Black Sand

Black Sand
Skill(s) required: Mineral Sifting Object(s) required: Rubble x1 Sifting Pan x1 The Shallows x1 Weight: unknown Required by: Objects Silicate Compound Structures None
Proficiencies:
Proficiencie(s) gained: 50 Arts & Crafts 650 Mines & Mountains 285 Sparks & Embers 170 Natural Philosophy 275 Perennial Philosophy Inspiration Required: 1430 Uses: 1 Inspiration Efficiency: 0.035 Arts & Crafts 0.4545 Mines & Mountains 0.1993 Sparks & Embers 0.1189 Natural Philosophy 0.1923 Perennial Philosophy

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A flat black sand without shine or glimmer, as may be found upon the shores of Cocytus' wailing depths.

About

Sands are used to make Glass Panes. To make a Glass Plane, mix together 12x Sand and 12x Black Sand using the Silicate Compound recipe. Silicate Compound can then be melted down into Glass by right-clicking a Crucible and using the Glass Pane recipe. When using a Crucible there is a chance to receive a Prince Rupert's Drop in addition to the item you are crafting.

Sifting

To Sift Rubble Rubble, equip a Sifting Pan or Prospector's Pan and stand in The Shallows. Click Adventure -> Sift Rubble. This will change your mouse icon to a Sifting Pan, click again on The Shallows to begin Sifting. Each time you Sift it will consume 1x Rubble with a chance to get either Black Sand, Dravite, Goldflakes, Phosphophyllite, Rubellite, Uvarovite, or potentially nothing in return. You will have to repeat this process for each Rubble in your inventory or use a Custom Client which allows you to automate the Sifting.

Finding Any Raw Gem while Sifting reduces a bit of Insanity. Raw Gems have a variable number of Carats which can give a bonus to the Raw Gem's Affluence when cut on the Gemcutter's Wheel. Raw Gems also have a Hardness which refers to its odds of successfully being cut on a Gemcutter's Wheel. The Harder the Raw Gem, the less chance of success. Hardness is rolled when Sifting and is based on your Mines & Mountains Proficiency, the Mining bonus from Artifacts and chance.

Finding Any Raw Gem during a Blood Moon will instead give you a Blood Shard.

There is a chance that you will receive The Precious when Sifting if you have any Madness levels. This will crack Any Raw Gems in your inventory into Fractured Gemstone.