Now that he has decided to exchange vegetables for supplies, the greenhouse is obviously the place that Chen Xin needs to upgrade most now.
Currently, half of the land in Chen Xin's greenhouse is planted with carrots, which will take about two months to harvest. The other half of the land was previously planted with lettuce and cabbage, which have just been harvested. Chen Xin needs to renovate the land. Apply fertilizer, then turn the soil and re-sow new seeds.
Along with re-fertilizing the land, it also needs to be plowed, which is commonly known as plowing or plowing.
This is done to break up the clumped parts of the soil to loosen the soil and make it easier for crops to grow. If fertilizer is applied at the same time, the fertilizer can also be dug deep into the soil so that the crops can better absorb the nutrients in the fertilizer.
Plowing is one of the most important parts of the entire farming process, and it is also the most tiring of all farming tasks. This is why there were plowing oxen and even war horses in ancient times to plow the land.
Because it is too tiring to plow a piece of land with human power alone, using animal power can greatly save manpower, while also improving the efficiency of plowing the land and saving time.
After all, cattle plowing land and people plowing land are two completely different concepts.
However, Chen Xin's greenhouse is too small, and he doesn't have any cattle to use, so he can only use a hoe to plow the ground bit by bit.
Fortunately, the area of land Chen Xin has to plow is not large, and the temperature of the greenhouse is constant, so he doesn't have to catch up with the farming season. He just needs to plant the seeds after plowing.
However, even so, it took Chen Xin most of the day to till the fifty square meters of land and sow the seeds again.
Looking at the land he had plowed, Chen Xin hammered his back. He felt quite a bit that farm work was indeed a tiring job. At the same time, he also thought about whether he should upgrade the farm tools in his hands when upgrading the greenhouse. Improve the efficiency of farmland.
With the upgrading of greenhouses, the planting area will definitely increase, and with the increase in planting area, the workload will inevitably increase.
Although there is nothing else to do in the shelter, and farm work is not bad, this kind of physical labor is really boring for Chen Xin, who has never done farm work in the first thirty years of his life. When it comes to farming, it doesn’t matter if the area is small. When the planting area increases, using the power of machinery is the right way to improve efficiency.
Maybe I can ask Mo Qingyan to exchange for some small farm machinery? Although the precious survival points can be used to upgrade agricultural tools, Chen Xin feels that it should not be wasted so much. After all, small agricultural machinery is not something difficult to acquire even in this apocalyptic era.
In addition to small agricultural machinery, Chen Xin also plans to buy a few more fill lights, which are essential tools in the greenhouse and materials needed to upgrade the greenhouse.
As for the other materials for upgrading the greenhouse, they are just steel and cement, which are basically the building materials that will be used to expand the greenhouse.
Of course, if Chen Xin adds various equipment needed for hydroponic cultivation to the upgraded materials, then when upgrading the cultivation greenhouse, Chen Xin will not only expand the land area of the cultivation greenhouse, but also have an extra layer of water. Planting trays can be used to double the planting area of the greenhouse.
This is also the difference between using materials to upgrade and using survival points to upgrade. When using survival points to upgrade, you can only choose one of the two upgrade plans given by the system. There is no way to choose all of them in one upgrade.
But if you use materials to upgrade, there is no such problem. As long as all the materials required for the upgrade can be met, there is no need to consider the issue of choosing one from the other. You can upgrade both options at once.
Regarding the functional differences brought about by the two upgrade methods, Chen Xin understood that this may be a function set by higher civilizations to increase the fun of survival games when they created this system.
After all, for advanced civilized individuals who can play survival games, what they want is a better gaming experience.
If you just stay in a certain place and then rely on accumulating survival points to upgrade items to play doomsday survival, it will obviously make people feel a bit negative, and the game experience will be poor. After all, there is no actual sense of participation.
Maybe you will spend some time in the early stage to build yourself a hiding place or a survival cabin, but with the storage of survival points, you can completely give up going out to collect resources and work on your own to improve living conditions.
But collecting upgrade materials yourself is different. After all, the resources you have collected so hard are used for upgrades. Watching the residence you built with your own hands become better and better, this will obviously greatly satisfy those players' sense of accomplishment and participation.
Moreover, collecting resources to upgrade can also save survival points, which means that the system is changing direction and encourages the use of resources for upgrades.
After all, upgrading resources requires saving some survival points. Enough survival points can be accumulated when collecting materials, which invisibly increases the survival probability of players who use resources to upgrade.
In particular, resources can be stored in advance. As long as there are enough resources and survival points, you can upgrade.
As for those players who directly use survival points to upgrade, on the one hand, the functions of the items they upgrade are weaker, and on the other hand, if they only use survival points, their upgrade progress will undoubtedly be much slower than that of players who use resources to upgrade.
However, these may be just games to advanced civilizations, but to Chen Xin, this is a treasure that can save lives and greatly improve his probability of survival in the end of the world.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin quickly made a list and confirmed what he needed.
"One hundred kilograms of steel, five bags of cement, a set of hydroponic planting equipment, fill lights..." Chen Xin counted the resources he needed one by one, and couldn't help but shook his head: "This requires a lot of things, I think. If I change to these things, I’m afraid I’ll have to bleed a lot.”
Half of Chen Xin's planting greenhouse is used to grow carrots, which take three months to mature and be harvested. The other half's vegetable production is extremely limited. Before upgrading the planting greenhouse, he wants to rely on the current vegetable production to get what he needs. , Chen Xin felt that he might have to supply all of his monthly output.
But there is no need to rush. He can ask Mo Qingyan to help collect supplies through Uncle Ding's relationship. He will first use the vegetables produced this month as a deposit, and wait for the carrots to be harvested next month before making the final payment. Settlement.
With these supplies, Chen Xin can upgrade the greenhouse and increase the greenhouse's planting area to four times the current size.
Moreover, Chen Xin uses a system to upgrade, which does not require the time required for normal construction, which can save even more time. (End of chapter)