Gathering

Lumberjacking

Cut logs from trees with a hatchet or any axe.

Group: Gathering
Title it gives: Woodsman
Grows your stats: Strength (80%), Dexterity (20%)
Head start: No people starts with it

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try trains it, by how hard the finds you could make are. A full backpack stops the work.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Lumberjacking to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (80%), Dexterity (20%).

Titles

When Lumberjacking is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Woodsman
40 Novice Woodsman
50 Apprentice Woodsman
60 Journeyman Woodsman
70 Expert Woodsman
80 Adept Woodsman
90 Master Woodsman
100 Grandmaster Woodsman

The Lumberjacking tree

Every 10 points of Lumberjacking gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.

Feller

More wood from every tree, and trees down sooner.

Clean Cuts3 ranks
+10% chance per rank to chop twice as much.
Sharp Axe2 ranks
You chop 15% faster per rank.
Needs Clean Cuts
Timber!1 rank
A tree you fell drops a bundle of 5 more logs.
Needs Sharp Axe

Woodwise

Rarer woods, found more often.

Bark Reader3 ranks
Frostwood and other rare woods turn up 20% more often per rank.
Heartwood1 rank
Rare woods turn up twice as often again.
Needs Bark Reader

What you can find

Your skill decides which finds can come up; better skill makes rare finds more likely. The tool in your hand must also be hard enough.

Find	From skill	Where
kindling	0	Anywhere it can be worked
logs	0	Anywhere it can be worked
frostwood logs	60	Anywhere it can be worked

More in the guide: Gathering and materials · All skills