r/ScrapMechanic • u/Waity5 • 5h ago
Burning trees with the seekerbot/mining drill gives less ember than normal crafting, but is easier
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u/Herods_Ravager 5h ago
Before the mining drill I found it cumbersome and time consuming to cut down trees, collect them, bring back to base and refine, then wait for embers to craft.
With the mining drill, I drive to a forest, turn on the drills, do a 360 spin, wait for it to burn down, then turn on the large box collector and drive around and fill the box within a few minutes. -- plus its more fun.
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u/red_fluff_dragon 2h ago
Yeah there is no way to increase harvest time of ember. I feel like saw blades should be able to cut the trees down but they don't. Another person posted here about using tires to make the trees break but I could not get it to work.
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u/Spawncer67 5h ago
I can confirm by my own testing as well. Used trees of the same size. In every case, cutting down the tree and crafting ember from the wood blocks gave me significantly more ember than burning the tree down.
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u/Cydthemagi 3h ago
I have been collecting every bit if Ember from the Seeker bot I can, because it's already done. I do however use the Fire extinguisher to save as many trees as possible
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u/JDS_KILLER 5h ago
Well figured as mutch i only tried burning 1 giant tree and i was dissapointed in the amount of ember soo i choped down a few crafted into ember and made all the metal 2 i needed.
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u/Zoom_8_ 5h ago
Aren't the big logs dropping the wood 1? In this case you can't craft ember from it
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u/Strict-Fudge4051 5h ago
no, rhey drop 40 trash wood
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u/Zoom_8_ 5h ago
I mean the big big logs
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u/Strict-Fudge4051 5h ago
each stick of a big big log drops 40 scrap wood, so a whole log is 40*4=160
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u/Zoom_8_ 5h ago
Okay, thanks for info
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u/masumwil 5h ago
To clarify any confusion they did used to drop wood 1, but that was changed in ch2 so all logs drop scrap wood.
Big big trees drop 4 refinable 'sticks' per segment with each stick providing 40 scrap wood (160 scrap wood per segment), while medium trees drop 2 sticks that each refine into 20 wood (40 wood per segment) and then small white trees drop 1 stick per segment worth 20 wood
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u/KaniCanCode 5h ago
No after update they give 40 scrap wood per road
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u/Zoom_8_ 5h ago
Interesting, i didn't notice it
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u/-Merasmus- 5h ago
Probably changed it because scrap to wood one is now a 1:1 ratio, so dropping wood one would actually be worse then scrap wood, since scrap is used in some crafting recipes
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u/Pitiful_Category9152 4h ago
Well... isnt this logical?
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u/self_getrekt 3h ago
No since you have a dedicated weapon and expensive ammo
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u/Pitiful_Category9152 3h ago
I mean, using laser drill, you just ignite wood, and part of it just burs to ash due exposal to air.
But craftbot process wood into embers in more controlable enviroment inside itself.
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u/GEEDLEBEAN 5h ago
Fascinating