Ch.117117. Farm Warehouse

After spending all day digging mud in the swamp and returning, I found there wasn’t enough storage space in the warehouse.

“I need to build a proper storage area.”

I couldn’t keep making storage spaces inside the house and storing items there forever. Besides, the current storage was located on the second floor, which made it a bit annoying to retrieve and use items. Most storage items were automatically consumed when used at the crafting table, and the legendary chest handled the storing process automatically, but I still had to manually retrieve items if I wanted to take them into the real world.

It’s more convenient to separate spaces—keeping living spaces as living spaces and storage areas as dedicated storage areas.

So the next day, as soon as I woke up, I turned on construction mode to build a storage area using 20P of my available base points.

A place that would serve as both storage and workspace for the crafting table, furnace, and other equipment—essentially a workshop. I envisioned something like those storage sheds next to American houses. I mixed wood and sound-absorbing materials for good soundproofing and made it rectangular to differentiate it from my cabin.

Since everything was temporary anyway, I didn’t put too much effort into it. Most of the materials I had were from low-level biomes, insufficient for making sturdy and sophisticated building materials. It just needed to look like a storage shed from the outside.

Most importantly, even though it was a building within my base, it needed to be connected to the cabin.

“I’ll put a door here…”

I made an entrance like a garage attached to a house, but I also added a side door so I could enter the storage area from inside the cabin. This was important because in Farming World, there’s only one space where the “absolute invincibility” effect applies—the cabin itself. Other parts of the base don’t receive this protection.

In other words, it’s not that monsters can’t attack inside the base because the cabin is there; rather, the cabin is safe because the base is attached to it.

This is something veteran players repeatedly explain in community forums when newcomers complain about monsters destroying their fields inside the base area.

That’s why you always need to check when building workspaces or storage areas: Is it connected to the cabin?

There are various ways to connect to the cabin, and even simple corridors are recognized as connections, so getting the invincibility effect isn’t actually that difficult. Some people even build their entire base perimeter like fortress walls connected by corridors.

My Su-hyun’s massive mansion village in Farming World 1 was built as a fortress using similar principles. With that setup, monsters couldn’t get in, and you could safely farm or do whatever you wanted inside.

Since I don’t have enough base points for such a large area now, I’m simply attaching the storage to the side of the cabin.

“Wow. What is this place?”

“Storage. If you need anything from now on, you can find it here.”

“It’s huge. Will it all be filled with chests?”

“Probably. About half will be for work tools.”

I don’t have many work tools at the moment—just a crafting table, furnace, and seed extractor. Which means I can use almost all the space for chests and storage.

After moving the small chests, I headed to the village to get medium chests.

“Kukum!”

“What is it?”

“I brought it. The hair removal potion.”

“Ah! Finally!”

Kukum eagerly grabbed the permanent hair removal potion and carefully applied it to his head, making sure not to waste a single drop. The effectiveness of the one-year potion was already evident, as his thick brown hair was growing abundantly, and now the new potion soaked into it.

“This is a perfect potion.”

“Do you like it?”

“Hair that can withstand unquenchable flames—I’ve never seen this in my 5,000 years of life! Hahaha!”

Kukum laughed heartily.

I hadn’t expected to build rapport with a dwarf so quickly.

[Quest Complete!]

The quest completed immediately without even checking if the potion actually worked.

I received 20 farming ability points, and Kukum’s affinity reached 100%.

“I promise you, my friend. I will create a masterpiece with all the soul of my life. I brought treasures of the dwarf clan when I came here—tell me what weapon you desire.”

“Really? You can make it right away?”

“Of course.”

“Then let me think about it for a bit.”

“Sure.”

Kukum immediately called me his friend.

I thought I might need to gather materials for an SS-grade weapon, but he said he already had materials he’d brought with him.

Faced with this sudden choice, I hesitated and postponed the decision.

I figured I could just get a one-handed sword the length of the Sewer Sword, but I was also enjoying the feel of my current Greatsword of Madness, so I needed to think about it.

Besides, I wasn’t in urgent need of a weapon right now.

After finishing my business, I purchased the medium chest recipe from Kukum.

“Hahaha. I can’t charge my friend full price. Just give me 3,000 Fam.”

The high affinity was worth it.

Kukum gave me a half-price discount on the medium chest recipe, which normally costs 6,000 Fam.

I already knew from Ji-hyun that the actual cost wasn’t that expensive, but it was still a welcome discount for me.

Since you can produce unlimited chests once you have the recipe, recipe prices tend to be expensive.

And if you don’t have materials, you can just buy directly from Kukum, but that costs 1,000 Fam per medium chest, which isn’t a great choice unless you’re swimming in Fam.

After learning the medium chest recipe, I returned and checked the required materials at the crafting table.

Small chests basically need wood, stone, and weeds.

Medium chests also require wood, stone, and weeds, but they need C-grade materials instead of D-grade.

They also require copper ingots, which is why I had to use small chests until now, before discovering the mine.

“I have quite a lot of C-grade materials.”

The basic materials from level 0 biomes are D-grade.

Most come as D+, but occasionally there’s a small chance of getting one grade higher, like C-.

I had quite a few of those resources, and some corrupted resources had been purified, raising their grade to C or even C+ in some cases.

This time, I deliberately brought mud from the level 1 swamp biome, even though I only had resources from the level 0 biome.

You can freely use resources from C- to C+, but naturally, higher-grade resources have a better chance of producing better finished products.

I gathered only C+ grade materials and added copper ingots.

I started crafting a medium chest.

Like a 3D printer, a blueprint appeared and gradually took physical form.

A chest larger than the small one, with bits of iron mixed in, was completed.

[Medium Chest]

– Grade: C+

– A chest made of fairly sturdy wood and stone. Seems good for storing a moderate amount of items.

– Crafted in size 150 X 10.

The good thing about chests is that they follow game mechanics more closely.

Chest on top of chest.

In reality, you’d need to leave space above a chest for the lid to open, but in Farming World, that’s not necessary.

When you open a chest, it displays like an inventory where you can put items in and take them out.

So I placed chests on the floor and stacked medium chests on top like Tetris blocks.

Since I had opened up the ceiling to two floors high, it could easily accommodate five stacked chests.

I didn’t need to stack them higher since I wouldn’t be storing that many resources in this spacious storage area right away, so I arranged them in rows of 10 chests, 5 high.

A 10×5 array of medium chests was completed.

“Looks nice.”

Uniform arrangements can be monotonous, but there’s also charm in the regularity of that monotony.

I like that sort of thing.

Of course, I prefer arrangements of hero and legendary chests more than these medium chests.

Medium chests against the wall, and a space away, the hero chest I got from the dungeon.

The legendary chest remained in its original position, steadfastly guarding the door of the cabin.

Even with the new storage area, nothing beats that accessibility.

After farming, I can stuff all the farmed items in there before going to the storage area, eliminating the need to go to storage for organizing.

I felt satisfied.

I kept purified resources separate, and also piled up the mud I had mined, but there was still plenty of empty space in the chests.