Charcoal Burner

Charcoal Burner

Class	Workstation
Type	Workstation
Build Menu	Blacksmithing
Build Skill	None
Health	100 (+20 per skill level)
Recipes	4
Location	Built

The Charcoal Burner is a metal barrel set on stones for burning wood into Wood Charcoal. The in-game tooltip describes it as a metal barrel used to burn Logs into Wood Charcoal.

Charcoal is the fuel that every forge recipe burns, so this station sits at the very start of Blacksmithing. A smith needs a steady charcoal supply before the Primitive Forge is worth lighting. The burner is a step up in convenience from the Charcoal Burning Pit, which runs the same recipes. The Dome Kiln comes later and handles charcoal as well as more. The burner is built from a barrel and a few stones.

How to Build Charcoal Burner

The build sits in the Blacksmithing build menu under the name Charcoal Burner. It takes one barrel and four Stone. Any of these barrels works: a Metal Drum, an Orange Barrel, a Dark Green Barrel or a Light Green Barrel. Each one gives the same burner with a different look.

The build is known from the start, with no skill level asked.

Once built, the burner has 100 health. Each level of the builder's skill adds 20 more.

The Charcoal Burner recipe is in the Blacksmithing build menu. It needs no skill level. Any of the parts named in one row will do.

Name	Image	Amount	Kept	Spawn ID
Metal Drum or Orange Barrel or Dark Green Barrel or Light Green Barrel		1x	No	`/additem Base.MetalDrum`
Stone		4x	No	`/additem Base.Stone2`

How to Use Charcoal Burner

Every burn turns a load of wood into twelve Wood Charcoal. The wood goes in as the recipe input. Two Logs are the simplest load. Three Large Branch or six Plank also work in place of the Logs.

Smaller wood works too, in bigger piles. The large, medium and small wood recipes take nine, twelve and eighteen pieces of the matching size. This lets scraps and offcuts from carpentry become fuel instead of waste.

Crafting Recipes

Every recipe here makes the same thing: Wood Charcoal. Burn Wood into Charcoal is the one to use with Logs, Large Branch or Plank. Burn Large Wood into Charcoal, Burn Medium Wood into Charcoal and Burn Small Wood into Charcoal take loose wood pieces by size. None of them ask for a skill level. None of them must be learned.

The charcoal then goes to the forges, where it is an input in almost every metal recipe. A full suit of metal armour takes dozens of pieces, so a burner near the woodpile saves a lot of walking.

Every recipe made at the Charcoal Burner is listed with what it uses up, the tools it hands back and the skill it asks for. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned before it shows up.

Name	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Learned	Spawn ID
12x Wood Charcoal	Burn Large Wood into Charcoal	9x Sapling	-	None	No	`/additem Base.CharcoalCrafted`
12x Wood Charcoal	Burn Medium Wood into Charcoal	12x Firewood	-	None	No	`/additem Base.CharcoalCrafted`
12x Wood Charcoal	Burn Small Wood into Charcoal	18x Scrap Wood	-	None	No	`/additem Base.CharcoalCrafted`
12x Wood Charcoal	Burn Wood into Charcoal	2x Log or similar	-	None	No	`/additem Base.CharcoalCrafted`

Station Tiers

The Charcoal Burning Pit runs exactly the same recipes. Either one gives the same charcoal from the same wood. The Dome Kiln runs everything the burner runs and adds Make Coke, which turns charcoal into Coke. Move up to the Dome Kiln once a smith needs Coke.

The Charcoal Burner shares its recipes with the stations below. A higher station runs everything a lower one runs.