Ozon__ Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 Hi. Currently 28 hours in to my first world. I am in august and I want to start with leather. Winter is closing in fast and I have explored so much, but cant find limestone for lime. Any tips to search for limestone? Just explore? I am in copper age.
Solution Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Solution Report Posted March 2 (edited) Hello, and welcome to the forums.. Chalk and marble will also do for lime, as well as sea shells, as they all crush down to the same powder. Which gives you a little more wiggle room in terms of what you need. If it's specifically for limewater (for leather treating) then borax will also do (in fact, it's preferred as it's much more efficient in terms of mixing ratio). Aside from RNG pockets of limestone, you do tend to find them near sedimentary rock - like you would in the real world - but it's just a case of searching until you find some, it's not a resource that will be prospected using the pick. Here is another thread posted on the matter just a few months back.. You can also find lime and chalk at Traders, I think it is the commodities trader that you should be on the look out for. There are entire biome chunks of limestone btw, it doesn't necessarily need to be in small patches. You can turn on the coloured map at world gen, or use a command line (press [tab] to bring up chat, enter it there). I can't think of it off the top of my head, but I'll go searching and add it to this post. Edit: I'm an idiot you are using the multicoloured map in your attachment, sorry..! Edited March 2 by Broccoli Clock 3
Ozon__ Posted March 2 Author Report Posted March 2 Thank you. Then I will go for a search for limestone, I guess that is easier than finding chalk and marble? I have seen some sea shells, in small quantity. Usually things at the trader is expensive and I have nothing to sell them. 1
Broccoli Clock Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Ozon__ said: Then I will go for a search for limestone, I guess that is easier than finding chalk and marble? Like almost everything in VS, it just depends on how your world generation rolled. 20 minutes ago, Ozon__ said: Usually things at the trader is expensive and I have nothing to sell them. Just for reference, you can use both the items they want as well as gears. You probably know that, but just in case you didn't. Trader maxxing is a thing, you can find traders that take very easily found resources and trade them for gears - for example some will buy peat. They won't take a lot, but it's easy to get so just build up a pile of peat near that trader and continue selling it when they want it. This is a complete list of what the traders buy/sell: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Trading Traders reset their stock mostly within a week, not sure of the exact period, but it'll tell you at the top of the buy/sell dialog. Gears can also be found by looting chests in ruins, as well as rarer drops from some of the mobs. You will also find random gears, on their own, in the cave system. Edit: Panning! I forgot to mention panning, as that has a low chance of dropping gears. It also has a chance of dropping gems; peridot, emeralds and diamonds. These can be dropped in differing qualities; called potentiality and they range between low, medium and high. An artisan trader will buy them, but they need to match that potential. So a trader may be willing to buy emeralds but only high potential ones, not the others. Good luck hunting. Edited March 2 by Broccoli Clock
Xplosionist Posted March 24 Report Posted March 24 I'm having a similar issue on my home server. We've started in an area full of granite and shale stones, which I see are indicators of the wrong thing. I found a space about 1000 blocks north that is/has Conglomerate Stone, but I am not quite sure how to sus that out from the various write-ups and suggestions. Lime (or chalk?) might be under Conglomerate, but very well might not be. If it is, would it be a narrow layer in a larger area, so just going dozens of blocks at a time and digging down might work? Or, is there any way to know, or really guesstimate, if there is any lime at all with the conglomerate? I've been poking around with a prospecting pick too, while looking, wihch I know won't help for lime but I'll see what else is here. Let mw know if poking around the conglomerate is reasonable, or if I should just hear farther out looking for surface indicators. If "either/both", any recommendations?
PoisonedPawn777 Posted March 24 Report Posted March 24 33 minutes ago, Xplosionist said: Let mw know if poking around the conglomerate is reasonable, or if I should just hear farther out looking for surface indicators. If "either/both", any recommendations? Worth checking as the sedimentary layers can stack on top of one another. You could bore a hole, pop into a cave or look at cliffsides or mountains to get a view of the strata if available. Doesn't guarantee that lime is there, but worth a check. Conglomerate is also a host rock for borax which can be used as an alternative to lime in leather making as well as a necessary item for crafting the iron anvil and steelmaking. Borax will show up on the prospecting pick. I will also note that 1000 blocks is a relatively small distance for exploration in VS, it's not uncommon to need to travel 10k+ for certain resources.
Xplosionist Posted March 25 Report Posted March 25 47 minutes ago, Dilan Rona said: https://mods.vintagestory.at/limestonespeleothems Interesting to be sure, but we're trying to keep close-ish to vanilla. Have a few QoL mods to be sure, including prospect Together and player corpse, but nothing to cheat world-gen. I might _almost_ consider a mod that makes the pro pick be more useful, showing me a dotted line to the closest ore I'm looking for, but not really. I can _consider_ it, but it would break too much of the nature of the game. Maybe something that made the propick a little more useful, without making it a whole different and magical tool. I know there are some of those, but for now, I'm just looking for guidance based on others better knowledge of world gen and experience with finding things in more than the one or two worlds I've seen.
Xplosionist Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 I guess I can try just heading thousands of blocks in a direction. It's been winter, so very short on food, but it's April now so getting better. I have found Conglomerate in one direection and Claystone in another, but I don't know if searching under/around those is useful, or if it's just more reasonable to go farther afield and try to find surface-level limestone or chalk. Easier than poking around in an area, but if there's odds of it being under the other sedimentary layers more near-by, much more conveinent.
LadyWYT Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 On 3/24/2026 at 4:02 PM, Xplosionist said: any recommendations? In addition to keeping an eye out for borax(which you will need later for working steel and meteoric iron), it's also worth keeping an eye out for Commodities/Survival Goods traders if you are playing with lore content enabled. These traders often have lime for sale, which can be a good short-term solution while you search out a better source. Seashells can also be ground into lime(yields two lime per shell), but this is probably the most tedious way to acquire lime.
Dilan Rona Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 Granite or for that matter andecite stalactites doesn't make much sense to me.
Recommended Posts