Looking for Infrastructure-Building Stories from the Ground Up 求从无到有的基建文

1. 451 超 Super God Academy: Glory 超神：辉煌 Big Yellow Woof Woof大黄汪汪Anime Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted [No System, no cultivation, no fantasy, independent development, one female lead] “Glory’s splendor will never be extinguished. As long as even one person of Glory remains, then Glory still lives. For the prosperity of civilization, these sacrifices are worth it!” There is no right or wrong, good or evil. It is all just the exchange of interests... 8.2kReads8.8Score367Shelves
2. 452 穿 Transmigrated as a Dragon: The King Sacrifices a Princess From the Start 穿越恶龙：开局国王献祭公主 The Penguin Who Can't Wake Up睡不醒的企鹅Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + System + pseudo-DND + Western fantasy + beast-eared girls + farming + lord + one sweet, pampered heroine, cherished above all others + giant beasts] Su Nian woke up to find that he had become a wicked dragon everyone wanted dead. But what was a little girl doing cowering beside him? “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the War and Plunder System.” “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the Evolution and Modification System.” “Ding! Hello, Host. I am the Evil Villain System.” “Ding! Too many Systems dete 30.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
3. 453 回 Returning to the Ming Dynasty to Rule as Regent 回大明摄政 Desolate Dawn荒曦Historical2.8M WordsCompleted A paragon of brotherly love in the imperial family, the wise counselor of Emperor Mingwu, the new ruler of the Golden State, Wang Yangming's guide, the architect of the westward expansion, the man who controlled the court for decades, the most powerful man beneath the throne, a towering genius of invention, the helmsman of new sea routes, and the Great Ming's emperor in all but name. 9kReads8.8Score794Shelves
4. 454 穿 Transmigrated to the Post-Apocalypse, and the Troll Wants Meat 穿越末世，巨魔要吃肉 Smelling Roses with Eyes Closed闭眼嗅蔷薇Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing [Awakening in Another World + Decisive and Ruthless + Lordly Conquest + Darkness Descends + Multiple Races (Succubi, Snake Women, Fox Women...)] Earth is hit by a dimensional reduction, downgraded to a two-dimensional world and turned into a block of data merged into another world among the Myriad Worlds. Some people survive by all sorts of means and methods, and establish organizations. Luo Shanhai is one of the survivors! But by then, Luo Shanhai no longer goes by that name. He is Shakesi Miya 22kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
5. 455 绑 Bound to National Fate: The Master Builder Appears from the Start 绑定国运：开局基建狂魔登场 Great Nation Chemical Industry大国化工Urban338k WordsCompleted [Power fantasy + System + national destiny + nuclear power plants + apocalypse + game + infrastructure + guardian deity] A super-asteroid is about to hit Earth. A global infrastructure-building game called "Death Game" goes live! The game selects twenty players from every country in the world. Each player enters the game bound to the country they represent. To avert the crisis, they must strengthen their country’s destiny and raise its power! Reborn Ye Qing awakens a nuclear power plant from the 172Reads7.9Score—Shelves

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6. 456 开 A Zhao Zilong as a Starting Reward 开局奖励一个赵子龙 I Don't Eat Pig Feed不吃猪饲料Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing [The 2023 luck-and-farming novel: follow the journey of building a power from scratch] [Fortune + Farming + System + Conquest] [P.S. This isn't a fast-paced power fantasy; the story moves at a slower pace.] [Become emperor, not a eunuch. If that bothers you, don't read this.] Qin Tianzong: “The Divine Race bullies us, the Demon Race humiliates us. Our human race must rise! Yanhuang shall never perish, and Huaxia shall never fall!” Ying Zheng: “Great Wall Legion, slaughter the jackal tribe! They 14.7kReads8.7Score924Shelves
7. 457 什 What Do You Mean, Evil Cultivator? My Junior Sister Is as Righteous as They Come 什么邪修啊？我家师妹超正经的 Burning Books, Burying Myself焚书坑己Ancient Romance2.2M WordsCompleted [Goofy, transmigration, unhinged, pocket dimension, cultivation with no pretensions] Miao Miaomiao transmigrates into a cultivation harem novel as a disposable side character. After the sect cuts out her heart and lungs, the original owner is dumped in the wilderness. Then she rises from the dead! With a chance to obtain an infinite pocket dimension, she decisively returns to the sect for revenge. The sect is covered in barriers? Miao Miaomiao casts a sinister glance toward the graves behind the 42.6kReads8.9Score6.2kShelves
8. 458 明 A Professional Rebel at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末造反专业户 Golden Chicken Wings金黄的鸡翅膀Historical2.5M WordsCompleted [No System + No Cheat Powers + Late Ming Dynasty + Rebellion] Wu Cheng, a newly graduated college student working as a village official, transmigrates to the second year of the Chongzhen reign in the late Ming Dynasty and becomes a military household member of the Great Ming. A corrupt court, an incompetent emperor, greedy officials and gentry, and commoners treated as less than human push Wu Cheng step by step toward rebellion. Watch as he takes on the local tyrants, fights the Great Ming, dest 13.6kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
9. 459 禁 Forbidden Zone: From the Start, I Build Infrastructure and Grab Every Perk 禁地：开局搞基建，疯狂薅羊毛 Hu Laodao糊老道Urban389k WordsOngoing Three years ago, Blue Star’s resources were stolen, and they quickly ran dry. The Thunderclap Realm opened, and Ning Tianfan was selected to enter it, becoming a lucky contender for the Dragon Nation. Explore forbidden zones, conquer territory, and the rewards would be shared with the nation’s people. When someone reached the Eternal level, the entire nation would transcend. Ning Tianfan smiled. Why bother conquering territory? There was no way he was going to explore. If there wasn’t a resource 3Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 460 小 Junior Sister, We Really Can’t Keep Competing Anymore 小师妹，我们真的卷不动了 A Learned Cat一只博学多识的猫Ancient Romance4.6M WordsCompleted Lingyun Sect has welcomed a sweet, adorable little junior sister, and everyone is thrilled. Pamper her! We have to pamper her to the moon and back! So they shower her with every kind of spiritual fruit, storage ring, pill, and defensive artifact... without even asking for a single spirit stone in return. But when they see what the little junior sister gives them in return, they're all stunned. This junior sister is loaded! Their excitement lasts only a few days before they realize that she's eit 4.6kReads8.7Score682Shelves
11. 461 沙 The Goofy Players: Don’t Sleep, Get Up and Build 沙雕玩家：别睡，起来搞基建 Medicine, Medicine, I Won't Take Medicine药药不吃药Modern Romance139k WordsOngoing Qing Hua was assigned a garbage planet. To make the planet’s future brighter, she turned it into a full-dive virtual game and summoned hordes of (la) players (bor) from Earth (ers). A full-dive game suddenly became a sensation on Earth. It felt so real that players seemed to have physically entered another world, and they were willing to pay a fortune for an account! #Please give us more slots, I really want to play# Veteran players gloated: #A thousand ways to die in the game: getting rammed to 7Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 462 抗 Legend of a Valiant General in the War Against Japan 抗日之悍将传奇 The Big Dipper北斗星Urban5.2M WordsCompleted A wall that will never fall, forged from flesh and blood! A car accident sends him transmigrating back to an era of heartbreaking heroism. Liu Weiguo refuses to surrender. With unwavering conviction, he assembles an armed force and vows to teach the enemy a bitter lesson. But with the enemy's overwhelming firepower and his own troops suffering severe losses, what should Liu Weiguo do? With nothing but his own flesh and blood, he will forge a soldier's glory! Come on, artillery fire! Let's see wh 153Reads8.5Score—Shelves
13. 463 大 Great Tang: The Rebellious Son Betrays His Country 大唐：逆子叛国 Carefree Peddler逍遥货郎哥Historical1.0M WordsCompleted He turns Li Er into a tool to conquer new territories on his behalf, then helps enthrone a Byzantine empress, only to plot to take her country. Li Ke, the third prince of the Tang Dynasty, is shunned by his brothers, while the ministers keep their distance to avoid getting involved. Li Ke leaves the empire’s borders and, through cautious growth and steadily swallowing up territory, carves out a realm of his own. Before long, a powerful nation quietly appears on the Tang Dynasty’s northern fronti 7.6kReads8.5Score536Shelves
14. 464 明 The Great Stronghold Lord at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末大寨主 Duke of Bohai渤海郡公Historical7.2M WordsCompleted Back in the late Ming dynasty, Chu Xing became a bandit. But his stronghold was repeatedly overrun, and he went through four or five big brothers. After fleeing time and again, his thoughts grew increasingly clear. It seemed Heaven was pointing him toward the answer: he should become the big brother himself and fight to rule the land. 286Reads7.8Score141Shelves
15. 465 笑 Smiling at the East Wind, Emerald Green 笑吟东风翠 Jiahe Loves Spicy Chicken Vermicelli Most家和最爱吃辣鸡粉Ancient Romance247k WordsOngoing [Alternate history]+ [Strong heroine, but angsty]+ [Farming and infrastructure development]+ [Building a business and getting rich]+ [Building a strong army and expanding territory]+ [Strong male and female leads]+ [Ensemble cast] [No inventory system or pocket dimension, no golden finger, no naive sweetheart, no self-sacrificing saint, no idiotic villains] (PS: There is little romance early on; survival and development are the main focus. If you want mindless wish fulfillment, this book isn't f 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    ❤️Start with farming and guarding the border, go from poverty to poverty, continue production and development, breed livestock, plant land and infrastructure, develop education, and become rich through business

16. 466 我 I Build Infrastructure in a Game I’ve Maxed Out with Pay-to-Win 我在氪到满级的游戏里搞基建 Qiao Qiao Is Courteous乔乔有礼Sports146k WordsOngoing [Everyone’s favorite + farming + pay-to-win + leveling up] Zhong Shengwan never imagined that one day she, too, would join the trend of transmigrating into a game. Not only are her appearance, level, and items all preserved, she also gets an invincible old master in her family and a brainless fangirl of a maid. Most importantly, the player top-up system is still available!!! What does that mean? It means that as long as she has money, she can buy you anything! Whether it’s priceless immortal pil —Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 467 三 Three Kingdoms: A Million Troops, and You Call This an Ordinary County Magistrate? 三国：屯兵百万，你管这叫普通县令？ Drink More Hot Water多喝热水啊Historical3.9M WordsCompleted Lu Chuan transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era. With the help of a System, he turns a small village into a massive county town. He only wants to keep farming and develop agriculture, the economy, culture, and the military, but the warlords keep coming to find him. Cao Cao: If I can persuade Lu Chuan to enter public life, who in all the land could stop me? Yuan Shao: Get the gifts ready at once. I’m going to visit Mr. Lu Chuan in person. One cart of gifts isn’t enough? Make it ten! Liu Bei: Sec 4.8kReads7.5Score397Shelves
18. 468 超 Super First-Tier City: Starting as a Village Committee Secretary 超一线城市：从村委书记开始 Zhao Zilong, Charging In and Out Seven Times七进七出赵子龙Urban506k WordsCompleted My new work is here! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 22.2kReads8.9Score694Shelves

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    High rating, looks good

19. 469 人 In a Tech Desert, From the Start I Invent the Light Bulb 人在科技荒漠，开局发明电灯 Three-Flavored Aged Wine三味老酒Urban522k WordsCompleted Gu Fan transmigrates into a world with a technological dark age and becomes the owner of a kerosene lamp company from the start. What? Kerosene lamps are the most advanced technology in this world?!! Then what do my phones, cars, and airplanes count as?!! “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve bound the Infinite Technology System...” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve received the technical specifications for electric lights...” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve received the technical specifi 51Reads5.5Score—Shelves
20. 470 大 The Great Tang's First Village Chief 大唐第一村长 Flame Dragon炎龙Historical1.0M WordsCompleted Jiang Fan transmigrates by accident and becomes the village chief of Jinxi Village, outside Chang'an. As the head of the village, it's his responsibility to lead the villagers to prosperity. Li Shimin exclaims, “Jiang Fan is a monster.” Li Chengqian: “Jiang Fan is my brother.” Cheng Chumo: “Jiang Fan is the one person in the Tang Dynasty you absolutely mustn't provoke.” Empress Zhangsun: “Your Majesty, hurry up and arrange a marriage, and wed Changle to him. We absolutely cannot let the Cui fami 4.8kReads8.4Score261Shelves
21. 471 基 Infrastructure Projects Made Me the City Lord 基建叫我城主大人 The Fox Sniffs the Roses狐狸嗅蔷薇Sports173k WordsCompleted [Single female lead, no romance, infrastructure-building game, lucky gacha player] Sheng Xia unexpectedly enters a fully immersive game, eagerly preparing to make her mark, only to discover that while getting in was easy, she can’t get back out. Or rather, she has gone back, but not entirely. She sighs. Fine, fine, she’ll do her best to stay alive. After all, if you just want to lie flat, what difference does it make where you are? 12Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Start with a house and a thousand copper coins, and see how the protagonist builds a village and town, and upgrades the city lord.

22. 472 我 Accelerating Civilization in Another World 我在异界加速文明 May Is Coming五月即将来临Sci-Fi & Apocalypse123k WordsOngoing Many years later. Zheng Qing once again encountered that magnificent tree, vast enough to blot out the sky and reaching all the way to the firmament, every leaf gleaming with divine light. He stood with one foot in the river of time: upstream lay a journey of more than a hundred years wandering through the universe, while downstream lay the planet’s endlessly recurring calamities. Zheng Qing, the backbone of the protagonist group: “One person’s civilization is no civilization. Only the civiliza —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This could have been done, infrastructure and civilization, people are the promoters of history

23. 473 大 A Great Drought Is Coming, and I've Become the Village's Guardian God 大旱将及，我成了村里的保护神 Come with Spring慕春而来Ancient Romance140k WordsCompleted A story about a faith-incense System, farming, and grand ambitions. Chen Yu, a college student, transmigrates to an ancient, otherworldly realm after a car accident and becomes a statue in a temple. One day, the village households offer incense, and Chen Yu discovers that he has gained a little faith value. His abilities can now reach anywhere within the village, and the entire village has become his followers. 97Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Drought, finding water, building factories

24. 474 战 War Lord: King of All Races 战争领主：万族之王 Chu Yi楚逸Eastern Fantasy3.0M WordsOngoing Western Fantasy + Lord + Farming + War + Slow Burn. After transmigrating to another world, he becomes the militia captain of a frontier settlement. With only three hundred elderly people, women, and children at his command, how will he survive in the perilous wilderness? Watch as the protagonist advances step by step, rising from a humble militia captain to a knight, city lord, count, and ruler, making his way to the top in another world. Years later, the great King of All Races delivers a speec 74.9kReads9.3Score7.7kShelves
25. 475 夫 Madam, Stop Cultivating Already! You’ve Become the Center of the World 夫人别再修了！已经是世界中心了 Luo Xinchen洛辛尘Two Male Leads435k WordsOngoing [Dual male leads, dual transmigration, devoted couples, equally matched, mutually devoted, farming, hardcore infrastructure building, ensemble cast, multiple couples, conquest, adorable child (who grows up)] [Sharp-tongued novelist with a golden finger, bottom X scheming mercenary emperor, top] [Both the career and romance are major plotlines] Jiang Chuan, who died suddenly, is summoned as a golden finger by transmigrator Li Xingchen to the early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. To comp 20Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Absolutely hard-core infrastructure, no exaggerated cheats, and more importantly, it is really relevant to history. Focus: Two male protagonists

26. 476 冒 The Fake Navigator 冒牌航海家 Asilan阿斯兰Historical1.3M WordsOngoing [Age of Exploration] [History] [Alternate History] [Farming] [Conquest] After transmigrating to fifteenth-century Europe, Zhang Xiaobai looks at the world map in his hands and realizes there might be something to this. Columbus has yet to discover the Americas, Magellan has yet to circumnavigate the globe, and da Gama has yet to reach India. And so, a great explorer is born... 1.8kReads8.1Score135Shelves

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    Historical fiction + navigation + farming. In the early days of the Age of Discovery, Asia's sea routes had not yet been opened. A modern man brought a geographical atlas with him and traveled to Europe in this world, starting from scratch and establishing his own power.

27. 477 全 Global Wasteland: A Civil Engineer’s Apocalypse Construction Project 全球废土：土木老哥的末世基建 Little Little Yimu Zhi小小亦木之Sci-Fi & Apocalypse29k WordsOngoing A proliferating wasteland, real zombies. The apocalypse should look like an apocalypse. Build infrastructure, develop the land in a different way. Also known as: “Shocking! Civil Engineering Can Be Done Like This,” “The Civil Engineering Revolution in the Proliferating Wasteland,” “A Paradise in the Apocalypse,” and “A Civil Engineer’s Journey Through the Apocalypse.” —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    With a gentle push, the worldview wasteland farming flow. Survival, farming, infrastructure, big world, intrigue, weirdness, hardcore, slow development of details, so many elements. The pace may be slower, the new book says, give it a gentle push. . .

28. 478 土 The Civil Engineer Lord Just Wants to Tend His Fields in Peace 土木领主只想好好种田 Little Little Yimu Zhi小小亦木之Eastern Fantasy706k WordsCompleted Lin Mu, a civil engineer, sets out to build a life in another world. Infrastructure, farming, culture... Think that's all there is to it? A worldbuilding story! A vast array of races, an immense world, hard-nosed development, and mysteries hidden at every turn. The stars and the sea? Just stars and the universe, or perhaps multidimensional space, or advanced civilizations? That would make the cosmos far too dull, wouldn't it? Could there be something more varied, more colossal, more fascinating, 434Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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