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Gravel

Created by smashing medium stones with a sledgehammer. Repeated hits will shatter a medium stone into ever-smaller fragments (cracked stones, broken stones, split stones, smashed stones), and finally into gravel. The amount of gravel produced by one medium stone is highly variable, anywhere from around 30 to over 100.

Gravel is used, along with with cement, to make concrete in a Clinker Vat.

Smashing Stones Into Gravel

Each time you smash a stone (either a medium stone or one of its smaller fragments), one of two things can happen:

• The stone remains the same size and goes flying off in a random direction, leaving 1 gravel at your feet; or
• The stone splits into 1-3 pieces of the next smaller size stone, each of which goes flying off in a random direction.

Odds are roughly equal for either result. The "next smaller stone" for smashed stones is a 'pile' of 1-3 gravel. That is, a smashed stone could turn into 3 piles of 3 gravel. All of the stones sizes above gravel weigh 10 db and are 1 db bulk.

 A medium stone becomes a few cracked stones. 
 A cracked stone becomes a few broken stones. 
 A broken stone becomes a few split stones. 
 A split stone becomes a few smashed stones. 
 A smashed stone becomes a few db of gravel.

   ('a few' in this case is typically 1 to 3)

A smash of any stone may also produce some gravel when producing a smaller stone.

in smashing 20 of each size of stone (except "smashed"), the number of gravel I got was always equal to the number of stones that were not reduced in size. (For smashed stones, the number of gravel at my feet equaled the number of smashed stones collected.) - Sabt-Pestnu

In smashing 2 medium stones, I got 72 gravel from the first and 103 from the second. (OldJoe)

Detonation Boxes and Gravel

Detonation Boxes were a technology from the First Telling. Through exhaustive alchemical research, our ancestors learned the secret of mixing highly explosive compounds. These compounds were employed in Detonation Boxes, buildings that could instantly (and violently) convert large quantities of stone into gravel.

It has been reported that 1 medium stone makes 10 gravel.

• I can report that i have gotten various results from a sledgehammer and a medium stone. From one med stone i got 102 gravel and yet from another i got 34. It seems random to me - losiris
• Agreed. 1 Medium stone made 10 gravel in detonation boxes, even in Tale 1, the yields from sledge hammer were higher. Average from testing 20 stones was approx 50 gravel per medium stone.