# Drilling through solid rock leaves me with only 3kg/1L of material?

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**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drilling-through-solid-rock-leaves-me-with-only-3kg-1l-of-material/25957 "2021-02-22T11:29:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drilling-through-solid-rock-leaves-me-with-only-3kg-1l-of-material/25957/1 "2021-02-22T11:29:44Z")

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Given that my player is 1.9m tall and can move into the newly created spot, I’d expect at least 2x0.5x0.5 = 500L of material, mostly in rocks.

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**Author:** ![Bio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/bio/32/6690_2.png) [@Bio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bio)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drilling-through-solid-rock-leaves-me-with-only-3kg-1l-of-material/25957/2 "2021-02-22T19:26:41Z")

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most of its turned into unusable dust in the drilling process or is unusable sandstone  
i’m no geologist but I don’t know what height has to do with it either

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**Author:** ![tilia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tilia/32/2592_2.png) [@tilia](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/tilia)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/drilling-through-solid-rock-leaves-me-with-only-3kg-1l-of-material/25957/3 "2021-02-22T23:57:05Z")

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Umm, you don’t have to be a geologist to understand that 1.9m is one of the dimensions you’ll use to calculate the volume of displaced material, which is exactly what OP did…