Novels like The Carefree Little Carpenter
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Carefree Little Carpenter, best match first.
- 1 The All-Purpose Craftsman of Another World 异世界万能工匠 A loser transmigrates to another world after being electrocuted, with a bizarre skill of his own. As he travels through this strange world, he meets all kinds of companions and keeps searching for a way back. After enduring countless hardships and unexpected encounters, he finally returns to reality... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Am a Master Craftsman 我是大工匠 I come from the mountains, carrying the legacy of the Founding Ancestor Lu Ban. I will forge a brighter technological future for China. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Grand Craftsman 大工匠 At 22, Gong Jiang had an obscure major and graduated straight into unemployment. Dreaming of stardom, he drifted north to Hengdian to work as an extra, where he met with an accident and tragically died... Yet he transmigrated and was reborn in an ancient era in a different space-time! And so began a new life! What? The tools are too crude? No problem, I’ll make them myself! What’s that? You’ve never seen this before? Don’t be surprised, there’s even more incredible stuff! This works too?! Cover 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Craftsmanship Makes the World’s Strongest! 工匠能力造就世界最强！ “In a world like this, being alive is worse than being dead.” “So what? Are you planning to give up?” “I’m going to create a world where being alive is more appealing than being dead.” “As you command.” 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Master Craftsman 大匠师 What is the hardest thing in the world? The answer is having no money. When Xu Zihao was at his lowest, in the hardest and most desperate moment of his life, he opened the inheritance his father had left behind. From then on, everything changed… 1.3kReads7.0Score105Shelves
- 6 Livestreaming Master Craftsman 直播手艺大师 After graduating from university, Xia Dongzang chooses to return to his mountain village, where he unexpectedly unlocks the Craftsman System! He can do it all: stone carving, jade carving, root carving... Embroidery, forging, dyeing: he’s a master of every craft! Small pieces, large pieces, colossal pieces: every creation leaves the world in awe! My name is Xia Dongzang, and I’m here to champion the millennia-old crafts of Huaxia! 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Young Carpenter’s Thirty-Six Taboos 小木匠接活，三十六禁忌 Zhang Wujin is a humble carpenter, but he's no ordinary one. He's especially skilled at making beds, thanks to a secret technique. 29Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 8 On the Brink of Bankruptcy! My Handicrafts Made the Intangible Heritage List 濒临破产！我的手工申遗了 A gentleman can wait ten years to avenge a grudge! After being framed, he unexpectedly acquires the Craftsmanship System! He fights his way across the land and is hailed by all as a master artisan of godlike skill! A different kind of wish-fulfillment story, taking you into the world of master artisans! 380Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Live Crafting: I Have a Top-Tier Engineering System 直播手工：我拥有顶级工程系统 Ye Tian transmigrates into the body of a poor soul whose parents are both dead, whose only inheritance is a run-down machinery factory, and who was driven to hang himself after falling into utter desperation. Luckily, he binds to a top-tier Engineering System. In simple terms, the System amplifies Ye Tian’s hands-on skills, letting him make all kinds of things. As long as he has enough System points, he can even build the most sophisticated mechs by hand. But making models takes a huge amount of 731Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Please, Stop Turning Wood into Priceless Cultural Relics 求求你，别把木头做成传世文物了 In June, the livestream show “After the College Entrance Exam” takes the internet by storm! The program aims to show people of different ages what young people’s lives are like. Some fall in love, some take summer jobs, and some travel. Zhang Jue, who possesses a god-tier artisan System, chooses instead to keep a low profile and work as a carpenter in Changde Village. Ignoring the strange looks everyone gives him, he crafts one exquisite wooden masterpiece after another. Ten days later, the tomb 117Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 11 Legend of the Divine Artificer 匠神传奇 The thousand-year legacy of Artisan God Village holds the secrets of materials, as well as mysteries that transcend dimensions. Ten-year-old Yun Muyang, a gifted child from a family of carpenters, is expected to learn the craft, but he is captivated instead by the searing force of iron striking iron. As he hammers, he hears metal whisper; as he quenches it, he senses the spirit within each object. When ancient runes long hidden away begin to glow on forged iron, when the first outlines of mechs 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Stele Seals Ten Thousand Crafts: I Cultivate the Miscellaneous Dao and Defy Fate 碑锁万匠：我修杂家破天命 [No transmigration] + [No cheat powers] + [No brainless plot] How could an ordinary blacksmith comprehend the Dao by sleeping in a coffin, or glimpse hidden truths by staring at a pepper grinder? For three hundred years, the Heavenly Craftsman Stele has ruled the world's order. It assigns trades, determines status, and decides each person's craft and future through the act of “bestowing a calling.” Yet this ancient stele, which no one dares question, judged Wang Cheng to be a jack-of-all-trades —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Cultivating the Dao Through Carpentry 从木工开始修真 Cui Shiguang was an apprentice carpenter. While following his master deep into the mountains to cut timber, he fell into a cave while fleeing from a venomous snake. There, he obtained the legacy of a cultivator and began his journey toward immortality, one step at a time. 3.8kReads9.0Score334Shelves
- 14 I Asked You to Pay Wages, and You Put Rifling in a Steel Pipe? 让你发工资，你钢管刻膛线？ Su Chen unexpectedly gets reborn as a “debt-ridden heir” and inherits a steel mill on the verge of bankruptcy. Faced with workers demanding their wages, Su Chen resolutely takes responsibility and prepares to pay off the debts left by his father, who ran off with the money. Just then, he happens to meet a customer from the Middle East. “Friend, can you machine some internal threads inside this steel pipe?” “An inner diameter of 7.62 millimeters, a twist pitch of 244 millimeters, a land diamete 816Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 15 I Inherited a Tailor Shop, and the Nation’s Goddess Wants Me to Make Her Clothes Personally 继承裁缝店，国民女神求我贴身制衣 Hao Yiba transmigrates and inherits a tailor shop that's on its last legs, but unexpectedly obtains a God-Tier Clothing System. He goes from an inconspicuous tailor at the bottom of society to a clothing master celebrated around the world. His elegant tweed suits become the very definition of sophistication. Burberry trench coats are hailed as masterpieces by fashionable men and women alike. The Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix gown, the Rainbow Feather Robe, the Plain Gauze Cicada Rob 2kReads8.9Score185Shelves
- 16 The Eerie Carver 诡雕 The sequel to this book, Strange Carvings 2, is now being written. It picks up seamlessly from where this story ends, so read on with confidence. A world of evil gods, demons, and strange creatures. One dynasty gathers the people's hearts, hopes, and will into the nation's fortune and dragon qi, then uses them to forge a divine artifact that protects the realm and safeguards humanity. Cultivators use their souls as a foundation, casting spells through objects and commanding supernatural power. M 2.4kReads8.8Score150Shelves
- 17 Mr. Embroidered Uniform Guard, You Dropped Your Cigarette 锦衣卫先生你烟掉了 Xiang Niannian is an expert in restoring ancient paintings and calligraphy, and runs a small gallery to make ends meet. Unlike other experts, the figures in the paintings she touches come to life. Each one stays in the human world for seven days, then returns to the page after fulfilling a wish. Only that Jin Yi Guard refuses to leave, shamelessly lingering around her. “Visitor’s Guide to Gallery No. 13” 1. That live-action Calabash Brothers lookalike is not Wang Zulan. Don’t ask him for an aut 651Reads9.2Score118Shelves
- 18 A Legacy of a Hundred Skills: I Only Know a Tiny Bit of Everything 百技传承：我都只会亿点点 After Xiao Yunyi and his wife parted amicably, he took their three-year-old daughter and returned to the countryside. Then, while fishing one day, he unexpectedly acquired the Legacy of a Hundred Crafts. From then on, he could gather the faith of all living beings and learn traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts in his dreams. For example: bamboo weaving, wood carving, oil-paper umbrella making, Chinese martial arts, embroidery, iron painting, and iron tree silver flowers. As time went 3.4kReads9.0Score269Shelves
- 19 A Great Craftsman in the Siheyuan 四合院大国工匠 The story of a software engineer from the twenty-second century who is reborn in the 1950s. With an astonishing talent for understanding, he keeps driving the growth of industry and helps the nation recover ahead of schedule! 20.1kReads7.7Score882Shelves
- 20 Tanks, Planes, and Aircraft Carriers? My Farm Equipment Factory Can Build Them All 坦克飞机航母，我农具厂都能造 Military industry expert Qin Yang arrives in 1980 and becomes the son of the head of the technical department at a Third Front factory. Once a good-for-nothing second-generation factory brat, Qin Yang sets out to turn his life around. The factory wants to switch from military production to civilian goods? Qin Yang casually invents an air rifle, and Uncle Camel can't stop praising it! Having trouble choosing a small-caliber bullet? Qin Yang makes the gun and bullets himself! The copied SVD sniper 16.3kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 21 Myriad Worlds: The Creator Who Began in Night City 诸天：从夜之城开始的造物主 Good morning, Night City! I’m your favorite host, Stan! Some say Night City will always be a cesspit, with the countless corpses of the working class hidden beneath its dazzling lights and endless revelry. Others say the truth of cyberpunk is nothing but an eternal cycle of tragedy, death, and loss. But one big shot doesn’t see it that way. He saved the whole crew, sent David and Lucy to the moon, and even built a massive biodome there, all while giving the new orbital airline company a hard tim 43.6kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves
- 22 Divine Craftsman 神工 A good-for-nothing boy stumbles upon a divine skill and transforms into a prodigious genius engineer! With his ultra-precise Nano-Control System, he can do anything and never lose! He navigates the member states, keeping the various forces in check as he rises against all odds to become the supreme ruler. In the bustling city, he skillfully looks after one beautiful woman after another, gaining both wealth and romance as he steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life! 29.8kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 23 The Little Spy's Rise to Power 谍战小特务的逆袭 He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation... 186kReads9.5Score20.6kShelves
