Oak Tree
Oak Tree
Section titled “Oak Tree”You can smell an old oak before you see it. The bark gives off a sour, tannic bite that settles on the tongue, and the canopy throws shade so thick that moss grows in rings ten paces out from the trunk. The bark itself is rough, nearly black in places, streaked with pale lichen that herbalists swear marks the healthiest specimens. Oaks grow where people settle, or perhaps people settle where oaks grow. Either way, their wood has built more walls, bridges, and coffins than any other timber in recorded history.
Oak Tree
A sturdy oak tree that provides wood when harvested
- Type: resource_node
- Kind: oak
- Amount: 100 / 100
- Harvest Yield: 5 per action
- Harvest Time: 2.5s
- Harvestable: ✓ Yes
- Spawn Weight: 40 %
- Spawn Count: 50 per map
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Section titled “Harvesting Notes”- Requires a basic axe or better. Stone-headed tools will work but dull fast against the dense grain.
- Yields 5 wood per harvest cycle
- Angle your fell cuts low to preserve the stump. Oak stumps regenerate over time if left intact, and a good stump will sprout new growth within two seasons.
- Seasoned harvesters listen for a hollow ring when striking the trunk. That sound means rot inside, and rot means the tree can buckle sideways without warning.
- Harvesting during wet weather makes the wood heavier but reduces splintering
Crafting Applications
Section titled “Crafting Applications”- Construction lumber: the primary building material for frames, supports, and defensive palisades
- Tool handles: oak’s shock resistance makes it ideal for axe hafts, hammer grips, and polearm shafts
- Fuel and charcoal: burns slow and hot, preferred by smiths who lack access to coal
- Tanning bark: stripped bark is ground into tannin powder used in leatherworking
Most provinces call it the Settler’s Tree. When the first colonists pushed into the Thornmarch centuries ago, oak timber let them raise stockades fast enough to survive the first winter. The wood was green, unseasoned, and it warped as it dried, but it held. Villages still plant an oak at their center as a founding marker. Cutting one down without the elder council’s blessing is considered a grave offense in rural holdings, the kind that gets your tools confiscated and your name posted at the market square.
There are stranger stories. Deep in the oldest forests, harvesters sometimes find oaks whose heartwood is stained black. Not from rot, but from something else entirely. The wood resists axes with unnatural stubbornness, and those who manage to split it report that the grain patterns form shapes uncomfortably close to letters in a dead script. Most woodcutters leave these trees standing. The ones who do not tend to sleep poorly afterward.