Technoblade Never Dies: A New Adventure

Chapter 35 - Functional Village

Children grew up so quickly. No, literally. The villager babies only took two days to become adults, and Technoblade found himself thrown out of rhythm by their sudden demands for more food and clothing. Thankfully, he had at least one brown-robed villager that immediately converted into a scribe.

"Your first job," Technoblade browsed through his villager controls and assigned the newly converted scribe his job. "Is to assign adult villagers their respective food chests based on the colours of their clothes. I know it may seem unfair but trust me when I say there is a good reason for this unfair distribution."

Of course, those with clothing that wasn't brown would be assigned to that single chest in the pit. It was there for decoration, meant to starve villagers to death. Technoblade ensured that even if they turned evil before they could starve to death, no other 'useful' villagers would be harmed.

The scribe got to work at once, and Technoblade counted the number of mouths he had to feed. The six children grew up one after another, and two of the six were not worker villagers. It was a pity, but Technoblade did not mind. After all, it was probably the right number of villagers needed for his first stage of starting a village. Nothing was more important than minions to help him manage certain tasks.

Apart from one scribe that Technoblade assigned to segregate villagers, the three other villagers were recruited as scribes without actual tasks to complete. According to his villager panel, villagers with no assigned jobs can do other tasks during 'working hours' such as upgrading their stats with a bookshelf nearby or socialising to increase overall population happiness.

Happiness was subjective, but the system admin made it easy to achieve in Aftercraft. By socialising, villagers can increase or maintain their happiness meter. The level of work a villager does must be proportional to their socialising hours. Unhappiness happens when an imbalance or a villager's needs are unmet.

Originally, Technoblade wanted his villagers to be as unhappy as possible because back in Skyblock, slavery was the answer to everything, regardless of a minion's opinion. His regime worked out perfectly. However, that was not the case with Aftercraft. The production of his slav– workers, was directly proportional to the happiness index. The Blood God was forced to admit how smart the system admin was in promoting villager rights.

With this new system, he could not create an iron farm even if he was somehow able to trap a rotting monster in the same cell as them. Unhappy villagers would kill each other, and the unhappiness level would increase, decreasing the productivity of his regular villagers.

In short, Technoblade had to fulfil the act of a benevolent ruler instead of an oppressive tyrant or a hot-headed rebel. It was very out of his character, but nobody said he could not do it the Technoblade way.

"Fine," he blinked. "Socialise away if you must. However, you're all going to take turns doing so. It doesn't take two people to socialise, and you don't need a lounge so you can do so in a productive cell away from sight forever if you're too dumb for a job."

That's right. Although brown-robed villagers were capable of getting jobs, some of them did not have the right stats for the jobs Technoblade had in mind for them. They could only do menial tasks such as farming or woodcutting that he did not require now. Not all villagers were born the same, even though they were all children of Adam and Eve. It was rare for a villager to be born with all stats of one. Even if they turned into brown-robed adults, they couldn't do anything apart from studying. Studying helped to increase a random stat point of a villager over time. He did not know how quickly villagers could level up their stat points, but his goal was to get a villager scribe to study to ten stat points so he could employ teachers.

Teachers were important as they could help villagers to focus on the stat points to increase. Children earned twice as many stat points by studying compared to adults. It made more sense, and Technoblade wanted to create two teachers so that he could have one focus on teaching children and the other on adults. Not all adult villagers could break the level five stat limit for all skills, so it was a game of luck. Most importantly, Technoblade needed a scribe with the very rare ability to get fifteen intelligence points to become his secretary. There were no limits to how many secretaries Technoblade could get, but he desperately needed one first to manage the village in his absence.