Wood/Sandbox

Wood

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A thick, sturdy cutting from a tree.

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Type

Resource

Usable as fuel

Yes

Weight

0.5

Stack size

100

cheat giveitemnum 7 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi Wood 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_Wood.PrimalItemResource_Wood'" 1 0 0

Exchange yields

50 pieces

Exchange yields

25

Wood is an easily obtainable resource in ARK: Survival Evolved that can be harvested from trees using tools, dinosaurs, or your bare hands.. Wood is a very valuable resource due to its many uses and the high quantities of it required in crafting. It can be found in white, green and blue Supply Crates as well as in  Giant Beaver Dam.

Uses

Used to craft:

•  Spear
•  Torch
•  Stone Hatchet
•  Stone Pick
•  Slingshot
•  Dinosaur Gateway
•  Dinosaur Gate
•  Parasaur Saddle
•  Phiomia Saddle
•  Raptor Saddle
•  Thatch Structures
•  Wooden Structures
•  Stone Structures
•  Therizinosaurus Saddle

Full list of items crafted with Wood

Burn times

Every time Wood is consumed as a fuel source it creates  Charcoal.

• Campfire: 30 seconds per unit
• Cooking Pot: 30 seconds per unit
• Forge: 30 seconds per unit
• Standing Torch: 6 minutes, 40 seconds per unit

Gathering

Wood
Creature / Tool	Gain per action
Castoroides	★★★★★ Gathers autonomously
Chainsaw	★★★★★
Dunkleosteus	★★★★★
Gacha	★★★★★
Roll Rat	★★★★★
Therizinosaur	★★★★★
Thorny Dragon	★★★★★
Magmasaur	★★★★☆
Mantis	★★★★☆
Metal Hatchet	★★★★☆

Note: When gathering on Scorched Earth, Thorny Dragon gathers at the same rate as Beaver and Rock Elemental gathers slightly better than Thorny Dragon of same level.

When gathering from small trees on Scorched Earth, Wood is gathered like Berries (see efficiency table on the Berries page).

Weight Reduction

The following creatures reduce the weight of Wood by the listed amount while it is in their inventory:

Creature	Reduction
Roll Rat	80%
Mammoth	75%
Mining Drill	75%
Castoroides	50%
Gacha	50%
Ravager	50%
Thorny Dragon	50%

References

• Tools
• Saddles
• Weapons
• Armors