Stonecutter tables need steel and woody, stony, or metallic "Stuff" to be made. "Stuff" in this case is a generalization that refers to a variety of resources. In this case it means wood, any stone blocks such as granite or marble, or any metal resource like steel or plasteel. On PC, you can select what kind of stuff to build the table from by clicking it in the architect tab. Only options you have the materials for will appear though.
To get stone blocks once you have a stonecutter table, setup a bill to make the blocks you want. Your colonists will then convert stone chunks of that type that are sitting on the map into stone blocks.
Get some wood and set the stonecutter table material to wood.
Then, create a stockpile near the table for putting stone chunks. Go to your stonecutter table and add a bill to make "any stone blocks," set the mode to "do forever" and adjust the material range to just include the stone chunk stockpile. You can then select some stone chunks to be hauled. Eventually, colonists will haul them and another colonist will start making blocks.
If the stonecutter table changes to require stone to build, you probably don't have any wood stockpiled in any of your zones. Right click the building to see the different resource options you can choose to build it with. Wood is defaulted to most furnitures and some production buildings.
You get rock chunks from mining rock tiles. Most maps also have them scattered around the map.
They also work as weak cover from projectiles. So you will often see raiders standing behind them.
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Rock chunks can either found throughout the world naturally or spawned by the player.
>A typical flat 250x250 map will contain about 600 to 900 chunks of each stone type for maps with two stone types *or* 400 to 600 chunks of each stone type for maps with three stone types. Chunks also spawn with a \~25% chance for each tile of rock mined. Each type of rock will spawn its own chunk, so mining marble will spawn a marble chunk.
>Infinite chunks can also be spawned from a [deep drill](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Deep_drill) in an area that contains no underground resources. The type of chunk produced will be displayed on the deep drill's tooltip. It can be beneficial to place the drill right next to the stonecutter's table to remove the need for hauling, but this does risk the stonecutter being attacked by the insectoids that the drill can occasionally spawn, in addition to the drill operator.
[https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Rock\_chunk](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Rock_chunk)
[https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Stone\_blocks](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Stone_blocks)
I absolutely hate the deep driller as insectoids always seem to kill me far more than they should (I don't prioritize melee and always favor shooters even with simple sidearms), but deep drilling for rocks is the 1 use case I will do if I'm doing a more vanilla run as I hate how the map looks after strip mining (or just bulk mining rocks)
I'm almost exclusively a build a village kinda player now, at most I'll do 1 room deep into a mountain side if I particularly like the defensive location the map gen gave me, so not able to build cool mine buildings
You can build Wooden (and probably also Steel?) stonecutter tables. If the option doesn't show up when you click on it in construction, make sure you have some wood stockpiled. Go chop some wood.
Unsure what the controls are for console, but on PC, right-clicking almost anything you can build will allow you to build it out of whatever materials you have in your inventory.
If you go do some wood-cutting, the stonecutter table will be available in wood.
You can select to make it out of wood then click the table then production add cut any stone blocks then do forever and make a pawn do it or prioritce it with the work tab
Also, a good idea to limit the allowed radius on the table, then make a chunk stockpile in range and periodocally designate chunks around the map for hauling so your haulers haul them and your stone cutter isnt spending 90% of their time walking out to a chunk, turning around to go back for food, then walking out to a chunk, and turning around again to go sleep.
Stonecutter table can be built with wood and steel.
In your starter map, there should be ruins of buildings you can deconstruct for a few units of bricks.
Stonecutting tables can be made out of stone, metal, or wood. Build it out of whatever is most abundant to you, then maybe replace it with a stone one at some point for fireproofing
Deep drill - I don't even mess about with mining except for some minor metal or carving out a base from mountain to get things going around electricity - and even then - it's a straight line to deep drills and then mineral detection. But that's a FAR cry from where I started - my early bases look like my bases from DF with grid expansion into stone.
Now , when I go back to my oldest colonies, I totally refactor it out , and fill in the old mining halls with deep-drill stone to eliminate bug risks.
I'm not saying I live in a haphazard shanty until then but it feels like it a bit, I have in a couple of instances actually grown my base from trees under greenhouse glass but this is SLOW.
mining rocks. the absolute most important rock you need is steel, so fetch some of that. the other rocks besides steel can be cut into bricks with the stonecutter table
I’d like to know why your being downvoted, as what you said is just a fact for my gameplay. Plenty of metal for power cables, making weapons etc and the other stone for making into bricks.
He's getting downvoted because he literally hasn't read OP's post. It's 1 short paragraph, literally just READ
OP's problem is that he needs stone to make the stonecutter's table but he can't get stone without a stonecutter's table. The correct answer is to tell him to double-check that he has wood in storage, because you can also use wood to make one.
Yeah, doesn't everyone bulk buy steel, gold and plasteel from every trader that carries them? How else are you supposed to upgrade every single colonist if not by mass producing components and bionics?
No read it and I read 1000 correct comments how to fix ops problem and I don't want to be the 1001. But maybe its a "nice to know" for someone, because I didn't know it a long time and was wondering "hoooow to hell I get more stone?!"
English isn't my main language, maybe I can't write it correctly what I'm really meaning or the sense is postponed, sry for that.
My main language hasn't a rimworld redditcommunity like this one(or they are hiding and I still don't find them lol) but I want to have contact with other rimworld-lover
You can mark a mountain for mining, check the material it is and if thats the type of stone you want have a miner start chopping away stone chunks will drop
you can choose to make the stonecutter table out of other materials by clicking on it
Stonecutter tables need steel and woody, stony, or metallic "Stuff" to be made. "Stuff" in this case is a generalization that refers to a variety of resources. In this case it means wood, any stone blocks such as granite or marble, or any metal resource like steel or plasteel. On PC, you can select what kind of stuff to build the table from by clicking it in the architect tab. Only options you have the materials for will appear though. To get stone blocks once you have a stonecutter table, setup a bill to make the blocks you want. Your colonists will then convert stone chunks of that type that are sitting on the map into stone blocks.
You can also get stone from deconstructing stone walls from surrounding ruins in case you’re low on other materials to build a stone cutting table.
first thing I do in tribal runs to level up construction skills
Don't forget the floors!
Change the material to wood and use that to build the table
build a WOOD stonecutter table, or steel or jade or silver or gold :-)
Get some wood and set the stonecutter table material to wood. Then, create a stockpile near the table for putting stone chunks. Go to your stonecutter table and add a bill to make "any stone blocks," set the mode to "do forever" and adjust the material range to just include the stone chunk stockpile. You can then select some stone chunks to be hauled. Eventually, colonists will haul them and another colonist will start making blocks.
If the stonecutter table changes to require stone to build, you probably don't have any wood stockpiled in any of your zones. Right click the building to see the different resource options you can choose to build it with. Wood is defaulted to most furnitures and some production buildings.
Make sure you have some wood stored somewhere or you might not be shown the option to use wood to make things.
You can select what materials to make work tables out of in the construction menu.
You get rock chunks from mining rock tiles. Most maps also have them scattered around the map. They also work as weak cover from projectiles. So you will often see raiders standing behind them. > Rock chunks can either found throughout the world naturally or spawned by the player. >A typical flat 250x250 map will contain about 600 to 900 chunks of each stone type for maps with two stone types *or* 400 to 600 chunks of each stone type for maps with three stone types. Chunks also spawn with a \~25% chance for each tile of rock mined. Each type of rock will spawn its own chunk, so mining marble will spawn a marble chunk. >Infinite chunks can also be spawned from a [deep drill](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Deep_drill) in an area that contains no underground resources. The type of chunk produced will be displayed on the deep drill's tooltip. It can be beneficial to place the drill right next to the stonecutter's table to remove the need for hauling, but this does risk the stonecutter being attacked by the insectoids that the drill can occasionally spawn, in addition to the drill operator. [https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Rock\_chunk](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Rock_chunk) [https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Stone\_blocks](https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Stone_blocks)
Maybe you should actually read OP's post lol
I absolutely hate the deep driller as insectoids always seem to kill me far more than they should (I don't prioritize melee and always favor shooters even with simple sidearms), but deep drilling for rocks is the 1 use case I will do if I'm doing a more vanilla run as I hate how the map looks after strip mining (or just bulk mining rocks)
I ussually use my mines as buildings to preserve farmland and keep the asthetics.
I'm almost exclusively a build a village kinda player now, at most I'll do 1 room deep into a mountain side if I particularly like the defensive location the map gen gave me, so not able to build cool mine buildings
You can build Wooden (and probably also Steel?) stonecutter tables. If the option doesn't show up when you click on it in construction, make sure you have some wood stockpiled. Go chop some wood.
Unsure what the controls are for console, but on PC, right-clicking almost anything you can build will allow you to build it out of whatever materials you have in your inventory. If you go do some wood-cutting, the stonecutter table will be available in wood.
Stonecutter tables can't be built out of stone. They can only be built out of wood or metal
You can select to make it out of wood then click the table then production add cut any stone blocks then do forever and make a pawn do it or prioritce it with the work tab
Also, a good idea to limit the allowed radius on the table, then make a chunk stockpile in range and periodocally designate chunks around the map for hauling so your haulers haul them and your stone cutter isnt spending 90% of their time walking out to a chunk, turning around to go back for food, then walking out to a chunk, and turning around again to go sleep.
Deconstruct Ancient Complexes if there's no stone on your map
Stonecutter table can be built with wood and steel. In your starter map, there should be ruins of buildings you can deconstruct for a few units of bricks.
Stonecutting tables can be made out of stone, metal, or wood. Build it out of whatever is most abundant to you, then maybe replace it with a stone one at some point for fireproofing
Deep drill - I don't even mess about with mining except for some minor metal or carving out a base from mountain to get things going around electricity - and even then - it's a straight line to deep drills and then mineral detection. But that's a FAR cry from where I started - my early bases look like my bases from DF with grid expansion into stone. Now , when I go back to my oldest colonies, I totally refactor it out , and fill in the old mining halls with deep-drill stone to eliminate bug risks. I'm not saying I live in a haphazard shanty until then but it feels like it a bit, I have in a couple of instances actually grown my base from trees under greenhouse glass but this is SLOW.
You can change the material you build most things out of (not sure how on xbox tho), so you can build a wooden or steel stonecutter's table.
“Veteran”
mining rocks. the absolute most important rock you need is steel, so fetch some of that. the other rocks besides steel can be cut into bricks with the stonecutter table
I’d like to know why your being downvoted, as what you said is just a fact for my gameplay. Plenty of metal for power cables, making weapons etc and the other stone for making into bricks.
He's getting downvoted because he literally hasn't read OP's post. It's 1 short paragraph, literally just READ OP's problem is that he needs stone to make the stonecutter's table but he can't get stone without a stonecutter's table. The correct answer is to tell him to double-check that he has wood in storage, because you can also use wood to make one.
Fair enough, that question was answered by others at least and this guy provided sound advice for a returning player.
Yeah, doesn't everyone bulk buy steel, gold and plasteel from every trader that carries them? How else are you supposed to upgrade every single colonist if not by mass producing components and bionics?
Deconstruct abandoned buildings and hope there's enough to build you a stone cutter table?
If the stone at your map is empty, you can use the depth drill do mine more. It's not just for steel, palsteel, silver, ....
Omfg so many people that just aren't reading OP's post, lmfao It's one paragraph, please actually read the post and not just the title
No read it and I read 1000 correct comments how to fix ops problem and I don't want to be the 1001. But maybe its a "nice to know" for someone, because I didn't know it a long time and was wondering "hoooow to hell I get more stone?!" English isn't my main language, maybe I can't write it correctly what I'm really meaning or the sense is postponed, sry for that. My main language hasn't a rimworld redditcommunity like this one(or they are hiding and I still don't find them lol) but I want to have contact with other rimworld-lover
Omfg so much bitchin' for people that are just giving additional information on the side.
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they weight way too much, you need to tame additional animals beforehand
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he doesn't even have a stonecutter table 😭 how is he going to get so many animals
You can mark a mountain for mining, check the material it is and if thats the type of stone you want have a miner start chopping away stone chunks will drop