Craftable sticks

[Lunyaru]

Sticks seem to be the bone of almost every crafting recipe, and its a bit frustrating how the only way to get a bunch of them is to destroy leaves.
It would be cool if you could use an axe to split firewood into sticks or an alternative for crafting purposes.

[Thorfinn]

There are dozens of mods that provide a way to craft sticks. I've changed things on my server to give a 50% chance of a regular old leaf block dropping a stick, too, because some were too impatient to wait for the shears.

[Dilan Rona]

And once you get shears, you are absolutely drowning in sticks to the point a lot of players just toss the sticks away, cause they got too much at their base.

[Broccoli Clock]

16 hours ago, Lunyaru said:

It would be cool if you could use an axe to split firewood into sticks or an alternative for crafting purposes.

I literally wrote my own mod because while I don't mind the early game struggle I was frustrated at the lack of sticks mid game. I made it use an axe and a plank (board),as I felt at the point you are able to make planks it's just a matter of splitting those planks into sticks.

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/21934

[Never Jhonsen]

On 6/12/2025 at 12:27 AM, Dilan Rona said:

And once you get shears, you are absolutely drowning in sticks to the point a lot of players just toss the sticks away, cause they got too much at their base.

I like to see how fast I can fill a crate with Stick Layers

I've gotten over a crate before, but not quite to two crates

[Dilan Rona]

You'd be suprised at how fast that can go before you start filling your second.

[grunt700]

Honestly, I think a better solution would be to use a different item for later game objects, a stick really shouldn't be used for high quality tools and machinery. I think adding a draw knife to make rods and handles from planks or squared beams would be a better solution, making mid to late game rely less on grabbing sticks and focus more on industrialization. If I make a concerted effort to grab sticks, than I find enough for my purposes, but it feels less rewarding and more like I've gone back to square one.

[hstone32]

I think sticks are fine as they are. Shears can get you all the sticks you need.

maybe what needs to happen though, is the guide should be clearer about how players should use shears to collect sticks.

[Thorfinn]

On 10/21/2025 at 4:49 PM, grunt700 said:

Honestly, I think a better solution would be to use a different item for later game objects, a stick really shouldn't be used for high quality tools and machinery. I think adding a draw knife to make rods and handles from planks or squared beams would be a better solution, making mid to late game rely less on grabbing sticks and focus more on industrialization. If I make a concerted effort to grab sticks, than I find enough for my purposes, but it feels less rewarding and more like I've gone back to square one.

I'd be fine with that, but wouldn't look forward to all the complaints about not being able to craft bronze knives or copper axes. And we'd be linking those people to mods that add the old way back in. 

[MKMoose]

On 10/23/2025 at 4:02 PM, Thorfinn said:

On 10/21/2025 at 11:49 PM, grunt700 said:

Honestly, I think a better solution would be to use a different item for later game objects, a stick really shouldn't be used for high quality tools and machinery. I think adding a draw knife to make rods and handles from planks or squared beams would be a better solution, making mid to late game rely less on grabbing sticks and focus more on industrialization. If I make a concerted effort to grab sticks, than I find enough for my purposes, but it feels less rewarding and more like I've gone back to square one.

I'd be fine with that, but wouldn't look forward to all the complaints about not being able to craft bronze knives or copper axes. And we'd be linking those people to mods that add the old way back in.

I feel like a simple solution to this issue is kind of already in the game - make it so that you can keep using sticks, but using a better haft slightly increases the durability of the item, the same way bones do for stone knives and axes.

Alternatively, though at higher dev time cost, make it so that a handle has its own durability independent of the tool, returning a toolhead with reduced durability when broken. A better handle would last longer or even all the way through the tool's lifespan and beyond. This would be arguably much more realistic and immersive, and could also open up a bunch of adjacent possibilities like bowstring durability, separate armor layer durability and so on. Granted, it might get complicated and annoying, but the first solution is always a possibility as well.

[Thorfinn]

25 minutes ago, MKMoose said:

I feel like a simple solution to this issue is kind of already in the game - make it so that you can keep using sticks, but using a better haft slightly increases the durability of the item, the same way bones do for stone knives and axes.

Another of those things I've modded into my server. Bone handles. They aren't as large an increase as they give for stone, but then again, how long a blade holds an edge has very little to do with what the handle is made of. They just don't have their own artwork. For a while, I had hardwood handles, too, but the only good wood for it is ash and hickory, neither of which are in the game, and neither of which I care enough about to create models for. It's just not a big deal, particularly when durability starts reaching 4 digits. A bonus 50 durability is kind of in the same vein as "You won a free oven mitt!"

[Tabbot95]

wood turning should be a thing; basically a wood lathe.

could add wooden bowls, various decorations, as well as more accurate arrow shafts etc.

[Єгорія]

On 10/23/2025 at 5:02 PM, Thorfinn said:

I'd be fine with that, but wouldn't look forward to all the complaints about not being able to craft bronze knives or copper axes. And we'd be linking those people to mods that add the old way back in. 

Just allow using either sticks or hafts, like you can wqith bones, for where they are interchangeable, and not do that where they aren't lol.