The Mountains and Mistlands are filled with stone. Don't waste your time with a grey dwarf farm unless your base is right next to it.

Stone is probably the easiest resource to gather in Valheim. Within only a few hundred meters of my Meadows landing zone on a new continent, I found somewhere on the order of 2500 stone. Like others have mentioned, the Black Forest, the Plains, and the Mountains have more stone. But the Meadows still has a lot of stone per hectare. Probably the only place that you'll have to import stone would be the Swamp.

Rocks are nearly everywhere underfoot, and even the small ones yield five stone. That doesn't sound like much, but considering that it'll take, at most, two hits from a good iron pickaxe (you do have an iron pickaxe, don't you?), that small change will yield big dividends if you seek them out. Ten of those small rocks, that are literally everywhere, you now have a full stack. Big rocks are going to yield 25. The big plates, like what you'll find in the Black Forest, yield hundreds of stone.

I cannot stress enough how helpful the Megingjörð belt is when gathering stone. I can carry about three and a half stacks of stone, probably more if I de-gear with the belt on. But if you don't have the belt, it's easy enough to just create a stone pile with the hammer, and then run and grab it when you run out. Alternatively, the cart can be a big help in gathering stone, if not to bring it to your work area, to at least keep it all together and safe so you can run back to it frequently.

It takes me no more than five minutes in a new area to get three stacks of stone. But you have to care enough about gathering everything underfoot to make this happen.

Stone accumulates naturally through mining copper and silver. Be sure to have the resources for a workbench, 1-2 chests, and a safe portal to go back for comfort and repairs - technically you could also make a covered forge for repairs and comfort when using it.

Plains is really good for acquiring stone with the giant pillars + you can easily spot them and stone boulders that you can also break down. Again... just wander around with a portal and be somewhat careful using Root Chest Armor to deal with Deathsquitos / Fuling Spear Chuckers.

Mistlands can also yield a lot of stone but obviously that biome is far more dangerous imo + it can be more difficult to navigate due to sheer terrain and the annoying mist mechanic.

You can also get stone from mountains as it's pretty easy to spot boulders / rocks and killing wolves or drakes can still yield decent resources.

Just build a stone farm from a spawner

The Mountains and Mistlands are filled with stone. Don't waste your time with a grey dwarf farm unless your base is right next to it.

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

or build a farm using fires, pufferfish, or wolves. See YouTube for more details.

As a bonus, they also drop resin, wood, greydwarf eyes, bukeperries, ancient seeds, and dandelions.

This needs to go in the "it's minecraft" thread. :-)

When your Pickaxe Skill get high enough and you're using the best tool available, it only takes a single strike to break up the small boulders strewn about everywhere, not the 'pickable' ones. I can clear an entire Meadow of boulders and get a ton of materials, same near shorelines, the large boulders break up quite easily...and provide a lot of stone. Mining also produces lots as well as the 'petrified bones' once the black rock has been extracted.

just mine the giant rocks that are EVERYWHERE in the mistlands. pretty much a 1000 stone in next to no time.

Originally posted by autumndragonfalling:

My friend likes to take down the Plains monoliths, take out the bottom and the top collapses and you get a bunch of stone with relatively little effort.

This what I do when I need lots of stone.

Since I will usually need quite a few early on, I'll do the boulders on the shores near my base in the meadows and mine every of those I can find in the black forests, there are quite a lot. I'll just portal back and forth with a movable portal (while having at least one other in safe spots nearby).

Oh, and greydwarves; find a spawner and just kill everything that comes out of it for a while... or build a farm using fires, pufferfish, or wolves. See YouTube for more details.

As a bonus, they also drop resin, wood, greydwarf eyes, bukeperries, ancient seeds, and dandelions.

for actual quantity per pick swing you can't beat the plains. But if you just got the swamp figured out, then you should instead look for large coastal rocks or the big boulders of the dark forest and break those by undermining. I am talking the stuff you can build a house on top of, those giant flat rocks.

the quality of your pick and the damage you do with it from skill drastically improve rock mining. At some point you can break the 'campfire' sized rocks in 1 swing, and running about hitting those becomes very efficient.

The pickaxe makes a lot of stone when you're mining copper.

Stone can be portaled, mountains and mistlands have lots of large rocks you can mine.

And yeah mining copper and to a lesser extent silver produces a good bit of stone. Even if you don't need it right away it's smart to build piles you can collect later.

My friend likes to take down the Plains monoliths, take out the bottom and the top collapses and you get a bunch of stone with relatively little effort.

First, yeah the cost of stone pieces is ridiculously high.

Now to collect stones make sure to keep what you get when mining copper or silver. Dont throw them away. That should be enough to fill up a bunch of chest already. You can also destroy (with the hammer) towers in the BF or the mountain. Another good trick is mining the base of the giant monoliths in the plains.