Game Development: Boarded up Feelings

[Jalpha]

Has anyone had boards show any adjustment to purity from oiling yet?

[Gallient]

Has anyone had boards show any adjustment to purity from oiling yet?

Nope, always 1.00 purity.

[Oreyeon]

Placed a timber pile in the middle of nowhere, closest object was a drying frame 17 tiles away, no trees, stumps, structures, nothin.
Still only got 7 dry boards and 33 moldy useless wood... Am I missing something? Do forageables that pop up around the area count as objects?

[Procne]

What about fields? They do count as objects.

I have placed timber piles 5 tiles away from walls and trees and they gave only dry boards. I have also placed timber piles 4 tiles from wall and from tree and it produced like 20% of moldy boards.

Also, timber pile with containers and tree logs right near it, but no wall or field within 5 tiles produced only dry boards as well.

To be specific - when I say 5 tiles away I mean that there were exactly 5 tiles between tile I put pile on, and a tile with wall / tree. So final distance is a bit smaller, since piles are bigger than 1 tile

[Oreyeon]

Lol, the more I read about and experiment with timber piles the more it seems like it's completely random and the tooltip is just there to confuse and frustrate us.

[Procne]

Are you sure you had no fields / buildings / other piles / walls / construction signs / fires within 5 tiles from your pile? At any point during those 5 days?

[Oreyeon]

Nothing that was built by me, and nothing that I noticed. The only possibility would be if someone built a fire or something near it on the edge of my property near the timber pile and it burnt out/got taken down before I saw it (which is pretty unlikely considering I stay online for an unhealthy amount of time).

[Procne]

Tree stump? ledge? wood block stack? Berry bush?

[Potjeh]

There does seem to be a huge degree of randomness. I had a pile give 40/40 dry boards, and another with the exact same spacing gave 17/40.

[Oreyeon]

Wait wait wait. Ledge? Are you telling me ledges cause mold growth? That never even occurred to me, although it's still around 8 or 9 tiles away from a ledge, is that enough? Would flattening the land and getting rid of the ledges decrease mold?