v0.31:Wood

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Wood is produced by Template:L Template:L to be chopped down. Any Template:L with the Template:L Template:L enabled and access to a Template:L 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 Template:L, covering late Fall.

Growing

Template:Ls 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 Template:L (above and below ground) and Template:Ldy underground rock (underground areas will only start to sprout saplings once you have hit the Template:L) 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.

Sources

Besides cutting down trees, wood (and some wooden goods, such as Template:Ls) is often available from the Template:L, Template:L and Template:L Template:Ls. 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 Template:L. The Template:L you start the game with can also be dismantled for three logs.

Considerations

Reasons you need wood

• To build Template:Ls
  • Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
• To build Template:Ls and Template:Ls, as well as Template:Ls
  • Without wood, you cannot generate or transfer Template:L.
• To build Template:Ls and ballista bolts
  • These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
• If you want Template:L Template:Ls, 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 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 Template:L to fuel your Template:Ls and Template:Ls and have access to Template:L and Template:L).
• To be burnt for Template:L, which is used in Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, and for fertilizing crops.

Reasons you want wood

• It is simpler to make items from wood.
  • For instance, it only takes one log to produce a Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, or Template:L; but if you forge them instead then they'll take three metal Template:Ls (though in versions 0.31.01-0.31.25, a bug causes metal items to only require 1 bar).
• All metalworks (Template:Ls, Template:Ls), Template:Lworks and Template:L Template:Ls are either coal-Template:Led 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 Template:L (and Template:L or Template:L for Template:L).
• Wooden training Template:Ls are useful for military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need
• Template:Ls can be made from wood (or Template:L) and may be preferred if you have a skilled Template:L but not a skilled Template:L.

Reasons you don't need much wood

• Everything other than beds, axles, windmills, water wheels, obsidian shortswords, siege engine parts, and ballista bolts can be made without the use of wood.
  • In particular, Template:Ls can be replaced by stone Template:Ls without having to use either fuel or magma.
• Once you have Template:L then you don't need wood for fuel. If you have coal, you don't need (as much) wood to produce Template:L for Template:L. If you have both, you don't need wood to produce metal or steel products.
  • (Template:L without magma triples the effective output of wood, Template:L doubles it.)

Weight

Every different type of log (chestnut, ash, maple, tower cap, etc.) is functionally identical except for their weight. 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 Template:L. 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 extremely light, with a density of 100, and blood thorn wood is the heaviest, with a density of 1250. However, since average wood is relatively light to begin with, with the possible exception of wood Template:L, this makes (almost?) no practical difference in the daily routine of a fortress or your dwarves.

Wood Type	Density	Color
Template:L	620	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	700	Brown
Template:L	755	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	410	Brown
Template:L	670	Brown
Template:L	650	Black
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	380	Brown
Template:L	100	Cream
Template:L	600	Lemon
Template:L	1200	Purple
Template:L	600	Red
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	590	Brown
Template:L	600	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	500	Brown
Template:L	550	Dark Indigo
Template:L	560	Brown
Template:L	600	Teal
Template:L	600	White
Template:L	500	Violet
Template:L	420	Brown
Template:L	1250	Crimson

Biomes

• Template:L forest
• Template:L forest
• Template:L
• Template:L
• Template:L
• Template:L

See also:

• Template:L.

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