ALL ABOUT WOOD TYPES - Guide Tutorial DWARF FORTRESS Tips 

0:43 "...whatever this weight unit..." Urists. Always urists.

It's worth mentioning that for the purposes of barrels and furniture, it takes roughly a third the material when using rock for pots and furniture as compared to wood. In my opinion, the best material for pots is jet. Pots hold the same amount as barrels and jet pots in particular are lighter than most barrels.

It's also worth mentioning you can buy nether cap logs at embark and in my experience they are always available and cost the same as other wood. So it is wise to get nether cap logs at embark, use them to quickly throw down workshops near the wagon and then later use them to make corkscrews and pipe sections for magma safe pumps.

Good info. A couple additional uses for this info: Wooden weapons: For hammerer (if you want to give hammerer a weapon at all) a very light wooden blunt weapon may be better than no weapon at all. Alternatively, if you're doing a hard embark of some sort where you have no access to metal (yet), elf-style weapons may be all you can make. Heavier wood might be better than unarmed if you want to get your military trained for eventual better weapons. Who knows, they might even work okay against animals. Sorta. Might be better for hunting bolts also. Hmm, need to compare heavy wood to bone bolts for effectiveness. And factor in the different stack sizes (25 wood bolts vs whatever current bone bolt stack is... 10?) in efficiency of hunting. Hunters using small stacks of bolts waste a lot of time running back and forth. Probably applies to ballista bolts also if you're into siege weapons. Containers: Lighter wooden pots and bins, and wheelbarrows and minecarts, are always nice. Save the heavier wood for wall-building, blocks, fixed furniture (beds!), waterwheels, windmills, axles, etc. For trade goods, lighter is better due to caravan weight constraints. Especially if you trade large tools (minecarts/wheelbarrows.)

This guides are so good for people that are getting into the game

Cinnabar floored kill zones, featherwood stairs, platinum minecart battle wagons. Yes that is the best use dwarves have for platinum.

giant cave spiders are tier 1 building destroyers (they can only destroy wood) so ppl place them in caverns behind cage traps as bait

the Main difference between the wood is the Weight NO -> ist the COLOR =D also in ash- there is no difference in weight and color xD so Wood is all the same =D Also heavier wood is better for Bolts.... because of the Physics behind the system. Maybe its also more usefull for building trap componants or just for the Dwarven shotgun... edit: i have to admit, that after reading the wikipage about bolts .. the weight of bolts dont have any influence it seems... the sharpness is a better indicator for bolts and therfore wood is shit. .. all woods...

you took my advice about list videos, this is so much better

Wheelbarrows made from lighter wood move faster maybe? And stepladders from lighter wood should let the dwarves move them around a little bit faster.

Bless ya, was hoping for something like this after the last vid

Always like watching your videos. Even if I don't need 'em, I still like watching. 👍

Don't forget willow. It's only a bit heavier than custard-apple, but isn't fruit-bearing.

Wood types... What are we, a bunch of branch living, metal hating, Elves? As long as there are a few bins, boxes and barrels I'll be okay. :P

Since wood is so colorful, does it count when a dwarf that likes the given color sees it, or is only when the item is specifically dyed?

1:36 what is that in the background? thought it was my daughter calling me before I realised it was in the vids audio???

Thanks!

Is there some way to use Nethercap to make a refrigerator or other method to keep food from spoiling? Do NetherCap Barrels have any effect on drinks contained in them?

Could wooden weapons be good for justice and capturing when you set your militadwarves as dungeon keepers to reduce the chances of accidental fun?

Was doing some research, but couldn't find the info on how to make subterranean trees grow, used to be easy in previous versions, but now they never seem to grow past the sappling phase.

Historically, heavy woods were better for ballista bolts too due to their weight but someone may want to confirm if this is still true. Heavier bolts for more damage so glumprong iirc was THE wood for that. I stopped playing heavily around 0.39 and there have been a lot of chances since.

Nice thank you.

I usually cut non-fruit trees.

Ash of which wood can be used for glazing? My dwarfs with one bar of ash glaze only once. This bar do not disappear. Game wiki said that you can use one bar for glazing 150 clay crafts. But that don't work. Ash just lay in stockpile, but kiln say: there is no glazing item. What's wrong? We need guide about glazing

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