Scrap Wood Farming

[Monument2Sin]

Anyone got any tips on how to get a lot scrap wood without going on a furniture destroying frenzy?

[Maligner]

I don't own the game, but the play I've watched there are areas where you can find pallets that have wood on them you can pick up. So if you can find places where dwarves used to run forges and such, there should be some scrap wood lying around.

Tearing up crates and furniture is actually looking like a great way because you'll get tons of wood and metal bits, and your basic pick is always replaceable with these items.

[Chaoslink]

Can try cutting down trees too. Either way it’s a grind, but a passive one if you break nearly everything you see. Collapse scaffolds and structures to get high drops or find the pallets.

[NPC]

Doing full-scale demo on a ruined town block gets hundreds of them. It's also rather cathartic to just go ham on some houses.

[Kaery]

The halfgoblin 'fortress' that obscures the entrance to Narvi's Forge is also a big source of wood if you completely demolish it.

[NPC]

Originally posted by Kaery:

The halfgoblin 'fortress' that obscures the entrance to Narvi's Forge is also a big source of wood if you completely demolish it.

In our group's save, there is a bear cave five steps in front of the stairs up to the forge. Kiting that thing through the wooden structure was the fastest full demo I've ever seen in this game. That bear just charged right through it all like it was made of silly string.

[Krome Skulz]

Originally posted by NPC:

Doing full-scale demo on a ruined town block gets hundreds of them. It's also rather cathartic to just go ham on some houses.

^Basically this.

I was hitting a golden crate on the top floor of one building and took out the floor in the process only to have half the building fall. You could just take out the supports and it would probably work the same way.

[NPC]

Originally posted by Krome Skulz:

Originally posted by NPC:

Doing full-scale demo on a ruined town block gets hundreds of them. It's also rather cathartic to just go ham on some houses.

^Basically this.

I was hitting a golden crate on the top floor of one building and took out the floor in the process only to have half the building fall. You could just take out the supports and it would probably work the same way.

Can confirm! If it's free-standing, easiest thing to do is knock out the walls and any first-level pillars. However, many of them are built with partial or even full walls made out of indestructible stone, and those will keep mostly up even with all the foundations destroyed. For those you have to find and destroy any wall pieces joining them to the stone, and then it's All Fall Down,

[Rabid Urko]

Attack anything that remotely looks like wood :D

[ToJa]

go to main hall of elven workshop and destroy golbin man structures, there's a lot of scrap wood from it + elvish wood

[Ghiron]

I find a lot of wood scraps just spamming 'e' while running around. The floor seems to be littered with wood, cloth, metal scraps everywhere.

I also suspect they respawn as I swear I've down certain areas and there's still cloth and wood all over the ground. I do know for a fact, however, that the small rocks on the ground that you can mine (the ones that give you like 2 copper or tin) respawn, as I have a few outside my base and they respawned on top of some furniture.

[Monument2Sin]

Originally posted by Kaery:

The halfgoblin 'fortress' that obscures the entrance to Narvi's Forge is also a big source of wood if you completely demolish it.

This gave me like 10 stacks, thanks a lot

[Monument2Sin]

Originally posted by NPC:

Originally posted by Kaery:

The halfgoblin 'fortress' that obscures the entrance to Narvi's Forge is also a big source of wood if you completely demolish it.

In our group's save, there is a bear cave five steps in front of the stairs up to the forge. Kiting that thing through the wooden structure was the fastest full demo I've ever seen in this game. That bear just charged right through it all like it was made of silly string.

That's super interesting, didn't know they could do that

[Monument2Sin]

Originally posted by ToJa:

go to main hall of elven workshop and destroy golbin man structures, there's a lot of scrap wood from it + elvish wood

This was fantastic, thank you

[Neeko]

there's also Barrels and Boxes literally everywhere that break on a single swing or two. just cleaning those up will give you literal tons of wood. I never specifically went looking for wood, and yet over time i accumulated so much i could never use it all, and i'm maybe a third through the game or so.

[Kaery]

Yeah, bears will destroy a lot of things just by walking by them. Walls seem to be spared, as well as food spawns. You'll find wood and elvish wood here and there because wandering bears are destroying the trees. Kinda nice nothing despawns for that alone.

Also, agree with Neeko. You don't need to go looking for things, but as you explore, just keep hitting the occasional wooden box or similar on the ground that are in the way. You'll 'passively' (not really, but you know) amass quite a lot of wood over time as you move around.