Quarry

## **Summary**

Quarries are buildings that increase the maximum capacity of Stone which can be held at a time. Stone storage capacity needs to be increased in order to have enough Stone on hand to purchase items as needed. Quarries can be tapped after a specific amount of time for some Stone.

## **Cost**

The Building Shop (tab 2) of the Buy Menu offers the level 1 Simple Quarry and level 2 Small Quarry for purchase with Stone. The initial cost of the Simple Quarry is 5 Stone while it is 150 Stone for the Small Quarry. The cost of purchasing them varies as it is based on the quantities and levels of the Quarries found on the Homeland map, which makes up the total Stone Storage Capacity. Costs of the Quarries sold in the Building Shop will increase as each quarry is constructed. There is no capped cost. Quarries that are bubbled will not count towards setting the cost.

It is therefore better to mass build higher level Quarries from scratch but the process to achieve this can be very monotonous. To do this existing Quarries will need to be either bubbled or sold to reduce the Stone Storage Capacity to it's minimum of 100 Stone which is very low. This is required in order to lower the purchase cost of the Quarries, which needs to be done in order to mass purchase new Simple Quarries. The base stone storage capacity is not sufficient to allow purchasing the Small Quarry.

PLAN AHEAD BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO DO THIS . . .

* Tap out Stone stored in existing Quarries
* Harvest for a lot of Stone ahead of time
* Merge all the Stone and save on your map
* Before bubbling or selling any existing Quarries use the existing capacity you have stored and purchase Elf Eggs, Elf Egg Nests or Chests or it will be lost.
	+ NOTE: An update recently fixed it so that when the warehouses for stones and gems shrink unexpectedly (bubbled or sold), the resources will no longer be lost. They will be gained back when the warehouses are added back to the map.

If planned out well, you can purchase many of the Simple Quarries at the same lower cost as long as none of the build sites are constructed by Elves before you finish purchasing them. Tricky and time consuming. But, it can be done by bubbling or selling all but one Simple Quarry OR by filling the Homeland map until there is no more available space and then having all active Elves harvest something such as Rukh Orbs until all of them are carrying something that they cannot drop. Confirm the cost of purchasing one quarry from the shop and clear just enough tiles to allow you to purchase the quantity that your Stone capacity contains. Purchase the quarries fast, reload your Stone quarry with the Stones you have waiting on the map. Continue. If the cost increases in the shop, construct and merge and bubble or sell them to drive the cost down again. This is not for the faint of heart. Very challenging to do.

## **How to Get a Quarry**

* Through the Building Shop (tab 2) in the Buy Menu
	+ Simple Quarry level 1 (initial cost is 5 stone)
	+ Small Quarry level 2 (initial cost is 150 stone)

## **Building Quarries**

Once a Quarry (level 1 or 2) is purchased from the Building Shop (tab 2) in the Buy Menu it will appear on the Homeland map as a 1x1 Build Site.
Elves are needed in order to construct them. Drag and drop Elves onto the build sites or double tap the build site to summon an Elf to construct it. The construction time can be sped up by dropping multiple Elves onto the build site or by tapping the arrow icon next to the progress bar above the Elf Dwelling to pay 2 Golden Leaves to complete the process immediately.

## **Quarry (Graphics Revision 19Dec23)**

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The following images were revised with the December 19, 2023 update.