Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 18: Weapon Manufacturing

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Weren’t these weapons too weak?!

Xu Xin thought of the owl, wolf, and python outside, and instantly felt that these wooden sticks and hammers were just toys. He turned to look at the Synthesis Station but didn’t find any weapon blueprints. Instead, he found a new working station.

[Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform (green): This is a tool table used to make high-grade weapons and armors. It can be used to make and repair weapons and armors, but do not use it to test the sharpness of your weapons, or it will break your newly made weapons! Materials required: Wood (green)*50, iron (green)*5]

Xu Xin quickly rushed downstairs and took out the blocks of iron that had been refined from the furnace. In addition to the remaining blocks of iron he had from before, he had a total of 7 blocks of green-grade iron and 2 blocks of blue-grade iron.

He first tried to add wood (blue) and iron (blue) to the materials, but a notification popped up on the small screen of the Synthesis Station.

[High-grade materials can not enhance the Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform’s abilities. Do you wish to continue?]

If that was the case, his answer was definitely “no”.

Disappointed, Xu Xin canceled the production process. It seemed that high-grade materials weren’t omnipotent. He made the Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform with the original materials required and placed it next to the Synthesis Station.

With a loud bang, the Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform appeared before him. Xu Xin looked out of the window anxiously and realized that the beasts were not attracted by the loud bang. He then began to work with a peace of mind.

Although the Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform was mainly made of wood, it had a metallic feel to it when combined with the metal parts and tools. There was also a small and illusionary screen on the platform, on which were the blueprints of weapons he could make.

[Wooden Bow (green): A simple bow with a range of only 30 meters. It’s not very powerful, but as long as it hits a vital point, it can still display extraordinary combat power. Durability 200. Materials required: Wood (green) X5, any animal tendon X1]

[Wooden Arrow (white): A simple arrow. It’s only the sharpened head of a wooden stick. As the tail of the arrow is without feathers, it will reduce the accuracy of the arrow. It can be recycled. Materials required for 20 wooden arrows (white): Wood (white)*4]

[Stone Arrow (green): The arrowhead is made of stone while its body is made of wood. It is equipped with feathers. It is a very standard arrow that has a precise strike! Can be recycled. Materials required for 20 stone arrows (green): Stone (green)*2, wood (white)*2, feather (green)*2]

[Stone Spear (green): The most powerful stone weapon against wild beasts. It is an inch long and very strong. The sharp spearhead can cause damage to wild beasts. Durability 200. Materials required: Wood (green)*5, stone (green)*2]

Even though Xu Xin could already melt iron, it was a pity that there were no iron weapons on the list.

There was also a row of stone swords, stone knives, and stone daggers. Xu Xin glanced at them and chose to make the stone spear.

Sabers required strength and skill to master, and it was even more so for swords and daggers. Those two were no different from toys in front of wild beasts. On the other hand, cold weapons like spears could display extraordinary power even in the hands of newbies on battlefields.

If one read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, almost no generals used swords as their main weapon. Lu Bu and Dian Wei both had long halberds, while the Five Tiger Generals consisted of four with long weapons and one with a bow and arrow. Even if they had swords and knew how to use them, they rarely did. This was enough to show the advantage of long-handled weapons in killing enemies.

Of course, each weapon had its advantages. The sword was more flexible when facing multiple small units, while the dagger was the most useful when fighting snakes and other animals in close combat. However, he had few materials at the moment, so it was better to choose the stone spear first.

After using one wood (blue) and one stone (blue), Xu Xin created a stone spear (blue).

[Stone Spear (blue): The most powerful stone tool against wild beasts. It is an inch long and very strong. The sharp tip of the spear can easily pierce through the skin of wild beasts. Durability 1000.]

Something good!

The Weapon and Armor Crafting Platform had the function of repairing weapons, so as long as the weapon’s durability did not fall to zero, it could be repaired and reused.

Picking up the spear, Xu Xin felt more confident and took a look at the armors he could make.

There was only leather armor, no wood armor or iron armor, so he could still only wear the two-piece novice set, which was just a t-shirt and shorts.

Fortunately, his body seemed to have adapted to the forest. At least it was not like the first day when his arms and legs were scraped by branches and shrubs and he had to apply herbs.

Iron tools and armors might need to be unlocked.

Holding the blue-grade stone spear in his hand, Xu Xin came to the screen and opened the Regional Channel.

“Ahhhh! What the hell are those things outside!”

“Tiger! A tiger is trying to break my window!”

“Why is that bird so big? Science can’t explain any of this!”

“What kind of situation are we in? Science? Can science help you escape from this world?”

“It’s over, my treehouse is surrounded by wolves. Someone save me!”

The Regional Channel was in chaos. Xu Xin sent a message to Li Wenxi, “How are things on your side?”

He didn’t dare to use voice input and instead used the touch screen keyboard.

Li Wenxi’s reply was very quick. She was probably also observing the situation in the Regional Channel, “There are all kinds of wild beasts around. It’s a little scary, but it should be fine. My treehouse is high, so they can’t come up. Your situation is about the same, right?”

The other party was probably also afraid of being discovered by the wild beasts outside, so she didn’t send a voice message.

“It’s very safe, but a huge python is staring at my treehouse. I feel like something’s wrong. I’d like to use wood to exchange for some iron ore.”

“I don’t need wood for now. Do you still have red berries? Give me some.”

“Alright.”

Xu Xin immediately initiated a trade. 3 red berries for 60 iron ores (green). Return customer discount, 1:20.

He took a look at the Trading Platform, and sure enough, there were still no green-grade materials for sale, let alone blue-grade materials. After all, most people did not have enough even for themselves.

Xu Xin threw the iron ores he got into the furnace. Luckily, the furnace didn’t make any noise although it was burning, so he didn’t have to worry about the beasts outside hearing anything.

He wanted to try shooting from the treehouse though. He had tried throwing stones from the treehouse and had discovered that the canopy outside did not block the stones from being thrown out. This meant that he could actually shoot from the treehouse.

However, the creation of the bow required beast tendons, and that could only be obtained from beast corpses below. This left Xu Xin at his wits ‘end. If there was only one beast down there, he could still fight it with his blue-grade weapon. However, there were too many of them, and he didn’t know where one might pop out from. He didn’t dare to risk his life.

Right now, a black bear was fighting with a few wolves down there.

Xu Xin looked at the animals fighting each other and wondered if he could go down and pick up some dead bodies.

[Unlocking the survival world’s Creator’s Authority.]

Again?

Xu Xin was stunned for a moment when he suddenly heard the notification. Then, he was immediately excited. Although the unlock had failed the last time, he had gained the Item Identification ability, which allowed him to be in the lead at the initial stage by a large margin ahead of the others. He wondered what would happen this time.

[Unlocking failed, the second attempt…]

As expected, it failed again.

[Unlocking failed, the seventh attempt …]

[Unlocking failed. Part of the Creator’s Authority has been granted to you: Map.]