Originally posted by Ebyl:

If you plan to build structures with stone later in the game, you may want to keep that stone (just build rock piles somewhere). It takes a LOT of stone to construct buildings, so it could save you some time down the road.

later in the game you wanna make structures with black marble not stone. stone is now used for landshapeing mostly.

and getting stone lol. once you get to the mistlands there is GIANT STONE PILLARS everywhere. like the one in the plains sometimes. except bigger. and they are EVERYWHERE. you can mine 1000 stone in like 15 minutes there. there is no reason to ever safe stone in this game anymore.