Timber piles

[Wournos]

Also, you can't build the timber piles on certain forest terrain without removing all the leaves by digging or paving the area first.

I've paved a border around my future timber pile area. I read in another thread that grassland will grow in areas like these and I want to see it happening.

[florenso]

Make sure piles are at least 10 tiles away from gates also

(I think gate's mold range is 8, but i use 10 to be safe)

i dont think gates do affect the rate, however i think player's does.

i just got a 100% rate out of a timber pile 3 tiles away from a gate.

[Darkside]

Performing a bit of thread necromancy here... but has anyone gathered more knowledge of this topic and know a good absolute minimum spec for having reliable timber piles?

From this thread I gather I should build a pile inside of a walled in area, where I allow 5 empty tiles of space between the tile the wall is built on and the tile the pile was built on (where the construction sign was plopped on). So overall its a 12x12 area with 1 tile border wall on outside and 5 tile buffer space with dead center tile where timber pile is built.

After pile is constructed dont enter this area until the pile is complete.

As for the result - do you ever get a mix of moldy + dry or is it always 100% dry or 100% moldy?

EDIT: Attaching Image:



Within the white area: from the text it indicates this space should be empty of EVERYTHING but from some posts here it seems you can stored containers and other objects just make sure you do not walk inside of this area - so a bit of uncertainty about that

[martinuzz]

As far as I have seen:

- paving does not directly influence mold. Timber piles not built on paving can still give 100% dry boards.
- 5 open tiles in between piles is required to be able to get 100% dry boards.
- it does look like time of harvest is of importance. As in, if you wait too long, there will be mold. Not 100% sure here, it could have been caused by wildlife.
- grassland can spawn on plowed terrain that is not directly adjecent to any biome, and spread from there.
- if you want 100% reliable piles, you will need a walled off, paved area. Why? Because wildlife spawns will not occur on pavement (at least I think they won't). You can wall of your piles and everything, but without paving, there will always be a chance of animal spawns getting too close to your piles, causing molds. Animals can spawn inside fences, and on claims.
- especially fear the wildlife spawns after some of your flattened land turns into grassland. In Salem, crickets are like termites.

I don't have my piles on walled off pavement. Too much of a waste of space. I take some animal damage for what it is. On average, I get about 85% dry boards.

[staxjax]

Darkside, that seems like the biggest waste of time ever for just one timber pile.

[Yourgrandmother]

Get about 70-75% dry boards using all the correct spacing. I don't feel like having a giant 30 timber pile paving showing up like a giant beacon on the world map to invite raiders.

Wondering for any of the 100% paving people, do you get 100% boards on ALL piles?

[Darkside]

Well these posts bring me some relief - I really did not want to use up all that space per timber pile I was under the impression that the pile was either all moldy or all dry! So I'll just dot piles about my claim only making sure they are not within 5 tiles of each other but of other stuff I wont worry too much about, and I should get 70% dry boards on average, sound right?

[staxjax]

If you are lucky, yeah. There is still the chance that you might get all moldy boards.

[Darkside]

If you are lucky, yeah. There is still the chance that you might get all moldy boards.

Curious, how do you handle your timber piles and what rates of dry boards do you regularly see?

[Yourgrandmother]

Make a 2nd carpenter bench and carry it with you to each pile as you harvest/plane. Then make sure you have ability to make a plank wall and store in signs as you go.

With 147 Hammer and Nail I have ~70% plane on average, sometimes goes up to 90% on some 24 cycles. However I have noticed that warped boards shares a different success chance and is more in the 90% range.