Wood type and effects?

[Apostolos]

I heard someone say that a patch a while ago made the wood types not have any effect anymore and that the wurmpedia was out of date. Does anyone have any solid testing with say oak decay rates on use vs other wood and know for sure?

[AuddieD]

Wood type doesn't give a different texture to many items now - boats at the least. I have not really paid attention, but I think barrels and such still show a wood texture.

However, there are bonuses for different woods on different things. Oak damages less on use. Cedar decays less.

On coal piles, cedar burns slower because of its decay ticks but it doesn't have any more output in coal. It just burns longer. Oak produces more coal because of its decay tick. I'm not sure why because cedar doesn't but... it does. Walnut gives a 10% quality bonus on the coal.

The only thing I can tell you with 100% certainty is that walnut is still giving the bonus QL to coal, tar, and ash. I still make barrels and bins and crates from cedar and I still make tools and crafting stations (looms so on) from oak. If the bonuses are no longer there, I have not noticed them missing.

[Femme Fatale]

Keep in mind you dont have to build the entire item from say for example "oak" you just have to make sure the last piece is of the wood type you want.

[Protus]

yeah the wood types have been studied for a long time and the newer wood types for less. You may stumble across soemthing, but the WO players are pretty thorough over time testing things.

[Apostolos]

OK.. but it was a WO player who said one of the latest patches to WO removed the unique abilities of wood (specifically mentioning that oak no longer takes less dmg which is what got me asking) I guess I will have to test it myself if nobody knows for sure from first hand testing. (proly do a test with a spindle on some cotton)

[Femme Fatale]

Originally posted by Apostolos:

OK.. but it was a WO player who said one of the latest patches to WO removed the unique abilities of wood (specifically mentioning that oak no longer takes less dmg which is what got me asking) I guess I will have to test it myself if nobody knows for sure from first hand testing. (proly do a test with a spindle on some cotton)

Unless that player made comment is backed up with a official post I would take with a grain of salt, would make no sense for them to remove that aspect of the game?

[SimplySapien]

There is actually an item you can summon to test decay rates, it appears as a potato when dropped and a GM can create them, you can select the material type from the creation menu and spawn a few of diffirent types to get actual numbers to run some math on it. But as above, Wurm has always been a trial and error game and even if some wiki info is outdated that doesnt mean it doesnt still apply. If i recall it wasnt the material effects that were removed from decay chains but the impact of container within container. But again this is how rumors get started and we can see the end result of that so i digress :)

[River]

https://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Wood