Wood

Wood
Type	Material
Gathered at	Trees in the Wilderness, The Pond, Whisperwood and other realms
Skill	Woodcutting
Used for	Cooking fuel, blacksmith recipes, potions and Guild Life

Wood is one of the main gathered resources in Kintara. It is obtained by chopping trees with an Axe, and it is one of the first materials new players usually collect.

Wood is used as Cooking fuel, in Smithing forge recipes at the blacksmiths in Frostmere and Dunes West, to buy Health Potions, and for Guild Life upkeep.

Tip: Bank Wood before long Wilderness trips. The Wilderness is a PvP area, so carrying large stacks can be risky.

Gathering

Tool	Yield	XP	Notes
Starter Axe	1 Wood per swing	20 Woodcutting XP per felled tree	Free starter gathering tool
Iron Axe	1 Wood per swing	20 Woodcutting XP per felled tree	Swings 10% faster (a Copper Axe 5%, a Silver Axe 15%)

A tree takes 6 swings to fell, so it gives 6 Wood, and the 20 XP is paid when it falls. Every axe tier gathers the same — higher tiers only swing faster. Higher-tier axes previously doubled the yield and XP; that was removed in a July 2026 rebalance.

Trees grow on the Mainland itself — where the tutorial has you chop your first one — and in the calm areas The Pond and Whisperwood, as well as in the Wilderness realms and Frostmere. (In The Dunes the "trees" are Cacti.)

Uses

Use	Required amount	Result
Cooking fuel	1 Wood per cook (chicken and fish alike)	Produces Cooked Chicken or cooked fish
Blacksmith recipes	400–850 (copper tools), 1,000–1,600 (iron tools), 2,000–3,000 (silver tools)	Consumed alongside ingots when forging tools and weapons
Health Potion	60 Wood	Bought from The Alchemist
Guild Life upkeep	1,000 Wood	Adds a quarter-day of Guild Life; the full set (1,000 Wood + 750 Stone + 500 Coal + 500 Cooked Herring) adds one day
Firepit	50 Wood	With 20 Stone and 20 Coal, builds a firepit
Building a shack	500 Wood	With 200 Stone — the raw-material price when you hold no Shack Kit

History: Wood was once part of the Traveling Merchant's Gold bundle. The merchant no longer trades.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Woodcutting	Skill used to gather Wood
Wilderness	A main place where Wood is gathered
Guilds	Guild Life upkeep takes Wood
Smithing	Uses Wood in forge recipes
Cooking	Uses Wood as fuel for every cook