fireplace help dries timber piles?

[aj2001]

Do other actual wood piles count as these objects or not?

They do, and mold from one pile might contaminate other piles.

What if places near fires, will they burn?

We did consider that.

EDIT: And to make it clear, Hammer & Nail is not relevant in the drying process.

From here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1976&start=80

Loftar seem to imply that fires (woodpile & fireplace only?) helps dry timber piles? Would this be an exception to the 5 tiles spacing rule on timber pile?

I'm thinking of an arrangement of 4 timber piles forming a square 5 tiles from each other with a fireplace in the middle that's kept alight as much as possible.

[Dallane]

no where does he imply they help dry

[Gallient]

I think you might be reaching... like WAAAY reaching.

[Zamte]

Burning is not quite the same as drying. The only implication I'm seeing is that putting them near fire could have caused them to go up in flames rather than molding.

That said, I would like something more interesting that "Set aside this fairly large area for some wood, because we said so". Setting up the two by two grid of timber piles that I'd like and giving them five spaces in each direction is going to mean covering an area half the size of my entire current claim.

At the very least it'd be nice to have a structure similar to the meat smoker which could be used to dry them quicker and with a guarantee, at the cost of charcoal or something. Could toss it into the mechanics skill with the stamp mill so it's a higher "tech" structure.

[Jalpha]

When the piles were first implemented I considered placing them near burning charcoal piles.

[harflimon]

When the piles were first implemented I considered placing them near burning charcoal piles.

Just so you know, I ignorantly set one up next to a charcoal pile before knowing how bad the mold was going to be. As expected this did not turn out favorably for me.

[Gallient]

That said, I would like something more interesting that "Set aside this fairly large area for some wood, because we said so". Setting up the two by two grid of timber piles that I'd like and giving them five spaces in each direction is going to mean covering an area half the size of my entire current claim.

At the very least it'd be nice to have a structure similar to the meat smoker which could be used to dry them quicker and with a guarantee, at the cost of charcoal or something. Could toss it into the mechanics skill with the stamp mill so it's a higher "tech" structure.

This, I've been trying to set up 4 piles a day, which has left the nearest forest pretty well flattened and I feel like I have more area now devoted towards piles than everything else, just so I can get out a wall layer and a few sheds in under a month. I've been working with 120 H&N recently and I've been keeping numbers, averaging around 33% loss to planing. I'm fine with the loss and drying period, I think its balanced, but the tile spacing is driving me crazy. I would like if it was a bit more forgiving because it seems as if a single tile can be the difference between 35-40/40 and 10/40.

[Zamte]

That said, I would like something more interesting that "Set aside this fairly large area for some wood, because we said so". Setting up the two by two grid of timber piles that I'd like and giving them five spaces in each direction is going to mean covering an area half the size of my entire current claim.

At the very least it'd be nice to have a structure similar to the meat smoker which could be used to dry them quicker and with a guarantee, at the cost of charcoal or something. Could toss it into the mechanics skill with the stamp mill so it's a higher "tech" structure.

This, I've been trying to set up 4 piles a day, which has left the nearest forest pretty well flattened and I feel like I have more area now devoted towards piles than everything else, just so I can get out a wall layer and a few sheds in under a month. I've been working with 120 H&N recently and I've been keeping numbers, averaging around 33% loss to planing. I'm fine with the loss and drying period, I think its balanced, but the tile spacing is driving me crazy. I would like if it was a bit more forgiving because it seems as if a single tile can be the difference between 35-40/40 and 10/40.

I've made two piles so far, and both came out 40/40, but at the time I was living off of a claim with a friend, and he wasn't bothering to extend it. He was relying on nobody coming by and disturbing his stuff. So I just tossed it up near the fields I had plowed off to the side. They seem to do fine there, but it was one pile at a time which is a lot easier to fit, but a lot harder to accomplish anything with.