Lumber

Can be fashioned into various usable equipment.

Notes

Lumber is a tier-3 building block crafted at the Sawmill from logs using the Carpentry specialty. It is a key early-to-mid game construction material — using Lumber in a room's walls, floor, and ceiling raises the room's tier to 3, which improves housing value for faster experience gain and enables higher-tier crafting station upgrades. Because Lumber also burns for 4000 fuel value and is used in dozens of intermediate and advanced recipes (including the Advanced Carpentry Table, furniture, and modern research papers), keeping a stock of it in town stores helps new players, carpenters, and cooks alike build better rooms and progress faster.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Carpentry level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Fine Carpentry (Carpentry Lv 3) Lumber Investment (Carpentry Lv 3) Extra Effort (Carpentry Lv 6) Quality Control (Carpentry Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Nail	2	item
Flaxseed Oil	0.5	item
Wood Board	10	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Wood Scrap	≈ 0.32
Food Scrap	≈ 0.02
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.01

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	60 calories
Craft time	0.32 min
Throughput	≈ 375 Lumber / hour (base)

As a block

Recycling & waste

• 0.15× Wood Scrap
• 0.05× Bio Residue
• 0.05× Iron Scrap

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 10× Wood Board (any)
• 2.67× Flax Stem
• 0.47× Iron Ore
• 0.01× Clay

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Block
• Burnable Fuel
• Constructable
• Fuel
• Ingredient
• Lumber
• Product

Obtained from

• Lumber

Used in

• Nylon Futon Bed
• Nylon Futon Couch
• Upholstered Chair
• Upholstered Couch

• Steam Tractor
• Steam Truck
• Steam Truck Flatbed

• Bank
• Mint

• Cast Iron Stove
• Town Bell

• Goat Mount
• Sheep Mount
• Stuffed Alligator
• Stuffed Bison
• Stuffed Elk
• Stuffed Goat
• Stuffed Jaguar
• Stuffed Wolf

• Ornate Wooden Frame Wide
• Square Lumber Pot
• Towel Rack

• Advanced Carpentry Table

• Recurve Bow

• Dendrology Research Paper Modern

• Laboratory
• Medium Shipyard
• Transmission Pole

• Standing Clay Pot

• Steel Axe
• Steel Hammer
• Steel Hoe
• Steel Machete
• Steel Pickaxe
• Steel Shovel
• Steel Sickle

• Bookshelf
• Coffee Table
• Decorative Ship Wheel
• Elevator Call Post
• Heated Display Cabinet
• Kitchen
• Large Hanging Lumber Sign
• Large Lumber Door
• Large Lumber Stockpile
• Large Standing Lumber Sign
• Large Windowed Lumber Door
• Long Lumber Shelf
• Lumber Bench
• Lumber Chair
• Lumber Door
• Lumber Dresser
• Lumber Hallway Table
• Lumber Stockpile
• Lumber Table
• Machinist Table
• Refrigerated Display Cabinet
• Small Hanging Lumber Sign
• Small Standing Lumber Sign
• Storage Silo
• Window Shutters Center
• Wooden Ceiling Light
• Wooden Fabric Bed
• Wooden Floor Lamp
• Wooden Kitchen Lamp
• Wooden Rudder
• Wooden Sliding Door
• Wooden Table Lamp

• Large Court
• Treasury

• Couch

• Iron Road Tool
• Wood Shop Cart

See also

Hardwood LumberSoftwood Lumber

Sturdy, straight-grained timber—the workhorse of any settlement's bones.