Starting With a Reef [Global Survival]

chapter 164 - Autumn Day 6 (1)


According to the pictures and detailed notes in the Spider Breeding Compendium, the following can be known.Gemstone Miner Spiders shimmer with a metallic sheen across the whole body. Sharp, pickaxe-like spurs grow at their leg joints and can strike precisely at all kinds of ore. Their eyes have a special structure that lets them sense the distribution of ore in dim tunnels. Most importantly, they can quickly locate high-grade ores and gemstones.They can not only mine ore but also auto-sort it. A single Gemstone Miner Spider is equivalent to a player with Mining Lv.3.They fear strong light and must work at night; however, if they’re in pitch-black mine shafts, they can also work by day.To breed Gemstone Miner Spiders, you must feed the spider eggs a micro-dose of Blue Sapphire Fragment powder every day to awaken their special gem-sensing ability.This will give a high chance of hatching Gemstone Miner Spiders.After all, before Amber Spider Eggs hatch, their worker class and ability are uncertain.And even once they hatch, you must let them handle different kinds of ore to familiarize them.Horticulture Nanny Spiders are on the small, delicate side.They’re covered in fine fuzz that can sense subtle changes in air humidity and temperature.Special glands on the abdomen secrete a thread-like substance that’s tougher than normal spider silk, especially suited to weaving and repairs.To breed Horticulture Nanny Spiders, place the Amber Spider Eggs in a comfortable environment.After the spiderlings hatch, let them handle various plant fibers. Their learning ability is strong; they’ll quickly master weaving with different materials.At this stage, feed them some plant fibers and flower dew.As they grow, aside from weaving cloth and making garments, they can help sow, water, harvest, shade crops, and drive off small pests.The compendium states that with Horticulture Nanny Spiders, crop yields increase across the board.The other three worker classes also have their own roles and breeding methods.Scavenger Corrosive Spiders are gray-black. The legs are packed with backward-facing barbs that can rip apart rotting matter with ease.Their mouthparts secrete a corrosive liquid that rapidly decomposes all kinds of °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° organic trash. To breed Scavenger Corrosive Spiders, prepare a breeding basin, keep temperature at 30–35 °C, and humidity at 70%–80%.They like hot, wet environments. Add fresh rot regularly so the eggs have enough nutrients.After the spiderlings hatch, put some items from around the Reef that need cleaning into the basin so they learn to clear them. Once familiar, you can release them.As they mature, their corrosive power grows. Loose rubble on the Reef, weeds, even barnacles and seaweed—everything gets cleared with ease.As for Crimson-Blood Combat Spiders and Shield-Armor Patrol Spiders, both prefer meat and high-protein feed.One handles offense; the other handles defense.Both require specialized breeding and training.—Right now Yun Luohe has 50 Amber Spider Eggs, plus Gold-Shell Spider Eggs, Silver-White Spider Eggs, and Crimson-Blood Spider Eggs.Among them, the Crimson-Blood Spider Eggs are the most numerous—an even 100. If all of them hatch, that’s a full battalion.For that, she needs to hurry and make the Broodmother’s Ring. Otherwise, when there are that many spiders, she won’t be able to store them. With the ring, she can carry them on her person—where she goes, they go—and it’ll count as a secret weapon.Although the traits of the Gold-Shell and Silver-White eggs are uncertain, they’re likely combat-oriented. So Yun Luohe plans to hatch all 50 Amber Spider Eggs into worker spiders that can help with Reef labor.The Reef is short on hands right now. The small animals in the barn and henhouse are basically on free-range; there’s no time to manage them.Greenhouse plants have automation, but she also needs to plant seasonal crops outdoors. Yun Luohe can’t spare the time to turn soil, sow, and water.Roubao helps, yes, but Roubao is stretched thin; and with the radiation fog, it can only stay outdoors for a few hours. Yun Luohe herself has to eat anti-radiation foods; she can’t give them all to it.To ensure these eggs hatch successfully—Yun Luohe built two spider houses.They sit in the shade by the villa.Inside, the spider houses maintain constant temperature and humidity and include auto-cleaning. With worker spiders on duty, spiderling survival rises by 70%.Beyond that, the Spider-Breeding Crystal is also coming in handy.Breeding eggs takes time—at the shortest a week, at the longest ten days—and the success rate isn’t 100%. The first few days are critical.So whenever she gets a spare moment, Yun Luohe runs to the spider houses, places the Amber Spider Eggs into their corresponding breeding environments by intended class, closely observes changes, and records every detail.During the process, she also adjusts and optimizes the environments per the compendium’s recommendations.She also set out anti-radiation gear around the spider houses to keep the area comfortable, even when the fog presses in.While studying worker-spider breeding, Yun Luohe didn’t stop fishing.After two straight days of scarfing down Seafood Fried Rice (which increases fishing success rate by 10%), she finally caught a Bluefin Tuna.She turned part of the meat into sashimi and used the head to simmer a pot of delicious fish soup.She also processed several high-grade canned foods.The Bluefin Tuna can’s satiety is ridiculous—eat one can and your Stamina points shoot to full.She also cracked the exclusive gold-tier dish for Bluefin Tuna.You have to use the jaw cut of the tuna.Only then can you produce a gold-tier dish.Other cuts only qualify for high-grade dishes with slightly weaker effects.Upon producing the gold-tier dish, Cooking proficiency jumped by 200.She also received a big box of hotpot base. For small hotpots serving 2–3 portions, it’ll last through three uses.[Golden Charred Tuna: Using the most delicious cut from a precious deep-sea tuna, char the exterior to perfection for a crisp crust while keeping the flesh tender and juicy—an extreme pleasure in a single bite.Gathering speed +20%, chance to trigger Double-Gather effect, +5 Luck for one hour.]The effects are frankly insane.A whole tuna weighing over ten catties only yields three portions of the gold-tier dish.Even Yun Luohe is a little reluctant to eat it.She opened her character info to check.Cooking skill was just a hair from leveling.She only needed another 1,000 experience.Yun Luohe set aside everything else and sprinted for a Cooking level-up.First, collect missing ingredients from the Picnic Recipe Book and Dark Cuisine recipes, then simultaneously research new recipes.She took out the assorted ingredients brought back from Spider Island and began new trials.First she sliced the tuna belly thin and paired it with specialty spices from Spider Island to attempt a brand-new sashimi.But one bite in, she frowned.The spice aroma was too strong, completely drowning the tuna’s natural sweetness. The palate wasn’t balanced.Next, she tried stewing tuna with Polygonatum.She varied ratios and simmer times across multiple trials, but each dish only reached high-grade level—still far from gold-tier.The broth was either too fishy, or the Polygonatum’s bitterness hadn’t fully lifted and wouldn’t integrate with the tuna.Switching the main protein to crocodile, wild boar, chicken… results were similar—never quite clicking.“How should I pair this?” Yun Luohe packed away the remaining ingredients on the cooking bench.She wasn’t discouraged. Developing a new dish always takes time. There are that many ingredients, but only so few gold-tier recipes—you don’t just stumble into them.But she did think of a method.She made a post on the district-wide forum, planning to share a portion of the high-grade recipes she’d mastered, hoping to attract high-level cooks from other districts.Then trade gold-tier recipes and methods, and swap experience.It would not only help others; she’d get inspiration to hurry her upgrade.There was another benefit: making friends with professional cooks. In a few days, when the trading system upgrades, she can trade with players from other districts. Knowing these folks will make ingredient swaps smoother. What she can’t find, someone else might have.—#Free share: high-grade recipes (Lv.6 cooks and up, come swap notes)#“Below are ten practical recipes I organized.You can cook according to these.— Lucky Eel Rice, Swamp Thick Soup, Pumpkin-Carrot Stewed Venison, Honey-Nut Energy Bar……Cook Lv.6 here. Same-level players welcome to share experience; we can exchange recipes with equivalent effects.”Once the post went up, it immediately drew a crowd.The comments blew up—replies and likes rolling nonstop.“Wow! A top player sharing this many recipes? That’s generous!”“Thanks! I’m stuck on a Cooking level-up. Hope I can learn something from your experience.”“OP you rock! I’m working on new dishes too—let’s trade notes!”“These aren’t that amazing. Not even gold-tier.”“That’s funny. If you’re so great, post a few gold-tier recipes for everyone. At least OP’s sharing high-grade stuff for free—no need to be salty.”After posting, Yun Luohe watched for a while. Opinions were all over the place, but no Lv.6 cooks showed up for a long time. A little disappointed, she closed the screen and went back to recipe R&D.At the Trade Hub she found some wild greens and Dark Cuisine ingredients, so she could now make a few new dishes.She’d just bought sorrel and elderflower. The Picnic recipes Sorrel Grilled-Fish Wrap and Wild-Mint Cold-Brew Tea were both now doable.Sorrel Grilled-Fish Wrap: The sorrel completely removes the fishiness, leaving fennel-clean fragrance—an uncommon field-cooking treat.Method: Choose small stream fish. Stuff sorrel into the belly, then tie with fennel stalks and slow-grill over charcoal.Effect: +40 Stamina, +30% Gathering speed.Wild-Mint Cold-Brew Tea: Cool and heat-relieving, lightly sweet and refreshing, nutrient-rich; one sip and your whole body relaxes.Method: Steep wild mint leaves and elderflower in spring water for 3 hours, then add wild honey to taste.Effect: Rapid cooling; maintains normal body temperature for 3 hours; +6 Strength.After finishing the two dishes—Yun Luohe gained 400 experience in one go.It was already autumn, and the cold-brew tea wouldn’t see much use, so she made just one portion, then kept batch-making the fish wraps.Just then, Cheng Xuening called via the communicator.“Luohe, the Mutant Vine you wanted has grown in. Should I cut it now and send it over?”“That fast?”“Mm. I knew you were in a hurry, so I used some nutrient solution and fertilizer. It shot up—two days and it’s already climbing high.”“Great. However much you’ve got, send me some. I just cooked a bunch of food—I’ll send you some back.”“Will thirty suffice?”Cheng Xuening had brought back plenty of seeds, so the Mutant Vine harvest this time wouldn’t be small.Yun Luohe needed Mutant Vine to make the Wicker Starry-Sky Sofa and the Insect-Lure Lantern.The Insect-Lure Lantern is essentially a lantern that attracts fireflies. Materials: Mutant Vine, cane juice, and honey.And fireflies are also a key material for the Wicker Starry-Sky Sofa.“A bit short. I need sixty. If that’s not enough right now, send me twenty first, and a few days later the rest.”Cheng Xuening: “Okay. I only have thirty right now. I’ll send those first. Give me two more days and I can cut more—it grows fast. This stuff’s like chives: the more you cut, the more you get.”Yun Luohe: “Hahaha, perfect.”Yun Luohe pulled some materials from her pack and sent them to Cheng Xuening, plus a portion of the fish wraps she’d just made.“Just in time for lunch—try the fish wrap. Tastes pretty good.”“Nice. I’ve got stuff for you too. Check the list I sent—tree seeds and ingredients from Ancient Tree Isle. I sorted them. See what you want.”Walking toward the workbench, Yun Luohe checked the list.There was a lot.Ordinary tree seeds: Red Maple, Ginkgo, Chinese Tallow.Two rare mutant tree species.For example, a Night-Glow Parasol Tree that bears luminous fruit. The fruit not only emits a soft glow at night; it also serves as a special light-source material.Planted on the Reef, it would look beautiful at night.There’s also a special white birch whose bark, when ground to powder, can be used to make healing medicine.There were also ingredients:Wild chestnuts, wild hazelnuts, firethorn berries, wild okra, purslane, wild wood-ear mushrooms…All of them can become delicious dishes.A few strong recipe ideas were already forming in her head.But first, she needed to make the Insect-Lure Lanterns.Yun Luohe took out the Wicker Starry-Sky Sofa blueprint and the Insect-Lure Lantern blueprint.[Three-seater sofas + single-seater sofa set. Warm in winter, cool in summer, extremely comfortable. Using the full Starry-Sky furniture set increases Meteor Shower event chance by 30%.][Materials: Mutant Vine ×50, Fireflies ×50, High-Grade Hardwood ×100, Cotton ×10]One Mutant Vine makes one lantern.She’d craft ten lanterns first to attract fireflies.Tonight she’d see how many a single lantern could draw.No rush—she’d waited this long already. The Starry-Sky furniture line probably includes more than two pieces. She currently only has a Wicker Starry-Sky Hammock. Even if she crafts the sofa, it likely won’t be the full set yet.Yun Luohe pinged the Tianji Pavilion intel team in private chat and requested all data on the Meteor Shower event.

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