Quarry
A quarry is a multiblock structure the allows harvesting raw stone blocks using the method of drilling and wedging.
The quarrying process requires a Drill and several Plug and Feather to be used as wedges on your hot bar. The material of the drill determines which types of stone can be quarried.
| Stone Types | Minimum Drill / Wedge Material | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chalk, Chert, Claystone, Sandstone, Dolomite, Limestone, Rock Salt, Shale | Stone / Wood | Sedimentary rocks |
| Gneiss, Marble, Phyllite, Quartzite, Schist, Slate | Bronze | Metamorphic rocks |
| Diorite, Gabbro, Granite | Bronze | Igneous Intrusive rocks |
| Andesite, Basalt, Dacite, Rhyolite | Bronze | Igneous Extrusive rocks |
Quarrying raw stone yields Rough Stone blocks.
To successfully quarry a raw stone block, the block needs to be exposed to air at least on 3 sides that share one corner.
The image bellow shows one block with three exposed sides with green numbers that can be quarried, and one block with only 2 sides exposed to air with red numbers that cannot.
Use the Drill as many times as is necessary on each of those 3 sides. Plug and Feather get automatically consumed and inserted into the drilled holes as wedges.
The number of wedges needed on one side of the block depends on the number of raw stone blocks that touch the edges of the given side and it is usually 4 or 8 per side. If a side needs more wedges than 8, it means that the block has less than 3 connected sides exposed to air. This means that other blocks need to be quarried away first to make way for this block.
Edges of a side that touch a dirt block or another non-raw stone block, don't require wedges. If more than 3 sides of the quarried blocks are exposed to air, only any 3 of those that are connected require wedges. Drilling and adding wedges to more than 3 sides is allowed, but not necessary.
Finally, when all the wedges are in place, mine the block with a hammer until it drops the quarried stone block. The wedges will be dropped as Plug and Feather as well, but some might break in the process. If only the wedges break off and the quarried stone block stays in place, it means there wasn't a sufficient amount of wedges.
The image bellow shows a complete quarry, ready to be mined with a hammer.
Wedges can be removed from an unfinished quarry by breaking, preferably with an axe, and they may also drop voluntarily when other blocks near by are mined and they are no longer needed.
- In some instances an Adze can be used to Carve out blocks that prevent another block from being quarried, or make the quarrying of other blocks easier.
- It will be possible to quarry ice using a similar process