GOING ON THE WAY TO THE HERBIVORE ISLAND P7
Fer saw the familiar black menu of the mods, and unlike before, when he saw the mods menu over a day ago where the two countdown timers of 24 hours were, now there were two new rectangles in the place where the timers had been.
With anticipation in his heart, Fer clicked to view the information and details of the new mod that appeared after the time ran out.
MOD: Stack; As the name suggests, the effect of this mod is that a single grid can contain a lot of the same object regardless of any object in one's inventory or in a structure.
Activation requirements: For 40 hours, you need to occupy 250 grids constantly without any change. If at any point there are fewer than 250 grids in the inventory, then it will cancel and reset until it reaches 250 grids again. And if you exceed 250 grids, for every additional 10 grids, the required time is reduced by an hour. (A maximum of 280 additional grids is allowed).
At first glance, the requirements to activate this stack mod seem pretty simple if we compare it with other mods with stricter requirements. But let's not forget that without the weight and unlimited grid mod, the difficulty of this requirement would be quite high, if not extremely difficult.
You know, without the weight and unlimited grid mod, he would only have a maximum of 250 grids to reach the black weight. In summary, to activate the requirement of this stack mod, in a disguised way, his entire inventory would be paralyzed for 40 hours simultaneously without being able to make a move.
But fortunately for him, he already had the weight and unlimited grid mod, so he didn't have to worry at all. Also, this mod had the option to shorten the time by adding more additional grids. And if he adds the 280 additional grids, the time would be reduced from the original 40 hours to 12 hours remaining.
After viewing the information of this mod, Fer was in no hurry to activate it. For now, he focused on checking out the content of the other mod that was currently available to him right now. He looked down and examined the information of the second rectangle that contained the second mod.
MOD: Kill and Gain; When you kill a creature, you gain engram points, and the number of engram points is determined by the strength and level of the creature you kill.
Activation requirements: Body of 15 killed creatures. (When the creature is killed, just think of adding a number to the requirement and touch the killed creature to add it).
Fer was quite surprised to see the content of this mod. With this mod at his disposal, he would no longer have to worry about engram points in the future; it also allowed him to learn whatever he wanted without constantly calculating the points he had on hand. Also, the requirements are pretty easy to meet without too much effort.
When Fer finished reviewing the content of the two new mods, he was quite satisfied. Although these mods aren't as great as the previous ones, they are quite useful to him. With the stack mod, he would no longer have to feel rushed when he really needed the prime meat to spoil in a short time.
And the kill-and-gain mod is not inferior to the stack mod, as it allows him to learn whatever he wants while continuously killing many creatures.
When he finished checking everything he wanted to see, he went to his inventory, and just like in the game ARK, he was able to split the resources he had on hand to occupy one grid each. After dividing the skin into 541 grids, he closed the interface coming from his implant in his arm.
Sigh.
With a sigh, he lay back on the sleeping sack and put his hands behind his head, enjoying the cool night breeze and the comforting warmth of the campfire that burned continuously. Now that he realized, he wasn't sure if it was out of curiosity, but when he really noticed, in front of him, before his eyes, above the wooden spikes, he could see a gigantic black and gray pillar floating in the air, emitting rays of an intense green color, though not dark.
Fer estimated the obelisk at a glance, and at a glance, the obelisk was about 2 kilometers long and 100 meters wide. Compared to the game, it's more than 10 times larger, so based on this, one could say that the island is much, much larger than the original ARK game.
As he thought about these things, Fer unconsciously closed his eyes, falling asleep as his ears were enveloped in total silence.
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The dark sky receded as the sun crossed the horizon, bringing a new day full of light to all creatures on this island.
Fer's eyelids moved slowly, letting him see that the sky was already brightening again. When his consciousness returned to normal, he felt a bit hungry and thirsty. The effect of raising his food and water was quite noticeable compared to the other time when he woke up feeling desperate hunger and thirst; now he could be just a little hungry at most without feeling that intense urge.
As soon as he got out of the sleeping sack, it broke into thousands of pieces of straw. Fer ignored this, standing up and checking the campfire menu to see if there was any cooked meat that hadn't spoiled.
Luckily for him, there were 25 pieces of cooked meat left, and the spoiled meat had turned into 110 pieces of rotten meat. Fer didn't throw them out just because they were rotten; instead, he saved them for later to make narcotics in the mortar when he reached Herbivore Island and set up his base.
He ate enough cooked meat to satisfy his hunger, then broke down all the structures he had built, drank water from the sea, and started on his way to his new home.
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The place he was at was relatively close to Herbivore Island. Although he kept running with all his strength, Fer didn't forget to complete the kill-and-gain mod on his way. With the stack mod, there were still about 5 hours left for the activation requirement to be completed.
The improvement brought by the 500 energy was quite noticeable; with his full speed, he could run for 10 minutes straight without resting, and the energy recovery rate was equally fast, as was the food consumption rate.
The good thing is that he increased them last night, so he wouldn't have to worry about food for a while until he needed to eat again.
As he ran at full speed, Fer watched his surroundings to spot any prey to hunt and fulfill the requirements of the mod that asked for 15 creature corpses.
To reach the island ahead, he had to cross a river about 10 meters wide. Compared to the previous two rivers, this one could hardly be called a river. At full speed, he could reach the other side in less than a second.
Fer's eyes lit up when he saw that there was a group of dodos scattered along the shore on the other side; some dodos were drinking from the river to satisfy their water needs, unaware of the impending danger.
Without even checking the levels and stats of this group of dodos, who seemed weak to his eyes, he faced them. After fighting the sarco yesterday, his danger threshold had dropped when facing these dodos, who were easy prey for him.
He summoned the spear in his dominant right hand, took a few steps back to gain momentum, and with breathtaking speed, jumped about 9 meters thanks to the push given by the immense speed of 12 meters per second.
This was the first time he'd jumped with all his strength; he hadn't expected to almost clear the entire river in one go. He landed almost at the shore on the other side, but with his speed, he reached the shore in less than a second.
Suddenly, the tip of the spear pierced the head of a dodo that was drinking, killing it instantly, without it knowing how or why it died. The sudden death of the dodo alerted the rest of the group, who immediately ran to save their lives.
However, they were facing a being over 100 times faster than them; they couldn't even defend themselves against the sharp weapon that pierced their bodies like jelly.
The massacre lasted about 3 minutes, and in that time, Fer killed about 13 dodos scattered along the shore and further back, almost reaching the depths of the forest. The experience gained from this group of dodos made him level up again, but for now, he didn't add any points to any stats, as he didn't want to waste too much time standing still.
To complete the requirements of the kill-and-gain mod, he still needed 2 more corpses to unlock this mod.
While running at full speed, Fer scanned the surroundings for any dinosaur he could kill without taking too much time. But before his eyes, only medium-sized dinosaurs like triceratops, phiomias, and parasaurs appeared.
At first, he thought of hunting the parasaur, but he gave up—not because he couldn't kill it, but because it would take too long, even with his 200% melee. But he wasn't in a hurry; anyway, with the distance he had to travel, it was practically impossible not to encounter a small dinosaur along the way. It was only a matter of time, and he didn't need to rush.
After half an hour of running continuously along the shore, he finally found easy prey to complete the requirements. About a dozen meters from his current location, there was a pair of trilobites near the water's edge, almost in the shallow part of the sea.
Fer prepared to attack the two trilobites with his spear in hand. In a blur of speed, the spear's tip stabbed right into the head of the closest trilobite, while the other one, noticing the disturbance, was about to flee into the sea's depths.
But what it didn't