Wood
Wood
Wood from trees or other fibrous plants. Useful for building structures and weapons. It is a good fuel for campfires and generators, and can be refined into chemfuel. In a pinch, a piece of wood can be used as a weapon or a leg.
Base Stats
- Stuff Categories
- Woody
- Tech Level
- Neolithic
- Weapon Class
- Neolithic
- Market Value
- 1.2
- Stack Limit
- 75
- Mass
- 0.4 kg
- Beauty
- -4
- HP
- 150
- Deterioration Rate
- 0.5
- Rotatable
- False
- Path Cost
- 14 (48%)
Stat Modifiers
- Beauty Factor
- ×1
- Beauty Offset
- +0
- Work To Make Factor
- ×0.7
- Work To Build Factor
- ×0.7
- Max Hit Points
- ×0.65
- Flammability
- ×1
- Armor - Sharp
- ×0.54
- Armor - Blunt
- ×0.54
- Armor - Heat
- ×0.4
- Insulation - Cold
- +8 °C (14.4 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- +4 °C (7.2 °F)
- Melee Blunt Damage
- ×0.9
- Melee Sharp Damage
- ×0.4
- Melee Cooldown
- ×1.0
- Door Opening Speed
- ×1.2
- Rest Effectiveness
- ×1
- Mode
- Melee
Melee Combat
- Mode
- Melee
- Melee Attack 1
- Log
10 dmg (Blunt)
15% AP
2 seconds cooldown
- defName
- WoodLog
- Has Quality
- False
- Color
- (133,97,67)
- Stuff Adjective
- wooden
Wood is a construction and crafting material vital in the early game.
Acquisition
Wood can be obtained by harvesting most trees, including plants like the saguaro cacti, using the Chop Wood command. Fibercorn
can also be grown for wood.
Every default scenario, except for Naked Brutality, starts the player with a select amount of wood. Wood is carried by bulk goods traders, trade ships, and faction bases. A single piece of wood is obtained when extracting a peg leg, wooden hand, or wooden foot.
A woodmaker dryad will generate some wood every 2 days.
Plant yield
The following plants provide the following amounts of wood:
| Plant | Harvest Yield |
|---|---|
| Bamboo tree | 10 |
| Birch tree | 27 |
| Burned stump | 4 |
| Cecropia tree | 18 |
| Chopped stump | 4 |
| Cypress tree | 60 |
| Drago tree | 25 |
| Maple tree | 27 |
| Oak tree | 46 |
| Palm tree | 18 |
| Pine tree | 27 |
| Poplar tree | 27 |
| Saguaro cactus | 15 |
| Smashed stump | 4 |
| Teak tree | 60 |
| Willow tree | 27 |
Gray pine tree 
|
8 |
| Pebble cactus
|
6 |
| Polux tree
|
30 |
| Rat palm tree
|
8 |
| Witchwood tree
|
8 |
| Bonsai tree
|
2 |
| Fibercorn
|
2 |
| Gauranlen tree
|
35 |
| Timbershroom
|
25 |
Anima tree 
|
25 |
Summary
Wood is used in the following crafting recipes:
20
Note that peg legs, wooden hands, and wooden feet do not exist in item form and are simply added to the pawn during surgery, consuming the wood in the process. When extracting these parts, you simply get the wood back.
Woody is currently the only "Woody" material for stuffable items, like walls, doors, and melee weapons.
Other uses
- Wood is used to refuel torch lamps, campfires, wood-fired generators, Fueled stoves and smithies, braziers, darklight braziers, and darktorches. Haulers take care of refueling.
- Wood can be wielded as a melee weapon. It deals more damage per second than a bare fist or beer bottle.
Deterioration
Wood deteriorates very slowly when left outdoors - a rate of 0.25 HP/day. For comparison, a wood log will take 10 full years to deteriorate into nothing, before multipliers like rain. So, for all intents and purposes, you can safely leave wood outside. The only real threat is fire.
Attack table
| Feature | Toggle |
|---|---|
| Attacks |   |
 Wood
| Log (Blunt) | Human: Left & right fist (Blunt) | HP | Value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPS[1] | AP[1] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | ||
| 4.78 | 14.25% | 10 | 2s | 15% | 5 | 75% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 150 | 1.2
|
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the wielder if the weapon is wielded by some other than a baseline human. - ↑ Chance for attack to be selected, assuming the weapon is wielded by a baseline human. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the wielder
Analysis
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Wood is a useful material for early walls and furniture. Wood builds are quick to construct, wood itself is usually cheap, and most scenarios start with at least some. In contrast, stone blocks take a bit of work to make, while steel is more valuable early. Later on, you should replace your walls with some sort of stone. Otherwise, a flashstorm or raid could light your entire base on fire.
In contrast, wood is relatively safe for doors and furniture.
- Wood doors are the fastest to open until autodoors are available. The fire risk of a wooden door, when surrounded by non-flammable walls and floor, is minimal. For comparison, stone doors take a while to open, and steel doors remain flammable (and slower to open). Using wood for doors can be acceptable into the midgame, and even indefinitely if they are not intended to resist attack.
- There is no specific need to replace wooden furniture, as furniture is usually safe from attack. Like with doors, furniture in an otherwise nonflammable room is usually safe from fire. Other materials might be selected for their improved availability, durability against drop pods or infestations, and beauty as the colony progresses.
Colonies in extreme and wood-scarce biomes, like the ice sheet or extreme desert, should conserve wood as much as possible. It should be used for campfire or passive coolers until you can 1. create electric heaters / coolers, or 2. get the necessary clothing to survive. For construction, ruins can be deconstructed for stone/steel, and steel should be used for furniture instead.
Should your colony be visited by an alphabeaver infestation, watch out! These ravenous genetically-engineered critters will eat every tree on the map if you don't stop them by force! They will not eat wood on the ground or wooden buildings, however.
As a weapon
Wood is the one of worst melee weapons in the game, barely beating out a bottle of beer and a plain, unarmed punch. Even a good-quality eltex staff, which is more of a psycasting tool than a weapon, has higher damage and AP. In most cases, players should at least craft a club, rather than using a log as a weapon. Even swinging a gun or bow as a melee weapon will do only slightly less damage, while still allowing you to shoot as enemies approach.
However, any weapon is superior to no weapon. If you have no other weapons available, and do not have the supplies or time to spare to create even a club, then equipping a log is better than having a colonist fight entirely unarmed.
Gallery
One wood
Partial stack
Full stack
Version history
- Stony
- Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade
- Metallic
- Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite
- Woody
- Wood
- Leathery
- Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather
- Fabric
- Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread
- Ultra
- Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)
- Improvised
- Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood
- Ranged | Neolithic
- Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow
- Medieval
- Nerve spiker
- Industrial
- Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator
- Spacer
- Charge lance • Charge rifle
- Consumables
- Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher
- Throwables
- EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades
- Mechanoid
- Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun
- Structures
- Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun
- Related | Body part weapons
- Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip
- Integrated weapons
- Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor