Chapter 5. Farmville.
I immediately headed to the centerpice building's foundations, there were boxes of all my purchases beside the foundation, I immediately picked upmy building materials package and, loudly declared 'Centerpiece Building' the box disappeared from my hands all the materials were in front of me. Apparently it was IKEA and I had to assemble the building myself.
The designs were a hell of lot more easily followed than IKEA, thank Jump-Chan for small mercies. And I started to use my Instantly done perk alongside my Psionics to build it and guess what, I went into Auto-build montage mode apparently. And when I came out of the Montage the building was done and literally no time had passed. Which meant a few in game mechanics still applied.
Inside the Building I saw what seemed to b a terminal, When I poked around it I found out it gave access to the Farmers Community in the World. There was a overview of my Farm, a store that would deliver anything I purchased in it, a forum via which I got information on the world itself and could hire locals to work on my farm in exchange for money.
Leaving it alone for now. I went into the Storage and took out building materials for My animal Pens, the Animal feed Vendor and the fences. First set up the Feed vendor, the Pens and then started with the Fences, the same auto build montage happened again as I dug holes. Pitched in the posts then boarded up between said posts. After the farm was fenced in I went ahead and built smaller pens within my farm as well.
Once done I headed back into the House to get some more work done. When I noticed a box sitting in front of the terminal. Turned out it was building materials for an hatchery. Which I promptly went out and built. The pack was apparently my daily gift, this was swell and it made things a hell of a lot more easier. I then confirmed my Monopoly holdings were inserted in the world which was great and then went to work on the terminal.
I proceeded to head to the store and buy various things such as constrcuctuom materials for wells, butchery sets, a few hounds, Water Troughs, a motor that would transfer water from the well into the troughs, a couole dozen chickens, a couple of butcher sets etc.
I spent the next few hours building up the buildings, setting up the farm before retiring for the night.
The next night I awoke to the yowling of my chickens. I left bed and pulled out my pistols from the Pokemon world. The annoying Critters drawback was probably in action. And yes indeed it was, a fox had attacked the chicken coop and was about to get one of mine as I shot it in its legs. I immediately went to it and used Animal Whisperer and Domestication to turn it to my side to hunt any animals that would dare attack my farm. Then used the medbay in my warehouse to heal it up.
Then I let out my Pokemon and gave them the rundown on the situation, let's see these mundane animals steal what's mine now. Hah.
I also started training the hound pups, they were young but by game mechanics would be fully grown in two or three days best to start young.
I also sent out Lance My Corviknight to recon the near by woods and find out what kind of and where animals were living in it. Animal whisperer making it clear what I wanted him to do.
The forums were very helpful, this world was as focused on farming as the Pokemon one was on Pokemon. A successful farmer here was as famous as a champion back in pokeworld. There were all kinds of tips, tricks and suggestions for new farmers. One which I paid attention to and applied immediately, the delivery box. It basically was the reverse of the express delivery all deliveries by me were completed by dropping packages onto the box rather than needing to deliver in person.
The woods near my farms were populated by a whole load of animals, mostly foxes, rabbit, wild dogs, deer, a few ,cows, wild horses, a wolf pack or two. All of which I could tack down due to the hunter perks, but guess what, I just had Lance steal them for me. Not like any of the animals could resist him or anything.
A month in I already had a booming business of delivering trained animals of choice. Want a pet lion I could get you one, A wolf I'll get you one. A Stag that could fight of a pack of wolf's I'll get you one. Animal products were also selling well. Insta-grow made it really easy, I could get an animal an hour in prime butchering or selling condition. So I did eighteen animals a day were put in prime condition that either butchered or sold.
I also received a lot of quests in my whole Quests drawback, all thankfully related to my specialisations. But you know what came with quests, yep you guess it Rewards.
I made potions and sold them, sold Meat, milk, feathers, tanned Hides, living animals, trains animals, breeding animals you name something to do with animals I probably sold it. In one month my farm, Silo and Storage were all expanded to the max and I didn't even have to dip into my Monopoly revenue and still made profits.
Any time I had concerns or questions about my farm, ask a question on the forum and a million helpful suggestions were thrown at me for free. Peculiarly however there was no trash talk, flame posts and the like it was either helpful suggestions or nothing at all. I had actually caught a couple dozen Hawks, eagles, falcons and other birds of prey who'd patrol the skies and alert the land based defences of intruder, and if small enough capture said intruders. I had foxes by the hundred which I trained and sold, wolf's by the dozens which replaced dogs as my security forces.
All in all the farm was a success. I received a quest that gave me a batch of Dino Eggs as rewards which led to me start selling Dino meat, leather, and the like. I could apparently teleport to any Farms I owned. Though the lack of a shipping license made it possible to shift machinery between farms as well, egg will be fixed soon enough. However in anticipation of getting a new farm and having to leave to set that one up I looked into hiring NPC farmers.
There was a slight issue though, I could either hire locals who may not have the same specialisations or hire specialists, guess which ones I chose. the specialists were a tad more expensive and I had to provide room but my centerpiece building was large enough to accommodate. Especially since i lived out of the warehouse which was infinitely more comfortable. Could hire as many NPC's as I wanted per farm provided I could afford to, and they came with every perk in that specialization from the jump doc.
I decided to hire four Specialists per farm, one Magical Farming specialist, one animal Husbandry Specialist, one Preshistoric Farming specialist, and one one Crafting specialist to make better items and sell them off higher than the base cost. It cost a lot, around a tenth of my profits but a tenth wasn't a lot considering everything in the end. And NPC's hired were all as good at their specialisations as I was in mine and obeyed my instructions to the T. So the combination of those four would work just as well as I did if not better.
Also since I didn't buy the Jump Doc shipping license I couldn't move stuff from farm to farm. I ended up buying a Shipping License in world which was the first time I had to dip into my out of farm funds from Monopoly investments. It was ridiculously expensive. Still less that 600 CP though.
I had made slight headway into clearing the hanging gardens of Babylon around an eight was clear already, golden shovels often came in daily Gifts, or as quest rewards. I also received a shitload of other materials like magical Animal Eggs that I hadn't hatched yet, the eggs wouldn't hatched unless placed in an hatchery for a predetermined amount of time. I tried to see if I could farm my Pokemon but apparently I could not, there goes my dream of an army of a Million Machamps. With air Support of a million Corviknights, Blastoise artillery,
Electivire Infantry, and Tyranitar siege units.
However My Pokemon got workouts,
Fou, my Arcanine assisted by Cerebrus my Houndoom was in charge of training my guard dogs, wolves and Foxes. Lance my Corviknight Trained Batches of Guard Birds and flying Dinosaurs. Sting My Nidoking trained my Combat Dino's which were trained and sold. Rocky the Tyranitar helped Sting. Basically if you could name an animal I could sell you a trained one in a couple of weeks.
A decade later I had exactly forty one farms. They all had themes apparently. A Halloween one, a dozen in El Dorado's theme where I could Farm Gold. I cleared out the hanging gardens at some point which game a shitload of magical animals eggs, babies and magical plant seeds and cuttings.
So I decided to make The hanging gardens the main magical farm and got nine copies, just like my main farm was the main mundane animal one. I had a dozen underwater games where I farmed fishes, trained shark, dolphins, hell I even managed to finagle and train a boatload of oysters to form pearls for me. And given this was a game world. Pearls formed in a week or so instead of the years it took in real life and turned around ten underwater farms dedicated to Pearl Farming.
Recently I started using my Should have been impossible perk to create better animals to raise and sell. And after that nearly all my animals started laying eggs, the reproductive cycle of egg laying Species was ridiculously fast, so now I had Wolf eggs, lion eggs, Horse eggs etc which were all in high demand. And considering I only sold male eggs. I had a monopoly on them. Name an animal and I sold said egg.
The magical farming was going very well, but intended to keep a portion of every harvest in reserve for future world's. Such as Harry potter where potions were a thing. I had a shitload of magical reagents but didn't have any knowledge on how to use them other than Farmville world Potions and they all basically went, grow plants faster, make plants tastier. Make animals fatter faster. Make animals tastier. Make animals healthier. Repel pests etc. While all useful they weren't as useful as say Polyjuice From Harry potter, or Felix Felicis. But still usefull nonetheless. The potions to make animals fitter, healthier could also be used by humans so it wasn't a complete loss. A dozen Farms were made specially for Potions Ingredients.
However one of the experiments I had done was since this world had magic I tried to breed a basilisk as described in Harry potter. Toad on chicken egg. Didn't work. But I did get a few magical animals as rewards for quests though, a multitude of dragons, a herd or two of unicorns, Griffin's, hippocampi, horned Serpents, Stymphalian Brids from Greek myth, an honest to goodness Cereberus Pup, apparently named creatures and unique animals are rare drops from quests.
I actually had honest to goodness Willingly given Unicorn blood. If Harry potter was right it would keep someone alive through everything. And Without it being cursed cause you know willingly given.
The intelligent magical creatures like Unicorns and Gryffins were given the courtesy on not being butchered, they were still harvested, Gryffin feathers, talons sold very well and they regenerated in like ten minutes. Unicorn tail hair, horn Shavings were also the same, I held back from Selling the Willingly given unicorn blood though, that was mine and mine and mine alone. And once any magical animal like the unicorns was dead due to old age which translated to like half a year in this world they would be rendered for parts. The unicorns knew and consented to this, at least I had trained them to. So again no curses, unicorn hides, horns, blood, organs, etc on the market. I couldn't Hybridise magical animals into Egg Reproductive types though, I assume because I don't have a magical Chimera making perk.
Dragons on the other hand were raised to adulthood slaughtered and sold, they weren't intelligent like gryffins and unicorns, basically just a overgrown lizards that spit fire. Dragon mat sold very well. And by now I could Insta Grow twenty seven Dragons per hour. And hatch Dragon eggs in seconds instead of the week long wait it usually took. But they were indeed very magical so that was a good thing.
I got lucky and got Acromantula eggs as well,. They were tamed and immediately went into producing Eggs, Silk and Venom for me to sell. I had farms dedicated to single magical animals, the unicorn farms was one such. If I was lucky enough at some point in the next few years I would get a Thestral herd. Ahh Knock off elder wand here I come. Though Thestrals weren't much value in farming other than Their tail hair though, and the seeking ability. They could find anything that wasn't hidden by a fidelius or its equivalent.
And so went the next four decades of my life. I now had 201 farms all with around 7 specialist on each of them. And tomorrow onwards I wouldn't even have to pay them as They became part of my NPC collection. I had ten goddamned farms that produced gold for me, every single day, which was literally inexhaustible. Yes the world was boring as all hells but for that alone it was well worth it.
I also had a dozen of a particular Farm called the Cave of Crystals which like the Mines of Moria would Spawn and gems I have seeded there, and they counted as natural crystals not magically made. So magically neutral as needed by rituals and things like the Fate verse Jewel Craft. Diamonds, Emeralds, plain Crystals, sapphires all were farmer like hell. I actually hired mine specialised farmers for those particular farms. And let me tell you they were expensive as all hell. I decided to go with farm type specialists as well, Moria had A bunch of Miners just like the caves, the cultivation world's had Spiritual farmers, the silk farms had craftsmen specialists. So on and so forth.
That's not mentioning the half dozen underwater a farms creating Pearls for me, ten farms that farmed Spiritual items such as Cultivator herbs and animals, guess what I was loaded in shit should I go to one of these world's. I didn't really sell much though, would be far more useful in one of the Cultivation worlds. And I had a Lot of money by this point anyway.
I had a dozen farms called the Mines of Moria, guess what I farmed there, metals, any metal I have personally seeded even an ounce of through a box in said mine, the mines produced, alloys included. Imagine a farm that produced Adamantine, Uru, Goblin Silver, vibranium, Imperial Gold, and any other metal you could think of at command.
They also came with a Balrog for free. Yes I also sold Balrogs. I had a farm for literally anything related to food you can thing of. So yes this was a amazingly Successful jump. Now that my resource collection was complete, I can now head for the proper Jump Adventures. After seventy years of being on the Jump Chain. Though I did have 201 farms each of which were at last twice the Size of the Vatican so worth it. And I could literally shit gold if I wanted to.
As per usual the next morning I woke up at Jump-Chans desk with her grinning down at me.
