# New: the Chalk Pit — dig your own chalk for garden lime

**URL:** https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/new-the-chalk-pit-dig-your-own-chalk-for-garden-lime/1689
**Category:** Community Announcements
**Created:** [October 16, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/new-the-chalk-pit-dig-your-own-chalk-for-garden-lime/1689 "2026-10-16T21:13:29Z")
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### Author: ![attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/user_avatar/forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/attila.katana/32/1260_2.png) [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/new-the-chalk-pit-dig-your-own-chalk-for-garden-lime/1689/1 "2026-10-16T21:13:29Z")

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![The Chalk Pit at golden hour: a turf-capped mound with a white chalk face, and a small wicker basket of chalk beside it](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1fb99ce2eac11d50145538b709ba603210f852b3.jpeg)

The **Chalk Pit** is here: the first piece of the vineyard update, and the place the Farmer’s lime starts. Dig it with a small basket and you come away with chalk, which the Compost Bin turns into **garden lime** , the kind that sweetens sour soil.

![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AI7QrnLvMrM/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/AI7QrnLvMrM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque

## Digging

- Take out a **small basket** and left-click the pit.
- About **45 seconds** and **10 energy** for **2 to 6 chalk**. About one dig in five turns up a **rock** too.
- Then the pit is spent. It shows how long until it is back, and it **regrows in three hours**.

So a pit is a stock to manage rather than a tap to run, and a Farmer with a pit has chalk to sell.

## From chalk to lime

 ![A wooden compost bin with four sacks in front: white lime, yellow sulphur mulch, grey wood ash and dark compost](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/57244693f9e12ea4c697a8665dea14d285928845.jpeg)

| Kind | A batch of ten | Time | What it does | Farmer level |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| garden lime | 20 dung + 20 chalk + 1 large bag | 35 h | lifts the soil’s pH by half a point | 2 |
| fine garden lime | 20 dung + 10 chalk + 10 wood ash + 1 large bag | 50 h | lifts the pH by a fifth of a point | 4 |

A vineyard’s soil starts a little too sour for grapes, so garden lime is the kind every vintner will want first. Its opposite, **sulphur mulch** , comes from the sulphur the Smelter leaves behind, so between the two a Farmer can move soil either way.

Until now the only chalk was the little the market hubs carried. From today you can dig your own, and the hubs still buy and sell it.

## Make it fit your land

- **Two faces, two textures.** The white chalk and the turf around it are separate faces, so if the grass does not match your terrain you can re-texture it to suit.
- **Or bring your own mesh.** Unlink it and link your own in its place.

## Get one

- **The full guide:** [[GATHERABLES] Chalk Pit](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/gatherables-chalk-pit/1688)
- **In the store:** [Chalk Pit in Second Life — SL Colonies Roleplay](https://slcoloniesroleplay.com/treasure/chalk-pit)
- **On the Marketplace:** [Second Life Marketplace - [SL Colonies Roleplay] Chalk Pit | Second Life Gathering & Survival RPG](https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SLC-Chalk-Pit-Rez-Unpack/28803235)
- **In-world:** [Second Life Maps | Noru](https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noru/52/95/3901)

Questions are welcome below.