Boulder

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Boulders are large rocks commonly found in Savannas and Rockylands, although they may appear anywhere in the world. Their main purpose is to provide Rocks when mined. Additionally, Boulders may also provide Flint, Gold Nuggets, and Nitre. Boulders do not respawn; however, Rocks, Flint, Gold Nuggets, and Nitre are renewable resources because they can be found after Earthquakes while underground.

Mining

Most kinds of Boulders can be mined using the Pickaxe, Opulent Pickaxe, or Pick/Axe. To do this, click the tool on the Boulder or equip it from the inventory by right-clicking. Once the character has begun to swing the tool at the Boulder, either the LMB or Spacebar must be held or continuously clicked to continue mining.

It takes 6 strikes to mine a Boulder with a Pickaxe and Opulent Pickaxe, and 5 with the Pick/Axe. It depletes a normal Pickaxe's durability by 18%, Opulent Pickaxe's by 4.5%, and Pick/Axe's by 4%.

Rock

“It wouldn't fit in my pocket.”

–Wilson

“It's, like, a rock.”

–Willow

“Is hard! Like me!”

–Wolfgang

“Even that is not permanent.”

–Wendy

“LUMPY.”

–WX-78

“A large sedimentary rock.”

–Wickerbottom

“I could break it down if I tried hard enough.”

–Woodie

“It's a rock.”

–Maxwell

“A collection of sedimentary rocks.”

–Wagstaff

“Smash!”

–Wigfrid

“We'll need to mine it before we can use it.”

–Webber

“I like you much better on land.”

–Walani

“Don't you go rolling off on me.”

–Warly

“Would wreck a hull.”

–Woodlegs

“'TIS ROCK”

–Wilba

“Rock. Hello”

–Wormwood

“That's a projectile just waiting to happen.”

–Wheeler

“Mhm, yep. That's a rock.”

–Winona

“What a shock! It's a rock!”

–Wortox

“Just a rock, florpt.”

–Wurt

“It would be more useful in smaller pieces.”

–Walter

“Ooooh a boulder, how unexpected.”

–Wanda

Boulders are large rocks commonly found in Savannas and Rockylands, although they may appear anywhere in the world. Their main purpose is to provide Rocks when mined, which can be used to build a number of objects/structures. A single Boulder will drop 3 Rocks, 1 Flint plus a 60% chance to get 1 extra and 1 Nitre plus a 25% to get 1 extra.

Gold Vein

Boulders also called Gold Vein are large rocks commonly found in Forests and Rockylands, although they may appear anywhere in the world. They will drop 3 Rocks, 1 Flint plus a 60% chance to get 1 extra and 1 Gold Nugget plus a 25% to get 1 extra.

Flintless

Flintless Boulder are commonly found in the Desert.

They will drop 4 Rocks plus a 60% chance to get 1 extra.

Trivia

• Meteor Boulders are considered to be part of A New Reign, even though they were introduced before the official start of the beta branch.
• In the A Little Fixer Upper update, the textures for Moon Rocks, Meteor Boulders and all related items were updated.
• Icons for Gold Vein Boulders were added to the base game in version 345820.

Gallery

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  Boulder mining stages (variation 1).
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  Boulder mining stages (variation 2).
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  Boulder mining stages (variation 3).
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  Three smooth Boulders, two of which are darker gray.
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  A Set Piece featuring numerous Boulders, along with Tallbirds and Tallbird Nests.
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  Rockyland biome on a Map which has many Boulders.
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  Two different Boulder Map icons: smooth and flintless.
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  Gold-veined, smooth, and flintless Boulders surrounded by Hound Mounds in a Set Piece from the Reign of Giants DLC.
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  A Meteor Boulder next to some Moon Rocks.
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  Flintless Boulder as seen in the poster for the It's not a rock! update.
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  Unused Boulder emoji from official Klei Discord server

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