MaterialsStage 5

Stone

Broken from boulders, outcrops, and rock. Heads of stone tools, the oven, paving, blocks of stone, the ring of a campfire.

A new game knows it: the recipe book shows what it goes into from the start.

The way there

From the start, the soonest chain of what each step needs.

Breaking a boulder — with a Wooden pickaxe, or any pickaxe — gives 2 stone.
Breaking a rock outcrop — with a Wooden pickaxe, or any pickaxe — gives 4 stone.
Breaking a stalagmite — with a Wooden pickaxe, or any pickaxe — gives 1–2 stone.
Digging rock, planes −1 to −8 — with a Wooden pickaxe, or any pickaxe — gives 1 stone.
Digging hardstone, planes −9 to −20 — with an Iron pickaxe or better — gives 1 stone.
Digging deeprock, planes −21 to −39 — with a Gold pickaxe or better — gives 1 stone.
An abandoned dwelling's chest holds 1 to 6 things, the dearer the rarer; each is stone 12% of the time, 1–8 at a time.

The game's recipe book says: “break a boulder with a pickaxe”.