Board

A Board is the first thing you make from a Log: the Sawhorse turns one Log into 4 Boards. It is not the same item as a Wooden Plank. A plank is a Board worked once more at the Woodworking Workbench I, one Board for one plank, and recipes ask for one or the other by name.

Boards go mostly into buildings: the Woodworking Workbench I itself (8 Boards), the Autopsy Table I and Corpse Pallet I (4 each), Improve the Church I (8), and the Sawhorse (2). They also make the Wooden Sign for graves, and each blockage in the church takes a Board and a Bronze Detail to clear.

How to obtain

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Mastery Duration Tech points
Sawhorse
Log ×1
1 5 1

Gathered from

Name × Chance
Junk (broken barrels, trash piles) 1–2
Junk (broken barrels, trash piles) 1 0.25

Dug up or gathered at

Where ×
Alchemy Lab, Writing Basement, Morgue, Resurrection Lab 2–4

Found in

Name Where ×
Simple Chest Yard 2
Other sources, not in the demo (4)

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Mastery Duration Tech points
Circular Saw
Log ×1
3 6 2

Traders

Name Tier Stock
Builder · town building — build it first Tier I 10
Builder · town building — build it first Tier II 20
Builder · town building — build it first Tier III 30

Used for

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Woodworking Workbench I
Woodworking Workbench II
Board ×2
Stick ×2
1 4 11
Woodworking Workbench I
Woodworking Workbench II
Board ×1
2 4 2

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
Science ×1 10 3 ( Researcher −1 )

Each item is studied once, on the Study Table. Studying does not use the item up. With the Scientist perk, a 30% chance of a Story.

Build

Sawhorse ×2
Woodworking Workbench I ×8
Sluice Box ×4
Improve the Church I ×8
Autopsy Table I ×4
Corpse Pallet I ×4
Garden Well Upgrade ×6
Compost Pile ×2
Millstone ×2

Can be sold to

Herm
Other uses, not in the demo (14)

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Woodworking Workbench I
Woodworking Workbench II
Board ×4
4 8 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Blockage
Board ×1
2 3 2
Locked hatch
Board ×2
2 3 1
Workshop Courtyard
Workshop Courtyard
Workshop Courtyard
Workshop Courtyard
Board ×12

Build

Sawhorse ×2
Woodworking Workbench I ×8
Sluice Box ×4
Folio ×3
Autopsy Table I ×4

Town

Pottery Workshop ×12

Notes

  • The first Boards need no workbench but the Sawhorse, which The Concept of Wood gives you free on your first night home. The Woodworking Workbench I, and with it Wooden Planks, costs 8 Boards and 4 Bronze Nails.
  • You start with a few. The Simple Chest in the yard holds 2, the ten broken barrels in the yard and garden drop 1 or 2 each when you break them, and the broken shelf in the morgue drops 2 to 4.
  • Herm buys Boards but never sells them, at any tier. The only sellers are town stalls the demo does not have.