Wood
| Wood | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Trees; Carpenter's Shop; Bookseller; Fishing Treasure Chest; Woodskip Fish Pond; Wood Chipper |
| Sell Price | 2g |
Wood is the first resource every new farmer collects and the one most farms never seem to have enough of. Swinging an axe at trees, stumps and fallen branches brings it in. Robin also sells it at the Carpenter's Shop for a price. It builds the Coop, the Barn and the Shed, upgrades the farmhouse and goes into chests, fences, torches, Kegs and Tappers. Large projects such as the Community Upgrade and the Construction Bundle swallow it by the hundred. Because so many early goals compete for the same pile, steady tree chopping pays off for the whole game.
The in-game description reads: A sturdy, yet flexible plant material with a wide variety of uses.
Location
Chopping trees is the main supply. A fully grown Oak, Maple or Pine Tree drops a good pile of Wood when felled. Breaking the stump that remains gives a smaller extra batch, so it is worth finishing the job. Fallen branches scattered over the farm give a little as well. Daily luck and the Foraging skill both nudge the amount upward.
Professions and books add more. The Forester profession raises the Wood from every tree and stump by a quarter. Reading Woody's Secret gives each felled tree a small chance to drop a double load.
Felling a tree next to water can cost part of the haul. Any Wood that drops into a pond or river is lost, so trees on the bank are best planted a little further back.
Planting trees turns Wood into a renewable crop. Acorns, Maple Seeds and Pine Cones grow into new trees, and trees spread their own seeds across empty ground. Tree Fertilizer makes a planted tree grow one stage every night, even in Winter. A grove of trees near the house becomes a reliable lumber yard.
Robin's shop is the fast option. Her price jumps sharply after the first year, so buying a stockpile in the first year saves gold later. Several machines also make Wood from other materials. A Recycling Machine turns Driftwood into Wood most of the time. A Wood Chipper breaks a piece of Hardwood into a pile of ordinary Wood and also accepts Driftwood.
Uses
Buildings take the biggest share. Robin's Coop, Barn, Shed and Mill all need Wood on top of gold. Each larger version of a Coop or Barn needs hundreds more. Robin's first farmhouse upgrade, which adds a kitchen, also costs a large pile.
Town projects need big batches too. Repairing the broken bridge to the tide pools at the Beach takes several hundred pieces. The Community Upgrade that Robin offers later costs a huge sum of gold and nearly a thousand pieces of Wood. The Construction Bundle in the Crafts Room asks for two full stacks, along with Stone and Hardwood.
The crafting menu leans on Wood from the first day. Chests, Wood Fences, Gates, Torches and Campfires are all known from the start. As skills level up, Wood goes into Scarecrows, Bee Houses, Preserves Jars, Cheese Presses, Crab Pots and Kegs. The Tapper, learned through the Foraging skill, combines Wood with two Copper Bars. Tapped trees then produce Maple Syrup, Oak Resin or Pine Tar without being cut down.
Spare Wood can turn into fuel. The Charcoal Kiln burns ten pieces of Wood into one lump of Coal. That helps keep Furnaces running before regular trips to The Mines begin.
The Bookseller sometimes trades a copy of Woodcutter's Weekly for a hundred pieces of Wood, a handy way to boost the Foraging skill.
Crafting Wood with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Barrel Brazier | 
|
Wood (50), Solar Essence (1), Coal (1) |
| Bee House | 
|
Wood (40), Coal (8), Iron Bar (1), Maple Syrup (1) |
| Big Chest | 
|
Wood (120), Copper Bar (2) |
| Campfire | 
|
Stone (10), Wood (10), Fiber (10) |
| Cask | 
|
Wood (20), Hardwood (1) |
| Charcoal Kiln | 
|
Wood (20), Copper Bar (2) |
| Cheese Press | 
|
Wood (45), Stone (45), Hardwood (10), Copper Bar (1) |
| Chest | 
|
Wood (50) |
| Cookout Kit | 
|
Wood (15), Fiber (10), Coal (3) |
| Crab Pot | 
|
Wood (40), Iron Bar (3) |
| Dehydrator | 
|
Wood (30), Clay (2), Fire Quartz (1) |
| Deluxe Scarecrow | 
|
Wood (50), Iridium Ore (1), Fiber (40) |
| Flute Block | 
|
Wood (10), Copper Ore (2), Fiber (20) |
| Gate | 
|
Wood (10) |
| Keg | 
|
Wood (30), Copper Bar (1), Iron Bar (1), Oak Resin (1) |
| Loom | 
|
Wood (60), Fiber (30), Pine Tar (1) |
| Mayonnaise Machine | 
|
Wood (15), Stone (15), Earth Crystal (1), Copper Bar (1) |
| Preserves Jar | 
|
Wood (50), Stone (40), Coal (8) |
| Recycling Machine | 
|
Wood (25), Stone (25), Iron Bar (1) |
| Scarecrow | 
|
Wood (50), Coal (1), Fiber (20) |
| Seed Maker | 
|
Wood (25), Gold Bar (1), Coal (10) |
| Tapper | 
|
Wood (40), Copper Bar (2) |
| Text Sign | 
|
Wood (25) |
| Torch | 
|
Wood (1), Sap (2) |
| Tub o' Flowers | 
|
Wood (15), Tulip Bulb (1), Jazz Seeds (1), Poppy Seeds (1), Spangle Seeds (1) |
| Wood Fence | 
|
Wood (2) |
| Wood Lamp-post | 
|
Wood (50), Battery Pack (1) |
| Wood Sign | 
|
Wood (25) |
| Wooden Brazier | 
|
Wood (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) |
Notes
The "Robin's Resource Rush" special order can ask for a thousand pieces of Wood in a week. The reward includes the Stone Chest recipe, and the Wood gathered stays with the farmer.
Wood sells for almost nothing. It is far more useful kept in a chest for the next building project.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |