Decoration · Item
Sand and gravel
Loose ground of beaches, deserts and river beds: glass, silicon, bricks, asphalt -- and flint.
In the game
How to get it
Dig it with a shovel. Sand covers beaches and deserts (red sand in the canyons); gravel lines river beds, sea floors and rocky shores.
What it is for
Sand: glass and silicon in the Furnace, the temper of bricks, asphalt. Gravel: a flint one block in ten, asphalt, concrete.
Why it exists
Ordinary ground, extraordinary uses.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
| Block | Where | Becomes |
|---|---|---|
| Sand | beaches, deserts | Glass (16 voxels a craft), Silicon (with 8 coal), the 4 sand that turn clay into bricks, Asphalt, concrete |
| Red sand | canyons | the same as sand |
| Gravel | river beds, sea floors, rocky shores | a Flint one block in ten, Asphalt, concrete |
A shovel digs both fast. A sapling can grow on sand.