Wood Chopping. Am I missing something? : V - Skyrim

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:33 pm

It is easy to get rich in this game. I think anyway, between missions, hocking loot, and all of the other ways to make money. I would find mines, mine them til they are dry and then take the raw materials, make ingots and from that make jewelery or weapons and sell them for a healthy profit, plus get my Smithing Skill way up there...As for chopping wood...It doesn't seem as though it would be all that profitable...

Exactly my point.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:29 pm

It also has future functionality. For example many crafting mods utilise wood in various ways*.

You find many things in elder scrolls have limited functionality in it's vanilla state (ie all those "trash" items), but for modders they provide a universal backbone and template for their projects. Oblivion had no means to get "basic" crafting materials - wood, iron, leather so different crafting mods were usually mutually incompatible. Bethesda this time around gave us a universal framework for material creation and crafting enhancing cross compatibility of mods.

ie.
- Scroll scribing uses wood for charcoal, which in turn is used to create ink for scribing
- Staff crafting uses wood in construction of virtually all staves

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:33 pm

It made the difference between iron or steel equipment for me.

I just kill a guy and then sell his pants. :tongue:

It is nice of bethesda to add a way for us to play nonviolent characters that make money without being alchemists though.

It also has future functionality. For example many crafting mods utilise wood in various ways*.

This is also true. Like marriage, werewolves and food recipes, things that are functionally limited, but provide an easy foundation for modders to work with.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:04 am

A minor benefit is that helping someone by chopping wood for them counts towards becoming a Thane in whichever hold you do it in.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:53 am

There has been people who try to RP an honest man, someone who only does physical labor to earn money instead of mass murdering random bandits.

yaya im a curate now *sister power*

No wonder, spamming like that.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:16 pm

There's at least two mill owners you can marry after selling them chopped wood, free house anyone? The log mill is for aesthetics as the mill owner will operate it giving the illusion of an operating mill. There are grain mills you can operate on several farms that don't do anything as well.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:32 pm

it's a cool annimation that lets the hardcoe RP folks earn some cash. there are lots of folks who play the game in ways that limit their ability to earn money, being able to chop and cut wood for money enables their characters to earn an honest living without dungeoneering or having to kill things.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:57 pm

A minor benefit is that helping someone by chopping wood for them counts towards becoming a Thane in whichever hold you do it in.

Ok, who needs wood chopped and where can I find him/ her? In porcess of being Thane of all Holds. There should be an achievement for this :excl:

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:18 pm

wow...who actually came up with the term *spamming* , it sounds very american.

anyway, if anybody gives me a link to "sisters are doing it for themselves" then im gonna go spammy , im gonna have spam RAVE XD

to actually add somethign else, by adding in the woodcutting business it adds a whole new area for modders to build on, and dont you find the sound of choppign wood very peacefull?

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:21 am

wow...who actually came up with the term *spamming* , it sounds very american.

Well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam - a sort've canned meat. Due to it being cheap, long lasting and widely available it was a popular ration during and after WW2 in the United Kingdom. In turn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmz_FD-YxUo that probably forms the basis for the verb "to spam". Which'd make it a quintessentially British expression...

THE MORE YOU KNOW!

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:03 pm

Chopping wood usually pays for my Whiterun house in those early levels.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:45 pm

Yeah, I do the woodchopping at early levels to earn 'fast' cash.

FWIW: make sure you sell it to the NPC(s) who run the mill - don't sell it to the general stores/pawn shops.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:42 pm

Can't remember the exact name of it, but there's a mod out that modifies crafting in certain ways to make it more realistic. One change is that instead of using copper and iron to make steel you need charcoal and iron, and you get charcoal by chopping wood and putting the wood in the smelter. With that mod I chop wood all the time now...I think it's included in the Titanis mod.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:21 am

Can't remember the exact name of it, but there's a mod out that modifies crafting in certain ways to make it more realistic. One change is that instead of using copper and iron to make steel you need charcoal and iron, and you get charcoal by chopping wood and putting the wood in the smelter. With that mod I chop wood all the time now...I think it's included in the Titanis mod.

I have similar changes planned when the CK comes out, as well as arrow crafting. I'll still be using wood as an early source of income, though, since I don't do much dungeon diving until I've geared up a bit, and all that wood chopping pays for the materials I need to get there.

Wood chopping does quickly lose use as a money source once you start exploring, but that's a good thing as it means you don't spend the whole game struggling to scraqe up enough cash between adventures.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:46 am

wood chopping funds my mats for iron dagger crafting, a soul binding weapon to disenchant, and a junk load of soul gems in order to start off my enchanting fortune, which funds my alchemy fortune.
but its a great easy fairly quick way to get some starting money as soon as you hit riverwood

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:55 pm

Can't remember the exact name of it, but there's a mod out that modifies crafting in certain ways to make it more realistic. One change is that instead of using copper and iron to make steel you need charcoal and iron, and you get charcoal by chopping wood and putting the wood in the smelter. With that mod I chop wood all the time now...I think it's included in the Titanis mod.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=1042 :thumbsup:

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:04 pm

it's just a way to get gold easy when your a low lvl and you do need wood to upgrade some low lvl bows.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:32 am

You can chop wood all day from the same pile, no refreshing needed. There doesn't seem to be any reason to use the sawmill that I can see, but it's amusing to watch my tiny breton girl heft a giant log like she's a trained lumberjack.

Yeah that tickles me to.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:27 am

Money with zero risk involved.

Exactly. I now use it (If RP permits) in Riverwood as soon as I arrive. At the cost of a certain amount of waiting and mouse-clcking you can make $3000+ in a few minutes. After that I don't both. Oh - and you need the wood to repair longbows.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:42 pm

What is the point in chopping wood? I really cant see a reason other than watching the animation.

If you are watching the animation, you are doing it wrong.

You tell your follower to chop the wood, then you walk away and come back later to collect the profits. Very easy way to make money at low levels- in fact, the first town you visit provides both a follower and a pile of wood that needs chopping.

For the less exploitative, you can set your level 1 "noobokhin" to the task of chopping wood, then walk away while the game runs. Maybe go do your OWN job for 8 or so hours...

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:58 pm

For the less exploitative, you can set your level 1 "noobokhin" to the task of chopping wood, then walk away while the game runs. Maybe go do your OWN job for 8 or so hours...

Unless I'm missing something, on the PC at least, when you activate the chopping block, you chop some wood, then stop. Your character then has to be told to chop again, etc. As I said, mouse-clicking. I'm not aware of any way of automating it?

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:44 pm

serves mostly as flavor, much less most the useless food items.

» Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:25 am

if you're just sitting at the forum chopping wood is ok, i don't chop wood much but between looting, making potions and enchanting, its pretty easy to get super rich, so i use a multi faceted approach.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 1:26 pm

Unless I'm missing something, on the PC at least, when you activate the chopping block, you chop some wood, then stop. Your character then has to be told to chop again, etc. As I said, mouse-clicking. I'm not aware of any way of automating it?

It does the animation 3 times (so 6 pieces of firewood) then it cancels it.
Use a follower to cut wood for you. They'll do it 'til you stop them.

» Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:14 pm

wood chopping? never done it...