Editing 40d:Wood

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'''Wood''' is produced by {{Key|d}}[[designation|esignating]] {{Key|t}}[[tree|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.

==Growing==

[[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 outdoors [[soil]] to provide a slow (but steady) supply of wood. If you have [[revealed tile|discovered]] a [[underground pool|cave pool]] or [[cave river]], certain (muddy/muddied) areas underground will spawn [[tower-cap]] mushrooms, which can also be harvested for wood.  You can also muddy soil similar to preparing it for farming and leave it unattended for a chance at growth. Fully-grown trees will impede units' movement, so be sure to clear them out of active corridors.

==Sources==

Besides cutting down trees and [[tower-cap]]s, 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 [[tower-cap]] logs.

==Considerations==

===Reasons you need wood===
*To build [[bed]]s
**Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
*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
**These can be very effective defenses when traps fail.
*If you want [[Main:obsidian|obsidian]] [[Main:short sword|short sword]]s, they require one obsidian stone and one wood each (these swords likely consist of 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]]).

===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 bars.
*Wood can be burnt to produce [[charcoal]] and [[ash]], which are important ingredients in other tasks such as smelting ore, forging metal items, glass making, fertilizer for crops, and other uses.
*All metalworks ([[smelter]]s, [[forge]]s) and [[glass]]works 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 a lot of wood, or [[magma]] (and [[charcoal]] or [[coal]] for [[steel]]).

===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.
*If 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.)
*You can supplement your wood supply to a small degree via [[trading]].
*If you're lucky enough to play in an area with an [[underground pool]] or [[underground river]] then you can grow your own wood supply underground with [[tower-cap]]s.

==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 [[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 extremely light, with a density of 100, and glumprong wood is the heaviest, with a density of 1200.  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.

== Biomes ==
*[[Temperate]] forest
*[[Tropical forest]]
*[[Taiga]]
*[[Flatland]]
*[[Swamp]]
*[[Desert]]


'''See also:'''
:* [[Wood industry]].

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