Goldenwood Trunks sit near the top of Hytale’s farming progression. They’re treated as a special log type, needed in bulk to push the Farmer’s Workbench to its final tier, and they only come from a handful of very specific trees and biomes.
What Goldenwood Trunks are and why they matter
Goldenwood Trunks are a high-tier log used primarily to upgrade the Farmer’s Workbench to Tier 8. To complete that upgrade you need:
| Item | Amount | Purpose in upgrade |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Essence of Life | 6 | High-tier magical component |
| Potato | 60 | Crop requirement |
| Onion | 60 | Crop requirement |
| Goldenwood Trunks | 60 | Rare log requirement |
In item terms, Goldenwood is not its own log name. The game tags certain logs as “Goldenwood” behind the scenes. The key example is the Sallow Log, and in some cases, Palm Tree logs also count.
How Goldenwood classification works (Sallow vs Palm)
Several logs can share the same internal wood category. Sallow Logs are explicitly classified as Goldenwood Logs, which means every Sallow Log you collect counts as a Goldenwood Trunk for progression and crafting checks.
Palm Tree logs can also be treated as Goldenwood, but there are important caveats:
- Thin palm trees that break into sticks do not give you logs and therefore do not help with Goldenwood requirements.
- Palm Tree logs obtained from chests in desert biomes can satisfy Goldenwood Trunk objectives.
- Patches have changed how objectives track wood: earlier, Palm logs counted freely; a later update shifted some goals to specifically require Sallow.
When you want a reliable, repeatable way to generate Goldenwood, Sallow trees in the Devastated Lands are the anchor. Palm is best thought of as a supplementary source from lootable chests, not the primary farm.
How to get Goldenwood Trunks from Sallow trees (Devastated Lands)
The most consistent way to stockpile Goldenwood Trunks is to harvest Sallow trees in the Devastated Lands, Hytale’s volcanic Zone 4.
Step 1: Travel to the Devastated Lands, the volcanic region represented as a Volcanic biome on the world map. Expect this area to be far from your original spawn, with long stretches of lava islands and scorched terrain.
Step 2: On the map, look for burnt forest biomes inside the Devastated Lands. These show up as brown, charred-looking patches that stand out from surrounding terrain.
Step 3: Zoom in on those burnt forest patches and scan for small clusters of yellow or yellow-green trees. Sallow trees are visually distinct: they sit in a blackened forest but have slim, yellowish or golden leaves rather than dark or ash-colored foliage.
Step 4: Navigate to the yellow-leaf trees you identified on the map. Because maps are procedurally generated, there are no universal coordinates to follow; you need to scout each world’s Devastated Lands for its own Sallow clusters.
Step 5: Use an axe to chop down the Sallow trees. When felled, these trees drop Sallow Logs. Each Sallow Log is tagged as a Goldenwood Log and counts one-for-one toward any Goldenwood Trunk requirement.
Step 6: Keep clearing the local Sallow grove, then fan out to find additional burnt forest patches elsewhere in Zone 4. Sallow spawn locations are random and often rare, so expect to travel thousands of blocks between promising spots.
How to get Goldenwood Trunks from Palm Tree logs (Howling Desert chests)
Palm Tree logs offer an alternate way to generate Goldenwood Trunks, but not by cutting down palm trees directly. In practice, the reliable Palm route is chest farming in the desert.
Step 1: Travel to Zone 2, the Howling Desert. This biome is characterized by sand, dunes, and desert structures.
Step 2: Explore desert structures such as ruins, camps, and other generated buildings. Your goal is to find ordinary loot chests. High Roll Chests are excluded from this drop pool, so prioritize regular chests scattered through the zone.
Step 3: Open each chest and check the contents for Palm Tree logs. When present, these logs are treated as Goldenwood Trunks and will satisfy Goldenwood-related upgrade requirements.
Step 4: Loop through multiple structures and chests. Chest farming is inherently RNG-driven; you might find multiple Palm logs quickly in one world and far fewer in another.
There are important limits to this Palm-based approach. Many naturally generated or player-grown palm trees are too thin to yield logs, breaking only into sticks when chopped. That makes chest drops the only consistent Palm source in many worlds.
Patch changes also matter: earlier in the game’s life, Farmer’s Workbench objectives that referenced Goldenwood could be completed with Palm logs from chests. A later update adjusted some tasks to track Sallow specifically, which prevents Palm logs from counting in those cases. When an objective text mentions “Sallow” directly, you must use Sallow Logs; when it asks only for Goldenwood, Palm logs from chests can still work.
Using Sallow Logs and Palm logs as Goldenwood at workbenches
Once you have Sallow Logs or qualifying Palm Tree logs, they plug into crafting and progression systems under the Goldenwood category.
Farmer’s Workbench Tier 8 upgrade
The Farmer’s Workbench checks for Goldenwood Trunks when upgrading to Tier 8. Sallow Logs always satisfy this requirement because they are explicitly categorized as Goldenwood Logs. Palm logs from eligible chests can also count where the requirement is written as “Goldenwood” rather than “Sallow”.
Builder’s Workbench refinement
Sallow Logs can be refined into Goldenwood Planks at a Builder’s Workbench. These planks extend Goldenwood’s utility into building and advanced crafting, letting you convert scarce logs into a more flexible structural material.
Because Sallow groves are so rare, it’s usually better to process only the number of logs you actually need into planks and keep the rest in log form until you are certain your Farmer’s Workbench upgrades are covered.
Why Sallow is the long-term Goldenwood solution
There are several practical reasons Sallow is treated as the main path to Goldenwood, with Palm filling in gaps:
- Guaranteed classification: Every Sallow Log is a Goldenwood Log. There is no ambiguity about whether it will count for objectives.
- Repeatable farming: Once you identify a Sallow grove, you can clear it, return later as trees regrow, or re-explore nearby burnt forests, and steadily increase your stockpile.
- Objective specificity: Recent patches have changed some Goldenwood requirements to explicitly reference Sallow, which Palm logs cannot satisfy.
- Chest RNG vs. biome scouting: Chest farming in the desert can be faster in lucky runs, but it is fully random. Sallow searching is slower initially, yet once you discover a biome, it becomes a predictable source.
That trade-off explains the common player experience: long, frustrating searches through lava islands before finally spotting the distinctive yellow Sallow canopy, followed by relief when every log chopped directly progresses late-game farming.
Goldenwood Trunks are meant to push you deep into Hytale’s world: across distant deserts for Palm-filled chests and into hostile volcanic ruins for rare Sallow groves. Treat chest-found Palm logs as an early boost, but plan around Sallow in the Devastated Lands if you want a stable pipeline of Goldenwood for Tier 8 farming and Goldenwood Planks.
