days, and this small matter was indeed no longer worth making a fuss about, he was still a little curious: “What is this?”
Steve said nothing and turned to leave.
The bespectacled man was stunned for a moment by the Block Hero’s rudeness, but he didn’t care too much.
He shook his head and followed him out.
Steve went straight to the wheat farm and began to add a fifth floor by the moonlight.
The bespectacled man hadn’t looked closely at this wheat farm before.
Observing it up close for the first time, he realized that these wheats were not real crops at all, but simply several textures stacked together without thickness.
Just like in a video game.
The bespectacled man looked at the busy Block Hero in a daze, and the scene just now came back to his mind.
The moment he handed the glass jar to Steve, the jar was directly compressed into a flat pixel art.
It was as if it was… by the Block Hero…
Assimilated?
Thinking of this, he suddenly developed a strong curiosity about this block man.
“Hey, Block Hero,” he shouted towards the top floor of the wheat farm, “you wouldn’t happen to be a character from a video game, would you?”
Steve looked at him and was stunned for a long while.
Steve: ◨▂◧…
Man with glasses: (-@_@)…
The bespectacled man’ head was full of: Did I say something wrong?
Steve’s head was full of: What is a “video game”?
The air fell into a strange silence.
From the perspective of The bespectacled man, a square head stood more than ten meters above him, with its back to the moonlight, saying nothing, looking down at him.
Two square eyes that emitted a faint white light were embedded in that dark silhouette, giving off a weird, non-human feeling.
The silence stretched longer and longer.
The bespectacled man felt a little sweaty and broke the awkwardness with a dry cough: “Uh, do you understand your own abilities? For example, why were you able to completely change the physical properties of the glass jar just now?” Read the latest chapters at novelping(.)com.
Although Steve didn’t understand what he was saying, he knew what he was referring to, so he shook his head.
“That’s perfect,” The bespectacled man’ eyes lit up, “do you want to study your abilities in detail? I can help you!”
Steve fell into thought.
He had been in this dimension for four days now.
Gradually, he had also vaguely realized—this dimension, no, this world, was different from the “Minecraft” dimensions he was familiar with.
If it were just differences in lighting, texture precision, or model polygon counts, it would be fine.
The key was that there seemed to be many rules he didn’t know.
Just like that [Glass Jar of Pumpkin Seeds] that turned from a decorative block into an item as soon as it reached his hand.
And the stone pillar he built that day; after being touched by another Steve, the stone actually couldn’t float anymore and fell to the ground like sand.
Thinking carefully, how could a decorative block turn into an item?
And stones can’t float?
This is too unscientific.
Being asked this by this villager, Steve was indeed a little curious, so he nodded.
The bespectacled man was overjoyed: “Great! My name is Tyler, Tyler Anderson. You can come find me when you’re done, and we’ll study your abilities together!”
After saying that, Tyler waved his hand and turned to leave.
Steve quickly crouched a few times towards his back to show friendliness.
Unfortunately, Tyler didn’t see it, so Steve continued to plant pumpkins.
As for the reason for planting pumpkins, it was of course to create the strongest guardian in vanilla MC, the great iron ingot manufacturer, the white Zombie, the erroneous product that can only be born by chance when a bug occurs on the mountain with the highest Redstone technology—
The Iron Golem.
In less than ten minutes, Steve finished building the pumpkin patch.
Although the Zombies he killed today dropped thousands of bones and he had already achieved bone meal freedom, he was in no hurry to use bone meal to ripen the pumpkins, because he was still missing a key material to build an Iron Golem.
Iron.
One Iron Golem requires 1 Carved Pumpkin and 4 Iron Blocks.
1 Iron Block is crafted from 9 iron ingots.
When he came to this world, he had a stack of iron ingots with him, which is 64, only enough to make 7 Iron Blocks, which could only build one Iron Golem.
One is still a bit useless; he needs to build at least a dozen or twenty.
Then the [Advanced X-Ray] mod he unlocked earlier would come in handy.
…Right?
Steve thought it would be that simple, but after turning on [Advanced X-Ray] and filtering for Iron Ore, he found…
He couldn’t see anything?
He looked around blankly.
Whether above ground or underground, he couldn’t find even a single Iron Ore block.
What’s going on?
Is the mod not working?
Steve tried switching the filter to gold ore.
Couldn’t see it.
Diamond ore.
This… how is this different from the development I imagined?
But he couldn’t just not build the Iron Golem.
Even if he didn’t build the Iron Golem, if he needed to use the [Timeless and Classics] mod to make guns later, if he remembered correctly, he would also need a large number of iron ingots.
If he were a player, what would he do?
Steve fell into deep thought.
Right, dig a mine shaft by hand.
So Steve first used iron ingots to make two iron pickaxes.
Just as he was about to start digging, he suddenly realized he didn’t know his current Y-coordinate yet.
In MC, Iron Ore has the highest generation probability around Y-coordinates 10 to 30.
But to see the current Y-coordinate, you have to press F3 on the keyboard to see the debug screen.
He tried to imagine opening the debug screen in his mind, just like opening the backpack page, and several lines of white text really appeared in his field of vision.
But this debug screen was completely different from what he had seen before; there were only two rows:
3.435e+41 fps
XYZ: 40.763111 / 9.231452 / -73.987445
Steve was stunned.
Why are these numbers so strange?
To be safe, he still went to the crowded area by the camp bonfire and asked the villagers:
“How do you check your Y-axis coordinate? And the Iron Ore here, how many blocks down does it usually generate?”
As soon as he spoke, the people who were talking happily, including Tyler, all fell into a weird silence.
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By the bonfire, a slightly chubby bearded man asked hesitantly: “Uh… do you need to find Iron Ore, Block Hero?”
Steve nodded.
The bearded man took a puff of the cigarette butt in his hand: “Sss… whew. Which kind? Magnetite, Hematite, Limonite, or…?”
Steve was dumbfounded by the question.
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“Ordinary Iron Ore will do. The kind that drops Raw Iron after mining, and produces iron ingots after smelting Raw Iron, Iron Ore.”
Steve replied.
The bearded man’s hand holding the cigarette butt stopped a centimeter from his mouth, and he even forgot to put the cigarette butt in his mouth.
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The two of them stood there in a daze, staring at each other for a long time without speaking again.
The people around also looked at The bearded man and then at the Block Hero, no one knowing what to say.
Pfft—
Until someone nearby let out a fart.
Only then did The bearded man come back to his senses, his two thick eyebrows twisting together as he habitually stuffed the cigarette butt into his mouth: “Seriously, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if you want Hematite, I know where there is some.”
Steve thought for a moment; Hematite, Iron Ore, they should be about the same.
So he quickly crouched to show friendliness.
The bearded man blew out another smoke ring: “It’s just a bit far.”