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Sand

worth$8
kindRaw good
kept inBulk storage

Where it comes from

Site
a quarry: four corners drawn on land you own (Build → Land)
On
a mapped quarry, or land over a deposit (20% of parcels have one)
A hectare yields
450 units a day ($3,600 of worth)
Running it
$1,260 a day a hectare: $2.80 a unit
Holds
3 days of its yield; full, it stops
The computer buys at
$6.40 ($4.48 to $8.96 as its price drifts)
The computer sells at
$10 ($7 to $14)

What it is used for

MachineTakesMakesTimePer machine, a day
Furnace2 × Sand1 × Glass6 s40 glass
Sewing bench1 × Fabric 2 × Sand4 × Sandbags4 s240 sandbags

Selling it

  • To the computer, from your storage: see the market. Only raw goods trade with the computer.
  • On the players' market, from or into your storage; the seller pays a 3% fee.

Keeping it

Stone, sand, clay, ore and coal are kept in:

By rail it rides in hopper wagons.