Topples’ Quarry

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Author: Topples

Last revision: 3 Apr, 2025 at 19:51 UTC (2)

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Description:

This mod adds quarries that were included in the halfling mod to both dwarf and human entities. Quarries are an alternative way of obtaining stone, ore, and gems that is not meant to supplant standard mining. Obtaining these materials from quarries provides little mining experience and is very slow (i.e. a single mining reaction often doesn’t produce anything). Geodes can also be mined to obtain ornamental, semi-precious, and precious gems at a slow rate.

The mod includes:

• Quarry building for humans and dwarves (constructed with an enormous drill, a minecart, and a wheelbarrow)
• Building a quarry and mining from it requires a miner.
• Reactions for mining various stones, ores, and geodes. Included are sedimentary rock, copper, iron, tin, lead, nickel, zinc, coal, bismuth, silver, gold, and geodes. The rarer the material, the less likely a reaction will produce it (the chance for a mining reaction to produce gold nuggets is about 1%, while copper ore is about 8%). Rare ores like platinum and aluminium are not included. All mining reactions require a pickaxe.
• Adds inorganics: ornamental geodes, semi-precious geodes, and precious geodes as boulders. These geodes can produce gems of the corresponding type. Rare gems are not included and can only be mined from exploring the underground.
• Adds reactions to open these geodes at a stoneworker’s workshop. Geodes have a small precent chance to obtain any gem of that type. Geodes may produce nothing when opened or a single geode may produce many gems (even dozens but this is extremely rare).

• Originally the quarry was meant to be much larger. Workshops in dwarf fortress can be up to 31×31 tiles big, however graphics for workshops like that bug out.
• The placement for the workshop will be slightly off. It’s because the active square is not in the center of the workshop, so when placing it, it will be off center of your cursor.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Please report and bugs / crashes that you come across, or let me know if any of the graphics just don’t look right and you think I need to give them another go! If your feedback leads to an update, I will credit you below.

I try to make somewhat complex mods with graphics so it does take some time. If you like what I do and feel so inclined, you can donate to my Ko-fi[ko-fi.com].