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A wood workshop

This guide connects four workers into a small production chain that turns trees into chests, without you touching a single log.

What you need

  • 3 work contracts (9 emeralds, 3 paper, 3 ink sacs) and 1 wicker basket
  • 4 unemployed villagers
  • a chopping block, a woodcutter and a carpenter's bench
  • 4 chests for the chain
  • an axe or two for the lumberjack, emeralds for everybody

1. Lumberjack → logs

Place the chopping block near a forest, assign a lumberjack and link the chest Logs as its chest. See Lumberjack.

2. Sawyer → planks

Place a woodcutter next to the Logs chest. Assign a sawyer and link:

  • Logs as input
  • a new chest Planks as output

Order: shape planks, all wood types.

3. Carrier → workshop

Hire a carrier and add one route: source Planks, target Workshop input (a chest next to the carpenter's bench, at most 32 blocks away).

4. Carpenter → chests

Place the carpenter's bench, assign a carpenter and link:

  • Workshop input as input
  • a new chest Chests as output

Order: chest. Set the stock to, say, 16, so it does not use up all your planks.

5. Pay everybody

Right-click each of the four workers with emeralds (and the lumberjack with an axe). One emerald per worker and day: a week of work costs 28 emeralds.

Ideas to extend it

  • A second sawyer makes slabs or sticks from the planks; a second route of the carrier brings them to the workshop for products that need them (barrels, ladders, tools).
  • A stone sawyer with a stonecutter makes slabs, stairs and walls from cobblestone, or stone bricks from stone.