Normally, most items start at the “white” grade. Only things that are nearly unusable are classified as “gray”—like the “Broken Branch” Su You just picked up.
[Broken Branch]
Category: Material
Quality: Gray
Description: A branch that’s almost snapped in two. It can’t be used for crafting or construction, but it might still have other uses.
Su You didn’t even look at it before tossing the broken branch into her backpack, showing no sign of disdain. In this game, there’s no such thing as a completely useless item—only people who don’t know how to make the most of their resources.
Even a broken branch can be extremely valuable in the early stages, when supplies are scarce.
[Obtained Branch x4]
[Obtained Branch x1]
After picking up all the branches nearby, Su You dusted the dirt off her hands and continued along the forest path.
The basic materials needed to craft a stone axe are [Wood x2, Stone x1].
The main way to get wood is by chopping trees, but since you can’t chop trees without an axe in the early game, you can collect branches and combine them into wood. Four branches can be synthesized into one unit of wood, so two units of wood means eight branches.
Su You only had six branches on her, still two short, but if there’s one thing forests aren’t lacking, it’s branches. She could easily find the last two just by walking around.
What worried her more was finding the stones needed to synthesize stone material.
Like wood, stone can also be synthesized, and it actually requires fewer materials—just three pieces of gravel make one stone. In mining resource areas, gravel is everywhere, but in forest resource areas, it’s both the most needed and the hardest to find in the early game.
By now, Su You had collected another five or six branches, but still hadn’t seen any sign of gravel.
She followed the forest path in a loop, and when she saw the trail leading deeper into the woods, she stopped.
Forest resource areas are safer than mining areas, but that doesn’t mean they’re completely without danger. For example, the depths of the forest are home to wild beasts—not somewhere she could venture right now.
She had already circled the outer paths of the forest and collected nearly all the available resources, so Su You opened her backpack to check her supplies.
[Backpack]
Slots: 5 (Upgradeable)
Items: Lord’s Token (does not take up space), Branch x20, Branch x14, Broken Branch x31, Gravel x2, Leaf x35
There are two important stats in the character’s backpack: stack limit and space, meaning the number of slots.
Take her current items as an example: the stack limit for branches is 20, so Su You has 34 branches in total—20 in one slot, and the remaining 14 in another.
Different items can have different stack limits. For example, both broken branches and leaves stack up to 50, so even with thirty-something of each, they only take up one slot apiece.
It’s worth noting that the Lord’s Token doesn’t take up any space. Otherwise, with so few slots, having to use one for the token would make the game even harder.
As for gravel…
Su You stared at her gravel count—just one short of being able to synthesize stone and then craft an axe. Her blood pressure started to rise.
She’d already had a bad feeling while gathering resources, but she didn’t expect her bad luck to follow her even after the world had become data-driven, stubbornly refusing to leave her side…
To this, Su You had only two words to say:
Su You: Get lost!!!
After calming herself down, Su You found a flat spot to sit and rest for a while.
Time was tight, but it was still necessary to balance work and rest, because every action consumed a stat called “Stamina.” If stamina hit zero, she wouldn’t be able to do anything—not even walk.
So no matter what, you can’t let your stamina drop to nothing, unless you have items that can restore it.
But she obviously didn’t have anything like that right now, so to avoid any mishaps, she had to rest… If she didn’t, she’d probably end up crawling on the ground.
While she was resting, Su You opened her personal info panel to check her current stats.
Stamina: 51/100
Hunger: 78/100
HP: 100/100
Status: Slight Fatigue (Resting, estimated recovery time: 4 minutes 46 seconds)
The data made it clear: even though Su You had only spent half an hour gathering resources, she’d already used up nearly half her stamina.
If she remembered correctly, while sitting and resting, stamina recovered at a rate of one point per minute. That meant it would take 49 minutes to fully recover.
However, Su You currently had an aura called [Healthy Survival], which doubled all recovery speeds—including stamina, HP, status effects, and so on.
Normally, it would take ten minutes to recover from slight fatigue, but judging by the countdown, it started at five minutes. So the aura was indeed working as intended.
In other words, with the aura, it would only take about 25 minutes to fully recover stamina.
Still, 25 minutes was quite a long time…
But Su You wasn’t one to waste time—and she didn’t have any to spare. So she took out the materials she’d collected earlier from her backpack.
She couldn’t make an axe yet, but with the materials she had and something she’d just discovered, she could still craft a few things.
Before making her tool, Su You first took out 20 branches, opened the crafting panel, found the workbench section, and put all 20 branches into her portable workbench to be turned into wood.
[Convert Branch x20 into Wood x5?]
Su You selected “Yes,” and saw the gears of the portable workbench start to turn. The status next to it changed from [Idle] to [Busy].
[Crafting: Wood, estimated time: 60 seconds]
[Remaining: Wood x4, estimated time: 240 seconds]
Each piece of wood required four branches and took one minute to craft. So 20 branches for five pieces of wood would take five minutes.
Everything was exactly as Su You remembered—nothing had changed.
Next, she closed the workbench panel and took out two branches and a piece of gravel from her backpack.
Gravel was, as the name implied, a small broken stone. Su You found the sharpest, flattest side and, as if sharpening a pencil, used it to whittle the two branches until they were both pointed, though not exactly sharp, before stopping.”
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