Woodcutting

Woodcutting is, well, the simple act of cutting wood from trees.

2011-12-04 14.02.10.png Feller
Activated by readying an axe (right-clicking while holding one) and chopping the bottom block of wood of a small tree. The tree will then drop all of its wood.

Duration: Tree Feller has a default time of 2 seconds, and increases one second every 50 levels.

Note: This does not destroy an entire large oak tree.

To use it:
 * Stoneaxe.pngRightclick16.png Right click while wielding an axe ( 


 * YOU READY YOUR AXE**)
 * Stoneaxe.pngLeftclick16.pngLeftclick16.pngLeftclick16.png→Wood.png Break Bottom Log of Tree

It has a default cooldown of 5 minutes.

Jungle Trees
If you go in the Jungle, you'll never miss the big, 2x2 trees. Farming these (starting at the top) will train your WoodCutting extremely fast.

These trees can also be created by placing 4 jungle tree saplings in a 2x2 configuration, then using bone meal on one of them. It is easiest to use ender pearls to teleport to the top and work your way down.

You can also use the Tree Feller ability and a diamond axe to instantly chop down these huge trees.

Bone Meal/Jungle Tree Combo
This method is expensive in use, and is therefore only situationally worth using. It almost completely depletes your diamond axe and takes up 60 bone meals each time you use it. You are rewarded with high experience gain in the shortest possible amount of time. However, the higher your woodcutting level, the less your axe will be depleted upon use of this technique.

The method relies on the Tree Feller ability, that cuts down big trees when used. The fact that trees are defined by wooden logs being close to each other means, that a player can make his own tree plantation that can be cut down by the Tree Feller ability. However, if the plantation is too big, the player will be told that "the tree is too big".

When Tree Feller is activated, one can cut roughly 4 wooden logs. Make 4 plantation of trees with a corner from each pointing to a spot of the players choice. Use Jungle Saplings, as they can grow close enough to each other and yield the highest amount of experience. Add bonemeal to your plantation to make them grow. The plantation must consist of 15 trees each, planted in 3x5 rows with 1 block in between each tree. All in all there will be 60 trees for the player to cut down in one use of Tree Feller. Stand in between all 4 plantations and activate your ability. Cut down a corner of each of the 4 plantations. Depending on your woodcutting level, you might not be able to cut down the last plantation at first, but you will eventually.

It is possible to use other sorts of wood, but only the jungle trees will grow each time. Also, if you play on a server with an economy, buying bones shouldn't be too expensive, so in the end, what will take time is getting the diamonds for the axes. If the player is above level 50 in Repair, they can level it by repairing the axe after use.

Gather wood and replanting saplings will take roughly as long as it takes for Tree Feller to cool down.

Optional: In trying this, as your level increases you will have more Tree Feller time. This means starting at level 300 (earlier if you are faster) you will be able to add more plantations next to the original 4 and switch to another diamond axe to break those. With a speed potion starting at level 400 it is possible to have 8 plantations and use up 2 diamond axes. At 8 plantations it will take as long to collect all the loot and replace/bone meal the saplings as it takes for Tree Feller to refresh, meaning more are not needed. However, if you have trouble acquiring enough bone meal, you can build more groups of plantations so they can grow on their own some reducing the bone meal needed.