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Wood Harvesting + Wood Blocks (Update 5)

Finally we can harvest trees in Space Engineers! After many years of waiting for it...

Cutting down a tree (by grinding it, bumping it with a rover, whatever you like) will drop wood logs.

NEW: The amount of wood logs you receive will now depend on tree size. We may add fruit later if there is interest!

Wood logs have 3 uses:

* They can be put in H2/O2 generators, which now also act as gasifiers. This will extract hydrogen or oxygen from them and let you operate hydrogen engines.

* They can be used to build the "campfire" block, whose cube must be in a voxel for placement. Once built, do any damage to it (you can use your drill, or shoot at it) to set it on fire. This will generate light.

* They can be used to build the "Make planks" block. Once built, grind it down to obtain wood planks at a 1:1 ratio.

Wood planks can be used to build various wood blocks.

* Wood blocks are lighter and more fragile than light armor.

* Wood blast doors are about as strong as light armor, but lighter.

* The raft blocks will float in Jakaria's water mod and are best used to make the bottom floor of a raft. They must be fully built in order to float. You get one 1x1 raft block for large grids and two (5x5x1 and 1x1x1) for small grids.

* Woden craftng tables are intended to be decorative in the late game, and can be used in the early game to work steel components manually (at a loss of material for each step). Simply build the table, then grind out the new iron part after welding in the old one. The tables each have a slightly different offset so that they can be fit however they look best.

* The wooden cargo container is fragile and only has 4 doors rather than 6, but is cheaper to make than the standard container. It's available n both small and large grids.

The basic assembler can cut wood logs into wood planks.

The advanced assembler can do that AND synthesize wood logs out of organic material (it should work with food mods).

The logs/plank recipe is under Components, the organic/logs recipe is under Consumables.

Check out cKerensky's decorative wood block expansion here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2790746375&tscn=1655212424

Credits:

MrSimplex - Meshes, textures, icons
Spiritplumber - Scripting, SBCs

Acknowledgments:

Wood blast doors from Angel's wood blocks https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=833670823 ; Thanks to Klime for the API lesson

TODO: Tighter integration with daily needs? Integrate with eat/drink/sleep/repeat?
TODO: More wood blocks? Any requests?

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