Lumber
- This article is about wood in the Warcraft franchise. For the warfront currency, see
[Wood]. For the pseudo profession, see 
[Lumberjack].
Lumber (or wood[1] and timber[2]) is a resource that is harvested by lumberjacks and is generally taken to be processed in a lumber mill.
Lumber is one of the main resources that is used in the Warcraft RTS games. It is harvested by worker units from nearby trees and forests. In Outland and in certain underground maps, lumber can be harvested from large mushrooms.
Wood warped by foul demonic magic is of no use to builders, and nothing sound can be built with it, but ancients can purify it for use.[3]
Lumber is a resource used by professions to craft Housing Decor.
Background
Harvested from the abundant forests that inhabit all but a few regions in the realm, the uses for Lumber are nearly infinite. Once a tree has been felled and returned to the community, it is processed and made ready for use as Lumber. Craftsmen then use this material to build many different structures and ships, as well as certain weapons and machines of war. Lumber may also be used in the research and construction of strange new devices - or by those adept in the arcane arts to aid with their magical studies.[4]
[Kor'kron Lumber] was a cornerstone of the conflict between Kor'kron loyalists and the Darkspear Rebellion.
Gallery
Symbols of lumber by game:
Types of lumber
[Corrupted Lumber]- [Lion's Landing Lumber]
- [Azshara Lumber]
- [Northridge Lumber]
- [Freshly Cut Wood]
- [Kor'kron Lumber]
- [Complicated Wood]
- [Shattered Log]
- [Coldwind Lumber]
- [Warsong Lumber]
- [Whitestone Oak Lumber]
- [Satyrnaar Fel Wood]
- [Star Wood]
- [Cord of Ancient Wood]
- [Moontouched Wood]
- [Shipyard Lumber]
- [Bundle of Wood]
- [Rotting Wood]
- [Sacred Timber]
- [Salvaged Wood]
- [Simple Wood]
- [Timber]
- [Splintered Log]
- [Wood]
- [Gnawed Wood Logs]
- [Sundried Driftwood]
- [Freshly-Harvested Wood]
- [Overgrowth Lumber]
- [Algerson Lumber Sample]
- [Purified Lumber Sample]
- [Bundle of Hard Wood]
- [Freshly-Chopped Wood]
[Driftwood]
[Lumber]
Housing lumber
Types of trees
- Darkwood
- Blackroot
- Heartwood[5]
[Heartswood]- Ironwood
- Oak
- Ashenvale Oak
- Holyoak
- Whitestone Oak
- Olemba tree
Ashwood
Night elven ballistae were crafted from the sturdy ashenwood trees.[6] This may be the same kind of wood later referred to by the Ashwood Seeds, the 
[Ashwood Bow] and the 
[Restorative Ashwood Staff].
Whitestone oak
A rare wood that is plenty strong. Before it was taken over, the mines below Moonbrook in Westfall had an abundance of the lumber; they used it in the construction of some of their more important lattices and tools because of its resilience to heat and pressure. It was brought down there after being shipped from overseas somewhere.[7] Jordan Stilwell required some of it to craft the mighty 
[Verigan's Fist].
Irontree
In Cataclysm a new type of green random item was introduced, the Irontree items:
Notes
- A full list of all plants ever mentioned in the lore has been compiled here.
- During the Third War, when the orcs arrived on Kalimdor, they needed large amounts of lumber. They unwittingly enraged the night elves by chopping down trees in sacred forests, and several battles escalated.[8]
- During the Third War secrets were sometimes hidden behind forests, and thus harvesting lumber at the right place could lead to goodies or new pathways.
See also
References
- ^ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, Azeroth Army of the First War, Lumber Mill
- ^ Timber
- ^
[7-30] A Shameful Waste
- ^ Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness manual, Resources of the Land, Lumber
- ^
[45] Ari's Package
- ^ Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos manual, Night Elf Units, Ballistae
- ^
[Jordan's Weapon Notes]
- ^ The Spirits of Ashenvale