She needed to return to her base and “process” the rabbit first.
An unexpected gain was certainly a good thing, but the appearance of this rabbit had disrupted Su You’s original plans.
According to her initial plan, she was supposed to head to the respawn point where that mysterious creature had wiped out all the stone monsters yesterday. She’d spotted a type of stone called “sandstone” in that area.
Sandstone requires a pickaxe to mine, and its main use is to craft an item called a “whetstone.”
As the name suggests, a whetstone’s effect is to restore the durability of tools—at least, from a game mechanics perspective.
That’s why she’d used her stone materials to make a stone pickaxe: with sandstone, she wouldn’t need to keep crafting new stone axes just to chop wood.
Normally, stone monster lairs have a chance to spawn sandstone. But to mine it safely, you first have to kill all the stone monsters nearby. Otherwise, tearing down their home right in front of them isn’t just provocative—it’s asking for trouble.
So, in the end, she had that mysterious creature to thank.
If it hadn’t cleared out those three stone monsters for her, Su You would have hesitated for a long time yesterday—debating whether to use her stone to make an axe, or spend more time clearing out the monsters, then mine the sandstone and use it to craft a whetstone to repair her axe before chopping wood.
But now that the stone monsters were gone, she didn’t have to struggle with that decision anymore.
In less than a day, Su You’s plans had been disrupted twice by unexpected events: first by the mysterious creature, then by the rabbit.
Although both surprises had turned out to be good for her, they also made Su You more cautious.
Unexpected events can be good or bad—she couldn’t afford to let her guard down just because she’d gotten lucky twice in a row.
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Carrying the rabbit back to her base, Su You began skinning it with her stone knife.
There was nothing particularly special about the skinning process—thanks to the assisted calibration, her speed wasn’t too slow.
Once she’d peeled off a complete rabbit pelt, the rest of the rabbit turned into scattered loot.
[Obtained: Animal Hide x1]
[Obtained: Small Meat x4]
[Obtained: Rabbit Fur x5]
The main reason Su You had set up small traps was for the animal hide—she needed it to craft something called a tool bag.
The tool bag could store tools—axes, pickaxes, stone knives, and even tools she hadn’t made yet, like shovels, hoes, hammers, and so on.
It was basically a separate inventory space just for tools. Although it could only hold tools, having it would free up a lot of space in her backpack.
Right now, for example, her tools alone took up three slots in her backpack—but she couldn’t go without them, since she needed them for work.
The tool bag required [Animal Hide x3, Cord x5] to craft, and could hold one of each type of tool—for example, one axe, one shovel, one pickaxe, one stone knife, etc. As long as it was a tool, it could go in the bag.
But since she didn’t have enough materials yet, Su You just put the animal hide away, along with the rabbit meat and fur wrapped in leaves, and stashed them under a tree.
Once she was done with that, Su You headed straight for the stone monster respawn point.
Because dealing with the rabbit had taken some time, it was already getting light by the time Su You reached the sandstone spawn.
Before mining, she checked her surroundings to make sure there really weren’t any stone monsters left. Only then did she take out her pickaxe and start mining sandstone.
Mining stone was different from chopping wood. Trees were individual—if you could fell one, you’d get all its resources. But stone often formed large patches.
Unless it was a single big boulder, resource drops from these stone patches were calculated individually.
For example, the first swing of the pickaxe had a 5% chance to drop resources, the second swing increased it to 10%, and so on—the more you mined, the higher the chance, until you finally got a drop.
After a resource dropped, the chance would reset.
Since she had sandstone now, Su You planned to do the same as with her stone axe: use her stone pickaxe until it was down to its last bit of durability, then stop.
If a tool’s durability hit zero, it would break and couldn’t be repaired. But as long as it had even a single point left, it was still a usable tool and could be restored with a whetstone at any time.
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As her pickaxe’s durability ticked down, Su You’s stamina dropped rapidly as well.
To keep up her efficiency, she took a short break midway—just enough to keep her stamina in the optimal range for working.
When her stone pickaxe was down to 3/100 durability, she finally got a chunk of sandstone.
Seeing the sandstone, Su You paused, then stopped mining—she didn’t bother with a couple more swings.
The drop rate for this kind of stone fluctuated, but on average, it took five or six tries to get a piece.
Now that she’d gotten one, the drop rate would reset. With only three durability left on her pickaxe, she wasn’t counting on getting another piece in just two more swings. Since it was unlikely, there was no point wasting her stamina.
She put away her pickaxe and started picking up all the sandstone chunks on the ground.
[Obtained: Sandstone x4]
[Obtained: Sandstone x1]
[Obtained: Sandstone Fragments x6]
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Once she’d gathered everything, Su You had a total of 15 sandstone and 20 sandstone fragments.
It took five pieces of sandstone to make a whetstone—so 15 was just enough for three whetstones.
As for the sandstone fragments, they weren’t technically mining drops, but rather debris (junk) produced during the mining process. The chance of getting fragments was calculated separately from getting sandstone, and the former was obviously much higher.
The fragments weren’t very useful—at least, not right now. Unlike regular stone fragments, sandstone fragments couldn’t be combined into sandstone. So after picking them up, Su You just set them aside in a corner.
Even if something was useless, Su You never threw things away carelessly. She couldn’t say for sure she’d never need them in the future, and if she did, it would be easier to retrieve them if they were organized. Besides, it didn’t take much effort.
With all this sandstone, Su You could finally start making whetstones.
[Consume Sandstone x15 to craft Whetstone x3?]
[Crafting: Whetstone. Estimated time: 60 seconds.]
[Remaining: Whetstone x2. Estimated time: 120 seconds.]
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