Skill tree question

[Your English Teacher]

I want to put a few points into building with wood since I'm solo and rarely get up to stone. I put two points into discount wood, but the other wood construction upgrades aren't opening up. Wondering how to get them to open up before wasting skill points. Thanks.

[JimmySquareTeeth]

I assume you are talking about Talents, if that is the case the talent Trees (in this case construction?) are tiered, if you look at the top of the tree you will see a progress bar, the more points you put in that tree the more progress you make, when that fills up the next tier will open up.

[cis0123s]

Once you unlock Survival>Resources
Wood Breakdown (make sticks from wood)
I would suggest you spend points on Dense packing and stone, your going to need it even if you don't use it now. You will end up most times with a stone base just for QOL (Quality of life) reasons, takes far LESS attention that a wood structure (even a properly fortified one).

[Your English Teacher]

Thanks for the progress note with the talent tree. I'll go look for that. Also, probably right about stone structures. So I'll give that more thought. I just rarely build anything out of stone on solo because the work that goes into getting the metal is never worth it.

[Fibrosis]

I thinks its 4 skills per rank. You don't have to take ones on the same path that are off to the side your trying to go down so its better to use a point or 2 on a different tree in same field until the next rank appears.

[Pach]

For most of the early missions, you don't need anything other than a wood structure (if any at all).

However, as you go deeper into the mission tree, and you need better tech, you will find you need stone buildings. The missions further to the right tend to be longer, and often require higher tiers of tech. If you are going to tech up, you want a stone base (if for no other reason than to protect the expensive higher tier tech benches).

The challenge of this game is figuring out exactly how much tech to go for on a given mission. Part of that decision is wood vs. stone vs. cave base. While you may be doing almost all wood now... at some point, you, will find that you need to consider stone.

... just a tip from someone else who doesn't like grinding up to get stone, unless absolutely required. :)

[Your English Teacher]

Sounds good. I'm actually like that this longer supply mission almost allows for it to make sense to build something stone.

[william_es]

Some of the weather events in the later missions will rip wood to shreds. You almost won't be able to repair stuff fast enough, without running out of stamina, breaking the hammer, etc, etc, etc.

Stone, won't be bothered at all by the same weather. Zero damage.

If you'e on a mission that's going to require tier 4 stuff, you can crank out stone building parts just as a byproduct while grinding out the ore for the tier 4 stuff.

Plus not only is the stone good for the weather, I sometimes set up a little stone house as a sort of hunting blind or mini-fort. If there's large predators, or large packs of wolves, I'll shoot from inside the stone house. If anything does make it all the way to me without me killing it, i'm still safe inside the mini-fort, and can clean up the leftovers with a knife.

[Your English Teacher]

Maybe I just need to get further in missions then. I sometimes build something tier 2 like the rain catcher. Otherwise, I do almost nothing in tier two yet. I need to put some points into construction before I can unlock stone talents anyway right?

[Pach]

I didn't start using stone regularly until I hit Riverlands, which is pretty deep in.

You do not need stone for any except ONE of the Canyons missions. I used wood for most of the Glacier ones, as well.

You don't have to have talents in anything to take and use the stone blueprints.

[necroman]

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[Zourin]

Wood is fine as long as it's transitory. That means you're either rushing to stone to make a long-term basecamp for teching up, or you're only using it long enough to weather a storm or sleep before breaking it down and moving to a new objective spot.

Wood is bad long term because it needs to be constantly babysat twice an hour for storm repairs (That's a whole perk tree you could skip!). A stone base you can leave behind and hike to objectives that don't require a full-on base camp to complete. It will still be there when you get back. Wood won't. It will be blown down or burnt down and everything in it will be at the mercy of the discard system.

No matter how many perk points you put into wood, it doesn't save the material. It's the same problem. It still needs babysitting. Perk points into LIGHTER wood peices is OK at best if you want to max out your backpack space for that hiker life. More durability just prolongs the inevitable by one storm. Wind resistance maybe adds another storm. Fire resistance MAYBE ups your odds your place isn't ash when you get back. Stone has none of these problems. save your points.

Perk points into discount Stone/concrete, however, pays dividends in iron.

[Bishamonten]

The talent tier system is something that needs to removed otherwise you have to waste too many points in a tree to unlock a talent you want which is probably what is happening to the OP of this topic