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Quarry bush

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Urist likes quarry bushes for their gray leaves.
Seed

· Rock nuts

Seasons
Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Biome

  • Underground Depth: 1-3
Wet Dry
Products
Leaf Quarry bush leaf
Oil Rock nut oil
Plant Properties
Edible No
Cookable No
Leaf Properties
Edible No
Cookable Yes
Seed Properties
Edible Yes
Cookable Yes
Uses
v50.12 · v0.47.05
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Note that some content may still need to be updated.

The quarry bush is one of the six known subterranean crops, and as such it may only be grown underground. They can be planted in Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Quarry bushes may be processed at a farmer's workshop into bags of quarry bush leaves, which then must be cooked at the kitchen to be edible. You will need an empty bag to be available for this task.

Processing quarry bushes at a farmer's workshop requires one bag, and will produce 5 quarry bush leaves (and one rock nut) for every plant in a given stack of quarry bushes. Quarry bush leaves will be removed from their bag if taken for cooking while still in a farmer's workshop.

Cooking quarry bush leaves can result in very large stacks of Prepared Food, thus saving space and barrels. In a fortress that relies on selling large expensive stacks of Prepared Food, quarry bush leaves are great filler: a lavish meal made from whip wine and dwarven cheese with two stacks of quarry bush leaves for filler is worth almost ten times more than an easy meal made from wine and cheese alone.

Quarry bushes cannot be brewed into alcohol.

Rock nuts

Quarry bush seeds are known as rock nuts. Although their material definition marks them as being edible raw, dwarves will not eat them.

Rock nuts can also be milled at a millstone or quern into rock nut paste, the only "paste" in DF. This paste can then be used in cooking, or pressed at a screw press into a rock nut press cake and a jug of rock nut oil.

Both the rock nut paste and rock nut press cake are cookable and considered a single food category, referred to as "rock nut" in the cooking permissions screen (not to be confused with "rock nuts", the entry for the seeds), the Stocks screen compacted view, and Prepared meal descriptions.

The rock nut oil can be cooked or used in place of tallow to make soap.


Quarry Bushes/Rock Nuts present a unique issue to the flow of your farm industry, depending what final product is desired.

  • Leaves: Rock Nuts -> Farm Plot -> Quarry Bush -> Farmer Workshop = Leaves & Rock Nuts (high value for cooking)
  • Paste: Rock Nuts -> Mill/Quern = Rock Nut Paste (higher value for cooking)
  • Cake/Oil: Rock Nut Paste -> Screw Press = Rock Nut Cake (even higher value) & Oil (very high value)
  • Soap: Rock Nut Oil -> Soapery = Soap (non-cooking, low value but (any) soap is key to medical care)


Thus if you set your Mill/Quern to milling operation and do not control it carefully, this could result in a surge in high value foods at a loss of all your rock nuts, leaving no nuts to grow more quarry bushes, and possible fun.

Plant Gathering

Due to a quirk in the Raws, a wild Quarry Bush plant growing underground (not planted) can yield 6 leaves if placed in a Gathering zone. An Herbalist will first harvest a single leaf growth, then collect the entire plant, which can be processed as usual afterwards for 5 more leaves.

Food Value

Thanks to the increased value of rock nut oil as a by product of rock nut processing, the highest potential value of products gleaned from one quarry bush plant is 56 (five leaves at a value of 10 each, plus oil and a press cake).

  • Grow time: 500
  • Plant value: 2
  • Spice value: 10(x5)
  • Seed value: 1
  • Mill value: 1
  • Press cake value: 1
  • Press oil value: 5
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