Ruby Exchange: Rubystone, Polished Cut, and Brick Masonry

Building banks, market stalls, and treasury vaults around Ruby Trade or Ruby Depot terminals does not have to burn solid Ruby Block reserves. Surrounding ordinary stone with a single Ruby stretches one gem across eight crimson-tinted masonry blocks.

Crafting Rubystone in Bulk

Whenever you unpack a Ruby Block into Ruby x9, each individual Ruby tints eight blocks of any stone at a crafting table:

• any stone x8 + Ruby -> Rubystone x8

Because a single Ruby yields eight Rubystone blocks, one unpacked Ruby Block supplies enough masonry to frame an entire shopfront while keeping most of your currency intact for Ruby Card and Ruby Exchange crafting.

Polishing and Cutting Bricks

Raw Rubystone refines through two dressed stone finishes using standard two-by-two grid patterns:

• Rubystone x4 -> Polished Rubystone x4
• Polished Rubystone x4 -> Polished Rubystone Bricks x4

Grid crafting works in multiples of four, which can leave leftover blocks sitting in chests when finishing trim details. Running blocks through a vanilla Stonecutter instead converts Rubystone one-to-one into either Polished Rubystone or directly into Polished Rubystone Bricks, and also cuts Polished Rubystone into Polished Rubystone Bricks piece by piece:

• Rubystone -> Polished Rubystone
• Rubystone -> Polished Rubystone Bricks
• Polished Rubystone -> Polished Rubystone Bricks

Using the Stonecutter lets you mix rough Rubystone foundations, smooth Polished Rubystone pillars, and Polished Rubystone Bricks walls to exact counts.