No wood?

[Warwick🐺]

Is it me, or you get no wood from chopping down trees anymore? Like when i chop trees at most i would get 30 from one tree. When i used to get about a 100 or so.

[Hold these kitties]

it all depends on the lvl of your items.

[Wrothbog]

30 wood from a tree is not the same as it was in a15.

each log is worth 50s on the forge
wood appears to have been balanced. A15 gave far too much

[Claw]

Unfortunately, upgrading a frame still costs 10, making early game building a chore. It's not balanced.

[Wrothbog]

Originally posted by Claw:

Unfortunately, upgrading a frame still costs 10, making early game building a chore. It's not balanced.

don't use wood to build then. stone and clay are abundant and only require 5 wood per frame. skips you straight to concrete for the upgrade path too.

[Odetta]

The bushes that give you wood when you punch them are way better then hitting trees early on.

[RobertW]

Originally posted by Claw:

Unfortunately, upgrading a frame still costs 10, making early game building a chore. It's not balanced.

I think it's more balanced than before. Building a wooden house into the first day wasn't far far away from real or from balanced.
If you are getting higher levels/perks and better tools you even will get more wood out the them.

[Hawk_X51]

The 15hp dead shrubs seem to be the best bet early game. One hit from a 25 QL stone axe will give you 2-6 wood. It still isn't a lot, but you can easily harvest them without breaking stride as you're running around looting other stuff. I collected over 1k wood the first day just doing that. You're not going to have a wooden base all spiked up right off the bat, but with the stealth system you really don't need one.

Originally posted by Wrothbog:

don't use wood to build then. stone and clay are abundant and only require 5 wood per frame. skips you straight to concrete for the upgrade path too.

If you start with flagstone you can upgrade to cobble without the need to waste wood on the frames. Since zombies have a damage bonus against wood you really should build with stone anyway, and with wood being more precious now you need to be as efficient with your resources as possible. :)

[Claw]

Wood was imbalanced for sure, but this is overkill. Everyone will just build flagstone houses on day one instead of wood. They haven't fixed the problem; they just nerfed one material for another.

[ivor]

well it sure takes getting used to... the way it goes now, this is deforestation...

[Hashshashin]

Cobble/flagstone are the new wood when building, also remember that as far as I know z's do more damage to wood, then there's the bonus that cobble/flag upgrade to concrete, so no more wasting a ton of wood etc.

[and drew]

Originally posted by ⎠ That_Raider_✘αᏉier⎠:

Is it me, or you get no wood from chopping down trees anymore? Like when i chop trees at most i would get 30 from one tree. When i used to get about a 100 or so.

They nerfed wood. Basically theres less trees and trees yield less wood. Essentially in order to erect proper defences early you need to rush for flagstone. Wood is more of a precious resource now rather then something that was just always of abundance. You need to take special care of your wood reserves in order to ensure survival.

[and drew]

Originally posted by Claw:

Wood was imbalanced for sure, but this is overkill. Everyone will just build flagstone houses on day one instead of wood. They haven't fixed the problem; they just nerfed one material for another.

I agree, I liked having to transition from wood - flagstone - cement - concrete - reinforced concrete. Now you just skip that whole first step.

[DrTuSo]

There is a new skill to get more out of tree with your stone axe. Took me 2 hours to find that xD
5 points for the first 2 level and 10% bonus on resource gathering with the stone axe.

I play with 2 real life hours per ingame day (PvE) and normally i would have finished my basic 7x7 wood tower on the first day. This time i had to spend the whole night with a 25% finished half tower.
I nearly crapped my pants when a random zombie was slowly wandering to my tower. I set the difficult to the highest and it took me more than 20 body hits with my bow, because i couldn't score a headshot.

[Abomination]

Originally posted by eG. Blackout:

There is a new skill to get more out of tree with your stone axe. Took me 2 hours to find that xD
5 points for the first 2 level and 10% bonus on resource gathering with the stone axe.

I play with 2 real life hours per ingame day (PvE) and normally i would have finished my basic 7x7 wood tower on the first day. This time i had to spend the whole night with a 25% finished half tower.
I nearly crapped my pants when a random zombie was slowly wandering to my tower. I set the difficult to the highest and it took me more than 20 body hits with my bow, because i couldn't score a headshot.

what is this perk called?