A soft rock, with few potential uses. Shale is a sedimentary rock formed by thin layers of compacted clay or mud.
Weight6000 gMax stack20Carried on backResource pile
Notes
Shale is a soft sedimentary rock that can be mined with a basic pickaxe, making it one of the earliest stone materials available. It is used in a wide range of early recipes, including Campfires, Carpentry Tables, Grindstones, and crushed stone variants like Coarse Stone and Crushed Shale. For new players, mining shale provides a steady source of building material and ingredient for basic infrastructure, and crushing it into Coarse Stone or higher tiers enables access to more advanced recipes.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
As a block
Mining hardness1On miningdrops rubbleSolidWall
Mining
Hardness 1 is the minimum pickaxe tier that can mine this block.
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