Lumberjacking

There is a particular satisfaction in felling a tree with an axe you forged yourself — and a particular profit, since carpenters and fletchers buy everything you can carry.

Stats: Strength (primary), Dexterity (secondary) · Title: Lumberjack

How it works

Use any axe on a tree. Per Scripts/Services/Harvest/Lumberjacking.cs:

• Trees hold wood in 4×4-tile banks (BankWidth = 4).
• Each successful chop yields 10 logs (ConsumedPerHarvest = 10).
• Cut logs into boards with an axe (boards weigh less and crafting wants them).

Wood types and required skill

Log	Required skill (chop)	Vein chance	Board-cutting skill*
Ordinary	0	49%	0
Oak	65.0	30%	65
Ash	80.0	10%	80
Yew	95.0	5%	95
Heartwood	100.0	3%	100
Bloodwood	100.0	2%	100
Frostwood	100.0	1%	100

* Board-cutting accepts Carpentry or Lumberjacking at the listed value (Scripts/Items/Resource/Log.cs, TryCreateBoards).

Chopping also turns up ML bonus resources at 100 skill (bark fragments 10%, luminescent fungi 3%, switches 2%, parasitic plants and brilliant amber 1% each).

The axe damage bonus

Lumberjacking is secretly a combat skill. In BaseWeapon.cs, melee damage includes lumberBonus = GetBonus(skill, 0.200, 100.0, 10.00) — +0.2% damage per skill point, plus a +10% bonus at 100.0, applied only when wielding an axe. A GM lumberjack swinging an axe hits roughly 30% harder from this bonus alone. Pairs famously with Swordsmanship (axes use the Swords skill).

Training

• 0–10: buy from an NPC who knows it (a trainer teaches up to one-third of its own skill, capped at 42.0 — Scripts/Mobiles/Normal/BaseCreature.cs, CheckTeach: baseToSet = ourSkill.BaseFixedPoint / 3) or just chop — every use gains below 10.0.
• 10–100: chop trees in a loop — it’s a pure resource grind and GGS carries it. Standard gain rules apply; anti-macro is off, and GGS guarantees slow-but-steady progress at high skill. Strength trains alongside (primary stat), which also raises your carry capacity for hauling logs. See using & training skills.

Where

Yew — the forest is the town. Also: forests north of Britain, east of Skara Brae, and west of Vesper (per world_knowledge.yaml).

Related skills

• Carpentry and Bowcraft/Fletching — consume your boards
• Swordsmanship — the axe-warrior pairing
• Items: resources — full wood tables