🪵 Sawmill

Saws logs into planks. Job: “Crafting”.

Group: 🪵 Wood
Size: 3×2 tiles
Cost: 50 Wood + 10 Stone
Place next to: 🪵 Lumber camp — 10% faster (neighbors)
Construction: ≈ 6 h of builder’s work
Job: Crafting
Unlocks: from the start

Production

Recipe	Inputs → output	Cycle
Planks	4 Wood → 6 Planks	≈ 1 h
Gapless saw blueprint	3 Wood → 6 Planks	≈ 1 h

The cycle is at skill 5; skill, tool, module, building level and mood make it faster. The default target is 60: the worker rests when there is that much of the good in storage or more.

Recipes marked “blueprint” are unlocked by blueprints from ruins and expeditions.

Chains: how to get “Planks”.

Upgrade

In the building window — ⬆: II — “Bow saw”, III — “Two-man saw” (+25% speed per level). The price is one and a half times the building cost, for level III — three times plus shard dust.

An upgraded building is visible from afar. II — a stone base, carved window frames and a weathervane. III — a tiled roof with an attic, a lantern by the door and a sign. Inside is richer too: from level II — a runner from the door and curtains, from III — painted walls and a picture.

IV — “Electric drive” (chapter 5): only when the building has power (electricity) and the colony has an architect. The price is three times the building cost, 10 copper and an arcane core. Outside — a copper gutter and ridge, and lamps instead of candles in the windows.

This guide is built from the data of the game “Oskolki” — a browser colony simulator on a floating shard among the ruins of the ancients. Play for free in the browser.