Redwood Tree
Redwood Tree
Section titled “Redwood Tree”The first thing you notice is the silence. A mature redwood swallows sound the way a well swallows stones. Its crown disappears into mist and low cloud, and the trunk is wide enough that three men linking arms cannot reach around it. Root systems this old have cracked granite, diverted streams, and buckled footpaths that the local road wardens gave up repairing decades ago. Stand at the base and look up. You will feel very small. That feeling is accurate.
Redwood Tree
A massive ancient redwood tree that provides abundant wood
- Type: resource_node
- Kind: redwood
- Amount: 200 / 200
- Harvest Yield: 10 per action
- Harvest Time: 4.0s
- Harvestable: ✓ Yes
- Spawn Weight: 20 %
- Spawn Count: 25 per map
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Section titled “Harvesting Notes”- Requires a basic axe at minimum, though a reinforced or steel axe is strongly recommended
- Yields 10 wood per harvest, roughly double that of a common oak
- Takes significantly longer to harvest due to the immense trunk diameter and fibrous bark
- Less common spawn (20% weight compared to oak), typically found in old-growth valleys and highland ridges
- Felling a redwood is dangerous work. The tree’s height means a poorly judged cut can send the trunk crashing across a wide radius, and you will not outrun it.
- Two-person teams are standard practice: one cutting, one watching the lean and calling direction
Crafting Applications
Section titled “Crafting Applications”- Heavy construction: redwood planks are used for ship hulls, fortress gates, and load-bearing beams where oak would split under the weight
- Siege equipment: the long, straight grain makes redwood ideal for battering rams and siege tower frames
- Aromatic preservation: redwood heartwood resists rot and insects, making it prized for storage chests and archive shelving
- Decorative carving: the rich, warm color of finished redwood commands high prices from wealthy merchants and noble households
The redwoods are older than most kingdoms. Ring counts from felled specimens place some trees at well over a thousand years, meaning they were already ancient when the first roads were cut through the wilderness. Logging guilds treat redwood groves with a mixture of reverence and greed. The timber is extraordinarily valuable, but no guild wants to be the one that strips a grove bare. For every redwood taken, the surrounding saplings are left untouched for a generation. This is not law. It is something stronger than law: it is a rule that every guild enforces on itself because they have seen what happens to the ones that did not.
Local folklore holds that redwoods remember. Not the way people remember, but the way stone remembers the shape of water. Slowly, and with permanence. Charcoal rubbings taken from the inner bark sometimes reveal patterns that correspond to events: a ring of dark scarring that matches the year of a great fire, a mineral stain that appeared the same season a nearby mine collapsed. The old woodcutters do not speculate about this aloud. They just avoid the trees with too many stains.