Stone
Material · MaterialStone0★Mined out of rocks. Feeds into structures and items.
Stone feeds 70 different recipes, which is why it is worth farming past the point you think you need it.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Where to Find Stone
Stone comes out of the ground: there are 12,443 rock nodes spread over 8,157 on the Palpagos Islands and 4,286 on the Palpagos Islands, and each one grows back a while after you break it, so a good cluster is worth remembering.
If you would rather just buy it, the seller is Wandering Trader at 12 Gold.
Swinging a pickaxe is not the only supply line. The Stone Pit unlocks at Technology 7 for 2 points and builds for 50 Stone, 20 Wood and 10 Paldium Fragment, and once a Pal with Mining suitability is working your base it produces Stone on its own with nobody at the keyboard. Level 7 is early enough that the 50-Stone entry fee is one or two rock nodes, and it is the difference between mining every wall segment by hand and coming back from an expedition to a full box.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Mining and gathering | Palpagos Islands — 8,157 rock nodes | Respawns after you break it |
| Mining and gathering | Palpagos Islands — 4,286 small rock nodes | Respawns after you break it |
| Merchant | Wandering Trader | 12 Gold |
Using Stone Well
The single heaviest Stone order in the game is the Large-Scale Stone Oven, Technology 49 for 5 points. Its recipe never names Stone — it asks for 200 Cement, 200 Charcoal, 25 High Quality Wooden Boards and 13 Cryogenic Coolant — but one Cement craft turns 20 Stone, 1 Bone and 1 Aquatic Pal Fluids into ten Cement, so the real bill underneath is 400 Stone plus 20 Bone and 20 Aquatic Pal Fluids. Nothing else in the tree comes close: the Improved Furnace works out to 160 Stone once its own 30 Cement is unpacked, the Pal Expedition Station to 140, and no recipe anywhere asks for more than 100 Stone by name.
Perimeter defense is the other place Stone leaves in bulk. The fence ladder runs Wooden Defensive Wall at Technology 8 for 1 point, Stone Defensive Wall at Technology 19 for 2 points, then Metal Defensive Wall at Technology 30 for 1 point. The wooden segment costs 10 Wood and the game itself admits it breaks easily; the stone segment costs 10 Stone and is what you actually live behind for the eleven levels between 19 and 30. Reaching 30 does not end the Stone bill either — the metal segment wants 10 Ingot plus Cement, and Cement is 20 Stone a batch, so stone keeps feeding the wall line after the material stops being named on it. Wall Torch at Technology 14 is the other cheap early sink at 5 Wood and 2 Stone a piece, and lighting a walled perimeter takes more of them than you expect.
A Stone Pit only runs as fast as the Pal you park on it, and 57 Pals carry Mining suitability. Early on you are picking from Mining 1 — Cattiva, Depresso, Rushoar and Fuddler are all in the starting zone and all count. The ceiling is much higher later: Aegidron tops the list at Mining 8, Astegon and Blazamut sit at 7, Anubis at 6. Do not retire the pit once ore mining opens either — the Coal Quarry at Technology 37, Sulfur Quarry at 46, Pure Quartz Quarry at 52 and Soralite Quarry at 72 each cost 70 Stone to build, so every later resource pit is paid for in stone first.
Cement is where that 400 Stone actually costs you time, not the mining. A batch is 30,000 work for ten, so the oven's 200 Cement is 20 batches and 600,000 work, with another 200,000 sitting in its 200 Charcoal at 1,000 apiece. Start the Cement line running several levels before 49 rather than after the research clears. Converting on site to save carry weight is not worth a trip either — 20 Stone weighs 60 and the ten Cement it becomes weighs 50, so the whole 400-Stone haul only drops from 1,200 to 1,000. Mine near the base, or park a chest by the rocks and let a hauling Pal do the walking.
Price a stone wall before you commit to one. Each segment is 10 Stone, which is 30 weight in your bags and 120 Gold if you would rather buy it from the Wandering Trader at 12 Gold a unit. Ringing a base is rarely under twenty segments, so budget around 200 Stone and 600 weight — several round trips on foot, or one purchase of about 2,400 Gold if you are sitting on merchant money and short on time. Since walls are placed one at a time from what is in your inventory, stage the stone in a chest at the build site first rather than mining, walking back, and discovering you can carry four more segments.
What Stone Is For
Stone is what the quest "Crafting an Axe and a Pickaxe" asks you to bring — that is the reason it exists, and why holding on to one is worth more than selling it.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other crafting materials at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
What Stone Is Used For (70)
Arrow×2
Fire Arrow×2
Poison Arrow×2
Common Shield×20
Curve Module×50
Heavy Weight Module×20
Digtoise's Headband×50
Lifmunk's Submachine Gun×10
Pengullet Lux's Rocket Launcher×24Pengullet Rocket Launcher×20
Rushoar Saddle×10
Tanzee Ignis's Assault Rifle×18Tanzee's Assault Rifle×15
Cement×20
Legendary Sphere×20
Ultra Sphere×10
Giga Sphere×5
Hyper Sphere×8
Mega Sphere×3
Crossbow×80
Fire Arrow Crossbow×100
Old Bow×10
Poison Arrow Crossbow×100
Sword×40Crossbow×70Fire Arrow Crossbow×87Old Bow×8
Pal Metal Axe×100
Pal Metal Pickaxe×100Poison Arrow Crossbow×87Sword×35Crossbow×60Fire Arrow Crossbow×75Old Bow×7Poison Arrow Crossbow×75Refined Metal Axe×30Refined Metal Pickaxe×30Sword×30Crossbow×50Fire Arrow Crossbow×62Metal Axe×15Metal Pickaxe×15Old Bow×6Poison Arrow Crossbow×62Sword×25
Bat×10
Crossbow×40
Dragon Grenade×10
Fire Arrow Crossbow×50
Fire Bow×8
Frag Grenade×10
Ground Grenade×10
Hand-Held Torch×2
Ice Grenade×10
Incendiary Grenade×10
Meat Cleaver×5
Metal Spear×12Old Bow×5
Pal Recovery Grenade×10
Poison Arrow Crossbow×50
Poison Bow×8
Primitive Sword×15Refined Metal Spear×18
Shock Grenade×10
Single-Shot Sphere Launcher×100
Stone Axe×5
Stone Pickaxe×5
Stone Spear×6
Sword×20Three Shot Bow×12