8: My pickaxe can dig through the earth!

"First, synthesize the Wood Peeling Machine, Paper Making Machine, and Wood-to-Coal Machine, then establish production lines for various raw materials."

Let's get to it.

Fang Yun came to the workbench and synthesized all the items needed to establish the production lines.

"Wood Peeling Machine, Paper Making Machine, Wood-to-Coal Machine, levers, hoppers, chests, furnaces, blast furnaces. Excluding the redstone components that require redstone dust to synthesize, these should be the items needed for the production line."

"Although there aren't many required blocks synthesized, they can be stored for now, and when the quantity accumulates to a certain level, they can be used to establish the production line."

"Next, it's time for the main event in the plan: the expansion of the tree farm and the acquisition of lava."

"The expansion of the tree farm can only happen as saplings gradually increase, so the speed won't be fast; it can only be done slowly. However, it's possible to consider finding a suitable depth and location during the process of digging down to the Mantle to prepare a space for the tree farm in advance."

"Besides the super tree farm, the raw material production lines that will definitely be built in the future, as well as various other production lines, machines, and buildings that might be constructed in the future, can all be considered for placement in suitable underground locations."

"Or, going a step further, directly build a super base underground encompassing various production lines, machines, and buildings, maximizing logistical capabilities."

"Furthermore, once the minimap plugin is purchased from the System Shop, construction can be done freely anywhere on Earth."

"Whether underground, in the sea, or in the sky, build wherever you want."

"Even if I haven't marked it or can't remember where the construction location is, the minimap can help me find where the built items are."

"By then, I can directly establish bases in various locations on Earth, and it's not impossible to single-handedly go head-to-head against companies worldwide."

"Not only Earth, but also the moon, other planets and space in the solar system, and the boundless vast universe can all serve as construction sites."

Just imagining the various wonderful scenes of the distant future, Fang Yun's heart immediately became incredibly excited.

After letting himself indulge in fantasies for a while, Fang Yun finally composed himself and began to reconsider the problems he should face now.

"Alright, let's talk about the future later. Right now, what I should do is dig towards the Mantle to obtain lava."

"Today, I, Fang Yun, will also imitate 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and embark on a Journey to the Mantle."

Fang Yun first started from a corner of the Shelter, expanding the Shelter downwards to create an empty matchbox-shaped space, preparing to begin digging downwards from this space until reaching the Mantle.

Then, Fang Yun returned to the chests storing supplies in the Shelter, put all the supplies on his body into the chests, and then took out some items that might be needed during the digging process.

Fang Yun took a torch in his off-hand slot to serve as a mobile light source.

He placed a stack of iron doors in the first slot of the hotbar, left the second slot empty to store blocks dropped during digging, the third slot was a workbench, the fourth slot was a stack of wood, and the remaining slots were all filled with iron pickaxes.

Next, he synthesized a batch of stone pickaxes, filling his inventory to the brim.

As for why they were stone pickaxes rather than iron pickaxes, that was naturally because the few remaining iron ingots had all been synthesized into iron pickaxes.

So, before digging up iron ore underground, Fang Yun could only make do with stone pickaxes for a while.

Feeling that he was almost ready, Fang Yun planned to officially start digging downwards.

For now, he planned to adopt a spiral downward method, slowly digging towards the Mantle.

When digging spirally downwards, except for the first few digging depths which are open passages, the parts further down are enclosed passages where he digs four depths and then changes direction. There must be supporting blocks on the left, right, top, and bottom, and the movable part in the middle is one block long, one block wide, and three blocks high.

During the process of digging downwards, Fang Yun planned to place an iron door every 50 kilometers of depth dug downwards, keeping it in an open state.

If he could dig up iron ore, Fang Yun planned to place more iron doors between the iron doors placed every 50 kilometers.

This way, once lava is dug out, even if the lava suddenly creates an opening due to the original enclosed high-pressure environment, causing it to spurt outwards from this opening, the lava will at most only spurt upwards for a distance of 50 kilometers, or even less, thus avoiding the consequence of deep underground lava leaking to the surface.

Moreover, Fang Yun would block the digging passage immediately to prevent the lava from continuously surging upwards, so the height of the lava surge would definitely not reach the estimated maximum distance.

Having decided on the general digging approach, the next step was to consider how to determine the digging progress.

To better judge his digging progress, Fang Yun needed to know the distance between himself and the starting point of the digging, and this would require the use of coordinate display.

Coordinate display is a classic feature in the MC game.

If Fang Yun were playing the game, he would only need to search on Baidu for the shortcut key to open built-in MC features like coordinate display and chunk display.

However, Fang Yun was currently in the real world, so he naturally didn't know how to open features like coordinate display and chunk display.

"At this time, it's Tong Zi's turn to appear."

Facing a question he didn't understand, Fang Yun chose to ask the System directly, "Tong Zi, how do I turn on coordinate display and chunk display now?"

"Ding! The functions of coordinate display and chunk display are both version mechanisms of the current version. To enable display, or disable display, or customize the display format of these two mechanisms, or make some other allowed settings for these two mechanisms, the host only needs to inform this System, and the System will assist the host in completing various settings for these two mechanisms."

"Not only these two mechanisms, but other usable mechanisms in the current version are also the same. For specific mechanisms, please refer to the <Version Information> entry under the <Version Mechanism Information> entry."

Fang Yun opened the <Version Information> which he hadn't looked at before, found the <Version Mechanism Information> under it, and got a general understanding of the version mechanisms he could currently use.

"So, besides coordinate display and chunk display, I can also use mechanisms like time display, revival, and rebirth."

"For the revival mechanism, the revival location can currently be set; it can be random, or a fixed area. The fixed area can at most be the Earth where I am currently located."

"The rebirth mechanism is similar to the revival mechanism, but there are some differences."

"First point: When reviving, you cannot choose which skin to use before reviving; whatever skin you were using when you died is the skin you will have after reviving. For rebirth, you can choose which skin to use before reviving, thus reviving 'wearing' the chosen skin."

"Second point: Among the optional settings for revival, there is no timeline option; among the optional settings for rebirth, there is a timeline option. Of course, the timeline optional setting for rebirth is currently in an disallowed state and cannot be set."

"Third point: The optional settings for rebirth include the memory option, while revival does not."

"Additionally, there are some other differences between revival and rebirth."

"Besides the usable version mechanisms, there are some mechanisms that I cannot currently use. For example, the 'reincarnation' mechanism where one is born with a new identity on other planets or civilizations in this world."

"Oh dear, the version mechanisms are so complicated. I'll look at more information when I need it later."

Fang Yun closed the entry interface with a slight headache; the long and tedious explanatory text was like an obscure and difficult-to-understand explanatory essay with no enjoyment whatsoever, making one lose the desire to read on.

"Tong Zi, turn on coordinate display and chunk display. I remember I placed a few stone blocks on the rock surface as markers. Let's use the lower corner of the stone block closest to the ground as the origin of the coordinate system and establish a Cartesian coordinate system."

"Ding! The coordinate system has been established. Coordinate display and chunk display are now shown in their default format."

"Okay."

"I can start digging now."

Fang Yun found a good spot, raised his iron pickaxe, and dug out the first stone towards the Mantle.

At the same time, the digging depth also began to accumulate the first number.

"1."