Wood

Wood is a raw material used to make things such as wood woads, quarterstaffs, cudgels, spellstaffs and totems. It can be collected by typing gather wood. Adding the suffix staff searches for pieces of wood suitable to make spellstaffs e.g. gather wood staff.

You gather up a wooden branch.
A wooden branch looks like it would make a good spellstaff.
You receive 60 experience.

As a Material type

Wood is also a material type of some items. It is the first type of material that a druid learns to carve on and can be searched for in containers, donation rooms, storage lockers and shops by adding the search switch -material wood.

As a raw material

Examples of objects collected using the gather wood command. Note: raw wood is temporary and will timeout.

Item: 'branch wood firewood'  
Weight: 3  Size: 5'10"
Type: OTHER   Composition: WOOD
Object is: 
Estimated cost: 3  
This item is in almost new condition.
A wooden branch looks like it would make a good spellstaff.

Making fires

Wood can also be used to make fires using the firestarting starting skill.

1. start the fire: start fire wood
2. Add fuel to fire to keep in burning: put wood campfire

It is important not to add too much fuel to the fire too quickly or it won't catch light. Starting a fire can be used to access the area A burned out forest.

Woodcrafting

Different types of wood suit different woodcrafted items differently. You can see what the affinity of a type of wood is with the wood check command. The output will look something like:

>wood check bran<
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A sassafras branch can be crafted into...
a club
a walking cane
a quarterstaff
a blowgun
a handle
a fishing pole

It is aromatic. Its fragrance will help relax the mind.
FYI, sassafras is a less common variety of wood and is highly sought after.

Note the last two lines.

Affinities

Different species of wood have affinities to different stats when crafted.

Aromatic

Check: It is aromatic. Its fragrance will help relax the mind.

Effect: Items crafted with Aromatic wood will have MANA_REGEN

Bitter

Check: It is bitter and astringent. Its fragrance will help sharpen perception.

Effect: ? (Possibly Wisdom and Mana Reg)

Dense

Check: It is dense and heavy. It will be good for crafting shields and melee weapons.

Effect: Weapons crafted with Dense wood will have higher damage, shields crafted will have higher AC

Flexible

Check: It is flexible. It will be good for crafting bows and crossbows.

Effect: Ranged weapons created with Flexible wood will have better damage. Favors DEX and MOV_REGEN stats

Resinous

Check: It is resinous. Its fragrance will help invigorate the body.

Effect: Items crafted with Resinous wood will have HP_REGEN, MOV_REGEN, CON, or STR

Rotten

Check: It is rotten. It will be difficult to work into a finished product, but the final result may be unique and interesting

Effect: Items crafted with Rotten wood will have random effects (Needs confirmation)

Soft

Check: It is soft and easily worked. It will be decent for making almost anything

Effect: More likely to succeed in craft. (Might be easier to MASTERCRAFT, needs confirmation)

Rigid

Check: It is very rigid. It would make excellent melee weapons and shields, with exotic properties.

Effect: Like Dense but less hitroll, more damroll, and with random secondary stats

Sweet

Check: It is sweet-smelling. Its fragrance will help focus the mind.

Effect: Items crafted with Sweet wood will have INT and WIS

Warped

Check: It has been warped and polished by exposure to water.

Effect: Items crafted with Sweet wood will have WIS and AGE

Species

Species	Affinity	Rarity
Apple	Sweet	Common
Aspen	Soft	Common
Birch	Dense	Common
Boxwood	Dense	Common
Catalpa	Soft	Common
Cedar	Resinous	Less Common
Chestnut	Dense	Less Common
Cottonwood	Soft	Common
Darkwood	Rigid	Common
Driftwood	Warped	Common
Elm	Flexible	Common
Hawthorn	Dense	Common
Hemlock	Resinous	Less Common
Hickory	Flexible	Common
Hornbeam	Dense	Less Common
Lacewood	Soft	Less Common
Larch	Resinous	Common
Laurel	Aromatic	Common
Linden	Soft	Common
Locust	Soft	Common
Maple	Soft	Common
Mulberry	Flexible	Common
Oak	Dense	Common
Peach	Sweet	Common
Pear	Sweet	Common
Pine	Resinous	Common
Poplar	Flexible	Common
Rotten	Rotten	Common
Rowan	Flexible	Common
Sassafrass	Aromatic	Less Common
Sumac	Flexible	Common
Sycamore	Soft	Common
Tulipwood	Dense	Common
Wahoo	Soft	Less Common
Willow	Flexible	Common
Worm-eaten	Rotten	Less Common