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You’ve started collecting wood and granite inLego Fortnite. You might have already made yourself a Forest Axe and a Pickaxe. Now it’s easy to get wood by chopping trees, but what’s next? What do you do with all this new wood?
It’s time to begin building structures like houses, watch towers, and fences, and to upgrade your village. You’ll also need chests to store all of your resources in. And while axes are great, you’ll soon need a sword to fight off the wolves and skeletons. But to build these things, you’re going to need planks and wooden rods. Here’s all you need to know about how to make planks and wooden rods.
How To Build A Lumber Mill
The first thing you’ll need tomake planks and rodsis aLumber Mill.
As you progress early in the game, the recipe for a Lumber Mill willunlock shortly after building your first Workbench.
To craft the Lumber Mill, open your build menu like you did for the Workbench. The Lumber Mill will be thesecond itemunder theUtility tabin theStations category.
You’ll needeight Woodand15 Graniteto build the Lumber Mill.
How To Make Planks
When you first open the Lumber Mill menu,you’ll have two recipes available:PlankandWooden Rod.
Select Plankand then clickAssign Recipe.
Click the button toDeposit, then use theQuick Deposit buttonto keepadding wood to the machine.
Thecost to make planks is one-to-one, and each plank will take abouteight to ten seconds to complete.
Once your planks are finished,click the button to retrieve them from the Lumber Mill, and you cannow build any structures you need to!
How To Make Wooden Rods
The process for making wooden rodsis the same as it is for planks,with one minor twist.
When you open the Lumber Mill menu to make wooden rods,you must first change the recipe from Planks to Wooden Rods.
Scroll down to Wooden Rods,then click the button toChange Recipe. Then, you can useQuick Addto add more wood to the machine.
Wooden rodscost the sameamount of wood as planks andtake the same amount of timeto complete.
