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Softwood Lumber Bench

Softwood Lumber Bench

WorldObject

A lumber bench for when you need extra seating space than a traditional chair.

Weight1000 gMax stack100SkillCarpentry Lv 3StationSawmill

Notes

The Softwood Lumber Bench is a tier-1 seating furniture item placed inside a room to contribute to housing value. As a Chair-type object, each additional bench placed in the same room provides only half the value of the previous one, so a few well-spaced benches are more effective than many duplicates. For best results, place one or two benches in a furnished room rather than stacking many together.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Nail2item
Lumber8category
Wood Board5category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Wood Scrap≈ 0.26
Iron Scrap≈ 0.04
Bio Residue≈ 0.03

Approximate โ€” 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 โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor60 calories
Craft time4 min
Throughput≈ 15 Lumber Bench / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomSeatingHousing value3Furniture typeChairRepeats worth50% eachSize2×2×1

Each extra copy of this furniture type in the same room counts for less housing value than the one before.

Viewer
Room requirements
IndoorsIn an enclosed roomRoom volume6 m³

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

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

Steps6Total labor73.91 calTotal time4.12 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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