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I thought it was just a Rena World thing, but his real streamer name is Dorai lmao
First time with Minecraft so I don't really get it, but people said she has the best gear
Rena World had successfully opened its doors.
Of course, interest and buzz were still lacking. It was only just starting to spread by word of mouth among the virtual streamer crowd. The viewers of the big-agency streamers — still the mainstream of Pangea TV — had zero interest in Minecraft whatsoever.
In the end, the ones who can create real momentum are the big-agency streamers.
The bitter truth settled over me: no matter how hard you worked or how great the content you made, there was no answer when you were stuck at the bottom of the weight class. There was no promotion to begin with, and the mainstream wouldn't even glance your way.
I'd seen cases like that before the regression, too. There had been a genuinely high-quality virtual concert — heavy investment, meticulous preparation — and the peak concurrent viewership had barely cracked two thousand. Meanwhile, a concert that was inferior in every way — investment, effort, the works — casually pulled over five thousand just because a big-agency streamer was attached to it.
An industry where everything was decided by the big-agency streamers. Nothing to be done about it. You had to accept what needed accepting. What mattered, I believed, was the attitude of grinding all the way to the end without buckling under that reality.
I'll claw my way up there no matter what.
Influence on par with the big-agency streamers. That was what I wanted. And Rena World was the perfect springboard for it.
I went live first thing in the morning.
[(V-Live) Rena World Day 2 — Today I Pick Up the Pickaxe Again]
#Virtual #Minecraft #RenaWorld #V-Live
I'd already told the crew members to go live at their own discretion. Rena World was important, but wrecking your health over it was absurd. As the leader, though, I'd decided to push myself a little harder. Wasn't that what a leader's seat was for? A seat where you carried the responsibility.
The current time was 8:30 a.m. Checking the Rena World player count floating on the right side of the screen, I found only five people online. For someone who knew the future, that was genuinely shocking. After the big-agency streamers joined, the server had always boasted twenty or thirty-plus concurrent players no matter how late at night it was.
Meaning nobody expected Rena World to blow up this hard.
For me, that was actually a good result. The first-wave residents — my strongest potential competitors — were slacking off of their own accord like the grasshopper from Aesop's fable. And on top of that, I had excellent allies.
"Alright. This the place?"
A short distance from the world map's spawn point, a house built of dirt blocks came into view. Could you even call this a house, though? More accurately, it was a rectangular box of stacked dirt blocks. The wooden door hanging at the entrance, as if insisting this was a proper home, was almost insulting. And in front of it, a sign that read V-Live House.
Well... it is just a temporary build.
Ignoring the viewers' snickering "lmao"s, I opened the door and stepped inside. Two chests in the corner caught my eye first. Opening the left one, the items inside filled my vision.
"Whoa. Must've been rough."
Looking at the contents, I could tell exactly who'd organized this chest. The star of the show: Lucy! Inside were enchantment books, a bow, fishing rods, fish, and more — everything Lucy had diligently reeled in through a full day of fishing yesterday.
It really is a weird system. The idea that fishing can pull up enchantment books and bows.
That was just how Minecraft was designed, so there was no point overthinking it. You just accepted that fishing could get you those kinds of items.
Hmm, but the enchants...
Unfortunately, there weren't many usable enchantment books. Or so I thought — until the very last one.
"Oh! That's Fortune."
The enchantment on the final book was Fortune II. Fortune III would've been ideal, but honestly, this alone was a satisfying haul.
Lucy unnie really came through!
Entrusting her with fishing had paid off. In fact, even before entering the server, we'd assigned each person a role to maximize our crew's synergy. Lucy handled fishing. Mayo handled exploration. Miho handled internal affairs. I handled mining.
Breaking it down further, I'd tasked Lucy with fishing up enchantment books — with Mending as the ultimate target. Not an easy job. Mending fishing was pure luck; if you were unlucky, you could go a whole week without landing a single one. The base chance of fishing up an enchantment book was only five percent, and there were dozens of possible enchantments. What were the odds of hitting Mending specifically out of all of those?
Next up was Mayo, who'd been assigned exploration. Aside from me, Mayo had the highest Minecraft proficiency in our crew, so I'd given her the higher-difficulty missions. Roam the map, go on adventures. Primary objective: gather materials for an enchanting table and bookshelves. Secondary objective: farm the materials for Eyes of Ender needed to reach the Ender World.
The first was relatively easy; the second required a certain level of gear, so we'd agreed to knock out the primary goal first and tackle the secondary one more slowly, joining forces later.
And finally, Miho. Assigning her anything difficult had been tough — she was still the most unfamiliar with Minecraft of all of us. But Miho had her own strengths. Flexible thinking, meticulous, and sociable when it came to dealing with people. So I'd put her in charge of our "home base." While the rest of us operated outside, she'd handle construction, item organization, and sales. She could also trade items with other players and gather information through social contact. A mission that suited Miho while creating synergy with the rest of us!
Aside from Lucy's Fortune II enchantment book, there weren't any visible results yet — but the future looked promising.
I'm not falling behind either. Time to move.
Torch in one hand — generously crafted from yesterday's coal haul — I set out for today's mining session. Claiming mining spots early was actually incredibly important. Diamonds didn't regenerate once mined, so if you cleaned out everything near the portal, everyone else would have to travel farther and farther to find ore. It wasn't something to laugh off: once Rena World got more crowded, the nearby diamonds would already be depleted, and people would end up sailing twenty or thirty minutes just to find a new mining spot. Considering all that wasted travel time, monopolizing the diamonds near the portal early on was a massive efficiency victory.
The mining addicts, unable to tolerate even a moment of me standing still, already pushing me to get moving. And the truth was, these guys were only the beginning.
Regression addicts, mining addicts, construction addicts, combat addicts, farming addicts, thieving addicts... I'm going to capture every last one of them.
The grand plan was currently in progress.