PARTIZAN_E

Surface flint too. Under it should be more flint in some rock

like these

It does generate even on the pole, bet rarely. You can mine stone by hand from ruins (cobblestone), from caves, there are big rocks sometimes and pillars, you can break them by hand

you can stand on translocator with elk and teleport together. Also, you can stay on translocator alone and rmb with flute when elk is away - elk will teleport to you on the other side of translocator. This works with every type of translocator - terminus teleporter, regular translocator, translocator to tobias, and probably with base return teleporters too