Wood Piles can be found in certain areas all around the map in updates after the October 3rd 2024 World Update 2.0, older versions of Rust, or the legacy build.

They are one of the most efficient method of collecting Wood; they have a higher yield rate per swing than most trees, and usually contain more wood overall (approximately 400-440 Wood per pile via rock or bone club and 735-1,000 with salvaged hammer or better).

Harvesting (inaccurate)

Tool	Wood Per Strike
Rock	7
Stone Hatchet	7
Hatchet	10
Pickaxe	20

Notes

• Unlike Trees, wood piles would despawn once fully depleted. However, they would later respawn to allow gathering to continue.
• On November 14, 2014, wood piles were officially removed from the Experimental version of Rust, but still remained in Legacy until that version was discontinued on December 08, 2016.
  • When explaining the decision to remove wood piles, Garry stated; "Haven’t we got enough sources of wood? I don’t think we need to explain this." ^[1]
• Woodpiles were reimplemented in the World Update 2.0 on October 03, 2024^[2]

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