How to get more wood?

[SoULLeSs]

Title, I started in a flat area with some mountains and not many trees, thing is, now I'm lacking very much in wood, what can I do to get my wood stock back? I need to make more beds and barrels since I'm slowing down in the drinks I have to solve this, before my dwarves die with thirst. Is there any crop, mushroom that can provide wood too? I started to look for caves in my base but so far 5 levels and none

[Erei]

Rock pots will work but are heavier than wood barrel. Glass pot are lighter, so I always make them if I have sand :)

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by xBocT1k:

Originally posted by Trickster83:

So rock pots will work as wooden barrels?

yes but keep in mind that stone has more weight, so dwarf speed with it will be reduced while hauling

I don't mind, I would rather use them temporarily while I get my wooden stockpile back into place, shame can't make stone beds though

[MadAsgardian]

If you haven't already, I believe you can disassemble your cart to gain a few pieces of wood.

[Erei]

Yep, which is why I mentioned that. If you are wood starved, rock barrels are better than nothing.

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by MadAsgardian:

If you haven't already, I believe you can disassemble your cart to gain a few pieces of wood.

Already did that

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by Erei:

Yep, which is why I mentioned that. If you are wood starved, rock barrels are better than nothing.

Next time I gotta choose a better starting place, with a bit more wood I guess

[Dagmar]

Caverns are going to be your best bet for this.

Two levels below the surface (to avoid any accidental collapses), start digging out a reasonably-sized area that will be your indoor pasture (let's say, 15x15) by using the ramp tool. Then remove whatever isolated ramps get left behind, and repeat that until your internal cavern is ~5 levels deep (so you will occasionally get large mushroom trees). You'll find a use for all those stones later, to be sure. DO NOT smooth or tile the floor. Go ahead and bring your livestock indoors using a pasture in this chamber.

While you're digging that out, somewhere near the middle of the map (to max out the chances you don't accidentally miss the first cavern) start a dwarf digging a stairwell down to -50 (you should hit the first cavern well before that, and if you didn't, try again somewhere 20 tiles away). When you pierce that cavern, spores will be released, after which things will start growing on every unsmoothed/unconstructed surface. You don't need the hassle of what might come out of that cavern yet, so just go ahead and build a floor and/or wall over the hole you made.

Alternatively you can not go for large mushroom trees and only make the indoor pasture one z-level deep, but if you do that aim for 50-75 units on a side. The larger you can make it, the more little trees (and herbs and whatever) you'll be able to gather. Just don't build a bunch of workstations in there and don't have your dorfs stomping through the place all the time to get in and out of your fortress because stompy boots interfere with foliage growth (in case you never noticed your dorfs tromping bald spots on the map).

[xBocT1k]

Originally posted by Trickster83:

Originally posted by xBocT1k:

yes but keep in mind that stone has more weight, so dwarf speed with it will be reduced while hauling

I don't mind, I would rather use them temporarily while I get my wooden stockpile back into place, shame can't make stone beds though

agreed, no stone beds in the stone fortress, weird, but you can add mod for stone beds if you like that idea

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by xBocT1k:

Originally posted by Trickster83:

I don't mind, I would rather use them temporarily while I get my wooden stockpile back into place, shame can't make stone beds though

agreed, no stone beds in the stone fortress, weird, but you can add mod for stone beds if you like that idea

Nah I'm still playing vanilla and learning the game, but I'm sure I'm gonna play this game a lot, I got over 4k hours in Rimworld thanks to the modding community, so far I'm loving this game, the digging part remembers me DK, it has dwarves, and has depth of complexity which I like a lot, 3 in 1