Woodcutting
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Description
Woodcutting is the skill used in cutting trees down, chopping them up for logs, and creating kindling.
The quality of the felled trees you get depends on how high your woodcutting skill is. The quality of the log you get from felled trees depends on the felled tree quality - a higher skill yields more logs of top quality, lower skill yields more QL 1 logs. The same goes for kindling.
Tools required
A hatchet is best. If unavailable, other axe types also work.
Additionally, you can also use a long sword, huge sword, shovel, pickaxe, sickle, or scythe to cut down a tree, but only an axe will be able to chop a felled tree into logs.
Products
Tree types
- Pine - Very abundant.
- Birch - Burns well and is good for making buildings as it grows fast and is generally abundant.
- Willow - These hulking trees are like oaks in that they destroy other trees and must be planted apart. Used for making bows
- Oak - Takes less damage and is great for making wooden handles and other things. Oaks require room to grow and will kill other trees near it. They must be planted by themselves and must be planted away from each other. Slow growing. Must be 1 open tiles in any direction from any tree
- Cedar - Best used for containers, as it slows the decay rate of the container. Does not effect the items inside the container. Also used for making arrows.
- Maple - Produces maple sap when in season. Also used for making arrows.
These are fruit trees, and barely produce any wood when cut down:
Tips
- High quality logs are especially required for improving carpentry items.
- Very old trees have more wood. Cutting trees younger than mature down to get wood is a waste of time and resources.
- Having a good Forestry skill can be useful while woodcutting because it allows you to tell the age of trees without examining them.
Guides
Titles
- Lumberjack at 50 skill
- Timberman at 70 skill
- Deforester at 90 skill
