Sand Digger Stand
The Sand Digger Stand is a work post for a zombie at Riverside. Put a zombie holding a shovel on it, and it digs 1 Sand a round and puts it into a chest at Riverside, then starts again. It comes with Zombie Digging (50 red, 10 blue, after Iron Smithing), the same technology as the Clay Digger Stand, and costs 2 Wooden Planks and 4 Iron Nails at the Riverside build desk.
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| Ingredients | Outputs | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  Sand ×1 |  1 | 8 | 1 |
Notes
- A zombie digs 1 Sand a round; you dig 4. Digging the sand pit yourself gives 4 at a time but needs Building mastery 3. The zombie’s round is slow but costs you nothing.
- Build a chest at Riverside first. The sand goes into storage in the area, and without a chest there is nowhere for it to go.
- There is only one. The stand appears at a fixed spot, and building it removes it from the build desk.
- The shovel sets the pace. A Rusty Shovel needs 8 swings of 10 seconds a round, a Bronze one 4. An Iron Shovel does it in 3 swings of about 3.6 seconds, about 11 seconds in all. A Steel one is no faster, at about 4 seconds a swing. The walk to the sand pit and back comes on top. These times are worked out from the game files, not timed in play.
- The Excavator zombie talent takes 2 steps off each round.
- Sand feeds the Sluice Box (3 for 2 or 3 Tin) and the furnaces’ glass. The Riverside Porter Station, from the same technology, carries it to the factory.