Building Materials traders need to sell mortar!!

[Heegrim]

Omg there is no limestone or chalk anywhere near me and I have only found building materials traders. Why do they not sell mortar!? It is literally THE building material…

You can’t turn it back into lime so it’s not like it would be a hack to get leather production going. I have literally combed every beach for shells too (they should probably be on the loot table for fishing, I know I have gotten my line stuck on oysters irl).

I just want to tile my kitchen floor 

[Rainbow Fresh]

10 hours ago, Heegrim said:

Omg there is no limestone or chalk anywhere near me and I have only found building materials traders. Why do they not sell mortar!? It is literally THE building material…

You can’t turn it back into lime so it’s not like it would be a hack to get leather production going. I have literally combed every beach for shells too (they should probably be on the loot table for fishing, I know I have gotten my line stuck on oysters irl).

I just want to tile my kitchen floor 

Welcome to a similar hell I went through. Even though I made my own a bit harder than necessary through brain derping. I went looking everywhere for chalk but there was none. None whatsoever in a 3k block radius that could reasonably traverse in the earlier stages of the game. I scrounged up every shell I could find to grind some lime for a little bit of mortar, but have naturally since run out. I accepted long ago that I need to push all the way to Bronze to use what little precious Borax I found for leather. Which has also since run rather low.

Well, second ever translocator I repaired dropped my right into a chalk strata. And I do have since, in fact, realized that LIMEstone can be used to make LIME (really, really don't know why I thought it was only chalk or marble...).

Anyway, to get back on topic: Yes, I fully agree that building materials traders should, indeed, sell building materials. Mortar is a very building material-y building material and it makes no sense they don't sell it. Would also fit right into their theme of selling and buying the most random, barely ever useful junk considering you only really need mortar for when you want to build with one very specific type of rock.

[Vratislav]

I am with you. In the actual gameplay, I got mostly andesite two thousands blocks around, so I just left the lime for the journey to the 2nd story locations. Before the lime, I had borax (at least leatherworking was possible), 2nd. tier bricks,  steel, ilmenite and chromite. 

What I feel discomfortable, is a lime consumption to make quicklime and then plaster - as firing of quicklime is terribly expansive (both for peat and attention) and cannot be done in bloomery.

[Vafthrudhnir]

That's why mods exist. 

 

There's Salt and Sands that solves the issue with lime:

https://mods.vintagestory.at/saltandsands

And there is Quicklime in Kiln that offers better recipes for quicklime:

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/5380