Ash Tree

Ash Tree
Release						6 November 2024 (Update)
Episode						Hopeforest
Premium						No
Variant type						Skill node

An Ash Tree is a species of tree located in Hopeforest that Woodcutters can interact with.

Ash Trees may be felled with a Hand saw starting from level 0 woodcutter, yielding an ash log. Its branches may also be passively lopped using Tree Loppers from level 43 woodcutter.

Ash Trees take 3.5 seconds to fell with a saw, and have a 45 second respawn timer.

Locations

Location	Episode	Quantity
Timberwell Road	Hopeforest	6
Timberwell Green	Hopeforest	6
Timberwell Side Road	Hopeforest	3
Mr McGrish's Garden	Hopeforest	4

Variants

Item		Level
	Ash Tree (coarse)	0	43
	Ash Tree (rugged)	18	86
	Ash Tree (average)	71	131
	Ash Tree (fine)	125	176
	Ash Tree (sturdy)	184	276
	Ash Tree (perfect)	336	421

Strategy

Ash Tree Strategy, Red is the path between trees, Blue is the path to sell to the shop, Black is the path to deposit to the bank

The most efficient place to fell Ash Trees is in Timberwell Green, where there are 6 trees close to each other, the shop, and the bank.

The 6 trees to the north are close enough together that all 6 may be chopped in sequence before they respawn. This path is marked in red. The southern Ash Tree in Timberwell Green is far from the other 6, so should be avoided. This red cycle takes takes 60 seconds, for 10 seconds per tree or 360 logs per hour. However after every 24 logs chopped the players inventory will be full, and the logs must dropped, sold, or banked. It is possible to make a cycle of only 5 trees for a very marginal increase chop rate, around +10 logs per hour, however this requires very precise actions and chopping 5 on a cycle makes the cycles not synchronise with the inventory, so time is lost between inventories.

Discarding the logs by dropping them on the floor is the fastest option, and can be done with practically no time loss. This maintains 360 logs per hour, at the cost of giving no items or coins.

Selling the ash logs is the second fastest option, and takes as little as 10 seconds to travel along the blue path to Gwen's Lumber, sell the logs, and return. Selling every 24 logs reduces the trees felled per hour to ~345, a very minor loss, but does earn significant coins.

Depositing the logs into the Lumber Bank is the slowest option, taking 35 seconds to travel along the black path to the bank, deposit the logs, and return to the next tree in the cycle. Deppositing every 24 logs reduces the trees felled per hour to ~314, but provides logs in the most convenient location to use them for training Carpentry, saving money from buying those logs in the future from Gwen.

Comparisons

Variant	Discarding 360 log/hr	Selling 345 log/hr											Depositing 314 log/hr
	XP	XP	Profit										XP	Saved vs buying
Coarse	27,000	25,875					62			100			23,550					141			300
Rugged	45,720	43,815					117			990			39,878					279			146
Average	130,680	125,235					282			555			113,982					822			680
Fine	?	?					448			500			?			1			510		340
Sturdy	?	?			2			701		350			?			2			468		40
Perfect	?	?			1			104		0			?			5			809		0

Update history

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• update 6 November 2024 (Update):
  • Added to game.