Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Enhancing Tree House Decor

After taking a bath to soothe his tired body from a long day, Xu Xin began trying out his new abilities.

He first sorted through the new materials in his hand.

Over a hundred colorful green-grade crystals, and 132 pieces of redwood, all of which can be used for carving. The redwood can also be used to craft furniture.

Xu Xin took out all the crystals and placed them on the floor. These crystals themselves can also increase the decorative points of the tree house.

[Detected white crystal (green) *1, yellow crystal (green) *1, red crystal (blue) *1, blue crystal (blue) *1, white crystal (blue) *1, purple crystal (purple) *1 placed in the tree house, decor points +16, current tree house decor points: 62.4]

Hmm?

He poured out so many crystals, why only add 16 decor points? According to the previous calculation, each green-grade crystal could add one decor point.

So he went to the screen and clicked on the [Decor Points] option. In the option, all the items that add decor points were listed.

[Breeding Colorful Scale Fish (green) *52, decor points increase by 10.4]

[Breeding Taiji White Fish (blue), Taiji Black Fish (blue), decor points increase by 32]

[Placing red, yellow, blue, green, purple, white crystals (green), decor points increase by 6]

[Placing red, blue, white crystals (blue), decor points increase by 9]

[Placing purple crystal (purple), decor points increase by 5]

[Total decor points: 62.4]

Xu Xin glanced over and immediately understood the method of calculating these stones’ decor points.

It turned out that no matter how many crystals of the same level and color there are, only the decor points of one crystal can be added.

In other words, even though he had dozens of red crystals (green), these red crystals (green) only added 1 decor point in total. Crystals only come in six colors, so all his green-grade crystals together only added 6 decor points to his tree house.

Come to think of it, a pile of rough stones couldn’t possibly add too much.

Xu Xin calculated that, apart from green-grade crystals, each blue-grade crystal only adds 3 decor points, and purple-grade crystals only add 5 decor points.

…Isn’t this too little?

According to his previous calculation of the exchange rate between wood, stone, blue and green grades, it was about 50:1. How could the difference between blue-grade and green-grade decor points be so small?

Could it be that only after they are carved into finished products does the advantage of blue-grade and purple-grade materials become apparent?

The requirements for carving are many, so I should first see how the redwood furniture is.

Going back to the screen, Xu Xin clicked on the [Tree House Renovation] option. Sure enough, after acquiring the redwood materials, several new methods for making redwood furniture appeared in the options.

[Redwood Bookshelf (green): A classic and elegant bookshelf that can increase decor points when placed in the tree house. Requires redwood (green) *3]

The first item surprised Xu Xin a bit; he hadn’t expected a big bookshelf to require only three pieces of redwood to make.

Thinking about it, while other wood is calculated by blocks, redwood is calculated by pieces, one piece of redwood is much larger than other wood, and he understood.

He continued looking down.

[Redwood Cabinet (green): A classic and elegant cabinet that can increase decor points when placed in the tree house. Requires redwood (green) *3]

Still only requires consuming three pieces of redwood.

In addition, there are a redwood desk, redwood chair, redwood bed, redwood wardrobe, redwood bedside table, and redwood dressing table.

All of these can increase decor points. Unfortunately, Xu Xin currently doesn’t have blue-grade redwood. The furniture made from this green-grade redwood can only increase decor points and has no other abilities, so they cannot replace his current furniture.

But making them and placing them in the tree house specifically to increase decor points is still feasible.

Xu Xin immediately crafted a redwood bookshelf and cabinet, placing the bookshelf in the small study and the cabinet under the screen as a TV cabinet.

[Detected Redwood Bookshelf (green) placed in the tree house, decor points +3, current tree house decor points: 65.4]

[Detected Redwood Cabinet (green) placed in the tree house, decor points +3, current tree house decor points: 68.4]

Each piece of redwood furniture can increase decor points by 3.

So, he also made a redwood desk and two redwood chairs and placed them in the study.

[…Redwood Desk (green), decor points +3, current tree house decor points: 71.4]

[…Redwood Chair (green), decor points +3, current tree house decor points: 74.4]

Exactly.

He made two chairs, but only added 3 decor points. These pieces of furniture are similar to the nature of the crystals, as the same furniture cannot provide duplicate decor points.

Originally, he was considering whether he could use the quantity of red wood furniture to stack the decoration level, but it seems that’s not possible. Currently, there are only eight red wood furniture blueprints in total available on the list.

So, Xu Xin decided to make one each of the remaining bed, bedside table, wardrobe, and dressing table.

His bedroom had a blue-level wooden bed that couldn’t be replaced with a red wood bed, so he placed the red wood bed and dressing table in the second empty bedroom and put the bedside table and wardrobe in his room.

After making these four pieces of red wood furniture, Xu Xin’s treehouse decoration level reached 86.4.

Currently, there’s only so much red wood furniture that can be made. He can’t increase the decoration level with furniture anymore unless he can get blue-level materials to make blue-level furniture. According to the decoration level of crystals, different grades are not considered the same resources.

Let’s aim to exceed 100 decoration level today. Perhaps it will become apparent what’s the effect once it exceeds 100!

Next is carving and painting.

Carving and painting are much more troublesome than making furniture; he needs to first make the corresponding tools.

He opened the crafting list to check the tools related to carving.

[Carving Tool Set (Green): Can carve green-grade materials to make green-grade statues. Requires Iron Block (Green) *1, Wood (Green) *1]

[Carving and Painting Workbench (Blue): Only on this workbench can you create works that will be remembered in history! Requires Red Wood (Green) *5, Stone (Blue) *5]

The tool set is at least green-grade, only capable of carving green-grade materials, so Xu Xin definitely has to make a blue-grade one, which requires a Blue Iron Block and Blue Wood.

The workbench doesn’t seem to have restrictions. Based on previous experiences, the grade of working table items is fixed. Therefore, this carving and painting workbench can only be blue-grade. He does have plenty of red wood, but currently, he really doesn’t have any blue-grade stones.

But Li Wenxi definitely has them; she is never short of these things.

Xu Xin immediately sent a video call to Li Wenxi; the other side picked up in a few seconds.

Li Wenxi was cuddled up on the sofa rubbing her eyes.

She’s not good at swimming. After the activity started, she splashed around near the treehouse for a bit and didn’t find anything, so she came back.

With nothing to do in the treehouse, she and Qi Xuefei, Wang Lei, and the others who stayed indoors just chatted until they fell asleep.

“You’re sleeping in the middle of the day?” Xu Xin was a bit speechless.

“What can I do? I’m not like you, so good at swimming. I almost drowned just swimming a little outside, even catching a mouthful of rainwater just to breathe.” Li Wenxi had just woken up and was holding her body up from the sofa, weakly saying, “This event is truly a boon for those good at swimming.”

“There’s no boon; it’s very dangerous.”

Xu Xin recounted his experiences to Li Wenxi, including the underwater whirlpool and the blood-striped marlin. He told Li Wenxi that the blood-striped marlin was much stronger than the ordinary mutant beasts they had encountered.

“Is this a new monster?” Li Wenxi was a bit scared, patting her chest. “Good thing I didn’t swim far. With my swimming skills, encountering a water creature, not to mention mutant beasts, even a big fish that attacks people would be enough to ensure I don’t make it back. It’s just a pity I can’t get the new resources…”

Xu Xin also faintly felt that something was off about this event. The limitations on ability were too severe this time, and if he hadn’t coincidentally obtained the Scale Armor set, he probably would have been stuck in the treehouse for a day, missing out on all those new resources.

But he didn’t know the reason either, so he could only comfort her: “Isn’t there still tonight? Maybe there will be new changes tonight, and you can go out.”

“Who knows, I’ll take your good wishes.”

After some formalities, Xu Xin got to his point: “I’d like to trade with you for a blue-level iron block and five blue-level stones, do you have these?”

Li Wenxi showed a “just as I expected” expression: “I knew you were coming to ask for resources. You never contact me for no reason. Of course, I have those. As long as they’re mineral resources, I’ve got plenty.”

Xu Xin laughed awkwardly. Well, isn’t that right? With life being so uncertain, who has time for casual chats: “I’ll trade you with new resources, red wood, which can be used to make furniture and can increase the treehouse decoration level.”

“New resources, huh? That’s great!”

Xu Xin traded eighteen red wood (Green) for those six blue-level resources. In terms of grade and quantity, it seemed like he made a killing, but red wood is much larger and rarer than regular wood; there’s even no current way to obtain it.

Eighteen pieces of red wood are enough for Li Wenxi to make six pieces of furniture, equivalent to exchanging one piece of furniture for one resource.

“Wow, is one piece of red wood this big? Isn’t this just a whole tree?” Li Wenxi widened her eyes as she looked at the piece of wood in front of her.

“It takes three pieces to make one red wood furniture, and the furniture can increase the decoration level, which should allow you to unlock the [Decoration Level] option.” Xu Xin explained, and also gave her six different colored green-grade crystals, “These can also increase the decoration level.”

“This is the crystal you mentioned; it’s indeed beautiful.” Li Wenxi seemed to really like shiny things, holding onto the crystal affectionately.

“Oh right, don’t make duplicate furniture; duplicates won’t increase the decoration level.”

“Oh, okay!”

After hanging up the video, Xu Xin immediately crafted the blue-grade carving tool set and carving painting workbench.

He placed the carving painting workbench in the study instead of on the second floor.

He didn’t want to sit and carve in the midst of those workstations on the second floor. Moreover, if the furnace was working, the environment on the second floor would become very poor, making it unsuitable for sitting calmly and carving.

Taking out a green-grade crystal, Xu Xin decided to give it a try.