Technoblade Never Dies: A New Adventure

Chapter 22 - XP Farm

Bringing all the horses home after taming them took Technoblade an embarrassingly long time. However, he was now exceedingly familiar with the path around the meadow. He knew the ravine he should avoid, the sun's direction to chase, and the river bend he should cross.

"I'll explore that ravine one day," he promised, knowing fully well there was a fifty percent possibility he wouldn't remember.

Now that he had royal steeds roaming freely within his fortress walls and a poorly constructed side gate for horses, Technoblade had other things to worry about. Oh, yes. He almost forgot. Iron armour was great, but it would be better if they had some kind of enchantments on them.

Heading to his enchantment room, Technoblade slapped the enchanting table on the rightful spot. It would be nice to have protection one enchantments on his armour. The beauty of the enchantment shop system was how Technoblade could upgrade that level whenever he had enough resources.

Truthfully, he needed more diamonds. That single diamond in the storage wasn't enough. He needed at least a stack of diamonds, and even so, he was still poor. Having at least a stack of diamond blocks was a basic requirement, but Technoblade would consider himself out of poverty if he could find a stack.

"Do I have enough levels to get fortune three on the special pickaxe?" he asked.

The enchanting shop delighted and disappointed Technoblade when it revealed that the maximum fortune level for any compatible tool was fortune five instead of three. Technoblade was guaranteed a double drop from any ore mined and up to ten diamonds at fortune five. The rates of drops varied for other ores, but Technoblade was only interested in diamonds.

However, he needed fifty levels for fortune five and three blocks of lapis.

"Dammit!"

First things first, he needed to resolve the XP crisis.

Ordinarily, Technoblade would farm monsters. Blazes gave more XP than a regular zombie. Even if he could fight mobs when night fell, Technoblade wondered if there was a safer way. He was practically naked in his unenchanted iron armour. Fighting wasn't the best decision. Most of his levels were gained from breeding his farm animals.

"That's it! I'm a genius!"

Although it was a pain to feed his animals daily, Technoblade knew it would become a great investment in the long run. He had a surplus of wheat going on. Most of those seeds were used to make bone meal. At this point, Technobldae wasn't going to be short on bone meal. He could afford to spare a few hundred seeds from his wheat farm and feed the chickens.

Crafting a modest number of fences and fence gates, Technoblade found a spot in his territory for a small chicken farm. Yes, he was going to gain his levels from feeding chickens daily for a while and farming wheat. What better way to collect more seeds than to expand the wheat farm vertically?

With a trusty hoe and bucket, Technoblade started working on harvesting his existing farm. He should probably gather the eggs and start smashing them on the grass, hoping some chicks would spawn. It wasn't the most scientifically accurate birthing method, but he did not make the rules in Aftercraft.

It was a simple concept that would prove its brilliance with time. Technoblade knew how mobs could climb up full blocks but could not jump from one to another, unlike players in Minecraft. A similar logic worked in Aftercraft, so Technobldae built that special crowd platform before fencing it up. Hoppers were handy collection items, so Technoblade splurged his iron on twenty of them, covering the floor and directing loot into a chest he had access to.

"Here goes nothing," he sighed and started smashing eggs into the breeding chamber.

Originally, Technoblade had over five hundred eggs. However, after smashing them, he only had about eighty chicks. It wasn't a terrible start, but waiting for them to grow up and make more babies or lay eggs would take too long for him to sit around. Hence, Technoblade worked on expanding his wheat farm vertically.