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Iron-Bearing Sand

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Sand carrying iron grains, generating in the sand of river beds and waterlines in clumps of three or four — where the tatara line starts.

Generation

Usage

Gathering at the river

Dig it with a shovel. It turns up in clumps of three or four, and a short walk along the bed reaches the next one.

As an ingredient

Related guides

In the real world

Iron sand is magnetite weathered out of rock. In western Japan it was separated by kanna-nagashi, sluicing hillsides into water.

Differences in game

Satoyama does not model cutting the hillside; the material is one block found along the river.