Cannot cut down trees?

[hermes_SK]

I want to cut down tree, but I dont have Axe yet, so I want to use my Saw, but how? I have it equiped, I go to tree, clicking right / left on tree, on Saw but nothing happens... What do I miss?

[Gonzo Max]

You can't cut down trees with a saw. To cut down trees you attack them with a weapon. Whilst an axe is the most effective way of doing it, any equippable weapon will do it. Even a fork, but that'll take some time :p

Just attack the tree and you should hear a satisfying "thunk" sound. Repeat until the tree collapses in to logs, then use that saw to cut the logs in to planks.

[hermes_SK]

Aha. I got my suspicions... thx m8. But I miss logic in that, you can chop tree with fork but not with saw?

[Gonzo Max]

Yeah, go figure ;)

I'm not sure if it's to keep the saw as an item balanced, because it'd need to also work as a weapon to cut down trees under the current system (thus making it a one item for all your combat and crafting needs and therefore quite OP) or if it's something that'll be added later - I'd guess the latter, but that is just a guess.

[Schwengelbengel]

jeah, logic is a little bit crazy sometimes, you just have to live with that, what the devs have to do is implementing npcs first.

[HotCoco]

I'm having the same problam, Just. IT HAPPENCE WITH EVERY WEAPON. Including the axe. So. Any one can tell me how the f*ck am i going to fix it? Rekt

[Gonzo Max]

Originally posted by zZombieLoverZz:

I'm having the same problam, Just. IT HAPPENCE WITH EVERY WEAPON. Including the axe. So. Any one can tell me how the f*ck am i going to fix it? Rekt :yaranaika:

Not quite sure what the probelm you're having is here?

If you have an axe equipped, right click on a tree and you should have the option to chop it down.

[D3LTA WAV3]

I've been punching a tree in the face with a baseball bat for 3 minutes and nothing happened.

[Silverbird]

Originally posted by Gonzo Macky:

. . . Whilst an axe is the most effective way of doing it, any equippable weapon will do it. . . .

LIES

Frying pans, pens, pencils, planks, rolling pins, your fists, and many more have a "treedamage" stat of 0 and will never damage trees.

Axes are 30 or 35 or something, stone axes are 10, virtually every other weapon you'd come across is only a 1 or 2 unless they're 0...

The only thing I'd ever reccommend to cut down a tree with (besides axes durr) is a hammer, only if you have extras of them. It only does 1 damage bet swing, but they have good durability and are fairly easy to find extras of lategame.

Trees have something like 165 hp, each hit on a tree does as much damage as the 'treedamage' stat of a weapon. Weapon stats are all in the game's item.txt or newitems.txt files...

Under Project Zomboid folder>media folder>scripts folder.

[Goof]

Originally posted by Silverbird:

Originally posted by Gonzo Macky:

. . . Whilst an axe is the most effective way of doing it, any equippable weapon will do it. . . .

LIES

Frying pans, pens, pencils, planks, rolling pins, your fists, and many more have a "treedamage" stat of 0 and will never damage trees.

Axes are 30 or 35 or something, stone axes are 10, virtually every other weapon you'd come across is only a 1 or 2 unless they're 0...

The only thing I'd ever reccommend to cut down a tree with (besides axes durr) is a hammer, only if you have extras of them. It only does 1 damage bet swing, but they have good durability and are fairly easy to find extras of lategame.

Trees have something like 165 hp, each hit on a tree does as much damage as the 'treedamage' stat of a weapon. Weapon stats are all in the game's item.txt or newitems.txt files...

Under Project Zomboid folder>media folder>scripts folder.

This topic was started last year where any weapon could knock down a tree. Lot of changes in a year

[Pie Rat]

weapons that currently have a treedamage value are as follows:

Axes - 35
Sledgehammer - 10
Hammers - 1
Screwdrivers - 1
Kitchen Knives - 1
Baseball Bats (with and without nails) - 1
Butterknives - 1

Everything else is 0 or doesnt even have a treedamage value in the item.txt file

[.: DBM :.]

Cutting down the average-sized tree in the game with a bowsaw would take an excruciating amount of time and effort unless you had one person on each end. Would make a bit more sense with trees of the smaller-variety but still....

Chainsaws are confirmed to eventually be in the game, though, and you could kill TONS of trees with those bad boys.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by -𝔅elligerent 𝔅rad-:

...you could kill TONS of trees with those bad boys.

Not really. You might be surprised at how quickly the chain dulls, and the chain oil runs out, along with the 2 cycle gasoline with the 2 cycle oil in it.