VS-Woodworking

We use Immersive Woodworking, Immersive Firewood, and Drying Speed Overhaul so there are several changes to woodworking from stock.

Firewood

• To make firewood, first you need a chopping block. Place any log into your crafting grid with any axe to create a chopping block of that wood type.

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• Place the chopping block, then right-click a log onto it. Hold your axe and hold down right-click to chop the log. New logs will automatically be placed onto the chopping block as you split them into half-logs. Each log, coincidentally, creates two halves.

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• Place the half-logs onto the chopping block and chop them into firewood. Each half-log will create 4 firewood.

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• Firewood can be stacked to dry. This takes a while, but dry firewood burns hotter and longer than wet, freshly cut firewood. It also makes more charcoal.
  • To dry firewood, stack it up and let it sit. Drying is temperature, wind, and rain dependent. Being rained on will actually re-wet the firewood. 30c is the "normal" drying speed, 60c will dry twice as fast. Full wind will increase drying speed 1.5x. Being in an enclosed room gives an insulation bonus and speeds up drying time. Being near a campfire will also increase drying speed.
  • See Drying Speed Overhaul mod page for more information on drying.

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• Firewood species matters as well. Hardwoods burn longer than softwoods.

Wood	Wet Temp	Wet Burn	Dry Temp	Dry Burn
Kapok	300℃	0.12 hour	600℃	0.23 hour
Pine	365℃	0.16 hour	730℃	0.32 hour
Bald Cypress	340℃	0.17 hour	680℃	0.35 hour
Redwood	325℃	0.17 hour	650℃	0.33 hour
Walnut	345℃	0.21 hour	690℃	0.42 hour
Birch	350℃	0.21 hour	700℃	0.43 hour
Larch	350℃	0.23 hour	700℃	0.45 hour
Maple	355℃	0.25 hour	710℃	0.5 hour
Oak	350℃	0.26 hour	700℃	0.52 hour
Acacia	360℃	0.31 hour	720℃	0.62 hour
Purpleheart	365℃	0.34 hour	730℃	0.68 hour
Ebony	375℃	0.45 hour	750℃	0.89 hour

Sticks

• Sticks can be made by chopping firewood on the chopping block. Each piece of firewood chops into two sticks.

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Sawhorses

• You will need sawhorses to debark logs, as well as to saw logs into planks. Sawhorses are created by right-clicking on the ground with two sticks, then right clicking the sticks with rope. You need to create two of these on adjacent blocks.

(Picture of two sticks stuck in ground) (Picture of sawhorses)

• Debarking
  • To debark a log, stand on the side of it and use:
    • Knife (Slowest)
    • Axe in main hand and hammer in off hand (Faster)
    • A bark spud (Fastest)

(Picture of debarking a log)

• Sawing planks
  • To saw planks, use a pit saw on the log

(Picture of log with half planks sawn off)