Lumber Camp

Hire Dvergr lumberjacks to do your logging for you.

Build a camp near some trees and give it a chest. Your lumberjacks fell the trees, split the logs, clear the stumps and put the wood away while you do something else.

Features

• A Lumber Camp (hammer → Misc). Placing it hires your first lumberjack.
• The whole job, start to finish. A lumberjack fells a tree, splits every log, clears the stump, picks up what dropped and carries it to a chest. Then he starts again. He deals with fallen logs and stumps first, even ones you left, before cutting the next standing tree.
• A camp panel to pause work, hire or dismiss lumberjacks, add chests, set how far they roam, choose which trees to cut and turn replanting on or off.
• Replanting. After clearing a stump, a lumberjack plants a sapling of the same tree. It's free by default; turn off FreeReplant and each sapling costs a seed or cone, which he picks up as trees drop them and keeps a stack of for planting.
• Lumberjacks you don't have to protect. They're saved with the world, can't be hurt, and monsters ignore them. Their axes only hit trees, never your buildings, crops or animals.
• Teamwork. Two lumberjacks never go for the same tree.
• Lumberjacks on the map. Each one shows up as a blue arrow on the minimap and the big map, the same way other players do.
• Works with modded trees. Anything with a trunk can be cut. Trees the mod doesn't recognise are listed as "Other trees" in the panel.
• Unlocked by bosses. Each kind of tree becomes available as you progress (see below).
• Server-synced settings for limits, costs and behaviour.

Everyone on a server needs the mod. You can add it to an existing world.

Getting started

1. Build a Lumber Camp near some trees. You need a workbench nearby.
2. Add a chest. Place a chest within 20 m of the camp, open the camp and click Add nearest chest. Repeat for more chests.
3. Set it up. Change the work radius if you like (10–100 m, 40 by default) and untick any trees you want left alone.
4. Leave it running. Hover over a lumberjack to see what he's doing.

In the camp:

• Hire a lumberjack adds another one, up to the camp's limit (2 by default).
• Store wood now sends everyone to the chests straight away.
• Pause work stops cutting until you resume.
• Send one home dismisses a lumberjack. He drops whatever he was carrying. Removing the camp does this for all of them.

If the chests are full, or there aren't any, a lumberjack fills his bag and waits at the camp.

Which trees unlock when

A camp is always one biome ahead of you. Beating a boss unlocks the trees of the next biome, which is where you'd go to find their cones anyway.

Trees	Unlocked by
Beech	Available from the start
Birch, Fir, Pine	Eikthyr
Oak, Ancient trees	The Elder
Yggdrasil shoots	Yagluth
Ashlands trees	The Queen
Other trees (including modded ones)	Available from the start

Locked trees are greyed out in the panel, with a note saying which boss you still need to beat. The boss keys match Portal Progression's. You can change each one in the config, or turn off BossGating to unlock everything from the start.

Configuration

The config file is BepInEx/config/com.noodle.lumbercamp.cfg. On a server, the server's values are used. Only admins can change them.

[General]

Setting	Default	What it does
AdminOnlyPlacement	off	Only admins can build or remove camps. Anyone can still use a camp that's already built
MaxWorkersPerCamp	2	Most lumberjacks one camp can have
MaxWorkersTotal	8	Most lumberjacks in the whole world

[Cost]

Setting	Default	What it does
BuildCost	Wood 20, Stone 10, Resin 5	What the camp costs
CraftingStation	workbench	Station needed to build a camp. Leave empty for none

[Work]

Setting	Default	What it does
DefaultWorkRadius / MaxWorkRadius	40 / 100	Starting and largest work radius, in metres
CleanupOvershootPercent	25	How far past the radius, as a percentage, lumberjacks still clear fallen logs and stumps. They never cut standing trees out there
ChestAssignRange	20	How far from the camp a chest can be
BagSlots	6	Stacks a lumberjack carries before heading to a chest. His axe, suit and seeds don't count
PickupOnlyTreeDrops	on	Only pick up what trees drop. When off, he picks up any loose item in range
DefaultReplant	on	Whether new camps replant
FreeReplant	on	Replant without needing or using up a seed

[Worker]

Setting	Default	What it does
ChopDamage / ToolTier	60 / 4	How strong the axe is. The default takes two swings for a beech, four for an oak, and can cut any tree

[Progression]

Setting	Default	What it does
BossGating	on	Lock trees behind bosses. When off, every tree can be cut from the start
BeechBoss … OtherBoss	see above	Which boss unlocks each kind of tree. -- means none

[Map] (your own setting, not synced)

Setting	Default	What it does
MapMarkers	on	Show lumberjacks on the minimap and big map

Known issues

• Lumberjacks only work while someone is nearby. Valheim pauses everything in areas no player has loaded, so a lumberjack freezes when you leave and carries on when you come back. His map arrow stays where he stopped.
• Map markers in multiplayer. You only see lumberjacks your game knows about. A distant one shows where he was when you were last nearby. Ones you haven't been near since joining don't show up until you are.
• Only tree drops are collected. Lumberjacks pick up wood, resin, feathers, seeds and cones, and leave everything else on the ground.
• Some stumps stay bare. Swamp, Yggdrasil and Ashlands saplings need materials trees don't drop, so lumberjacks can't replant them.