Stone Quern

Stone Quern

Class	Workstation
Type	Workstation
Build Menu	Farming
Build Skill	Masonry: 1
Build XP	Masonry: 10
Recipes	3
Crafts	Farming
Location	Built

The Stone Quern is a hand mill of two stones for grinding grain into flour. The game describes it as a station for grinding grain into flour.

It serves Farming and Cooking. Wheat, rye and barley seeds become Flour here. Dried corn becomes Cornflour or Cornmeal. Flour is the base of bread and baking, so the quern turns a grain harvest into everyday food. It comes after the drying rack in the grain line. The Stone Mill is the larger step up. The survivor builds the quern from stone wheels and a handle.

Grain is the long road to home-made bread. The crop is grown, cut, dried and threshed before it reaches the quern. The quern is the last farm step before the kitchen takes over.

How to Build Stone Quern

The build recipe is called Stone Quern and sits under Farming in the build menu. It takes one Stone Wheel, two Small Stone Wheel and one Medium Handle.

The builder needs Masonry level 1. The build gives 10 Masonry experience. The recipe is known from the start.

The parts take a little more skill than the build itself. Make Stone Wheel cuts a Stone Wheel from a Large Stone at Masonry level 2. Make Small Stone Wheel works the same way and gives two small wheels at once. Both need a hammer or club hammer and a chisel, which are kept. The Medium Handle comes from the Carve Medium Handle recipe at Carving level 2.

The Stone Quern recipe is in the Farming build menu. It needs Masonry level 1.

Name	Amount	Kept	Spawn ID
Stone Wheel	1x	No	`/additem Base.StoneWheel`
Small Stone Wheel	2x	No	`/additem Base.StoneWheelSmall`
Medium Handle	1x	No	`/additem Base.Handle`

How to Use Stone Quern

Grinding runs as a recipe at the quern, worked by hand. The grain goes in, and the ground product comes out. The grain is the whole input.

Grain takes some preparing first. Corn must be dried on a Large Plant Drying Rack before it can be ground. Wheat, rye and barley go in as seeds.

Those seeds come from the harvest. Wheat, rye and barley are cut as sheaves. The sheaves dry on a Large Plant Drying Rack. The Thresh Grain recipe then knocks the seeds out of a dried sheaf in the hand.

The seeds that go into the quern are the same seeds used for planting. Dried corn works as corn seed as well. Keep enough back for the next sowing before grinding the rest.

Crafting Recipes

Grind Flour turns Wheat Seeds, Rye Seeds or Barley Seeds into Flour. Any of the three grains works.

Grind Cornflour turns Corn (Dried) into Cornflour. Grind Cornmeal turns the same dried corn into Cornmeal. A corn harvest can be split between the two as needed.

Flour and Cornflour count as flour in the kitchen. Either one goes into bread dough, baguettes, pizza, pie dough and cake batter. Biscuits, muffins and every kind of cookie use it too. It also coats breaded shrimp and onion rings.

Cornmeal is a thickener for soups and stews. Flour and Cornflour can thicken a pot the same way. Each one must go into a recipe before they can be eaten.

Every recipe made at the Stone Quern is listed with what it uses up, the tools it hands back and the skill it asks for. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned before it shows up.

Name	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Learned	Spawn ID
Cornflour	Grind Cornflour	20x Corn (Dried)	-	None	No	`/additem Base.Cornflour2`
Cornmeal	Grind Cornmeal	20x Corn (Dried)	-	None	No	`/additem Base.Cornmeal2`
Flour	Grind Flour	12x Wheat Seeds or similar	-	None	No	`/additem Base.Flour2`

Station Tiers

The Stone Mill runs everything the quern runs and more. It also mills Flax Seeds, Hemp Seeds and Sunflower Seeds into Seed Paste. The mill costs more to build, with ten Stone Block, a bag of concrete, a Large Handle and a Wooden Rod. It also needs a Mason's Trowel. Its own mill recipes grind about three times faster than the quern. Build the quern first for flour, and move to the mill when Seed Paste or larger batches are wanted.

The Stone Quern shares its recipes with the stations below. A higher station runs everything a lower one runs.

Name	Image	Recipes	Build Skill	Compared
Stone Quern		3	Masonry: 1	This station
Stone Mill		8	Masonry: 1	Runs every recipe here and more

Notes

The build tooltip reads: for grinding grain into flour.
Dry corn on the Large Plant Drying Rack before grinding it.
Wheat, rye and barley seeds all grind into the same Flour.
Masonry level 1 is enough to build it.
Grain seeds double as planting seeds, so save some before grinding.
Cornflour works anywhere a recipe asks for flour.

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