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Deez

Too many sticks!

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Holy crap I have a butt load of sticks. Anyone have any suggestions for what I should do with them?

 

I wish we could bundle them for efficient storage. :(

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I always find it a bit amusing whenever this topic comes up, just because I'm one of the players that honestly never has enough sticks.

 

 

 

More uses for sticks has been discussed a lot in the past, and the key counter-argument is that your excess of sticks is entirely based on your playstyle. I myself, even after having an established home and a large tree farm, am actually constantly running out of sticks. Here's a list of all the things that I use sticks for, that actually eats them up quite quickly:

 

  • Tool Handles - For things like hammers, knives, hoes for tilling a large farm, spindles for wool, and even shovels if I don't have a metal one already made, I usually make a bunch of stone tools over making a single metal one.
  • Fire Starters - We usually keep a double chest of firestarters next to the forge, and next to our charcoal pit area, mainly because we haven't gotten to wrought iron yet to make a flint & steel.
  • Bow & Arrows - The bow is my weapon of choice with the exception of a mace for skeletons. A lot of times I don't bother going to pick up the arrows if the mobs are far away, because its so cheap to just make more.
  • Signs - I label everything! Especially on a private multiplayer server.. I have to have a sign on just about all the things in order to keep some sort of organization when playing with messy boys.
  • Ladders - Every time I come across a new stone layer, I dig straight down to do a core sample to see what stone type is in all three layers. This comes in handy later when searching for specific ores, or a specific rock to build with. On average it usually takes a stack and a half (64+32) ladders in order to get all the way down to the bottom layer.. Thats 224 sticks, or 3.5 stacks of sticks.. just for a single tunnel down (Please double check my math).
  • Item Frames - Once we have a good leather supply going, I usually switch out my signs with item frames in the storage room.
  • Paintings - Because I like pretty pictures on the walls of my massive house.
  • Fishing Rods - For those rare cases when we screwed up somehow, and food is tight.
  • Torches - Light up all the things! I keep at least a vessel full of torches (4 stacks) with me when exploring, mainly for if I come across a cave.
  • Firepits - A quick and cheap way to heat up my meals when I'm out exploring
  • Rails - We haven't progressed this far yet, but eventually there will be a lot of rails going back and forth to the mines and such.
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I'd be pretty happy if someone made a bundle of stick mod. Maybe have it so it can be used in fire pits and shit with like half the burn time as logs.

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Think about how often you actually use fire pits though. Once you've got a grill it's very likely that you will rarely ever use a fire pit again, and it's usually at that point in progression where players have large tree farms for charcoal production and might have the major excess of sticks. I doubt players are going to go back to cooking food one piece at a time just so that they can use up some sticks.

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One other idea for using sticks is to install Carpenters blocks. You will use tons of sticks and it makes building anything a lot easier and nice.

I love using carpenter's blocks for scaffolding, and the fact that I can build with cobble. 

Also it makes using stairs and slabs a lot easier.

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I'm very much with kittychanley here. Sticks is my #1 required resource. The majority of my playtime goes into obtaining sticks. I can never have enough sticks.

 

If you don't want them, can I have them? :D

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After messing around with many tree types in different wood farm configurations (see other thread), i collected several double chests containing stacks of sticks. To me, they are mostly useful as ladders and torches. 

 

EDIT: Yes, the compulsive torching up of everything cannot be stopped :D

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I ended up installed carpenter blocks, it's a great way to reduce the amount that I had. Now my main problem is what to do with all this dirt I have after terraforming my village...

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A little OCD myself, I use to have the same problem.

Terraforming everything and hoarding the dirt. End up with so many chests full of dirt is not even funny.

Solution is 2 parts:

First install Decorations and use dirt to create mud bricks, they are beautiful and very decorative.

Second make a conscious effort to build following the natural terrain, I know is hard since I have the same struggle,  but the rewards are worth. Your buildings will have a much more natural look and feel. Build stairs and bridges, go around and up and down.

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I can never have enough sticks. I tend to use up many, many sticks by making ladders.

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