Editing v0.31:Wood

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'''Wood''' is produced by [[designation|{{Key|d}}esignating]] [[tree|{{Key|t}}rees]] to be chopped down. Any [[dwarf]] with the [[wood cutting]] [[labor]] enabled and access to a [[battle axe]] will cut down the trees, which will turn one tree into one '''log''', the raw form of wood.

"'''Timber'''" is the name of the ninth month of the dwarven [[calendar]], covering late Fall.

[[Tree]]s start their lives as saplings.  Saplings cannot be cut down until they mature into full-grown trees, which can take several years.  Saplings will randomly appear in appropriate [[soil]] (above and below ground) and [[mud]]dy underground rock (underground areas will only start to sprout saplings once you have hit the [[caverns]]) to provide a slow (but steady) supply of wood.  Fully-grown trees will impede units' movement, so be sure to clear them out of active corridors.

Besides cutting down trees, wood (and some wooden goods, such as [[barrel]]s) is often available from the [[elf|elven]], [[dwarf|dwarven]] and [[human]] [[caravan]]s.  Wood can also be purchased before embarking. Wood is quite inexpensive, costing only 3☼ per log, and you may wish to bring a large number of logs when embarking in order to jump-start your [[wood industry]].  The [[wagon (embark)|wagon]] you start the game with can also be dismantled for three logs.

*To build [[bed]]s

*To build [[water wheel]]s and [[windmill]]s, as well as [[axle]]s

**Without wood, you cannot generate ''or'' transfer [[power]].

*To build [[siege engine]]s and ballista bolts

*If you want [[obsidian]] [[short sword]]s, they require one obsidian stone and one wood each (these swords likely consist of a wooden hilt with an obsidian blade or, as a more exotic alternative, a thin wooden "paddle" with sharp flakes of obsidian forming sharp edges, like the Aztec [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl macuahuitl]).

**If you have access to obsidian, these can be a great source of quick weaponry early in the game, before any steel works are up to speed.  Even on a tree-lite map, each weapon takes less wood to produce than a steel weapon (unless you are using [[magma]] to fuel your [[smelter]]s and [[forge]]s and have access to [[bituminous coal]] and [[lignite]]).

*To be burnt for [[ash]], which is used in [[Glass_industry|glass making]], [[Soap|soap making]], [[Glazing|glazing]], and for fertilizing crops.

**For instance, it only takes one log to produce a [[bin]], [[barrel]], [[bucket]], or [[cage]]; but if you forge them instead then they'll take three metal [[bar]]s (though in versions 0.31.01-0.31.25, a bug causes metal items to only require 1 bar).

*All metalworks ([[smelter]]s, [[forge]]s), [[glass]]works and [[ceramic]] [[kiln]]s are either coal-[[fuel]]ed or magma-fueled. If you are planning on having any sort of serious metal or glass production, then you're going to need either a lot of wood, or [[magma]] (and [[charcoal]] or [[bituminous coal|coal]] for [[steel]]).

*Wooden training [[weapon]]s are useful for military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need.

*[[Crossbow]]s can be made from wood (or [[bone]]) and may be preferred if you have a skilled [[bowyer]] but not a skilled [[weaponsmith]].

** In particular, [[barrel]]s  can be replaced by stone [[pot]]s without having to use either fuel or magma.

*Once you have [[magma]] then you don't need wood for fuel. If you have coal, you don't need (as much) wood to produce [[charcoal]] for [[steel]].  If you have both, you don't need wood to produce metal or steel products.

**([[Bituminous coal]] ''without'' magma triples the effective output of wood, [[lignite]] doubles it.)

The weight of a 'unit' of each type of wood is half their density; the densities for each individual type of wood is listed under the appropriate [[tree]]. Wood has a default [SOLID_DENSITY] of 500, making it about three times lighter than most stone and fifteen times lighter than iron.  Feather tree wood is the lightest, with a density of 100, and blood thorn wood is the heaviest, with a density of 1250. Cedar wood, density 380, and glumprong wood, density 1200 are also notable. However, since average wood is relatively light to begin with, with the possible exception of wood [[hauling]], this makes (almost?) no practical difference in the daily routine of a fortress or your dwarves.

 

*[[Temperate]] forest

*[[Tropical]] forest

*[[Taiga]]

*[[Flatland]]

*[[Swamp]]

*[[Desert]]

:* [[Wood industry]].

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