Wood is rare?

[ChanceGateau]

Really? The entire archipelago is a bleeding forest, the bunkers are filled with wooden objects (crates, pallets etc), trucks have wooden rails in the back... and wood is limited to collecting those tidbits on the ground, or those somewhat rare saplings... seriously?

Why can't we cut down trees? Harvest from fallen logs? Scrap wooden objects?

To the DEVS: Wood is not rare...

[Uber Conan]

There are a couple areas where you can find stacked wood, but yeah, it's more trouble to find than it should be. The best way to acquire wood is recycling emergency flares and fireworks for 2 wood each.

[ChanceGateau]

Originally posted by Uber Conan:

There are a couple areas where you can find stacked wood, but yeah, it's more trouble to find than it should be. The best way to acquire wood is recycling emergency flares and fireworks for 2 wood each.

Yeah, really annoying how a lot of things require wood and it's rare; when technically it shouldn't be.

[Keller20]

It's kind of a joke that in rural Sweden wood is a rare resource.

[ChanceGateau]

It's called tree farming..., look it up. :P

[Werewolf]

Flares and fireworks are good for getting wood when you recycle them.

[Zockopa]

Its not rare at all. It grows everywhere.

[SniperGirl]

The more crafting the devs add to the game, less common things become.

Could be that the things needing wood to craft has to be a very exact wood. Collecting wood piles is a thing of the past.

[ChanceGateau]

Originally posted by Zockopa:

Its not rare at all. It grows everywhere.

Exactly what I said... trees everywhere, Crates, Pallets and whatnot all over the place, but only a few places to get wood scraps, and yeah, a few saplings or whatever that gives 1 unit of wood for each one collected. It is unnecessarily time-consuming to walk around collecting saplings; and what if you use those flares as a way of distracting the robots? Can't scrap what you need.

Originally posted by SniperGirl:

The more crafting the devs add to the game, less common things become.

Could be that the things needing wood to craft has to be a very exact wood. Collecting wood piles is a thing of the past.

Agreed, add something to crafting, you need to adjust the levels of a few things.

In regards to the wood, if you are making an old-fashioned recurve bow (made of yew generally), or baseball bats (hickory); sure, a certain type of wood is better than others, but when building walls or watch towers and whatnot... any wood could be used.

I don't think "wood piles" (like on Fallout 76 etc) are the answer. The size of the pieces aren't realistic when building large objects. I think the oldie-but-goodie axe/felling trees might be better. At the least, be able to process fallen logs; so they don't have to create the animations/actions... just a "SCRAP" button over the logs and *POOF* 10-20 units of wood in one go.

[Velmoria]

I'm afraid the whole material economy is based on assumption that the player has all the DLC. It become more noticeable when certain materials are rare but the usage is also rare aside Apparel crafting, but then it used more often for DLC utility items like Hacking Dart (Rubber & Copper) or Portable Turret (Aluminum).

As for wood, it become ridiculously easy to get by having a bow (Resistance weapon DLC)) with Ammo Pack.

[Zockopa]

To be honest collecting wood in a game that requires a lot of walking through nature isnt
a problem. In fact nearly all collactable resources are abundant,except cement and uranium,which are both tight to tasks.
Imho for the little bases you can build in the game its all rather easy to come by and plentiful.

[Doctor Dementor]

Originally posted by ChanceGateau:

Really? The entire archipelago is a bleeding forest, the bunkers are filled with wooden objects (crates, pallets etc), trucks have wooden rails in the back... and wood is limited to collecting those tidbits on the ground, or those somewhat rare saplings... seriously?

Why can't we cut down trees? Harvest from fallen logs? Scrap wooden objects?

To the DEVS: Wood is not rare...

Ludonarrative Dissonance
they needed a key ressource to build things but for gameplay and balance reasons they made it rare they should have thought on another material or at least having for main ressource metalic scraps you get by killing the robots