Riverside

Riverside is the river bank a short walk south-west of the yard of your house, just west of the Quarry. It is where Clay and Sand come from: one clay pit and two sand pits, dug with a shovel, each whole again the moment you empty it. No trader sells Sand at all, so every piece of Glass and Tin starts here.

What you can gather

What	Needs	Each dig or break gives	Comes back
Clay pit	Shovel, Building 2	4 Clay	At once
Two sand pits	Shovel, Building 3	4 Sand	At once
Two rocks	Pickaxe, Building 1 and 2	1 and 2 Stone, 2 red tech points	No
A rhododendron bush	Bare hands, Farming 1	2 to 4 Rhododendrons, sometimes a Firefly	After about 20 minutes

Just outside grow three barberry bushes for Berries and two patches of Brown mushrooms, and a wild beehive for Honey stands a little further south.

What the clay and sand are for

• Clay: 2 make 3 Clay Plates at the Potter’s Wheel, and the twins want six of those in Two Peas in a Pod. 4 Clay make 6 Bricks in the Kiln, which itself takes 5 Clay to build.
• Sand: 3 melt into 3 Glass in the furnace once you have the Glass technology; the Sluice Box washes 3 into 2 or 3 Tin, the other half of bronze; and each batch of Polished Stone takes 2.

Zombie diggers

The build desk here offers a Clay Digger Stand, a Sand Digger Stand and a Porter Station, each built from 2 Wooden Planks and 4 Iron Nails. A zombie with a shovel at a stand digs 1 Clay or 1 Sand per shift and puts it straight into a chest at Riverside, so build one there; the porter carries both to the Factory.

All three come with Zombie Digging (50 red, 10 blue), one of the technologies hidden until the cave in the Quarry and the mine passage under your house are open.