Wood drop rates

[ParabolaBeam]

Is it just me or do hard wood and soft wood drop twice as often as regular wood does? For some reason I can never seem to get enough regular wood.

One night I went around looking for regular wood and needed 12 more to complete a recipe. I counted at the end and from empty pockets, ended up with over 20+each of hard wood and soft wood and I was still 3 regular wood shy of my initial goal by the time my axe broke, so I'd only scrounged up 8.

Am I just super unlucky or is this a universal thing? Does anyone else experience the extreme euphoria I do when I see two-or god forbid-THREE regular wood pop out of one tree?

 

[Bui]

That matches my experience. I often have 2 full stacks and then some of both hardwood and softwood by the time I have a single full stack of regular wood. It's very rare that I complete a stack of regular wood before completing 2 stacks of at least one of the others, and I've never finished a stack of regular wood before the other kind. It could just be luck, but that would mean I've had some absolutely awful luck this entire time. The last time I needed a large amount of wood I ended up just buying it from someone since I knew it would be faster and I was already overflowing with the other kinds in storage.

 

[Vintage Viola]

I also heard this happens to other players, ie they usually get the short end with one of the wood types. I have a friend who can almost never get any hardwood. I have your problem too though, I’ve got several stacks of hard/soft wood.

I don’t know if it’ll work for you, but I get more regular wood when I use a flimsy axe. I hardly get regular wood when I use anything else.

 

[azurill]

I always have a problem with hardwood. Softwood is what I find most of the time. It seems whichever wood I’m looking for I can’t find it. Lol happens with stone as well. I was looking for stone yesterday and all I could find was clay and iron nugget.

 

[RiceBunny]

I have found that cedar trees yield more hardwood and regular wood whilst fruit trees yield more softwood. I tend to get a balanced amount of soft wood and regular wood from normal trees, but not as much hardwood. Planted a bunch of cedar trees(basically made a cedar tree farm up in the mountains) and I don’t struggle with hardwood or regular wood anymore

 

[Raz]

It's not just you. I had to buy stacks of wood here on tbt because I didn't have any and the drop rates were extremely low.

 

[Rosch]

Wood, softwood and hardwood are approximately 30% chance in every tree. Our trees just hate us.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

not for me, when I would go tree chopping for wood (like a week ago) I basically always got equal amounts of all three kinds of wood. heck sometimes I would even get a bit more regular wood. however i still didnt have very much cause it seems like most important crafts require it.

 

[nightglow]

Regular wood doesn't appear as often for me compared to other wood. Softwood is the most common.
However... I did notice I have a better chance at getting regular wood from palm trees than any other tree. Ceder trees I tend to get the hardwood more often.

 

[maddycha]

yeah i'm always out of wood but as ^ mentioned usually palm trees give more of the regular ones

 

[ParabolaBeam]

I only use the flimsy axe here myself. But yeah god it's just a mess. I have stacks and stacks of hard and soft but I never at any given moment have a complete stack of regular. I really think there's got to be something up with the drop rate.