"Farming" stones

[pretorian]

Beeing my first real playthrough I have done alot of experimenting and redesigning my base. This has resulted in a shortage of stones (flat map btw). Is there any way to reliably stock up on stones again?

[Stormsong]

I believe depleted Deep Drills provide stone.... or I have a mod that makes that the behavior. You can also allow for 2 settlements in the Options and set up a satellite mining operation and ship stone back to the main base. That will provide its own dimension of challenge and very possibly, fun.

[Daffy]

I found the best option as a new player not ready to run a farming base, to simply have some silver in store and buy them from traders ( after you get trade beacon ) .. simply always be buying Steel / components firstly and stone if needed.

[GeneralVeers]

Send a caravan to an adjacent world map tile in search of a mountain to mine........?

I have no idea what the game will do. Maybe it will generate a one-time "random encounter" area that will disappear when you leave it. Maybe the game will generate a permanent area that will stay there every time you visit it. Either way, there might be things you can mine for stone.

[Monoxide]

Originally posted by Stormsong the Fallen:

I believe depleted Deep Drills provide stone....

This is the easiest (imo) vanilla way to get stone. If you dont have drills the caravan option works as well, but a little more involved.

If you want to mod it, you can get the quarry mod. I havent used it in a long time so I am not sure if its up to date, but it worked pretty good.

[martindirt]

Send a caravan with some animals to a mountain spot, grab the chunks / mine out some and take those home. Repeat. If u lucky, u can find some rare ore where u make your camp (if u have the setup camp mod, u can mine more - or go back to spec spots later)

[crgzero]

Originally posted by Mike Aruba:

Originally posted by Stormsong the Fallen:

I believe depleted Deep Drills provide stone....

This is the easiest (imo) vanilla way to get stone. If you dont have drills the caravan option works as well, but a little more involved.

If you want to mod it, you can get the quarry mod. I havent used it in a long time so I am not sure if its up to date, but it worked pretty good.

It's up to date and still works great.

[The Great Glumbini]

Use caravans to bring some rock chunks back from neighbouring tiles while you research deep drills. Once you have deep drills just place one anywhere. I'm assuming you won't have a ground penetrating scanner so you won't be able to see the green tiles with steel/other ore. More than likely you'll place it on a tile with nothing under it, so it will just produce chunks. Deep drills can trigger an event that spawns a bunch of insects, like a smaller infestation with no hives. You'll have a warning and enough time to get away from the drill before they spawn, but if you wanna drill from inside your base you might wanna put some walls and a choke point around the drill.

[AlexMBrennan]

simply always be buying Steel / components firstly and stone if needed.

Last time I was on the ice sheet I had to wait 3 game years for any merchant selling any stone to show up so that's less of a plan and more wishful thinking.

[crgzero]

Nobody likes traveling on an ice sheet. If you're in a more hospitable location caravans show up a lot more often.