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[SirDruben]

Okay so.........

The type of non-orchard trees are:

Birch, Elm, Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce, and Willow. Pine and Spruce are the softwood.

There are three stages of growth, minor, medium, and major.

Here are my questions:

1)Quality is a function of the sapling, not of the age of the tree, right?

Billets take the least wood and logs take the most (with boards in-between) therefore...

2)It *SEEMS* as tho Elm and Maple and Oak offer the best trees for logs. Is this true? Or do all hardwood trees give the same amount of logging wood (i.e. billets/boards/logs) based entirely on the Quality?

3)Will a Quality 75 Elm give more logging wood than a Q25 Elm (both major)?

4)Do they grow at the same rate as crops? Also... is that midnight-proper or is it when we get what my friends and I call sunrise/sunset lag? Also... what's the default growth cycle?

5)(Edit-added) How deep does the Forest Soil have to be if I'm trying to turn Fertile Soil areas into an area for my Lumber Orchard?

I'm planning my Lumber Orchard and I need to know this info first. For example... an area for billet trees (i.e. LQ saplings), etcetera.

THANKS!!!!!!!!

[WhiteTree]

In my experience, high quality major oak trees have always given me the most building logs. Maple and Elm are good alternatives. I have my own tree farm as well, and it mostly consists of 90+ quality oak trees. Also remember that when picking sprouts, the quality will be slightly lower (or dramatically lower; depends) than the quality from the tree unless your Forestry level is maxed out. I have max forestry, so I get 96 quality sprouts from 96 quality trees.

So, I do believe that Oak, Maple and Elm are best for buildings logs, and they do give more wood of any kind based on their quality. This is how my tree farm functions:

Oak is always 90+ quality, no exceptions. High quality major oak trees give a ton of building logs hands down. I have Maple trees for the purpose of hardwood boards.

I also keep a patch or 2 of 80+ quality Pine trees for softwood boards.

I read somewhere that an Oak tree takes ROUGHLY, but don't quote me on it, ~33 in-game days to grow. On my server, the day cycle is set to 2 hours so it should take around 3 days in real life for the oak to grow. This is also why I don't plant all of my trees in the same day; I plant 2 new segments every day.

[B101uk]

#5: it just requires 15 stone (1/2 a shovel) of forest soil in order to plant a tree in it.

amount of soil of less than 15 stone cause the ground to remain as the original soil, so dumping 5 stone then an additional 10 stone of forest soil don't equate to the same as dumping >15 stone of forest soil in one go.

you can split stacked items in the inventory etc by holding down shift then left clicking on the stacked item, so you can split piles of forest soil in your inventory into 15 stone amounts to maximise planting between refilling your inventory with more soil.

in my experience, major oaks with 100% quality produce significantly more billets/boards/building logs than major oaks of 50% quality etc.

I haven't compared actual billets/boards/building log numbers e.g. major oaks with 100% quality vs. major Birch, Elm, Maple, Pine, Spruce, and Willow which are also 100% quality, but I get the feeling from all the sawing I have done that oak, maple, elm, willow, spruce/pine then birch is the order of quantity if quality is the same

[Nopsi]

Okay so.........

The type of non-orchard trees are:

Birch, Elm, Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce, and Willow. Pine and Spruce are the softwood.

There are three stages of growth, minor, medium, and major.

Here are my questions:

1)Quality is a function of the sapling, not of the age of the tree, right?

Billets take the least wood and logs take the most (with boards in-between) therefore...

Right. Quality is ONE factor for the the amount of items you can get out of one log.

Off a MEDIUM (not Major) oak wood tree with Quali 91 hardwood log gives me 60 billets or 30 boards or 5 building logs.

Major Oak Log Quali 8 (!!!) gives me 24 Billets.

2)It *SEEMS* as tho Elm and Maple and Oak offer the best trees for logs. Is this true? Or do all hardwood trees give the same amount of logging wood (i.e. billets/boards/logs) based entirely on the Quality?

Major Maple Quali 1 gives me 10 Billets
major oak quali 8 gives me 24 billets
Major Willow Quali 34 gives me 19 Billets

3)Will a Quality 75 Elm give more logging wood than a Q25 Elm (both major)?

Yes

4)Do they grow at the same rate as crops? Also... is that midnight-proper or is it when we get what my friends and I call sunrise/sunset lag? Also... what's the default growth cycle?

Thats unknown.

5)(Edit-added) How deep does the Forest Soil have to be if I'm trying to turn Fertile Soil areas into an area for my Lumber Orchard?

huh? just get one layer of forest soil and make "drop" on ground and voila, plant trees

I'm planning my Lumber Orchard and I need to know this info first. For example... an area for billet trees (i.e. LQ saplings), etcetera.

THANKS!!!!!!!!

[Maitri]

Sorry to necro this thread but I have two questions:

Does class affect wood amount? Will medium Q90 give the same as a major Q90 oak tree?

Does the Sawmill work?

edit: So, a bit of a test. I planted an orchard of Oak trees at the same time however the 94Q trees hit major long before the 87Q have. They're still mediums. (Waiting to see if they reach major status and how much I can draw from them.

Any information on Quality versus Class and maybe speed of gaining each stage based on Q?

[Maitri]

Apologies for the double post but an update.

So lower quality trees CAN acheive major status, giving them somewhat close to the level of lumber production that higher qualities get however it just takes a lot longer.

I tested this with 94Q Oaks and 86Q oaks.

The 94Q popped to Major after planting after about a day and a half (real life) whereas the 86Q took almost double, roughly two to three days.