Stone Fence
| Stone Fence | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming (Level 2) |
| Sell Price | 2g |
The Stone Fence is a stone barrier for marking out pens, paddocks and fields. It is the first upgrade over the Wood Fence, and it holds up much longer before it starts to crumble. Each piece costs only a couple of Stone, a material that piles up from every trip to the Mines. The recipe comes early in the Farming skill. Iron and Hardwood Fences last longer still, but they cost more valuable materials.
Recipe
The recipe unlocks at Farming level 2. Each fence piece takes a little Stone, which comes from breaking rocks with the Pickaxe. A long fence line therefore costs very little, even early in the game.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stone | 
|
2 |
Use
Fence pieces go down one tile at a time and join up with the pieces beside them. A closed fence line keeps farm animals inside their pasture, so they graze where the grass is meant to be. It also stops weeds, stones and branches from spreading back into cleared parts of the farm.
All fences slowly decay. A Stone Fence lasts far longer than a Wood Fence, but it still wears out in the end. Freshly placed pieces drop back as an item when removed. Older pieces start to look damaged, and a damaged piece left too long disappears altogether.
The ladder runs in clear steps. A Wood Fence line gives out inside two seasons. Stone roughly doubles that stretch, Iron doubles it again, and Hardwood stands through more than a year of farm days. Each step up asks for a scarcer material, which is what makes Stone the sensible middle for most farms. Stone arrives faster than a farm can spend it, so a long line costs one morning in the Mines and can be rebuilt without a second thought.
Repairing a fence line is quick. Holding a new Stone Fence and using it on a damaged piece replaces it in one move, with no need to break the old piece first. A happy spouse also fixes some broken fence pieces on the farm before leaving the house in the morning.
Timing matters for that repair. A piece that still looks sound shrugs the new fence off, and the swap only takes once the stone has begun to crack. Farmers who want a tidy line walk it now and then rather than waiting for holes to appear. A spouse helps, but only a little, since the morning repairs pick a few pieces at random and a long line outruns them.
Variants
The other fences in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gate | 
|
Wood (10) | Starter |
| Hardwood Fence | 
|
Hardwood (1) | Farming (Level 6) |
| Iron Fence | 
|
Iron Bar (1) | Farming (Level 4) |
| Wood Fence | 
|
Wood (2) | Starter |
Notes
A Torch can sit on top of a fence post. A few torches along a Stone Fence light up the edges of a field at night without taking up any extra space.
For a fence that never needs repair, the Gold Clock from the Wizard's Tower stops every fence on the farm from decaying. It is an end-game purchase, so most farms live with the decay for a long while first and simply plan a repair walk into the quiet days of Winter.
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