Sawmill

WorldObject

Used to saw wood into lumber.

Notes

The Sawmill is a placed crafting station that processes logs into lumber and other wood products, serving as the primary source of tier-1 building materials. It must be placed in an enclosed room of at least tier 2 with 68 m³ of free volume, meaning you need a brick-level or better workshop before building it. Equipping it with a Carpentry or Logging Advanced Upgrade module reduces resource and time costs for all work orders run at the station.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Blacksmith Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Blacksmith level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	4	item
Wood	16	category
Iron Saw Blade	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	≈ 0.32
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.3

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	600 calories
Craft time	6 min
Throughput	≈ 10 Sawmill / hour (base)

As a placed object

Accepts upgrade modules

• Advanced Upgrade
• Basic Upgrade
• Carpentry Basic Upgrade
• Logging Basic Upgrade
• Modern Upgrade

Crafted here

• Bookshelf
• Coffee Table
• Court Chair
• 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 Basic Wood Shelf
• Long Floating Wood Shelf
• Long Lumber Shelf
• Lumber
• Lumber Bench
• Lumber Chair
• Lumber Door
• Lumber Dresser
• Lumber Hallway Table
• Lumber Stockpile
• Lumber Table
• Machinist Table
• Particle Boards
• Refrigerated Display Cabinet
• Saw Boards
• Shelf Cabinet
• Short Basic Wood Shelf
• Short Floating Wood Shelf
• Small Hanging Lumber Sign
• Small Standing Lumber Sign
• Storage Silo
• Window Shutters Center
• Wood Double Shelf
• Wooden Ceiling Light
• Wooden Fabric Bed
• Wooden Floor Lamp
• Wooden Kitchen Lamp
• Wooden Rudder
• Wooden Sliding Door
• Wooden Table Lamp

Recycling & waste

• 3.8× 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

• 37.5× Iron Ore
• 16× Wood (any)
• 0.63× Clay

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

Categories

• Crafting Table
• Housing Objects
• Industrial
• On Off
• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Sawmill

See also

Advanced Carpentry TableAdvanced Masonry TableAdvanced Tailoring TableAnvilArrastraAssembly Line