Sticks

[Sertyu]

Hi, i just started playing the game recently and, is there any way to get sticks other than punching bushes?

i noticed cutting trees doesen't give that many sticks and i need a lot for my pit kilns, is there a way to turn wood into sticks or get more sticks somehow?

[Broccoli Clock]

Welcome to the forum.

Sticks can be one of those things, you either have tons or none at all. Obviously you know you can find sticks on the ground, but only leaves that are "branchy leaves" will give sticks, while normal leaves won't.

If you are stuck for sticks you sort of have two solutions, early game, and that's either take a long trek in one direction, ideally through woodlands, and pick up all the sticks you see. I'll find most of mine on the forest floor, and a 20 minute walk could net you a half stack of sticks, with the other being totally decimating all the local flora near you in hopes of sticks dropping. The latter of those will leave you with a pretty barren landscape in front of you.

If it's any consolation, I ended up writing my own mod just to solve my lack of sticks problem (mods can be found here: https://mods.vintagestory.at/) but honestly, I'd suffer vanilla for a while to get an idea of the level of resources are naturally available before adding mods.

Edited March 31, 2025 by Broccoli Clock

[agocs6921]

In the copper age, with an anvil you gain access to shears which increases the amount of sticks and seeds you get from leaves.

[Zane Mordien]

4 hours ago, Alex Serrano said:

Hi, i just started playing the game recently and, is there any way to get sticks other than punching bushes?

i noticed cutting trees doesen't give that many sticks and i need a lot for my pit kilns, is there a way to turn wood into sticks or get more sticks somehow?

The axe will cut the branches faster than punching, but it destroys the axe pretty quick. I use the axe method when I get stick of punching or just want them faster.

[Dilan Rona]

Take a look at the Sticks from Firewood mod (https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/10409), It lets you take firewood and turn it into sticks (1 firewood=4 sticks). It will cover you till you can get shears (which I highly recommend you make.).

Edited March 31, 2025 by Dilan Rona
Fix mod recommendation

[Thorfinn]

Sticking can get a tad dull, so I do it at night when I can be easily surprised by wildlife or worse "hiding" in the brush, to keep my attention focused. Pretty easy to get 2 or 3 stacks of sticks in a night. It also clears out all the brush, and quite often, that's how I get my initial stake of copper, plus find resources like coal, borax, or, once in a blue moon, sulfur. I also find all the caves, which I'll mark with a 3 or so tall stack of rammed earth, because otherwise, I will someday fall into it, guaranteed. If you are short on inventory space, you can always convert them to layers of sticks. They are reasonably easy to break back into the individual sticks as needed.

[Sertyu]

11 hours ago, Broccoli Clock said:

Welcome to the forum.

Sticks can be one of those things, you either have tons or none at all. Obviously you know you can find sticks on the ground, but only leaves that are "branchy leaves" will give sticks, while normal leaves won't.

If you are stuck for sticks you sort of have two solutions, early game, and that's either take a long trek in one direction, ideally through woodlands, and pick up all the sticks you see. I'll find most of mine on the forest floor, and a 20 minute walk could net you a half stack of sticks, with the other being totally decimating all the local flora near you in hopes of sticks dropping. The latter of those will leave you with a pretty barren landscape in front of you.

If it's any consolation, I ended up writing my own mod just to solve my lack of sticks problem (mods can be found here: https://mods.vintagestory.at/) but honestly, I'd suffer vanilla for a while to get an idea of the level of resources are naturally available before adding mods.

 

4 hours ago, Dilan Rona said:

Take a look at the Sticks from Firewood mod (https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/10409), It lets you take firewood and turn it into sticks (1 firewood=4 sticks). It will cover you till you can get shears (which I highly recommend you make.).

thanks y'all for the answers, ill just destroy the grass fields next to my house, and ill probably try some QoL mods for my next run

[cjc813]

8 hours ago, agocs6921 said:

In the copper age, with an anvil you gain access to shears which increases the amount of sticks and seeds you get from leaves.

This is the way.

Get a copper anvil and make shears asap. After that, you'll have more sticks than you can... well... shake a stick at.

As an aside, it makes zero sense that you can't make sticks. But I guess it is what it is.

[Thorfinn]

20 hours ago, cjc813 said:

it makes zero sense that you can't make sticks.

It's game logic. Drops are based on what makes the progression rate Tyron imagines. If it helps, just think of it as id:1792. You need 1 of them, plus 2 of id:1068 to produce 1 of id:12732. To get the first two, you need to instruct the interface to execute a code block. What it takes to instruct the interface is intended to be the fun and engaging part of the experience. It's not about the sticks. It's about the Skinner box.

From the interface POV, the same logic as when you chop a tree down, you may get no sticks at all. Realism would require you to fell the tree, limb it, and chop it into sections (I'd imagine turning every other log section into wood chips, but later you can use the saw to section the log), then go through the limbs and chop out the pieces that can become sticks, as in tool handles and fence components. A lesser grade of stick (call it "kindling") could be used in pit kilns.

Edited April 1, 2025 by Thorfinn