Chapter 73: Organizing the Warehouse

After finishing a round of construction, Su You grabbed her copper pickaxe and headed to the sandstone resource point...

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By evening, Su You had already mentioned that they’d be having something nice for dinner and had even sent Dolly out to collect berries. So, she came back from the stone monsters a bit earlier than usual, ready to start prepping dinner as soon as she returned to the territory.

There was no other choice—Dolly was a well-known kitchen disaster. As for the other three, maybe Duoya could cook, but with her injured hand, even a five-star chef would be out of commission.

As for Lake and Lyle, neither of them had any cooking talent. Of course, not having talent doesn’t mean you can’t cook at all, but to avoid wasting ingredients, Su You decided to handle it herself.

She’d promised a good meal, but with limited ingredients, the best she could manage was something like berry meat stew or grilled meat.

Even though the variety of ingredients was limited—just meat and berries—the quality of the ingredients made up for it.

With blue-quality premium meat, even if you accidentally overcook it, the flavor is still top-notch.

Su You picked out some of the meat she’d collected earlier and made it all into grilled meat, skewers, jerky, and similar items to extend their shelf life.

As for the premium meat dropped by the black-striped tiger, Su You set some aside for the berry meat stew, but didn’t turn the rest into jerky like the other meats, even though it would last longer that way.

Jerky keeps for a long time, but the downside is that it’s not very cost-effective, and no matter how good the ingredients are, turning them into jerky won’t give any extra attributes. So making jerky out of premium meat would just be a waste.

“Lord, is there anything I can help with?” Lyle, who had just finished chopping wood and was heading back to rest, saw Su You busy by the hearth and offered to help.

Su You glanced at him, handed him a wooden spoon, and motioned for him to keep an eye on the heat.

“This is stew. It’ll be ready in about half an hour. Remember to stir it every few minutes so it doesn’t burn on the bottom.” With a recipe, Su You could have just used the workbench to make food automatically, but food made at the workbench doesn’t get any bonus attributes.

Otherwise, if workbench-made food had extra attributes, there’d be no point in NPCs having cooking skills—Su You could just build dozens or hundreds of workbenches and do it all herself.

“Alright.” Lyle took Su You’s place and kept an eye on the stew.

Even though it was just a simple meat stew, the addition of sweet and tart berries gave the copper pot a delicious aroma—a mix of meaty richness and fruity tang—that made everyone’s mouth water.

Even though Lyle wasn’t all that hungry, he couldn’t help but swallow as the smell teased his senses.

With someone watching the pot, Su You had some free time and started moving everything from the wooden crates into the warehouse.

There were still thirty minutes until dinner—plenty of time for Su You to get the warehouse fully organized before the stew was done.

While sorting the warehouse, Su You glanced at the workbench, grabbed some wooden planks, and built a third residential house next to the post station.

Residential House 1 was for Dolly and Duoya, Residential House 2 for Lyle and Lake, so naturally, Residential House 3 would be for Su You herself.

Technically, as the city (territory) lord, Su You had a special building called the “City Lord’s Mansion” she could live in, but due to lack of materials, she couldn’t build it yet, so she’d have to make do with a regular house for now.

Once House 3 was built, Su You got to work organizing the warehouse.

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The bulk of the inventory was basic resources, which took up the most space. So, all the wood, stone, fiber, and other basic materials that had been stored in the wooden crates were moved into the warehouse.

Besides the basic resources, Su You also moved all the food into the warehouse, since it had a function to slow down spoilage.

While moving supplies, Su You took the opportunity to take stock of what the territory currently had.

First, the commonly used basic materials: Branches x58, Bark x74, Charcoal x74, Ash x19, Wood x124, Wood Blocks x14, Pebbles x26, Stone x8, Fiber Scraps x957, Twine x4, Sandstone x98.

Then, the food: Small Grilled Meat x3, Berry Grilled Meat x15, Small Jerky x8, Large Jerky x20, Large Cuts of Meat x13, Premium Meat x47.

Looking at all this, Su You was grateful that the warehouse had a stacking limit of 100, so items that would have taken up over thirty slots only used a bit more than twenty.

Even so, the once-empty warehouse was now more than half full.

With supplies on hand, the foundation for survival was set. Seeing the well-stocked warehouse finally gave Su You a sense of security.

Of course, this wasn’t all the territory’s resources—there were still other items, like wild boar tusks, deer antlers, animal hides, sinew, copper ingots, and so on, that weren’t stored in the warehouse.

The reason was simple: since there weren’t many of these items, keeping them in the wooden crates was enough. There was no need to waste a warehouse slot (with its 100-stack limit) on them.

With the warehouse now holding all the bulk materials, Su You reorganized the two wooden crates by the hearth.

One would hold tools, the other miscellaneous materials.

Now that they had plenty of stone—and even copper ingots—Su You was able to replenish all the tools they’d been missing.

Currently, the territory’s tools were roughly as follows:

Stone Axe x1, Stone Pickaxe x2, Stone Shovel x1, Stone Hammer x1, Stone Knife x2, Stone Hoe x2, Portable Copper Lantern x1, Copper Axe x2, Copper Pickaxe x2, Whetstone x12.

Except for special items like whetstones, all other tools couldn’t be stacked, so it was necessary to have a separate crate just for tools.

However, the tools in this crate were mostly old or rarely used ones.

The copper axes and copper pickaxes, for example, were kept in the crate bound to the bounty board (Crate 3).

Speaking of the bounty board, now that they’d discovered a mine and had a basic resource cycle going in the territory, the tasks on the board had also changed.

[Take Care of the Fields]

Posted by: Lord

Objective: Tend the fields (0/4)

Reward: 5 copper coins

Required Tools: None

[Collect Wood] (Repeatable)

Posted by: Lord

Objective: Submit wood (0/10)

Reward: 1 copper coin

Required Tools: Copper Axe (To borrow this tool, pay a 2-copper usage fee and a 30-copper deposit; deposit will be refunded when the tool is returned.)

(End of Chapter)"

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