Grinding Stone

This mod adds a grinding stone - a new way to grind materials.

• The grinding stone is available as early as the stone age.
• It can be created by knapping from the same kinds of stones the base game querns can be made from: Granite, Andesite, Basalt or Peridotite.
• Place the grindable item on the grinding stone and then use a loose stone on it to grind it down.
• The grinding process is much slower than with the quern and is only limited to one item at a time.
• Not every grindable item can be processed on the grinding stone - only the smaller and softer ones such as:
  • Chalk stones (not limestone!)
  • Halite stones
  • Sulfur chunks
  • Sylvite chunks
  • Borax
  • Charcoal
  • Small bones
  • Seashells
  • Grains

 

With this mod:

• Bread making is now available as early as the Stone Age, as long as you have some clay to make bowls to collect water.
  • If you don't have access to fire clay, you can still cook charred bread at a firepit using the base game recipe.
• Honey-sulfur poultices (especially the reed ones) are now available as early as the Stone Age, as long as you have access to honey.
• Pickling and curing can be available much earlier, since you can now actually grind halite stones bought from a trader into salt (barrels for pickling can also be bought from a trader).
• Making pitch glue is now available earlier, since you can grind charcoal down into powdered charcoal.

 

Future plans:

• A better way to craft these grinding stones, as knapping makes them a bit too easily available. Perhaps it would be better to utilize loose boulder blocks somehow.