too much stones :OOOOOOO

[Dinkelberg]

what do you do with all your stones? i build roads with it and walls...... but its just not enough. i ve got loads of stones and its getting more and more. im fed up with all the stone and constantly trying to empty my storages...so much i consider dumping all my excess stones in the ocead :D .

[Maccysundae]

Haha. Don't dump it. If you have too much, you should make loads of Masonry Tables and make all the stobe into smaller objects that can be stored in chests.

[Unit 744]

Hello. In the early game, heavy mining operations, indeed, can overwhelm you with stones. You are correct that these stones can be put to good use in stone roads and mortared stones, but eventually the uses of these materials run out. Later in the game, large quantities of stones will be necessary for the cementing profession (indeed, you will wish you had more stones for it...); thus, I suggest the following:

1, Early on, use your stones for as many useful purposes as possible: mortared stones, stone roads, etc.

2, Once these uses run out, create the 'world's most inefficient mortar factory.' Simply place a mortaring crafting station (ideally, in your mine and linked to your cart) and order it to grind sandstone and granite into sand and craft sand into mortar. Without mortaring specialization, this will 'destroy' large numbers of sandstone and granite and produce relatively little mortar (mortar also stacks to 100 and can be placed in a storage chest instead of a stockpile for more dense storage).

WARNING: Without mortaring specialization, this process takes a long time. This means, if you should dump tens-of-thousands of sandstone into the system, it might take literal days for the sandstone to be completely used. Because there is so much sandstone in the system, you cannot hope to cancel the build order for lack of space in the destination inventories for the excessive, unused stones. Thus, be prepared for this. I used this method to great effect on a server; unfortunately, by the time we got to cement, I computed that there was sufficient stone in the system for another ~150 hours of crafting time. I simply had to wait it out.

3, Once you reach the mid-late game and cement becomes available, direct all stones to the cementing profession.


Hope this helps!

[Dinkelberg]

thanks. i ve already got about 6 chests full of mortar :D . still dumped some stones in the ozean.....looks a bit like some crumbled ancient ruin but is also not very effective. might as well build some more chests.

[Dinkelberg]

can you tell me where to craft concrete? i ve got all the crafting tables and even the skill :/ . did i overlook something?

[Maccysundae]

Use the Cement Kiln. Remember to get all your pipes correct! It also needs to burn Coal, Charcoal or Logs. It also needs the correct size and tier room! I hope this helped.

[Decius Brutus]

Find a mason and a glassmaker specialist. Have the mason grind the sandstone and granite into sand, which the glassmaker needs in abundance.

Or if you want to abuse exploits, you can easily fit about 18 stockpiles of stone or rocks in each masonry table and still get them back out; just connect the tables to three stockpiles and queue up jobs to make mortared blocks; adjust the quantity so that each job takes 375 or fewer rocks. When you want to get the material back out (for concrete production) you can cancel the job if the stockpiles are empty.

[Dinkelberg]

im playing single player, so im everyone. i decided to make more chests for mortar and some sone recuestations for homeless stones ( a lot of stockpiles further away from my base).
and the problem with the concrete is that i dont find the concrete kiln, though i found that i dont have mechanics yet.....so maybe i can make the kiln in the mech wockbench ;) . thanks so far for the good ideas :)

[sylphied]

When I made relatively small factory that make mortar, stones and roads my FPS dropped to 12 (core i7, GTX1080, 32Gb RAM, SSD). Game does not handle multiple stockpiles at all.(((

[Dinkelberg]

i dont have problems with that and my pc is worse than yours