Hardwood

Details

It stacks up to 9,999.

Where to Find Hardwood

4 Pals drop Hardwood when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.

If you would rather just buy it, the cheapest seller is Desert Shop at 100 Gold, and 3 other shops stock it too.

The pink cherry-blossom trees on Sakurajima are what you cut for this, and they are not the tree you have been chopping everywhere else. The game holds them as three separate objects with 1,000 HP each, where the ordinary choppable tree across the rest of Palpagos carries 4,500 — so a hardwood tree falls in under a quarter of the axe work a mainland one costs you, and a Pal on Lumbering clears a grove fast. Cherry Blossom Crossroads and Secluded Cemetery are the two fast travel points that put you inside the groves, so there is no long approach flight either.

Logging Site II is the version of the base facility that makes Hardwood, and its economics are worth reading before you commit to it. It needs 8,000 work per unit, where the plain Logging Site turns out ordinary Wood at 800 — ten times the labour for one piece. Against that, it asks only Lumbering rank 1 from its workers, the same bar the first Logging Site sets, and it holds three of them, so your existing loggers can staff it as they are. The gate is the build cost: 100 Hardwood, 50 Stone, 20 Paldium Fragment and 5 Ancient Civilization Parts, unlocked at Technology 43 for 3 Ancient Technology Points. The first hundred has to come off the trees by hand — the facility can never bootstrap itself.

The Ancient Material Synthesizer at Technology 78 produces wood without a grove at all, but its lumbering slot asks for Lumbering Lv 6, and only eight Pals in the game clear that bar: Celesdir Noct at 8, Celesdir and Hartalis at 7, and Bastigor, Cryolinx Terra, Necromus, Paladius and Silvegis at 6. Every one of those is a late-game capture, and the machine also draws 800 power, so this is an endgame convenience rather than a route out of the Hardwood bottleneck. If you already own one of the eight, check what else it is doing before you park it here.

How to Get Hardwood — Dropped By 4 Pals

Wumpo Botan100% · 2–5Palumba100% · 2–4Mossanda100% · 1–3Mossanda Lux100% · 1–3

Using Hardwood Well

Gumoss is the Pal to have in the party for a chopping run, and not only for the Logging bonus. Its partner skill names five materials outright — Wood, Hardwood, Mythical Wood, Ancient Bark and Fiber — and cuts the carry weight of exactly those by 40% at rank 1, rising to 60% at rank 5, while adding 30% to 50% to your own logging on top. Hardwood weighs 5.0 a unit, so 200 of it is 1,000 weight of a full inventory; with a rank 5 Gumoss along that same haul costs 400. On a resource this heavy the weight half of the skill is usually worth more than the speed half.

Alternatives and Upgrades

Other crafting materials at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

Ancient BarkWoodFiberMythical Wood

What Hardwood Is Used For (26)

Giant Feed Bag×50Huge Feed Bag×30Medium Pouch×50Giga Glider×100

Mythical Wooden Board×10High Quality Wooden Board×10Exotic Sphere×10Sol Sphere×10Ultimate Sphere×10Legendary Sphere×3Double-Barreled Shotgun×50Metal Bat×60Single-Shot Rifle×40Double-Barreled Shotgun×43Metal Bat×52Single-Shot Rifle×35Double-Barreled Shotgun×37Metal Bat×45Single-Shot Rifle×30Double-Barreled Shotgun×31Metal Bat×37Single-Shot Rifle×25Double-Barreled Shotgun×25Grass Grenade×1Metal Bat×30Single-Shot Rifle×20