Sand

[Spatch]

I know this has been around since at least A19, but why was sand harvesting nerfed so much?  Its annoying that it is easier to get stone from mining, and pound it into sand than to just go gather mother nature's millions of years of hard work.

 

With the increase in time it takes for concrete to be crafted, does decreasing sand collection really do anything other than annoy?  At a minimum, it shouldn't be any faster to mine rock and crush it than it is to just scoop it up out of the dessert.

[theFlu]

Yeh, it feels weird. Cant say I understand why, I'm assuming it's simply not entirely thought through. But shh, don't go telling them, the next thing you know they'll nerf stone yields.

[Spatch]

10 minutes ago, theFlu said:

Yeh, it feels weird. Cant say I understand why, I'm assuming it's simply not entirely thought through. But shh, don't go telling them, the next thing you know they'll nerf stone yields.

IKR!  Was a little worried when I posted it that TFP would see it and go "wait, what!?  Mixers are fast at sand processing!?" 

[BarryTGash]

"...desert sand has little use; the grains are too smooth and fine to bind together, so it is not suitable for the making of for instance concrete." (source)

[theFlu]

But grinding down stone into sand in a cement mixer is a well-known industry standard practice..

[BarryTGash]

Yes, and that sand is 'gritty'. But if you left it in a running cement mixer for years it too would be too smooth for concrete. 

 

Who'd have thunk that the most efficient method to obtain sand in the game is based on reality 

 

 

[theFlu]

Don't get me wrong, I know stone crushing is a thing, and tumbling solids into powders as well. The way it is in the game though, I doubt reality has had that much influence to it ...

[JCrook1028]

22 minutes ago, theFlu said:

Don't get me wrong, I know stone crushing is a thing, and tumbling solids into powders as well. The way it is in the game though, I doubt reality has had that much influence to it ...

Yea, you aren't gonna  make sand in a cement mixer. The tolerances just are not even close to being fine enough for that. If they were it wouldn't work for making concrete very well either.

[BFT2020]

Heck, I am just glad they are using the terms cement and concrete correctly.....

 

You got to take your victories, no matter how small they are  😉

[Doc Saturn]

I'm just glad that you don't have to add realistic amounts of water to your concrete mix. That's a lot of jars.

 

[BFT2020]

1 hour ago, Doc Saturn said:

I'm just glad that you don't have to add realistic amounts of water to your concrete mix. That's a lot of jars.

 

 

They do have buckets in the  game  😉