Mods / Jack's Dryable Firewood
Author: JackRob
Side: Both
Created: Oct 14th at 6:22 AM
Last modified: Oct 20th at 10:54 PM
Downloads: 1207
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Latest file for v1.20.0-rc.1:
JacksDryableFirewood_1.1.0.zip
1-click install
Description
A small mod that allows Firewood to dry into Aged Firewood. This takes about 648 in-game hours/27 in-game days/3 in-game month to happen. Aged Firewood combustible stats have been buffed, burning 50% longer and up to 933 degrees. This allows it to heat up your meals quicker and longer and makes a good primer fuel for smelting.
Aged Firewood can still be made into charcoal (with no advantage over firewood currently). You can now add Aged Firewood to Pit Kilns, which dries your pottery in 16 hours (same as peat). It should hopefully be accepted as fuel anywhere regular firewood can be used. If there's any inconsistancies, let me know and I'll look into it.
Compatability
Should be compatible with pretty much anything unless something dramatically changes either of these vanilla items.
Notes
It is highly recommended to use Dryable Ground Storage as otherwise it will take 4 times longer if you let these dry on the ground. Probably an oversight as I believe the only thing that uses the drying mechanic in vanilla (rather than the curing mechanic) are raw bowstaves and alcohol-soaked bandages, and these can't be placed on the ground.
If you would like a value in the mod tweaked (longer or shorter drying time for instance), I highly encourage you open up the single json file in the mod file and make those changes yourself to suit your taste.
| Version | For Game version | Downloads | Release date | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| v1.1.0 | 880 | Oct 20th at 10:54 PM | Show | JacksDryableFirewood_1.1.0.zip | Install now | |
| v1.0.0 | 327 | Oct 14th at 4:53 PM | Show | JacksDryableFirewood_1.0.0.zip | Install now |
Great job!! I tried to make this mod myself and completely borked my save. Excited to see how you did this :)
JackRob
you should add the option to dry logs aswell !!
Hey! @jackrob Just to clarify, we tried aged and raw firewood and no one of the 3 people I asked could get it to work in addition to myself. It is totally possible we have a mod conflict, although what mod that is I have no idea. I think our pack is upwards of 150 mods now. I know whatever the conflict, we can use charcoal and peat in the ovens so it doesn't break it severely enough to cause issue. I wish I had more information for you though, or possibly what mod might cause that!
Again, really cool mod though! Awesome work 😀
RosstheGreat I just tested this with Stone Bake Oven, and it works perfectly as intended as I was able to use both regular and aged firewood in it. If you're not already, make sure you're shifting-rightclick with the fuel to add it (I know should be obvious, but just ensuring), otherwise you might have another mod conflicting here. Reinstalling the mod, or simply re-enabling may help.
However, you are correct about Pit Kilns. I'll see if I can correct this.
EDIT: Added Aged Firewood as fuel for Pit Kilns in 1.1.0. Turned out to be very easy to do.
Just a heads up, this breaks Stone Bake Oven by not allowing any fire wood type in it, and the aged logs can't seem to go into the pit kiln. The mod is a neat concept though!
@Volund, Thanks. I agree that dried firewood should produce better results for charcoal, but I have not discovered a way to modify the charcoaling process to tell the game that aged firewood produces more charcoal layers (especially with json patching alone, I'm still a novice at coding). Probably the best "work around" I just thought of would be to let a single piece of firewood dry into two pieces of aged firewood, with reduced combustion properties. I will think on it.
Very neat idea! The dried wood has no effect on charcoal making, but dried wood is IRL better for that purpose than green/fresh wood (Latter gives more ash and less charcoal, and can go out easier), so maybe something to consider for a future release? From the description of the "In dappled groves" mod by Vinter_Nacht, a curing system for wood is planned for that mod in the future, with dried wood giving the benefit or better charcoal inputs and less warping of wooden boards.
Also thanks for the tip regarding the ground storage drying mod. Hopefully it will help with the drying time of some recipes that currently take way too long to finish.
Really cool mod. Nice.