The red-haired giant eagle that kept destroying the courtyard has been subdued by Li Xiao, and protected by such a large weapon as the crossbow turret, the courtyard on the central island is now completely safe.
It's time for Li Xiao to develop this yard properly.
The first one to bear the brunt is, of course, the most important planting industry!
With the unlocking of medium-sized farmland, Li Xiao can start growing vegetables.
The field where some berries were originally planted had been destroyed by the giant red-haired eagle, so Li Xiao simply demolished it all and started building on top of it.
For planting, water is a must.
To successfully grow vegetables, an excellent irrigation system is necessary.
Li Xiao installed stone water pipes and faucets on every piece of farmland to ensure that every field has a good water supply.
As for the source of water supply, Li Xiao was a bit confused.
There are two water supply methods for Li Xiao to choose from:
One is to build a reservoir and use rainwater to provide water supply for the entire yard.
But this method has considerable risks - once it doesn't rain for a long time, the yard will lose its water supply, and the plants without water will slowly wither and die.
The second method does not have such risks.
That is to directly connect the water pipe to the river so that the river can provide a steady supply of water.
But this method also has disadvantages, that is, the workload is too much!
This yard is some distance from the river, so a lot of water pipes are needed to connect it.
After hesitating for a while, Li Xiao decided to connect the water pipe to the river directly.
"Anyway, there are star-tailed beasts collecting stones, so there are as many materials as you need to make water pipes!" Li Xiao thought.
But the problem comes again, the water pipe cannot be laid directly on the ground!
Anytime a dinosaur passes by, it will damage the water pipes.
Hanging it high up? It’s not realistic. It seems the only option is to bury it in the ground.
Li Xiao looked at the river in the distance with helplessness on his face.
"It looks like the next few days will be very busy!"
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A good planting requires not only good irrigation, but also fertilizers.
However, Li Xiao already has a lot of domesticated animals, and he makes a lot of daddies every day.
Li Xiao collected them and put them all into the fertilizer box. While building the irrigation system in a few days, the fermentation of the cake was completed and became usable fertilizer.
After spreading fertilizer on the cultivated land and moistening the soil with a faucet, Li Xiao planted several vegetable seeds.
Potatoes, corn, carrots, lemons...
After coming to Ark Island for such a long time, Li Xiao had collected all the plant seeds that could be planted.
Unlike berries, which are easy to grow, these crops have a longer growth period, are more difficult to grow, and require careful care.
However, the harvest of these crops is far inferior to that of berries...
After burying the last few seeds in the soil, Li Xiao stood up and stretched out the discomfort caused by bending down for a long time.
"I haven't unlocked the greenhouse blueprint yet. It would be perfect if I had a greenhouse!"
Looking around, we see the vast cultivated land in front of us:
Rows of medium-sized farmland were neatly arranged, and Li Xiao planted vegetables in them.
Next to it is a row of small cultivated fields, where berries are grown.
Although there are vegetables that can be harvested in large quantities, berries still have many uses and still need to be grown.
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The cultivation of vegetables is not only a source of food for Li Xiao and several herbivorous dinosaurs, but more importantly, vegetables can be used to make feed.
As mentioned before, feed can greatly increase the taming speed of dinosaurs.
Although before taming, "psychologically taming" the dinosaur to be tamed has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort, it is only useful for some weak creatures after all.
Not to mention those huge creatures, even when taming a star-tailed beast, this method won't have much effect - the star-tailed beast has rough skin and thick flesh, and Li Xiao's attack on it is just like scratching it.
Making feed to tame dinosaurs is a must!
The main raw material of feed is the eggs of various dinosaurs. Different dinosaur feeds require different dinosaur eggs to make.
Therefore, Li Xiao had to diversify its tame types as much as possible.
To tame a variety of species, you must travel all over Ark Island...
Among the ingredients for making feed, there is usually a very special one - cooked meat jerky/high-quality cooked meat jerky.
The so-called cooked meat jerky is made by placing the roasted cooked meat in an air-drying box and drying the meat with the help of igniting powder and oil.
The drying box has been unlocked and can be made. The ignition powder is also simple. Now there is only one ingredient missing to make cooked meat jerky - oil!
This oil is not some edible oil, but crude oil collected from oil rocks that can be used to refine gasoline!
The largest distribution of crude oil resources is on the seabed, followed by the snowfields in the northwest.
If Li Xiao currently wants to obtain crude oil, there is no need to think about the Northwest Icefield. With his current equipment level, he simply cannot reach there.
He can only go to the ocean to collect crude oil.
And the ocean is not a safe place...
"It's difficult, it's really difficult!"
When he thought that taming a dinosaur required so much preparation and collecting such complicated materials, Li Xiao felt like he had one head and two heads.
The reason why Zhaocheng Li Xiao is so gloomy is simple - his level is too low!
Level is a real thing. In addition to killing creatures to gain experience, other things can only be improved bit by bit through the accumulation of time.
Although Li Xiao gained experience in the swamp area several times and his level improvement has been very rapid, it still cannot keep up with Li Xiao's development speed.
This is also one of his shortcomings as an Ark player...
According to the level of a normal player, he should still be a ten-level novice at this time, still fighting wits and courage with Dilophosaurus in the safe area in the south.
But Li Xiao is different. He has extensive experience in the Ark game and moved his shelter to the central island early.
But according to normal circumstances, this is a place that requires at least level 40 and nearly 50 to explore!
Li Xiao's high-level playing experience has made him endure troubles that his level should not bear...
"Alas -" Li Xiao sighed and was helpless.
Yesterday I was still happy that I conquered the giant eagle because my level was low, but today I encountered the trouble caused by my low level.
"take it easy……"
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The simplest and crudest way to tame a creature is to chase it or let it chase it, and then use tranquilizer arrows to knock it out.
But this efficiency is really not high, and there are too many surprises.
If the chasing creature breaks into the territory of other dangerous creatures, or dangerous creatures wander around.
On the contrary, Li Xiao stole the chicken but lost the rice, and he might have become a snack for dangerous creatures...
Coupled with the interference of terrain vegetation, tranquilizer arrows may not be able to hit.
This simple method of taming is the worst policy.
Moreover, as a highly intelligent human being who has experienced modern society, doing this is no different from primitive people.
Brain, use your brain!
Before taming a creature, the best way is to trap it in one place.
Dig a trap pit? Lure creatures into it? This method works.
But the disadvantages are also considerable, such as too much workload, or that the dinosaurs are not fooled at all?
After all, this is the real Arkworld, and dinosaurs are also living individuals, not stupid data, and will not jump into the trap set for them.
In the Ark game, there is a very good way - building a trapped dragon room!
To put it bluntly, the trapped dragon house is a stone house with four walls and no roof.
On the top of one side of the wall of the trapped dragon room, two slopes are connected to the ground, so that creatures can jump into the house from these slopes.
What Li Xiao has to do is to attract the hatred of the creature, and then lead it to jump into the trapped dragon room.
On one side of the wall of the trapped dragon room, there is a door frame for Li Xiao to enter and exit. Li Xiao, who led the creature to jump in, can come out through this door frame and leave the larger creature alone in the room.
Then, he can stand on the slope again and shoot tranquilizing arrows at the creatures that have nowhere to hide!
Making the crossbow turret completely used up the metal ore Li Xiao collected last time. Now he urgently needs to tame an ankylosaurus to help him collect metal ore.
Just in time, use this trapped dragon room to try to tame an ankylosaurus!
Li Xiao built the trapped dragon house in an open space outside the yard in a short time.
Then, it rode the Velociraptor and looked for the Ankylosaurus around...
Ankylosaurus is a creature that is found at the foot of the central mountain peak. Last time Li went to collect iron ore, he saw a few of them.
Not far away from the central peak, Li Xiao saw two Ankylosaurus grazing leisurely from a distance.
If you look closely, this creature is almost five meters long including its tail!
The whole body is covered with rows of sharp bone spurs, and even its head has many spikes. Looking at it, it looks like a turtle wearing anti-wound armor.
The important thing is that the end of its tail, like the star-tailed beast, also has a huge bone hammer.
Different from the tail hammer of the star-tailed beast, its tail hammer is larger and has a spindle shape with spikes on both ends.
Coupled with some small bone spurs, the entire tail looks extremely ferocious! Extremely dangerous!
"Two?" Li Xiao touched his chin and started thinking.
"The two trapped dragons can't fit in the room at all. It seems that we need to find a way to lure one away!"
He let the velociraptor come forward and took a bite of an ankylosaurus...
The inexplicable attack angered the Ankylosaurus. It let out a long groan, and the Ankylosaurus next to it also turned around. Then, the two Ankylosaurus shared the same hatred and chased the Velociraptor together.
The Velociraptor turned around, fled towards Li Xiao, and passed by Li Xiao.
The two Ankylosaurus also chased after them, and they were so heavy that the ground shook as they ran.
When two Ankylosaurus passed by Li Xiao, a metal spear stabbed an Ankylosaurus from Li Xiao's hand...
The spear thrust was extremely tricky, missing the thick bone armor on the Ankylosaurus and stabbing its weak armpit.
The injury was not serious, but it was extremely painful!
The next moment, the Ankylosaurus turned around and focused its hatred on Li Xiao!
Li Xiao immediately started running in the opposite direction of the raptor.
Two Ankylosaurus, one chased the Velociraptor and the other chased Li Xiao, and they separated successfully.
On the Velociraptor side, after seeing that Li Xiao was no longer visible, the Velociraptor accelerated, leaving the slow Ankylosaurus far behind and out of its sight...
Then the velociraptor rushed towards the direction where Li Xiao escaped.
On Li Xiao's side, he led the extremely angry Ankylosaurus and ran towards the yard.
This Ankylosaurus had a heavy body and its running speed was really slow. Li Xiao had to look back from time to time to check the distance between it and him, just in case someone accidentally ran out of its hatred range.
Seeing that it was too far away, he had to slow down and wait for it.
