Stone is useless

[Kason]

I love the game- but why bother with stone if only your church, clay furnace, manor and optional manor upgrades need it?

You get a stone deposit, and need maybe 100 stone for your entire play through.

[VDmitry]

I'd expect stone walls etc for release.

Right now you can sell not required resources for profit.

[madpraxis]

Because stone is awesome.
You can scrape it up (literally) quick as you please, never take it out of stonecamp, and then...wait for it... EXPORT IT.
Yea, it's cheap. Yea, it doesn't add much.
But it costs you literally nothing to do so.

[Kaia]

i suspect that later in this game's dev life, another tier (or several tiers) of buildings (including houses) will be added. What makes me say that is the fact that resources such as stone and to a lesser extent clay are barely used. But also the fact that there are unused resources in the game that could be used for said extra tiers, such as tools or stone blocks.

Furthermore, from a game design standpoint, it seems odd that the perk/policy tree is so large, considering how few points there are to be had currently.

So all in due time imo.

[madpraxis]

Ugh. Clay. I'm sitting on a full mine of it. With about 100 waiting to go away in trade depot. And a fully filled tile furnace...and a few hundred tiles waiting to go away too, hah.

Clay. Its so...clay-ey.
But, hey, free export stuff, so...yay.

[Fekin]

Originally posted by Kason:

I love the game- but why bother with stone if only your church, clay furnace, manor and optional manor upgrades need it?

You get a stone deposit, and need maybe 100 stone for your entire play through.

For now in early access yes but as you say, you do need it for buildings as it is, so its not really useless, is it.

Also there's a resource tab for Blocks that isn't implemented yet and that may well be stone blocks.

[rochetjeremy]

Some houses should need stone yes. Walls coming too