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Do I really need wood

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You may want to have a look at the Wood Industry.

Reasons you need wood

  • To build beds
    • Without beds your dwarves will get unhappy thoughts from sleeping on the ground
  • To build axles
    • Without axles your ability to transfer power is severely limited.
  • To build water wheels and windmills
    • These are the only generators of power. Without them, you'll be forced to do everything manually.
  • If you want obsidian short swords, they require one obsidian stone and one wood each (for a handle and scabbard, apparently).
    • If you have access to obsdian, 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 smelters and forges).

Reasons you want wood

  • It is simpler to make items from wood.
    • For instance, it only takes one log to produce a bin, barrel, or bucket; 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 (smelters, forges) and glassworks are either wood-fueled or magma-fueled. If you are planning on having any sort 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, and water wheels can be made from other materials.
  • If you have magma or a coal seam then you don't need to burn wood for charcoal.
  • You can supplement your wood supply 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.



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