The Quarry: What Each Floor Holds and How to Go Down

Village in the Shade: which pickaxe each quarry rock needs, how to dig efficiently, which floors the ores and gems come from, which gems to keep, and the floor 120 boss and the hot spring.

What each floor holds, and how to go deeper

The Quarry has 120 floors; the deeper you go, the better the ore.

Opens
Spring 8 at the earliest: in Rule 1, rescue Yoh on the night of Spring 7 and you can go in the next day; if the rescue isn't done that night, it's Spring 9.
Going down
The way down hides under a rock and turns up at random as you break them, more rarely the deeper you are. Breaking the rock that hides it plays a special sound.
Rest floors
Floors 10, 20 … 110 have no rocks. You pick up a reward the first time you arrive, and after that the minecart can start you from there.
Leaving
On any floor, the rope you came down takes you straight back to the entrance.
At night
At 23:00 you're sent home automatically, and you can't go in between 0:00 and 6:00.
Floor 120
The boss is the Omukade; beat it once to open the hot spring.
Shortcut
After Rule 6, have Kisuke do "Clear the Farm's Back Road" (¥ 50,000) to walk straight from your garden to the Quarry.

01 / Pickaxes

Which pickaxe do you need?

Best of all: the Rockrending Machete

The sacred treasure from the story's last chapter (after Winter 13). Quarry enemies go down in one hit, and it breaks trees, grass and rocks without switching tools; its rock-breaking power follows your pickaxe's upgrade level.

Each comes as a rock (left) and a boulder (right); the boulder drops more. Deposits always drop ore and gemstone deposits always drop gems, so break them first.

Boulders in your fields

Upgrading your pickaxe

The anvil beside the houseAnvilUpgrade here
Buy molds at Sazanka's Tagami General StoreOn sale once Sazanka's Errand Coupon is done
Upgrade materialsThe pickaxe, mold and ingots for each level, and hits per small rock4 levels
Upgrade toMaterialsSmall rock
Copper PickaxePickaxe ×1, Copper Mold ×1 (¥ 1,000), Copper Ingot ×53 hits
Steel PickaxeCopper Pickaxe ×1, Iron Mold ×1 (¥ 3,000), Iron Ingot ×52 hits
Golden PickaxeSteel Pickaxe ×1, Gold Mold ×1 (¥ 10,000), Gold Ingot ×51 hit
Meteoric PickaxeGolden Pickaxe ×1, Meteoric Iron Mold ×1 (¥ 20,000), Meteoric Iron Ingot ×51 hit (boulders too)

The starting pickaxe takes 5 hits per small rock.

02 / Digging

How to dig efficiently

Where to dig for what

Before you go

Set aside an afternoon
Deeper floors have more rocks, so each floor down takes longer; to get 10 floors further, plan on a whole afternoon. On rainy days you can skip watering and set off early.
Bring food
Forage you pick up on the way, boiled eggs, vegetables from your fields and hyorogan all restore you. On summer festival days, stock up on stall food to take in.

Inside the quarry

Deposits only
On your target floor, break only the deposits, then take the rope back to the entrance and come into the same floor again. The layout changes every time, so there's no need to clear every rock, which saves a lot of stamina.
Enemies
Two hits with the pickaxe make one vanish; bees take one. Touching them costs health, and at zero you collapse and wake up at the clinic.
Out of stamina
You won't collapse, but you can't swing the pickaxe any more.
Dark floors
Switch to the flashlight and press Y to light it; it stays on when you switch back to the pickaxe. On a bright floor, switch to the flashlight and press Y to turn it off.

03 / Ores

Ores and the blast furnace

From floorOres, stone and gems
From floor 1
From floor 31
From floor 41
From floor 81

※ Rin and Konno both love Gold Ore, so keep a few as gifts.

From floor 91

The blast furnace

Five ore plus one coal or charcoal in the blast furnace makes one ingot in 12 hours; ingots upgrade your pickaxe and other farm tools. One clay or one glass shard becomes a brick or a glass rod.

04 / Gems

Keep or sell your gems?

Gemstone deposits turn up on every stretch, but the deeper sets are rarer.

Fine to sell

Jade¥ 67Garnet¥ 67Quartz¥ 78Beryl¥ 78Fluorite¥ 90

Worth keeping

Rin's requestGroup 9's "Rare Gemstones" asks for 5 each of Sapphire, Amethyst and Rose Quartz, any quality, and gives you the Tractor.
Upgraded Sprinkler
Gold Ingot ×5, Meteoric Iron Ingot ×10, Tourmaline ×2; it waters the fields within 3 tiles by itself.
Not for Yuta
Yuta dislikes Garnet, Sapphire, Amethyst and Tourmaline.

05 / Boss and hot spring

The floor 120 boss and the hot spring

First win over the Omukade
It opens the hot spring; the entrance is built the next day.
Later wins
It drops a Sword.
If you lose
At zero health you wake up at the clinic and start again from floor 110.
Village in the Sunshine mode
There's no boss; reaching floor 120 the first time opens the hot spring.

The hot spring

Each soak refills your stamina to its current max; health doesn't come back. You can soak as often as you like; each one passes an hour of game time, up to 22:59.

The hot springGet in the hot spring?YesNo

06 / Rewards

First-visit rewards every 10 floors

Hyorogan, ore and gemsPicked up on floors 10, 20 … 110 the first time you arrive11 floors

07 / Skills

Skills that help

Prospecting Finesse, Mining Finesse, Gemstone SalesmanshipWhat they do, when they open, what they cost6
SkillEffectOpensCost
Prospecting FinesseChance of finding quarry deposits +3%After Rule 2Rain Magatama ×2, Twin Magatama ×1, Bronze Mirror ×2
Mining FinesseRock mining yield +1After Rule 5Magatama ×2, Rain Magatama ×2, Twin Magatama ×2, Sword ×1
Gemstone SalesmanshipGemstone sales price +5%After Rule 6Magatama ×2, Rain Magatama ×3, Child Magatama ×1, Sword ×1
Prospecting Finesse+Chance of finding quarry deposits +5%After Rule 8Magatama ×3, Rain Magatama ×3, Child Magatama ×2, Sword ×2
Mining Finesse+Rock mining yield +2After Rule 8Magatama ×4, Twin Magatama ×4, Bronze Mirror ×2
Gemstone Salesmanship+Gemstone sales price +10%After Rule 8Magatama ×2, Twin Magatama ×5, Bronze Mirror ×2, Sword ×1
See the hokora skill tree

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Data updated: 2026-11-03