Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26228660-20150724192006/@comment-24108228-20150725232618

I'd say that's all valid answers, except a couple. TheOldSurvivor wrote:

  S: "really just an useless little gimmick that looks cool"

A: Youre completely entitled to your opinions, banana hater, but thats a subjective statement

S: "anyone who needs alot of planks can make a lumber-cart and go to mainland"

A: First of all i'd like to point out that you could do the same thing with the sawmill if it was all burnable, or that if the lumbermill was construced a bit differently you couldnt do that at all, so lets play fair and assume that all buildings will remain intact. Secondly, most people don't know about that trick, and third, inventors wont be the only people using this. What about people living in a cave with a tree farm? or on lynx with 1 tree? how about on flax where trees sell like hotcakes? Fourth, assuming people dont cheat, this would cut 50% of the time off their projects. These are pretty much the same criticism, so I'll tackle them simultainiously.

When on islands such as Lynx or Flax, I admit that wood may be scarce. However, so is space. Planks are only used in large numbers to make walls, and every single building that a wall is used in requires a fair amount of space. Given any serious settler will bring apples and a starter reserve of wood, they'll be able to fill their island's available space fairly quickly, without the help of the sawmill, since the lumbermill will suffice to provide the walls needed to build all the buildings they need.

As for anyone who doesn't live on one of the islands with remarkably scarce wood, you don't need the extra help. You won't need masses of wooden walls unless you're building an excessively large project, in which case you're clearly a bored veteran and have a basic knowledge of how lumbermills burn and work. S: "I think a simple three stone walls and a iron gear would suffice"

A: Fine, I can be flexible, lets poll it. I dont know how to put one up, can someone help me? This particular critism was pitted against your original recipe, which demanded something like this: Small Bush Stump + Small Bush Stump + Small Bush Stump + Small Bush Stump + Stone Slab + Stone Slab + Iron Gear Which clearly wouldn't fit in the crafting GUI. With the new design for the sawmill, I'd say your new recipe is better than the three stone walls and an iron gear, as it also incorporates planks, emphasising the "Upgrade" aspect, since you'll need to make the lumbermill first. No poll is neccesary, since nobody's really pitching anything against the new recipe.