Short Log

A Short Log is half a Log. You saw one Log into 2 Short Logs on the Sawhorse, or dig out a tree stump with the shovel for 1 to 3 of them (stumps need Farming mastery 2 or, for the largest, 5). Unlike a Log, it fits in your backpack.

Short Logs are what the Chopping Spot works with: one Short Log becomes 10 Firewood or 10 Wood wedges. Firewood is the only fuel for the furnace, the kiln and the Distillation Cube, and Wood wedges are needed to split stone, so every furnace batch and every Piece of stone goes back to Short Logs.

How to obtain

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Yields Mastery Duration Tech points
Sawhorse
Log ×1
×2 1 5 1
Circular Saw
Log ×1
× 3 ( Carpenter +2 ) 3 6 2

Gathered from

Name ×
Tree Stumps 1–3

Used for

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Chopping Spot
Short Log ×1
Firewood × 10 ( Axeman +5 )
2 5 1
Chopping Spot
Short Log ×1
Wood wedge × 10 ( Axeman +5 )
3 4 1

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

Chopping Spot ×2
Wooden Anvil ×1
Compost Pile Upgrade ×12
Barricade I ×2
Spiked Barricade I ×2
Fortified Barricade I ×2
Other uses, out of reach (1)

Build

Chopping Spot ×1

Notes

  • The Chopping Spot itself is built from 2 Short Logs, so saw a couple before you buy Chopping.
  • Barricades need them too. Each of the three barricades in the Barracks takes 2 Short Logs besides the Reinforced Planks.
  • The Wooden Anvil is a Short Log and a Stone. So it can go up as soon as you buy Bronze Works.