After finishing all this, the first thing Su You did wasn’t to check what she had made, but to blow the wood shavings off the gravel and immediately put the gravel away… She only had two pieces of gravel in total, and she needed one more to make an axe. If she lost one just to make this thing, it would be a huge loss.
Once she made sure the gravel was safely stored, Su You finally turned her attention to the two wooden needles she’d just crafted.
【Wooden Needle】
Category: Tool
Quality: White
Attack: +1
Durability: 20/20
Description: A wooden needle, one of the basic tools. Can be used for sewing and gathering materials.
【Rough Wooden Needle】
Category: Tool
Quality: Gray
Attack: +0
Durability: 2/2
Description: A roughly made wooden needle. Usable, but barely.
At first, Su You was quite pleased when she saw the stats of the first needle—until she saw the second one… Luck played a part, but limited materials were also a factor. Honestly, she was already doing well to get even one usable needle.
She didn’t mind her current streak of bad luck, as long as she didn’t fail to get a Flame Stone when she went to kill the Fire Demon later. She could treat this run of bad luck as a warm-up… Comforting herself with this thought, Su You tossed the rough wooden needle aside, planning to use it as firewood later.
Actually, it wasn’t just the rough needle—she’d also collected broken branches and leaves, all for the purpose of making a fire… But that was a matter for the evening, so she set it aside for now.
The wooden needle was one of the few tools that could be made by hand, without any equipment.
Although a workbench could also produce wooden needles—and guaranteed usable ones at that, not rough ones—the biggest drawback was that crafting a needle at the workbench consumed one piece of gravel. So Su You still preferred to make them by hand.
The advantage of handcrafting was that the gravel could be recovered, but the downsides were obvious: it was tiring, and the quality of the resulting tool was inconsistent. The “rough wooden needle” she’d just made was a perfect example.
Holding the hard-won wooden needle, Su You deftly stabbed it into the stem of a nearby plant, then pried upward. She then used her hand to peel away the exposed white, velvety fibers inside.
【Obtained Fiber Scrap x8】
【Obtained Fiber Scrap x3】
After collecting all the velvety fibers from the plant, Su You had gathered 11 strands of fiber scrap.
【Fiber Scrap】
Category: Material
Quality: White
Description: A velvety substance from plant stems, used as a basic crafting material.
Unlike gravel or branches, fiber scrap had no real use except as firewood unless it was processed. Its real value came from being crafted into string.
And it took a full 10 strands of fiber scrap to make a single piece of string, so while 11 strands seemed like a lot, it was only enough for one string.
After confirming that this was indeed the plant that produced fiber scrap, Su You, needle in hand, grabbed the next “victim” and repeated the process without hesitation.
【Obtained Fiber Scrap x12】
With a blank expression, Su You mechanically repeated her actions, collecting all the fiber plants she could see in the area.
By now, her once fully durable wooden needle was down to 4/20 durability—meaning it had only 4 points left.
Each fiber plant consumed 1 durability, so Su You had used up 16 durability to harvest 16 plants.
She now had 183 strands of fiber scrap in her backpack, which meant each plant yielded an average of 11.4 strands.
Given that each plant could yield between 10 and 15 strands, anything below an average of 12 was pretty much the worst luck possible.
And Su You hadn’t even reached 11.5.
…As expected of her—her luck was pitch black.
Su You: It’s just a warm-up… just a warm-up…
Trying to convince herself that a run of bad luck would lead to a burst of good fortune, Su You took out the five pieces of wood she’d just finished crafting, then dumped all 180 strands of fiber scrap into her portable workbench.
【Convert Fiber Scrap x180 into String x18?】
While tossing the remaining three useless strands of fiber scrap—which were just taking up space—beside a tree, Su You selected “Yes.”
【Crafting: String. Estimated time: 10 seconds】
【Remaining: String x17. Estimated time: 170 seconds】
After waiting quietly for twenty seconds, Su You took out the two completed strings, then grabbed three branches and four leaves from her backpack. After a bit of fiddling, a brand-new item was ready.
【Small Trap】 (Consumes: Branch x3, String x2, Leaf x4)
Category: Tool
Quality: White
Attack: +3
Durability: 3/3
Description: A trap that can be used to catch small animals.
She… actually succeeded?
A look of shock flashed in Su You’s eyes.
She’d thought, with her luck, she’d fail on her first try for sure…
While she was making her first trap, three more strings finished crafting. Su You quickly took out two, hoping to ride her streak of good luck and make the remaining three traps all at once.
Thirty seconds later, Su You stared expressionlessly at the “Broken Trap” in her hand… or rather, “fuel.”
She casually tossed it aside, already planning to use it the same way as the rough wooden needle.
What was this called?
Double happiness, or scoring twice in a row?
“Heh…”
The exact same crafting process, yet two completely different results—Su You couldn’t even comfort herself anymore.
Glancing at the eight remaining branches, she couldn’t be bothered to think it through. She just grabbed enough materials for two more traps and decided to make the last two in one go.
【Obtained Small Trap x1】
【Obtained Small Trap x1】
Looking at the three intact small traps in her hands, Su You felt relieved that this world had at least left her a way to survive. She packed up her things and put the remaining ten strings from the workbench into her backpack.
Actually, a long time ago, there was a bug with the portable workbench: you could leave crafted items inside indefinitely, effectively using it as extra backpack space if you managed it right.
But later, this bug was fixed—if you left items in the workbench for too long without taking them out, they’d disappear, preventing players from exploiting it for extra storage.
She wasn’t sure if this version had fixed it or not, but she decided not to risk it for now.
Su You tidied up her not-so-full backpack, then took out the broken branches, leaves, and nearly worn-out wooden needle, tossing them—along with the broken trap and rough wooden needle—beside the tree with the three strands of fiber scrap.
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