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[Minnakht]

Funny, my lead mechanic usually is busy as hell, constantly turning blocks of stone into mechanisms

No, he's turning boulders into mechanisms - blocks cannot be used to produce anything.

I'd assume the large ones are cuboid as well. Still, okay. Boulders.
Semantics. Boulders seem to be the ∞-shaped things found on the surface, too, yet I can't make mechanisms out of them.

[Loud Whispers]

When you mine out a rock tile, you get a rock boulder, not a block. Seriously, look over your freshly mined rock

[Minnakht]

Units of stone. Whatever, okay? We can call those boulders, large rocks, blocks, stone, or whatever, they'll keep being what they are.

When I look at one, it says nothing. A hunk of quartztite is called 'quartztite'. That is why this dispute's there in the first place.

Once again, it's semantics. I think 'stone' is the most correct word, then there are 'stone blocks' and 'stone mechanisms' and whatever else.

[Wannazzaki]

Rock is a naturally formed solid aggregate of one or more minerals. It is what stone is made from.

Stone normally is used to refer to rock which has been dressed, trimmed or otherwise engineered or used by man in construction of some sort, usually as discrete (individual) blocks. Also important is the fact that these blocks are no longer in-situ (i.e. they are no longer where they were formed and part of a larger cohesive rock mass) within the Earth. Examples are the use of "stone" as counter tops in kitchens or as ornamental cladding for buildings or the construction of columns and lintels in certain buildings. Another common use of large blocks of dressed stone is in sea defenses and pier walls where the large dressed blocks forming the outer walls are known as armour stone.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_stone_and_a_rock#ixzz1ha5yxokt