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'''Lumberjacking''' is the skill of chopping trees into logs. Every chair, crate, bow, arrow and instrument in New Bradford starts as a log a lumberjack hacked out of the forest. Lumberjacking also makes you better with an axe in a fight, which is why so many axe fighters carry the skill.

This page explains how lumberjacking works in New Bradford, from your first swing at a tree to Grandmaster. To turn your logs into something, see [[Skills/Carpentry|Carpentry]] and [[Skills/Bowcraft/Fletching|Bowcraft/Fletching]].

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== At a glance ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Skill category
| Crafting & gathering
|-
! Tools
| Any axe except the war axe (see [[#Axes|Axes]])
|-
! What you can chop
| Logs, 10 at a time
|-
! Where
| Oaks, walnuts, cedars, cypresses, willows, yews and most other trees
|-
! Other uses
| Extra damage with axes in combat
|-
! Skill cap
| 100 (Grandmaster)
|-
! Stat it can raise
| Strength
|-
! Starting gear
| Choosing Lumberjacking as a starting skill gives you a hatchet.
|}

== How to chop ==
# '''Equip an axe''' (hold it in your hands). An axe in your backpack won't chop trees: ''"The axe must be equipped for any serious wood chopping."''
# Double-click the axe. You'll be asked ''"What do you want to use this item on?"''
# Click a tree '''no more than 2 tiles away'''. You can click the trunk or the leaves.
# Your character hacks at the tree '''1 to 3 times''' (usually twice), about 1.6 seconds per swing. Then you either get logs (''"You put some logs into your backpack."'') or ''"You hack at the tree for a while, but fail to produce any useable wood."''
# Double-click the axe again to keep chopping.

Every successful chop puts '''10 logs''' in your backpack, 20 stones of wood. If your backpack can't hold them, ''"You can't place any wood into your backpack!"'' and '''the logs are lost''', so watch your weight.

{| class="wikitable"
! class="unsortable" | !! Wood !! Weight !! How you get it !! Used for
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Log.png|link=|Log]]
| '''Log''' || 2 || Chop a tree with an axe (10 per chop) || [[Skills/Carpentry|Carpentry]], [[Skills/Bowcraft/Fletching|Bowcraft/Fletching]], selling
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Board.png|link=|Board]]
| '''Board''' || 1 || Double-click an axe and target logs in your backpack (1 board per log) || The same as logs, at half the weight
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Fletch_Kindling.png|link=|Kindling]]
| '''Kindling''' || 5 || Cut from a tree with a sword or knife, or make with [[Skills/Bowcraft/Fletching|Bowcraft/Fletching]] || Lighting a campfire with [[Skills/Camping|Camping]]
|}

'''Axes never wear out''' from chopping, and you can chop while riding a mount.

=== Your chance ===
Your chance of getting logs is '''the same as your Lumberjacking''': 30% at 30.0, 75% at 75.0, and every time at 100.0. There's only one kind of wood, so there's nothing else to unlock.

== Where you can chop ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
| [[File:NB_Tree_Oak.png|link=|Oak tree]]
| [[File:NB_Tree_Walnut.png|link=|Walnut tree]]
| [[File:NB_Tree_Cedar.png|link=|Cedar tree]]
| [[File:NB_Tree_Forest.png|link=|Forest tree]]
|-
| ''Oak tree''
| ''Walnut tree''
| ''Cedar tree''
| ''Forest tree''
|}

Most trees in New Bradford can be chopped: oaks, walnuts, cedars, cypresses, willows, the giant yews, most apple, peach and pear trees, and plain forest trees. Palms, banana trees and stumps can't: ''"You can't use an axe on that."''

=== Tree spots ===
The forest is divided into '''tree spots''', each a block of '''4 × 3 tiles'''. Here's how a spot works:
* '''It holds 20 to 45 logs.''' Each successful chop takes 10, so a spot gives you 2 to 4 chops. When it's empty you'll see ''"There's not enough wood here to harvest."''
* '''It refills 20 to 30 minutes after the first chop.''' The timer starts the first time anyone chops a full spot. When it runs out, the spot comes back completely full.
* Everyone chopping in the same spot shares its wood.

When a tree runs dry, move a few steps to the next tree and keep going.

== Axes ==
Any of these axes chops wood. They're also real weapons for [[Skills/Swordsmanship|Swordsmanship]]. Blacksmiths can make all of them except the hatchet; tinkers make hatchets. See [[Skills/Blacksmithy|Blacksmithy]] and [[Skills/Tinkering|Tinkering]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! class="unsortable" | !! Axe !! Strength needed !! Damage !! Speed !! Weight !! Buy from !! Made by
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_BattleAxe.png|link=|Hatchet]]
| '''Hatchet''' || data-sort-value="15" | 15 || data-sort-value="2" | 2–17 || data-sort-value="40" | 40 || data-sort-value="4" | 4 || Weaponsmiths (25 to 27 gold) || Tinkers (30.0 Tinkering, 4 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_Axe.png|link=|Axe]]
| '''Axe''' || data-sort-value="35" | 35 || data-sort-value="6" | 6–33 || data-sort-value="37" | 37 || data-sort-value="4" | 4 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (40 gold) || Blacksmiths (34.2, 14 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_DoubleAxe.png|link=|Double axe]]
| '''Double axe''' || data-sort-value="45" | 45 || data-sort-value="5" | 5–35 || data-sort-value="37" | 37 || data-sort-value="8" | 8 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (52 gold) || Blacksmiths (29.3, 12 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_BattleAxe.png|link=|Battle axe]]
| '''Battle axe''' || data-sort-value="40" | 40 || data-sort-value="6" | 6–38 || data-sort-value="30" | 30 || data-sort-value="4" | 4 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (26 gold) || Blacksmiths (30.5, 14 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_LargeBattleAxe.png|link=|Large battle axe]]
| '''Large battle axe''' || data-sort-value="40" | 40 || data-sort-value="6" | 6–38 || data-sort-value="30" | 30 || data-sort-value="6" | 6 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (33 gold) || Blacksmiths (28.0, 12 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_TwoHandedAxe.png|link=|Two-handed axe]]
| '''Two-handed axe''' || data-sort-value="35" | 35 || data-sort-value="5" | 5–39 || data-sort-value="30" | 30 || data-sort-value="8" | 8 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (32 gold) || Blacksmiths (33.0, 16 iron ingots)
|-
| class="nb-art-cell" | [[File:NB_Smith_ExecutionersAxe.png|link=|Executioner's axe]]
| '''Executioner's axe''' || data-sort-value="35" | 35 || data-sort-value="6" | 6–33 || data-sort-value="37" | 37 || data-sort-value="8" | 8 || Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (30 gold) || Blacksmiths (34.2, 14 iron ingots)
|}

The '''war axe''' is a mace-style weapon and '''can't chop wood'''. Pickaxes are for [[Skills/Mining|Mining]].

== Other things an axe does ==
Double-click your axe (it doesn't have to be equipped for these) and target:
* '''Logs in your backpack''' to cut them into '''boards''', one board per log. Boards weigh half as much as logs and work the same in [[Skills/Carpentry|Carpentry]] and [[Skills/Bowcraft/Fletching|Bowcraft/Fletching]]. The logs must be in your backpack: ''"This item must be in your backpack to be used."''
* '''A corpse''' to carve it, just like a knife.
* '''Furniture''' in your backpack, or a movable piece within 3 tiles, to smash it: ''"You destroy the item."'' Containers spill their contents, and a trapped container goes off.
* '''A house add-on''' in your own house to take it back up as a deed. See [[Skills/Carpentry#House add-ons|Carpentry]].

=== Kindling without an axe ===
Double-click a sword or knife and target a tree within 2 tiles to cut '''one piece of kindling''': ''"You put some kindling into your backpack."'' It takes no skill, but it uses up wood from the tree spot. Kindling is what you light a campfire with. See [[Skills/Camping|Camping]].

== Lumberjacking in combat ==
Lumberjacking makes you hit harder with any '''axe''' (the axes above, plus the pickaxe):
* '''+1% damage for every 5 points''' of Lumberjacking (+20% at 100.0).
* At '''100.0''' you get an '''extra 10%''' on top, so a Grandmaster lumberjack hits '''30% harder''' with an axe.
* Every hit you land with an axe is also a chance to raise your Lumberjacking a little.

The war axe doesn't count, because it isn't an axe-type weapon.

Lumberjacking also counts toward your '''combat skill total''' for weapon moves. Add up your Swordsmanship, Mace Fighting, Fencing, Archery, Parrying, Lumberjacking, Stealth and Poisoning: at 200 or more each weapon move costs '''5 less mana''', and at 300 or more '''10 less'''.

== Training Lumberjacking ==
* '''Every chop''' can raise your Lumberjacking, '''whether it succeeds or fails'''.
* '''Below 10.0''' you gain on every attempt, sometimes several tenths at once. Above that, each attempt has a chance to gain 0.1.
* Your chance to gain is better the lower your skill is, and it also drops as you get closer to 100 Lumberjacking and to your total skill cap.
* Since every tree works the same, just keep chopping from 0 all the way to 100. Cut the logs into boards and sell them, or keep them for crafting.
* Lumberjacking tops out at '''100.0 (Grandmaster)'''. There are no power scrolls for Lumberjacking.
* Reaching 100.0 adds Lumberjacking to the '''Skills Mastered''' count on your achievements.
* Town carpenters and farmers will also teach you the basics for a fee.

'''Strength:''' each successful chop has about a 6% chance to raise your Strength by 1, at most once every 10 minutes (as long as your Strength is set to rise).

== Messages you'll see ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Message !! What it means
|-
| ''You put some logs into your backpack.'' || Success: 10 logs.
|-
| ''You hack at the tree for a while, but fail to produce any useable wood.'' || That chop failed. Try again.
|-
| ''There's not enough wood here to harvest.'' || This tree spot is empty. Move to another tree.
|-
| ''The axe must be equipped for any serious wood chopping.'' || Hold the axe in your hands.
|-
| ''That is too far away.'' || Get within 2 tiles of the tree.
|-
| ''You can't use an axe on that.'' || That isn't a tree you can chop.
|-
| ''You can't place any wood into your backpack!'' || Your backpack is full or too heavy. The logs are lost.
|-
| ''This item must be in your backpack to be used.'' || Put the logs in your backpack before cutting them into boards.
|-
| ''You destroy the item.'' || You smashed a piece of furniture, or took up an add-on.
|}

== Tips ==
* '''Cut logs into boards''' as you go. Ten logs weigh 20 stones; ten boards weigh 10.
* '''Watch your weight.''' Logs pile up fast, and a full pack throws away the next chop.
* '''Use a pack animal''' or a nearby house to haul wood home.
* '''Take a hatchet''' if you're weak. It needs only 15 Strength and weighs 4 stones.
* '''Axe fighters''' should raise Lumberjacking to 100 for the +30% damage.

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