Ch.213213. How to Survive in a Farming World.

Many people think that the most important aspect of playing Farming World is the hunting content that breaks through biomes.

This is because there’s a safe base in the form of a cabin, and with some clever tricks, you can create fields and establish the foundations for farming within it.

Even if your base gets attacked, as long as you only have things within the cabin’s boundaries, you won’t lose everything.

But only those who look down on Farming World make such judgments.

Those who have truly enjoyed Farming World and experienced the so-called end-game content—

Those who have enjoyed level 7-8 biomes while expanding their base would never say such things.

Farming World contains numerous content types, with farming and healing being the main attraction.

The reason Farming World briefly flourished and still maintains many dedicated fans is because its main farming and healing content is exceptionally well-designed, with hunting content serving as a good secondary feature. If hunting were the only focus, there would be no reason to play this farming-focused grind game when there are countless raid games available.

Of course, looking back now, Farming World essentially transplanted the dungeon system from the Rift Dimension, making it impossible for other hunting games to create the same dungeon format.

Anyway, since it’s only been a year, many events haven’t appeared yet, but soon various base-related events will emerge from the Rift Dimension.

Starting with simple monster invasions from surrounding biomes to disasters and natural calamities.

There are actually quite a lot when you list them all.

Among these contents, there’s one that users find particularly annoying and troublesome—events involving monsters or natives.

Natural disasters are somewhat better in comparison.

Heavy rain or floods that can damage even the inside of your base are more annoying and cause greater damage than invasion events, but at least with those, you just need to take shelter and endure until you can repair the damage.

But when you get entangled with monsters or natives, this game becomes mind-bogglingly chaotic.

The monsters and natives of Farming World… or the Rift Dimension now, are half-beast at best.

The Naru tribe I met had intelligence and were half-human, similar to elves, and being a weak race, they weren’t particularly aggressive by nature.

That’s why I went out of my way to help them while working them hard.

But that was truly an exceptional case.

For races in the food chain, killing and being killed is considered natural.

They know better than anyone that they need to reduce the numbers of other races to gain an advantage, whether they’re weaker or stronger. So even if they outwardly grovel, bow their heads, and pretend to submit, the moment you turn your back, they’ll pounce to tear out your throat—that’s exactly what the natives and monsters I encountered in Farming World were like.

That’s why it’s incredibly difficult to bring them in as slaves or NPCs.

You need to nearly kill them and then invest a tremendous amount of time until you receive their perfect oath of submission. Users found this too troublesome, so they just paid expensive Farm currency to bring in system-approved NPCs for their agricultural workforce.

Later, when I had Farm currency to spare, I also brought in easy-to-manage NPCs that suited my farm, but in the early and mid-game when Farm was scarce, I used slaves.

Whether natives or monsters.

When I first started the game, I went through many trials and errors.

Showing moderate leniency and thinking, “This should be enough, right?”

Judging by human emotions, by my own standards—I ruined my farm more than once that way.

Simply having fields destroyed or my storage looted isn’t really much damage.

If I die and my base gets conquered to the point where revival becomes difficult, I just abandon that map.

Even if I get sick of it and leave after completely destroying the farm, it’s nearly impossible to rebuild a farm from scratch after a significant amount of time has passed.

Even if it’s a waste of time, it’s better to start a new map than to rebuild there.

So for quite a long time, I took on that challenge.

Sometimes I took the easy route and just earned more Farm currency to skip ahead, but I developed a stubborn determination.

I was going to tame these bastards no matter what.

Now I have enough leisure to think, “Do I really need to live so difficultly? It’s not like I have time to waste.”

But back then, it wasn’t like that.

Farming World was my life, and the time I spent in Farming World was my life, so I made a somewhat rational and calculated decision that if I couldn’t overcome this, I would waste time at this stage whenever I played Farming World in the future. So for about 3-4 years, I lived like a beast in Farming World, trying to understand and judge them through countless attempts.

In fact, my broken personality and trash character when I first awakened might have been because I was already immersed in and tainted by the survival-of-the-fittest mentality of Farming World back then.

Anyway, the conclusion I reached was simple.

The most perfect way to eradicate those targeting me and prevent them from ever targeting me again is to either instill a bone-deep fear that they should never touch me, or to completely exterminate them.

That’s why I nearly drove goblins to extinction in the early game and killed all the Black Monkeys with the intention of exterminating them.

This applies to humans, beasts, monsters, NPCs, or any other race.

“They haven’t done anything to me yet?”

“They showed intent but haven’t caused major damage yet, so maybe I’m overreacting?”

That’s how you end up getting attacked.

Once, there was a monster invasion event at my farm.

They were extremely troublesome monsters.

They would irregularly attack the farm day and night, killing only the NPCs I hired and the monsters I had subjugated, then leave.

Of course, I strictly warned everyone not to go outside the cabin, but we couldn’t live forever without going outside.

The boundary I had set with the cabin wasn’t very large yet as I was still mapping the area, and I couldn’t solve everything by just farming inside.

Some events end in just a few days, but major events could last from months to years.

Well, each month is one season, so…

They were incredibly persistent, making noise outside while I was sleeping so I couldn’t rest properly, but when I went out to kill them, they were so agile that they always escaped.

Eventually, I thought I would go insane, forget about the hired NPCs and slaves, so I decided to catch just one of them each day with everything I had.

No matter how good they were at escaping, I could still catch one, and that one would be dragged into the farm to fully bear the brunt of my stress relief.

Those outside would have heard the screams.

And the next day, I would hang the skinned and finely dismembered corpse outside the farm where they could see it clearly.

It might seem cruel, but it was just incomplete butchering.

About four months after the event started.

They stopped coming to our farm.

Instead, I tracked their traces, found their biome, found their base.

And again, I caught just one each day and punished them.

At that time, I wasn’t strong enough to attack and wipe out an entire village of monsters by myself, so that’s why I did it that way, and seeing the good response, I continued.

Eventually, when I went to catch another one near their village,

They all came out of the village, exposed their bellies, and swore allegiance to me.

Did I think they might be trying to deceive me? No.

After such a long battle that would seem absurd to any outside observer, this was the moment of confirmed victory.

If they betrayed me, I was confident I could do it all again, and they had surrendered out of that fear.

That’s how I protected my farm in Farming World.

It was just a game then.

Now that the Rift Dimension has become reality, and I know how to protect my family and people, is there any reason not to use that method just because it’s reality?

Kellin granted my request as expected.

While it was difficult to find perfect information about such a large organization, I received enough to be sufficient.

It would be better to proceed slowly.

“Sigh… I wanted to live a good life.”

In truth, that would mean abandoning my humanity.

This is reality.

I kept reminding myself of this as I tried to correct the unconscious tendencies that emerged when I played Farming World.

That’s why Lulu says that her master has changed a lot from the beginning.

Well, it’s not exactly bringing out a hidden nature in a good way.

But when it’s time to act, you have to act.

It didn’t seem right to debate what’s right or wrong.

I first went to find the source of this incident.

“Brothers, I got my prosthetic arm and leg today. I’m going to return as a hunter and really show some good content… Huh? What the… Fuck. H-how… I’m streaming… AAARGH!”

Finding Kang Sungjun wasn’t difficult.

Whether he couldn’t let go of his attachment or was just checking things out, his viewers had decreased but he was still live on YouTube.

“Perfect timing.”

I grabbed the camera he was holding, greeted the screen, then kicked his prosthetic leg until it broke and pulled off his prosthetic arm as Kang Sungjun staggered and fell, and I logged in with him.