Chapter 237 Food Sources

After arranging the farmland construction, Yang Yi found the little murloc empty barrel and the dog-headed sandtooth geomancer.

This dog-headed geomancer was basically too old to work, but he could still command other dog-headed slaves.

So Yang Yi entrusted the construction of toilets in Ratchet Town to the little murloc empty barrel, and asked her to take a dog-headed geomancer and other dog-headed slaves to dig some pits in the densely populated area of ​​murloc huts in Ratchet Town.

Yes, Yang Yi currently only plans to let the dog-headed slaves dig open-air pits as toilets for the murlocs.

In the barren land, it basically only rains for a short period of time when the rainy season comes, so most of the time there is no need to worry about the filth in the pit overflowing due to heavy rain.

Open-air pits are a bit embarrassing and smelly for humans, but for the murlocs, it is the first time in history, and no murloc will mind whether it is open-air or not.

Using open pit toilets for defecation is only a small step forward for the murlocs in Ratchet Town, but it is a big step forward for the murlocs!

In the process of the development of the murlocs' civilization, the great event of starting to use pit toilets is enough to be written into the chronicles of the murlocs.

Yang Yi arranged the farmland and toilets, and told the murloc merchants about the oat seeds and farm tools that needed to be purchased, which temporarily dealt with the oat planting in Ratchet Town.

After that, Yang Yi rode on the sea turtle mount and took Benbolba and Mojimus to inspect several places in Ratchet Town.

Yang Yi went to the valley where wild beasts were raised in the north of Ratchet Town, the gravel pit under the high cliff in the northeast, the murloc livestock farm on the seashore, and the farm where seaweed and clams were raised in Ratchet Bay.

These places are the main places for the supply of food to Ratchet Town. Before the oats in the farmland can be harvested in large quantities, the food in Ratchet Town still depends mainly on these places.

The Beast Valley originally raised various kinds of wild animals, including velociraptors, chocobos, wild boars, kodos, zebras, gazelles, etc. It can be said that whatever wild animals the murlocs in Ratchet Town could catch, the murlocs in the valley would raise them.

Yang Yi listened to the advice of Jia Gu, the Qianmo guest, and decided that it was not suitable to raise so many kinds of wild animals at the same time given the current situation in Ratchet Town.

So after Yang Yi came to the Beast Valley, he immediately called the murlocs and asked them to kill most of the carnivorous beasts such as velociraptors and chocobos first, leaving only a few with good attributes.

Next were herbivores such as zebras and gazelles.

Although zebras and gazelles theoretically only needed to be fed with grass, they were wild and untamed, and the murlocs in Ratchet Town did not know how to feed them. After raising them for a long time, they did not grow much meat, so Yang Yi decided to kill them to fill the murlocs' stomachs.

In the end, only wild boars and kodos were left in the Beast Valley.

Wild boars are omnivorous, and the leftovers of the murlocs can be used to feed them, and they can also cut ragweed to feed them together, so there is no waste of food when raising them.

At the same time, because there are orcs in Ratchet Town who have the method of raising wild boars, and they also got the secret recipe of training combat wild boars from the steel-brisled wild boars, these spotted wild boars are raised quite well.

However, in Yang Yi's eyes, raising spotted wild boars is only temporary.

According to Jagu, these spotted wild boars caught by murloc hunters in Durotar are wild and untamed, and they are prone to restlessness when kept in a small pigpen, which is not conducive to growing meat.

It is best to raise pigs that have been domesticated for many generations.

As for the steel-brisled wild boars training combat wild boars, Yang Yi also learned that spotted wild boars are not the best choice. It is best to choose a kind of pig called fighting boars to train.

The situation of raising kodo beasts is similar to that of wild boars, which can be said to be neither good nor bad.

After the teaching of the tauren Jerrick Gaoshan, the murlocs in Ratchet Town have a little understanding of raising kodo beasts.

In addition, Slark learned from Jerrick how to make soothing potions, which can effectively calm the irritable kodo beasts.

Therefore, the grassland kodo beasts raised in the Beast Valley are growing well.

It’s a pity that the murlocs failed to train the kodo beasts as mounts or combat kodo beasts, and they can only try to see if they can become qualified cargo kodo beasts.

If this doesn’t work, they can only be farmland kodo beasts.

After Yang Yi’s large-scale screening and massacre this time, only two kinds of beasts, the spotted wild boars and the grassland kodo beasts, were left in the Beast Valley.

The spotted wild boars were grouped and raised in pig pens of different sizes according to their size, while the grassland kodo beasts were collectively raised in a small valley covering two or three hectares. The two beasts now have special murlocs to divide the work of feeding them.

In this way, every fishman in the Beast Raising Valley only needs to learn to raise one kind of beast, and they won't be in a rush like before because the fishmen don't have enough brains.

When leaving the Beast Raising Valley, Yang Yi had a preliminary plan for the future development of the Beast Raising Valley, so he said to the two little followers, Benbolba and Mojimus: "Remember, we need merchants to help contact orc farmers in Ratchet Town during this period, and try to buy as many piglets as possible to raise. In addition, we need to organize the fishmen to go to the plain at the foot of Thunder Peak to catch some kodo beasts."

"Yes, boss!"

The two little followers rushed to straighten their chests and shouted yes, for fear that they would be preempted by the other party.

The reason why Yang Yi told these things to the two little followers was that there were too many things to deal with in Ratchet Town, and he was afraid that he would forget.

After leaving the Beast Valley, Yang Yi went to the gravel pit under the cliff on the high ground north of Thorntooth Town. Now the entire gravel pit has been covered by huge thorny vines, and the original appearance is completely unrecognizable.

Under the thorny vines in the gravel pit, various mushrooms are mainly planted, among which red-spotted mushrooms are the most planted.

In addition, Yang Yi has arranged several dog-headed slaves to dig caves under the cliff, intending to start trying to plant red-leafed potatoes, one of the staple foods of wild boars.

Whether it is planting red-spotted mushrooms or red-leafed potatoes, they are the strengths of wild boars. Yang Yi decided to invite some wild boars to Thorntooth Town again. This time, the wild boars must live there permanently until the fishmen learn the planting technology.

So Yang Yi told the two little followers about inviting wild boars again and asked them to write it down.

After leaving the gravel pit, Yang Yi went straight to the seaside and came to the fishman livestock farm.

The Murloc Animal Farm has now been upgraded to a town level 1 building. Yang Yi asked it to mainly raise crabs and turtles from the beginning. Previously, it mainly raised the Wave Crabs from Durotar and the Mudstone Spikeshell Turtle from Dustwallow Marsh.

Some time ago, Yang Yi took the sisters Guji and Gudong to Tanaris, and the two egg-stealing experts stole a lot of turtle eggs from the Wave Turtle.

Therefore, the Murloc Animal Farm now has many more baby Wave Turtle.

The Murloc Animal Farm has always been managed by two Murloc Tidewalkers, whose levels have now been upgraded to level 2. The two Murlocs are responsible for feeding the Wave Crabs and the Mudstone Spikeshell Turtle respectively.

Yang Yi knows that the qualifications of these two Murloc Tidewalkers are not high, respectively E-level and F-level, but fortunately they both have expertise in training animals.

The Murloc with F-level qualifications is already the limit for him to become a Murloc Tidewalker. Unless the town of Ratchet focuses on training him at all costs, he has now been upgraded to the top.

Another E-level Murloc Tidewalker has some potential. He has a good chance of upgrading to the intermediate level and then to level 4.

Yang Yi called the E-level Murloc Tidewalker. This Murloc brought a wave crab and was the village chief of a small Murloc village before coming to Ratchet Town. Later, when he led the villagers to attack Ratchet Town, he was saved alive, so he stayed.

This Murloc who had been a small village chief was quite capable in management, so Yang Yi specially designated this Murloc to take care of these wave turtle cubs.

If these wave turtles can grow up to be as smart as the wave turtle couple he saw in Tanaris before, Yang Yi will prepare to domesticate them in large numbers and use them as combat pets for Murloc Beachwalkers in the future.

After leaving the Murloc Farm, Yang Yi went to inspect the algae farms and shellfish farms in Ratchet Bay.

The cultivation of seaweed and seashells has been one of the most important food sources in Ratchet Town in the past, present and future.

However, seaweed and shellfish farms have many requirements for environmental conditions, including suitable sunlight, water temperature, ocean currents, depth, mudflats, tide time, etc.

So although Ratchet Town has built many farms on the coastline of Ratchet Bay, there are not many farms that actually have a real output.

Yang Yi estimated that within the scope of Ratchet Town, there are about 100 shellfish farms with stable output and about 150 algae farms with stable output, and these farms have basically been upgraded to level three or four.

According to statistics before, a level 1 shellfish farm in a village can feed about 5 adult fishmen by breeding small clams, and a level 1 algae farm in a village can feed 15 adult fishmen by breeding purple ribbon algae.

Later, it was found that after these two types of breeding were upgraded to level three, the output almost doubled.

That is, now a level 1 shellfish farm in a town can feed 10 adult fishmen, and a level 1 algae farm in a town can feed 30 adult fishmen.

Therefore, these 100 shellfish farms plus 150 algae farms provide food for 5,500 adult fishmen in Ratchet Town.

It can be said that most of the fishmen in Ratchet Town rely on these two types of farms to fill their stomachs.

The two types of farms have a great advantage over farmland, that is, they do not need fishmen farmers, they only need to send fishmen to watch them to prevent theft.

But the disadvantage is also obvious. Due to environmental restrictions, they cannot be reclaimed on thousands of acres like farmland.

So Yang Yi is considering that when the seaweed and shellfish farms in the Ratchet Bay are almost developed, he will continue to expand outside the bay.

If a beach with a suitable environment can be found to cultivate seaweed or seashells on a large scale, it will be extremely beneficial to the development of Ratchet Town.

The seaweed and seashells in Ratchet Town are all extensively raised and do not need fishmen to manage, but the brocade fisherman Jia Gu still gave Yang Yi some suggestions.

For example, you can mix some thorn algae in the purple ribbon algae farm. As long as the proportion of the mixed cultivation is appropriate, the thorn algae planted in the town's level 1 algae farm will also grow well.

As a kind of herb, thorn algae is a low-level material commonly used by primary and intermediate alchemists, and it still has good economic value. Before, Ratchet Town only relied on fish herbalists to search and collect seaweed, and did not know how to plant it.

In addition to gathering and hunting, these places are basically the source of food supply for Ratchet Town. After Yang Yi inspected them one by one, he asked the two little followers to remember everything to be dealt with.

These places are the key to the future development of Ratchet Town. Only by handling the food problem well can Ratchet Town have a foundation for rapid development. .