Where are logs stored?

[Oddible]

They don't seem to go to the Storehouse so do they just stay in the Logging camp until they're needed?

[harbinger]

Logs (timber) are only stored in Logging Camps, and apparently also on the ground near a logging camp after a tree has been felled. You can see the felled trees that have not yet been stored in the logging camp if you try to build a new logging camp over them, they will highlight red and white.

To build a new building requires a villager to guide an ox from the logging camp storage to the building plot as many times as the number of timber required for construction.

Keeping this in mind, building a logging camp and fill it up with 20 or 30 logs just before you build a suburb of 6 or 12 houses is a good strategy to make construction faster.

Also if you only have one ox, you can't use the saw pit and construction buildings at the same time. The ox will be used for construction and the guy in the saw pit will be idle. Either assign the livestock to the sawpit to use it or buy another ox.

In practice, I buy a second ox as soon as I have unlocked a trade route and have a horse for the trader.

Conversely, if your only source of logs is across the map from where you are building, it will take a long time to build it. for example if you try to build your first granary/storehouse across the map from your first homeless camp, it will take half the year to get it done.

I wish we could choose our homeless camp location within the region. It makes a huge difference on start up rate.

[Fortigan]

There is severe diminishing returns on adding extra families to any production building, so it is advised to have a few logging camps and add one family to each. This will more than double your log output per family and triple your log storage.