Currently, her backpack contains: Lord’s Token (doesn’t take up space), String x10, Pebbles x2, Wood x5, empty, empty.
By the tree there are: Broken Trap x1, Crude Wooden Needle x1, Broken Branches x31, Leaves x19, Fiber Scraps x3, Wooden Needle x1 (Durability 4/20).
In fact, Su You didn’t just pick her resting spot at random. She deliberately chose a clearing surrounded by cover on all sides. Not only was this a temporary rest spot, but it would also serve as her makeshift shelter for the night.
She left all the useless materials—only good for starting fires—here, and kept the more important items on her. Now, Su You was ready to leave and take care of three things.
First, set up the small traps she’d just crafted somewhere in the forest.
Second, look for edible food in the woods.
Third, keep searching for the last pebble she needed, then craft an axe to chop wood.
Although branches could be turned into wood, it was far too slow and time-consuming.
Su You hadn’t rested for very long, but her status had already recovered from “Slightly Tired” to “Normal,” and her stamina had risen from 51 to 72.
At a recovery rate of two points per minute, she should have rested for about ten minutes, but in reality, she’d spent longer than that. She’d been making needles and small traps during that time. It wasn’t exhausting, but it did use up some stamina.
Still, 72 stamina was plenty.
Su You brushed the dirt and dust from her clothes, marked her current location, and then, carrying three traps, retraced her steps.
She planned to return to her starting point first, because she remembered seeing some berry bushes with edible fruit behind her spawn location.
On the way back, she kept an eye on her surroundings. Whenever she spotted subtle animal tracks, she set one of her small traps in a hidden spot nearby.
Before she was even halfway there, all three traps were set.
No longer needing to watch for animal tracks, Su You picked up her pace. Before long, she’d left the forest’s edge and arrived back at her starting point.
As it turned out, her memory was spot on. As soon as she emerged from the woods, she saw a few unevenly sized shrubs growing under a large tree to her left, each one covered in plump, glossy red berries.
She glanced at her hunger meter, which had dropped to 59, then walked over to the berry bushes. First, she picked a few and ate them, bringing her hunger back to full. Then she started gathering the rest.
【Red Berry】
Category: Food
Quality: Common
Effect: +6 Hunger when eaten
Description: A red berry that grows on bushes. Sweet and juicy, it can also help quench thirst to some extent, but spoils very easily.
Although the game’s character panel only displays Hunger and not Thirst, there are many hidden stats. Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
If you go too long without eating foods that can quench thirst, your character’s status will change, and in severe cases, you’ll even get a debuff (negative effect/aura).
Similarly, drinking water in this game can also restore a little hunger—though not much. Even drinking a whole bucket only adds 1 point. There was once a player who couldn’t find food and survived for a long time just by drinking stream water to stave off both hunger and thirst.
Although stream water is harmless, he still ended up with a debuff, because you can’t get by without thirst-quenching foods, and you can’t skip staple foods that actually fill you up.
Red berries are considered one of the most important early-game resources for beginners, precisely because they’re the only food in the game that, without any processing (key point), can both “quench thirst” and “fill you up.”
And it’s not just early on—even in the late game, when players are decked out in gold and jewels, commanding countless talented followers and wielding immense influence, there are still plenty of city lords who, for convenience’s sake, secretly get by on nothing but red berries.
However, as great as red berries are, they have one fatal flaw: their shelf life is extremely short. The “spoils very easily” in the description says it all.
Without any preservation measures, red berries last only about two days. After that, they turn into “Spoiled Red Berries.” Eating them still restores hunger and quenches thirst, but the hunger restored is less, and there’s a chance you’ll get a “Diarrhea” debuff.
As an experienced player, Su You would never let that happen. She picked just one stack (fifty berries) before preparing to leave.
Fifty berries is 300 hunger points. It might not seem like much, but berries can be processed, and processed berries restore more hunger and last a bit longer.
Processing red berries is simple—at least, with what Su You currently has, she can manage it.
Besides, the berry bushes aren’t far from her temporary camp. She can always come back for more if needed. Picking too many at once would just take up precious backpack space… so one stack is enough.
With an extra stack of red berries, Su You now had only one empty slot left in her backpack.
Next, she took a different path through the forest, opposite to her previous route, to complete her third task: searching for pebbles.
Maybe she’d just had bad luck with her earlier path, because on this new route, she’d barely taken a few steps—she could still see the berry bushes behind her—when she immediately found two pebbles lying side by side.
【Obtained Pebble x2】
Su You: …Should I call this good luck or bad luck?
If it’s bad luck, well, at least she found the pebbles and didn’t end up unable to craft an axe.
If it’s good luck, then she should have picked this path from the start. As she bent down to pick up the pebbles, her lowered viewpoint let her spot a third pebble hidden under some low, unknown shrubbery.
【Obtained Pebble x1】
Staring at the three pebbles in her hand, Su You fell silent for a moment.
After a few seconds, she tossed the pebbles onto the workbench.
【Convert Pebble x3 into Stone x1?】
【Crafting Stone… Estimated time: 60 seconds】
While waiting for the stone to finish crafting, Su You searched the area, hoping to find a fourth pebble.
Even though she now had enough to make an axe, pebbles were needed for more than just that in the early game. All tools had durability, and until she could craft items to repair them, she’d have to keep making new ones as they wore out.”
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