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Chapter 6 by Sloth013 Sloth013

What now?

Material wealth

Seeing as the day was young you climbed down the mountain to where you had seen some boulders the previous day. Eventually you find yourself in front of a large boulder. You stare at it for a moment, deciding the best way to go about harvesting the resources. After a moment of thought, you decide to grab a fist sized stone and use it on the boulder.

With a single tap on the rock, a small green progress bar appears over the rock along with a popup.

Harvesting: Skill penalty, Tool Penalty, Strength penalty, Harvest speed 6%

Well, thats not great. Your confused by the skill penalty, but you continue your efforts until the progress bar is nearly complete. With one final strike the boulder shatters into pieces. The rocks lay on the ground for a moment before they start glowing white. With a small flash, the rocks are gone and a new popup appears before you.

(!) New materials detected:

(!) 7x Stone (common)
(!) 1x Copper ore (uncommon)
Resource node depleted 7:59:45

Copper is suprising. Besides a material ore, it could potentially be smelted down and made into coins. But that will come much later. For now you need to gather more materials.

You spend the next several hours destroying boulders, obtaining a large sum of rocks and a handful of ore. By the time your done, your arm is ready to fall off. When you arrive at your lair, the prompt from earlier was there at the entrance.

Building location detected.

Available resources:
22 Stone, 4 copper Ore
Remodel Reaquitor_Mountain_cavern_falls_13.9_Location_4 into Lair Entranceway for 10 Stone, 2 Ore(Any)?
Warning! This is the required first step to unlock many of the features of the Keeps and Settlements 1.0.0.0.0.2 update!

You click yes and the white cracks of energy appear around the cave entrance. They grow brighter until they cover the whole crack before the light is gone, replaced with a large stone brick archway. Looking in, you see that the cave is roughly the same, just a bit more squared off at the corners. You enter the cavern and place your hand on the back wall, allowing a new menu to appear.

It's the size of a book, with over 200 pages. But it seems its a building menu. You click through it and a 3D image of your lair appears before you. You click a few of the options and an image of what you clicked on appears in the model."I see. This is how I plan out my lair."

You decide the first part will have a more natural cave system look to it, giving plenty of areas for monsters, traps, and false tunnels to be placed later. At the end of the actual tunnel is another Stone archway leading to a round room. Seeing as you don't have any allies as of yet, this is the most you will do for now. You hit the accept button and the wall turns a slightly off color. Confused, you tap it, revealing a tiny green sliver of a progress bar. With a groan you grab your rock and get to work on the excavation.

Harvesting: Skill penalty, Tool Penalty, Strength penalty, Size penalty, Harvest speed 2.5%

After a few hours you sit down, exhausted from everything that has happened today. You decide to call it a day and pull out your left over rabbit meat before laying down to sleep.

Halfway through the night you wake up, something not right. You grab your spear and look around, it's pitch black, and your not alone.

What's in your cave!?

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