Dungeon Settlers How to Get Stone — Resource and Money Routes

A Dungeon Settlers how to get stone question opens onto a wider truth: almost every resource in the game comes from below, and the surface only refines what you carry back. Stone, clay, bones, herbs and ore are all gathered or dropped in the dungeon, then turned into buildings, gear and consumables at home. This page covers where each one comes from and the storage habit that keeps them flowing.

Stone, Wood and the Basic Materials

The first tier is bulk building material. You gather it on easy floors, store it properly, and spend it on rooms and starter gear. The single most useful habit is a storage room with dedicated piles, because units haul loose items into storage automatically but will not empty their own inventory.

Material	Where it comes from	What it feeds
Wood and logs	Gathered in dungeon rooms, especially on an abundant-wood run	Planks, wooden weapons and armor, furniture
Long grass	Gathered on the surface and in easy rooms	Textiles, then cloth armor and beds
Stone	Mined from dungeon nodes, with a guaranteed drop from the Giant Stone Golem	Building materials and stone storage
Raw hide	Dropped by monsters such as rats	Armor and crafting
Mana stones	Dropped by monsters, with a bundle from the Golem boss	Leveling at the Goddess Statue

The creator playthrough shows the storage solution in practice: build a stone pile in a back room, and stones stop piling up on the ground while crafters keep working.

Clay, Bones, Herbs and Food

The second tier is the crafting and survival chain. Clay and bones unlock ceramics and medicine, and herbs turn drops into healing you can carry underground.

Resource	Route	Used for
Clay	Tadpoles fed on corpses become a tougher kill with an early clay chance	Farms and ceramics
Ceramics	Crafted at a Kiln unlocked by Metal Processing research	Goddess's Tears
Bones	Dropped by rats and other monsters	Bone meal for ointments, bone weapons
Wild herbs	Harvested in the dungeon	Combined with bone meal to make ointments
Berries and apples	Found while exploring	Cheap mood support
Turnips and oats	Clumps on floors 2 and 3; oats can be farmed	Food, though the oat recipe carries a mood penalty

Practices that make the loop smoother:

• Carry a couple of Ointments and First Aid Kits so a bad fight does not end a run.
• Keep bones and herbs on hand before you need medicine, not after.
• Inspect chests on every floor; they carry research books and rare materials.
• Run the boss for its guaranteed drop once your party can survive it.

Return Routes, Storage and Depletion

Getting resources out is its own skill. A progression walkthrough notes that a floor depleted to zero applies a 50 percent drop penalty across its region and needs about fifteen in-game days to refill, which turns over-farming one floor into a real cost. Night, meanwhile, runs from 20:00 to 06:00 and cuts vision, so the walkthrough's advice is to return before it starts.

Risk	Effect	Habit that answers it
Floor depletion	50 percent drop penalty across the region	Rotate floors instead of clearing one
Nightfall	Reduced vision from 20:00 to 06:00	Plan the return for daylight
Overloaded settlers	Carried items hurt a settler	Store loose items on the ground and let haulers move them
Broken gear	A weapon can fail mid-run	Repair before the trip, not during it

A storage and logistics checklist:

• Build a storage room and dedicated piles so loose loot has a home.
• Drop carried items on the ground and let settlers haul them to storage.
• Rotate between floors rather than stripping one bare.
• End the run on supplies, not on greed.

Gold, Tech Books and Where to Spend Them

Gold buys recruits, and tech books buy research. Both come from the same trips, so the choice is what you sell and what you keep.

Income source	Detail	Best use
Dungeon merchant trade	A creator run sells six logs for eighteen gold	Early recruiting money
Gold-generating inscription	A named inscription pays gold and is tracked in the stat breakdown	Passive income
Chest loot	Tech books and rare items	Research and upgrades
Dungeon Cores	Harvestable on floor 3 and below, but they trigger hard battles	Tech books when geared
NPC quests	Researcher quests pay Tech Books	Xenon's insect studies pay two each

A short spending priority:

• Keep mana stones for the statue and only sell surplus materials.
• Buy recruits to fill roles, not to raise a count.
• Spend tech books on the branch that fixes your next bottleneck.
• Do not sell gear you have not tried in a real fight.

Exact drop rates and prices shift between patches, so treat the numbers here as to confirm. The farming and research pages pick up the food and technology chains this page feeds.