4: Vehicle Accessory Blueprints

“The rewards are so generous!”

“A small Iron Mine collection point, even if completely mined out, would probably only yield around 5,000 units of Iron Mine.”

“3,000 units of Iron Mine is like half a mine.”

“And there’s also 1,000 units of copper, which is a good thing!”

copper is much scarcer than Iron Mine, yet it is an indispensable material for manufacturing many vehicle components.

Vehicle components that significantly improve the train, such as bullet production lines and Gale Wheels, all require copper.

Lu Yang couldn't build them before because he didn't have any copper.

The flintlock pistols he produced only came with 10 bullets each.

He couldn't defend against even a slightly larger horde of zombies.

He had even planned that if he encountered a zombie horde of over a hundred, he would quickly craft a batch of flintlock rifles and distribute the bullets.

A flintlock pistol costs 15 units of Iron Mine and 5 units of wood, so a few hundred units of Iron Mine could make dozens of them.

Even if he couldn't escape, he could at least put up some resistance.

Now, he no longer needed to worry about this.

1,000 units of copper could greatly alleviate his immediate needs.

Not to mention, there was also this—

Kuangfeng I Light Machine Gun Blueprint (Blue).

This was a very scarce weapon blueprint for low-level trains!!

According to the blueprint description,

this Kuangfeng I Light Machine Gun was not large in size, used 7.62mm bullets just like the flintlock rifle, and had a firing rate of 600 rounds per minute.

With it, the train's firepower would achieve a qualitative leap.

One must know that a normal train would only unlock a basic machine gun vehicle component at Level 3.

Good stuff, truly good stuff!!

It was just that the price was a bit painful.

Building the production line alone required 200 units of Iron Mine and 200 units of copper.

Each machine gun cost an additional 100 units of Iron Mine to build.

A 600-round ammunition box cost 200 units of copper.

If he really used it, Lu Yang's entire fortune could probably allow the machine gun to fire continuously for three minutes?

How luxurious!!

However, Lu Yang still chose to build it immediately.

This thing was like a nuclear weapon.

You might not use it, but you couldn't not have it.

Spending 200 units of Iron Mine and 200 units of copper,

a production line about six or seven meters long was immediately generated in the rear part of the second production carriage.

Its front half was a completely black chassis, 3 meters long, 1.5 meters wide, and 1.2 meters high, just slightly taller than the finished machine gun.

The latter half was a conveyor belt, divided into two unit frames.

Finished machine guns could be transported out from these unit frames.

The unit production time was 30 minutes, and a maximum of two could be built simultaneously.

After placing this production line, the already limited space in the second production carriage immediately became packed.

“I need to build a few more carriages.”

Carriages were cheap, only 100 units of Iron Mine per carriage.

When built, they were like the third carriage, empty and bare, with only a layer of iron sheeting covering them.

Lu Yang spent 200 units of Iron Mine to continuously build two basic carriages, and a reminder immediately popped up on the Train Captain's panel.

【Your train has reached 5 carriages. Please build 'Train Iron Armor' as soon as possible.】

‘Train Iron Armor’ was one of the 8 essential basic components for train upgrades, and it was relatively expensive, costing 300 units of Iron Mine per carriage. It could effectively resist attacks from Level 1 zombies and monsters.

To upgrade to a Level 2 Train, each carriage needed to be equipped with ‘Train Iron Armor’.

Besides ‘Train Iron Armor’, there were seven other essential basic vehicle components for upgrading a Level 1 Train, which were—

【Pickaxe Production Line】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 50 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce pickaxes by spending Iron Mine.)

【Axe Production Line】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 50 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce axes by spending Iron Mine.)

【Bran Bread Slice Production Machine】: White quality component, requires 50 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce bran bread slices by spending Iron Mine.)

【Purified Water Filter】: White quality component, requires 50 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce purified water by spending Iron Mine.)

【Flintlock Rifle Production Line】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce flintlock rifles by spending Iron Mine.)

【Repeating Ballista】: White quality component, requires 50 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can build a Repeating Ballista by spending Iron Mine.)

【Resource Detection Radar】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 50 units of copper to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can detect wild resource mines within a certain range of the train.)

This was also why Lu Yang prioritized building these vehicle components.

As long as these 8 basic vehicle components were installed, the train would have the preliminary ability to survive in the wilderness.

As for the quality of survival~

One could only say that being alive was good enough.

This was evident from the fact that Lu Yang, as the Train Captain, could only eat bran bread slices.

Among Level 1 trains, there were also six non-essential upgrade vehicle components, which were—

【Single Bed】: White quality component, requires 5 units of Iron Mine and 5 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce single beds for rest.)

【Cola Production Machine】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 100 bottles of drinking water to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce cola by spending Iron Mine.)

【Steamed Bun Production Machine】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 100 slices of bran bread to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce steamed buns by spending Iron Mine.)

【Gale Wheels】: Green quality component, requires 300 units of Iron Mine and 200 units of copper to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can increase the train's travel speed.)

【7.62mm Bullet Production Line】: Green quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of copper to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce 7.62mm bullets by spending copper.)

【Arrow Production Line】: White quality component, requires 100 units of Iron Mine and 100 units of wood to build. (Vehicle component crafting effect: Can produce Repeating Ballista arrows by spending resources.)

He had a total of approximately 3,500 units of Iron Mine, minus the 200 units of Iron Mine spent on building the ‘Kuangfeng I Light Machine Gun Production Line’ and the 200 units of Iron Mine spent on two carriages.

Lu Yang still had 3,100 units of Iron Mine left, which was definitely not enough to upgrade to a Level 2 Train.

Just the ‘Train Iron Armor’ for five carriages alone would require 1,500 units of Iron Mine.

Not to mention, the upgrade would also cost an additional 3,000 units of Iron Mine.

So, Lu Yang chose to build several other non-essential upgrade vehicle components first.

For example, the ‘7.62mm Bullet Production Line’ and ‘Arrow Production Line’, although not essential for upgrading, were indispensable for the train.

They were the confidence to deal with crises.

Then there were the ‘Gale Wheels’.

This vehicle component could be said to have the highest single-unit construction cost among all Level 1 vehicle components, requiring not only 300 units of Iron Mine but also 200 units of copper.

But the component's effect was also outstanding.

After the train was equipped with Gale Wheels, on non-complex terrain, the train's maximum speed could increase by twenty percent.

This was not a small improvement.

Then there was the ‘Steamed Bun Production Machine’.

Previously, due to the scarcity of Iron Mine, Lu Yang dared not spend his already limited Iron Mine to build a ‘Steamed Bun Production Machine’.

Now, he could no longer resist.

The ‘Steamed Bun Production Machine’ could not only produce 5 steamed buns for 1 unit of Iron Mine but also produce 3 packs of shredded pickled vegetables for 1 unit of Iron Mine.

When he was on Blue Star, if steamed buns and shredded pickled vegetables were placed in front of Lu Yang,

he wouldn't even glance at them.

But now~

Just thinking about it made his mouth water a little.

That bran bread slice was truly not fit for human consumption.

Lu Yang thought for a moment about the ‘Cola Production Machine’ and also built one.

Anyway, it wasn't expensive.

He wanted to drink it himself, and on the other hand, this thing could also be used as a reward to incentivize passengers to work hard.

There had to be some disparity.

Otherwise, everyone would be the same whether they worked hard or not.

It would greatly dampen the enthusiasm of passengers who worked diligently.

(PS: Vehicle component blueprint rarity is divided into 8 levels: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, Gold, and Rainbow.)