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Wood is produced by designating trees 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.

Only nether-cap wood is magma-safe.

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

Growing

Trees start their lives as saplings. Saplings cannot be cut down until they mature into full-grown trees, which can take several years. Frequent unit movement over a square with a sapling will likely kill the sapling, leaving you with a dead sapling occupying the square for a time.

Saplings will randomly appear in appropriate above-ground soil to provide a slow (but steady) supply of wood. Saplings will begin to appear in below-ground soil and muddy underground rock only once you have hit the caverns.

Full grown trees will impede units' movement and can block the path of wagons, making your trade depot inaccessible. Be sure to clear trees out of active corridors.

Sources

Besides cutting down trees, wood (and some wooden goods, such as barrels) is often available from the elven, dwarven and human caravans. 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 you start the game with can also be dismantled for three logs.

Considerations

Reasons you need wood

To build beds
- Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
To build water wheels and windmills, as well as axles
- Without wood, you cannot generate or transfer power.
To build siege engines and ballista bolts
- These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
If you want obsidian short swords, 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). In 0.34.11, those only have novelty value, all metal weapons are superior.
To be burnt for ash, which is used in glass making, soap making, glazing, and for fertilizing crops.

Reasons you want wood

It is simpler to make items from wood.
- It only takes one log to produce a bin, cage, wheelbarrow or minecart; but if you forge them instead then they'll take two or three metal bars. Wooden tools are also much lighter than the metal alternatives (apart from adamantine), which is a large benefit when the items are moved by hand.
All metalworks (smelters, forges), glassworks and ceramic kilns are either coal-fueled 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 coal for steel).
Wooden training weapons can be used for military training started shortly after embark should you feel the need.
Crossbows can be made from wood (or bone) and may be preferred if you have a skilled bowyer but not a skilled weaponsmith.

Reasons you don't need much wood

While beds, axles, windmills, water wheels, siege engine parts, and ballista bolts absolutely require wood, and soap, clear and crystal glass and fertiliser are based on wood ash, almost every other wood product has non-wood alternatives.
- In particular, barrels can be replaced by stone pots 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 can get by with much lower wood usage until the deposits run out. If you have both, you shouldn't need wood to produce metal or steel products.
- (Bituminous coal without magma produces eight units of fuel per stone,, lignite four.)

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 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. Candlenut (140), and glumprong (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.

Wood Type	Density	Color
Ash (tree)	600	`Pale Brown`
Saguaro	430	`Ecru`
Oak	700	`Auburn`
Maple	540	`Rust`
Chestnut	430	`Dark Chestnut`
Candlenut	140	`Ochre`
Palm	680	`Dark Taupe`
Rubber	490	`Flax`
Alder	410	`Tan`
Birch	650	`Burnt Umber`
Black-Cap	650	`Black`
Acacia	600	`Peach`
Cacao	430	`Chocolate`
Cedar	570	`Olive`
Feather Tree	100	`Cream`
Fungiwood	600	`Lemon`
Glumprong	1200	`Purple`
Goblin-cap	600	`Red`
Highwood	500	`Brown`
Kapok	260	`Tan`
Larch	590	`Light Brown`
Mahogany	600	`Mahogany`
Mango	520	`Burnt Sienna`
Mangrove	830	`Dark Taupe`
Nether-cap	550	`Dark Indigo`
Pine	510	`Beige`
Spore	600	`Teal`
Tower-cap	600	`White`
Tunnel Tube	500	`Violet`
Willow	390	`Tan`
Blood thorn	1250	`Crimson`

Biomes

See also:

Wood industry.

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 *To build [[siege engine]]s and ballista bolts
 **These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
-*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 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]). In 0.34.11, those only have novelty value, all metal weapons are superior.
-**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.
 ===Reasons you want wood===
 *It is simpler to make items from wood.
-**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.
+**It only takes one log to produce a [[bin]], [[cage]], [[wheelbarrow]] or [[minecart]]; but if you forge them instead then they'll take two or three metal [[bar]]s. Wooden tools are also much lighter than the metal alternatives (apart from adamantine), which is a large benefit when the items are moved by hand.
 *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.
+*Wooden training [[weapon]]s can be used 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]].
 ===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.
+*While beds, axles, windmills, water wheels, siege engine parts, and ballista bolts absolutely require wood, and soap, clear and crystal glass and fertiliser are based on wood ash, almost every other wood product has non-wood alternatives.
 ** 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.
+*Once you have [[magma]] then you don't need wood for fuel. If you have coal, you can get by with much lower wood usage until the deposits run out. If you have both, you shouldn't need wood to produce metal or [[steel]] products.
-**([[Bituminous coal]] ''without'' magma triples the effective output of wood, [[lignite]] doubles it.)
+**([[Bituminous coal]] ''without'' magma produces eight units of fuel per stone,, [[lignite]] four.)
 ==Weight==