Chapter 15 : Only I Get Double Experience

Map information is basically checked first when you select a map and start.

You need to confirm whether the map you chose is properly set up, so that after investing time and effort, you don’t discover later that it was incorrectly set and have to reset.

But I have hardly ever checked the map information while playing Farming World.

There simply wasn’t a need to check it.

Most of the time, I spent time on the main map, and even with the maps I quickly mined, there was no need to check map information because, in fact, map info has no effect unless you add mods.

At most, I’d open the map info once to check the rarity or amount of resources in the selected map, but other than that, it doesn’t contain any special info except showing extra effects from modded maps.

So naturally, I never thought of checking map info first when I got this map.

Since I play only vanilla maps without mods, I had no memory of having modded the Secret Farming Map either.

But this map had mods applied.

“The Rift Dimension is the highest among all dimensions. Since it is the dimension where the energy of life and death dwells, life grows well and death comes easily.”

Lulu’s pointless TMI didn’t register in my ears.

“Somehow, it grows fast.”

Healing herb normally takes 5 days to bear fruit.

But today is day 3. The stem is already stretching out, and red fruit is about to appear, so I thought it was a bug.

[Healing Herb]

• Grade: ? (Growing)
• A plant composed of fruit and leaves. Can be harvested all year round, takes 5 days (120 hours) to cultivate.
• Growth speed increases by 10% in spring and summer
• Growth speed decreases by 20% in winter
• Remaining cultivation time: 13 hours 17 minutes / 48 hours

“It’s real..”

This map applies a 50% growth speed increase overall, and on top of that, healing herb’s spring and summer 10% faster growth reduces the 120-hour cultivation time to 48 hours.

Just two days.

It means the fruit will bear by morning after sleeping, ready to harvest.

“Crazy.”

This means not only farming world crops but also modern crops, if brought and planted, can yield several times more efficiency. Plus, I currently have an F-grade farming skill.

It’s almost a useless skill, but if I raise the grade, I can make various skills or fertilizers that increase cultivation speed, and adding this would drastically reduce growth time.

“I don’t have enough seeds to sell.”

Two days means I can cycle three times including logout cooldown. The problem is I don’t have many healing herb seeds.

Today, I got 5 seeds while cleaning the yard all day.

Compared to the 3 I got on the first day, that’s a lot, but it’s still not enough if I want to make big money selling them.

I wasn’t too worried about that.

Healing herbs are one of the most abundant resources in Farming World.

Since you have to make healing potions yourself to be able to hunt, you initially farm healing herbs for resources and get them at low probability, but as biome levels rise, the drop rate naturally increases.

More shocking than that was the experience point option.

Effects related to farming or increased chances for rare/hero rewards in farming are good, but experience points are the foundation and core of growth in this game.

Experience points, which can be gained from many actions, are the strength of Farming World as much as I reached level 999 in my main map.

So this experience gain effect, in the original game, you can adjust the values with mods, but I’ve never used it even once.

That was the pride of a vanilla user.

Once you use a mod, you can’t stand the reverse feeling.

Even if I started like that, my main map is no-mod vanilla, so if I add one or two mods here, why even play the game?

Of course, mod users say it’s convenient.

I understand and acknowledge that.

Farming World has elements to enjoy beyond just grinding — like adventure or equipment upgrades.

I also find fun in these things more than grinding, so mods to reduce repetitive and boring grinding time aren’t something I can criticize harshly.

Besides, the game company acknowledges this and included mods in the game itself.

But I just wanted to play without mods.

That’s why I was able to play for 10 years and proudly show off my map.

If I were to add mods, the one I absolutely would never add was the experience rate mod.

A mod that shortens all effort time just by being added.

If I played this map with the experience gain +100% set now, I could have finished the kingdom in 5 years, not 10.

It looks like it can even be upgraded since it shows a level.

“Sigh…”

Something unacceptable pierced my heart regardless of my will.

If it were before, I would have exploded in anger.

How dare they dump this crap on my map!

I would have deleted it immediately and restarted with vanilla without mods.

“…But it’s so good.”

But my pride didn’t insist here.

Honestly, there’s no reason or need to call this pride.

My head and heart already understand Secret Farming Map and Farming World as clearly separated between reality and game.

Didn’t Lulu say so too?

The existence who has this Rift Dimension, whether god or whatever, picked testers including me and chose the person they liked most from playing Farming World — that was me — and gave me the position of the Rift Dimension’s owner.

If Farming World is a game for testing, this is reality.

Of course, there’s no need to bring the convictions made in the game into reality.

I’m the type who planned to break through biomes in the shortest route because faster growth is better.

Even though I changed my plan a bit to focus on achievements, the plan to quickly level up and make this map my own kingdom is still valid.

“Somehow…”

One of the things that made me suspicious enough to check the map info was that I caught 5 Big Rats on the first day, and today, while cleaning the yard, I worked hard gathering resources, plus some small hunts, and my level reached 3.

I sneakily checked the map effects for information on leveling up experience gain mode.

[Lv2 Experience gain required resource: Achievement Point 1]

So that’s it.

Achievements turned out to be a content you have to work on harder than expected.

I guess there might even be a way to buy this ‘mode’ called a map effect at the achievement shop.

It was quite interesting.

Players of Farming World say:

Mods aren’t bad, but enjoy all the vanilla content first, then add mods later.

That way, even though it’s the same game, it’ll feel like playing a completely different new game.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be lying if I said I didn’t hesitate.

The map I’ve raised for 10 years is now completed enough that I don’t have to lift a finger, and if I’m not quitting, all that’s left in Farming World is to dig a new map and play it.

I played for 10 years at the highest difficulty map, but if a new map comes out, can I pour that same passion again?

In the end, it’s either installing mods or leaving the old maps and quitting.

I ended up here debating between these two options.

Even if it wasn’t my choice, I wonder if people who install mods and play feel this way?

“I’ll spend the achievement points here first.”

Tonight’s dinner is Big Rat meat again.

While grilling the meat, Lulu hovered nearby, watching me with a knowing look.

“Master…”

“Why?”

“..Aren’t you eating ramen today?”

That shy look with fluttering wings is exactly like a foreigner obsessed with ramen.

Giving ramen isn’t difficult.

Just growing one healing herb can buy several boxes of ramen.

But it shouldn’t be like that.

“Are you just wasting food without doing anything?”

“Hing…”

“Those who don’t work shouldn’t eat.”

“But I did find the village location…”

“You ate yesterday, remember? Even snacks.”

That rude fairy’s only useful skill is navigation, so should I feed her this and that just because she’s cute?

If I give her rewards for work done, maybe some unknown skill will suddenly appear.

Ignoring Lulu’s sharp glances, the third night passed.

[Day 4]

[Healing Herb]

• Grade: D+ (Can be cultivated)
• A plant composed of fruits and leaves.
• Can be harvested all year round and takes 5 days (120 hours) to cultivate.
• Growth speed increases by 10% in spring and summer
• Growth speed decreases by 20% in winter
• Can cultivate fruit (2), leaves (3)

“The amount of resources stored here is seriously cheating.”

Resource storage means how many resources are deposited on this map.

It’s a word that means the total amount of resources, but it also affects how much you get from crops or minerals.

Of course, it doesn’t matter below grade S, but from SS grade onwards, it has an effect, and the Healing Herb, which usually only has one fruit and one leaf or no fruit at all, now holds twin flowers.