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Baton That Wood!

@ericksonpiper320, I did in fact add a tree branch into the recipe to be used as the baton, I'm not skilled enough to make it dull the knife however in my experience it doesn't really dull it depending on the blade profile, a flat grind will but a scandi with a thick spine will serve as a wedge and your blade will only hit for the first strike

I baton wood IRL, since I am into bushcrafting, I don't use your mod but I would just say you would need to add a log to baton with, because the human hand cannot hit a knife hard enough to split a log. Also it hella dulls the knife and will damage it slightly.

@Salvo Yeah, that's reasonable

@KWG Thank you! I would but in real life you never require a table or anything to chop firewood, as much as I hate the floating log I see it as a worthwhile trade off to being able to chop firewood in the wild

Great! I think you should add a surface as a requirement such as the original recipe, so the character doesn't make the log float.

@Avihs158 same to you, it's always nice meeting other bushcrafters, you're welcome

You are a legend, good to meet another bushcrafter and thank you for your time

@Avihs158 you're very welcome, I've been using this technique for a couple years now and the new firewood item felt lacking without it, currently it does use a knife and a tree branch alongside the log to baton, but you are definitely right I will adjust that balance to be more time based over changing the received items.

Thank you for this, I use this technique for splitting wood alot of the time in the real world. As a balance personally I think you should obtain the same amount of wood however it should take longer and you should be made to have a short stick or something equipped in left hand with a knife in the right.