How to quarry large basalt statues?

[MxM]

My cult temple need large statue, but there is no way to cut it. The laborers cut only the small ones.

It is said somewhere that the large statures will be cut if there is demand for them abroad. But how about demand at home? They have cut more than 10 statues and they are all small ones and my cult temple and construction overseer just waiting and waiting ...

[Keith]

Look to see if there is another basalt quarry on the map. If not you may have to find one on the world map and import large statues.
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[PriestessofAmun]

hiya! I had the same problem as I was trying to dedicate my cult temple, eventually my trade routes in the world map lead me to a place that "required" a large statue and even though I didn't establish a trade connection with that location, my little basalt laborers started churning large statues out by the boatload! I then used one of those statues to dedicate my temple.

oh also, just in case, it took me most of the day to get my statue back to town because I had run roads for my farmers all the way to the Nile, which during flood season happened to be underwater! so if you end up with boats dumping statues into the Nile... you'll know why! :p

[MxM]

That is exactly the problem. I had someone in the map who requested the big statues, and my laborers did produce them from the same quarry. I send all 4 of them to that city thinking that I can produce more. But surprise, I could not! Because the request was satisfied! :(

[R*Driver]

Had the same problem until I accidentally set my overseers to do granite quarry. Switched back to basalt and, wala, large basalts in the making! I think ther are issues with quarries and labor. Unions maybe?

[Old Scratch]

Try setting your basalt reserves a few above the current amount you have, then build a large statue, like a colossal seated pharaoh, then your laborers should start quarrying a bunch of large statues. Then lower the reserve amount and have an overseer work on construction and they should start hauling them to the sites you need, like the cult temple.

[Voidster]

they should have at the very least made the mining constant. The same options should be avail for granite AND basalt. Sounds like one of the coders decided to add in WAY to much randomness to the mining areas. Major dissapointment when you mine nearly 100 of that black freakin stone and STILL not have one large enough for your cult temple. Kinda pathetic. In sandbox mode, you shouldnt have to fret and take SO many hours (real time) for resources.

I finally finished a very small pyramid. took three generations, and lots of health care to keep them alive long enough. After several hours of game time, fighting the "No flood" plague and several of my nobles leaving due to they couldnt freakin get out of the house, im about ready to return the cd to tilted mill in about ten thousand tiney plastic shreds.

[Old Scratch]

I don't think it is random, they just don't quarry large statues unless there's a big statue base (already constructed with bricks) or a building waiting for one, or there's a location on the world map that requires some. That's how it's been in my experience.

I wish there were more opportunities to trade small statues though, I always have like 20-30 just laying around outside the quarry going to waste. :)

[Ivan]

I finally finished a very small pyramid. took three generations, and lots of health care to keep them alive long enough. After several hours of game time, fighting the "No flood" plague and several of my nobles leaving due to they couldnt freakin get out of the house, im about ready to return the cd to tilted mill in about ten thousand tiney plastic shreds.


Ok pyramids obviously took long times in real life and in the game to think about it do you honestly think a pharoh in real ancient egypt could have his pyramid built in his life time? Well probably but he would be so old he would probably die on the day it finished. Also have you made sure the entrances to the nobels homes arnt blocked? try rotateing the houses when they are made well duh and makeing sure that the littel path that the house comes with isnt blocked becaues if its blocked even though all the other squares arnt the nobels cant get out. Lastly you say that you cant get any floods? try deticateing afew shrines or temples to the god incharge of floods and food ever think of that? Well now that Ive asked those questions what do you say?

[johngalt]

Oh no, Ivan. You vastly underestimate the ancient Egyptians :)

Take for example the Pharoah Snefru (4th Dynasty), father of Khufu. He built no less than THREE pyramids in his lifetime. The first collapsed before completion. The second is the so called "Bent Pyramid" because the builders had to change the slope to avoid another collapse, but this one was completed and still stands today. The third is the "Red Pyramid", the first smooth sided perfect pyramid in the history of the world. It still stands today as well.

Even the largest of all pyramids, Khufu's Great Pyramid, took only an estimated 20 years or so.

It is truly amazing what they accomplished with nothing but their own back-breaking labor.

[Celebithil Dae]

They will quarry the large one if you ahve demand at home. I find it beneficial to only quarryr when you need too... and then stop, and htey will clean out the mine. Then you can sit back and take stock of what you have. BUt they will get the large ones out...

[Mayati]

He built no less than THREE pyramids in his lifetime.


Sneferu built four...... you're forgetting the pyramid at Seila
(See The Complete Pyramids by Lehner ... page 97)

[johngalt]

I've always read there was some debate over whether or not that one was actually Snefru's. That's why I said "no less than three" but you're right, it may even be 4!!