Simple Wood Saw

Simple Wood Saw

Class	Tool
Weight	1
Condition	5
Wear Chance	1 in 5
Survival Gear	Yes
Metal Value	35
Crafting Skill	Blacksmithing: 4
Crafting	See How to Craft
Location	Crafted
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.CrudeSaw`
Crafting XP	45 XP (Blacksmithing)

The Simple Wood Saw is a hand-forged saw made at a blacksmith's forge. It does the same work as a factory Wood Saw for cutting logs, branches and boards.

It matters most once factory saws have broken or run out. A survivor with Blacksmithing can keep a camp supplied with saws long after the stores are empty. Its main strength is that it can be made from bar stock and charcoal. Its main cost is that it wears out quickly.

The saw is only crafted. It comes from the Forge Saw recipe at a forge. The Carpenter is the best occupation for tools. It starts with the most Carpentry skill. The Construction Worker and the DIY Expert also start with some Carpentry skill.

Using

The saw counts as a saw for every recipe that needs one. Saw Log turns a log into three Plank. Saw Large Branch gives one Plank. Saw Down Baseball Bat shortens a bat into a Short Bat.

Carpentry and carving recipes rely on it too. It is used to make a Wooden Toolbox, a Wooden Bucket, an Oil Press, Large Bellows and the wooden casting molds for blacksmithing. It also cuts bone into awls, hatchet heads and sharp fragments. Wooden armour, bone armour and Cutting Boards need a saw as well. Several building projects such as drying racks, a Simple Loom and a Chopping Block also call for one.

Compared with the factory Wood Saw, the simple saw holds half the condition. It also wears about twice as often, at one in five uses against one in ten. A factory saw is the better tool whenever one is at hand. The forged saw is the fallback that never runs out.

Upkeep

The saw wears fast and breaks after only a few hits of wear. The Fix Saw recipe repairs it with Maintenance level 2. A file is one of the tools that recipe can use.

A broken or spare saw still has value as metal. It can be smelted at a furnace for two Iron Chunk, or two Steel Chunk at an Advanced Furnace.

How to Craft Simple Wood Saw

Each recipe that makes the Simple Wood Saw is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.

Forge Saw

The Forge Saw recipe makes the Simple Wood Saw. It needs Blacksmithing level 4. It is made at a Simple Forge. The recipe has to be learned first.

Name	Amount	Kept	Spawn ID
Charcoal	3x	No	`/additem Base.Charcoal`
Iron Bar Half	1x	No	`/additem Base.IronBarHalf`
Smithing Hammer	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.SmithingHammer`
Tongs	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.Tongs`
Metalworking Chisel	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.MetalworkingChisel`
File	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.File`
Medium Handle	1x	No	`/additem Base.Handle`

Used in Crafting

Any recipe that asks for a saw accepts it as the tool, such as Carve Bone War Hatchet Head, Sharpen Bone and Sharpen Long Bone.

These recipes accept the Simple Wood Saw by its type rather than by name.

Recipe	Output	Station	Spawn ID
Smelt Iron From Medium Item	Iron Chunk	Primitive Furnace	`/additem Base.IronChunk`
Smelt Medium Iron Item	Small Ceramic Crucible with Iron	Simple Furnace	`/additem Base.CeramicCrucibleSmall_Iron`
Smelt Steel From Medium Iron Item	Steel Chunk	Advanced Furnace	`/additem Base.SteelChunk`

Locations

The Forge Saw recipe makes it at a Simple Forge or better. It needs Blacksmithing level 4 and the recipe must be known. The inputs are 3 charcoal, a half bar of metal stock and a Medium Handle. A smithing hammer, tongs or metalworking pliers, a metalworking chisel and a file are all kept.