Fine Wooden Planks are a tier‑2 building material with an item level of 20. They’re a staple for mid‑game construction, especially Half‑Timber pieces, and they also feed into several station and furniture crafts. Planks stack to 50 per inventory slot.

Recipe, unlocks, and station

• Skill: Carpentry (difficulty 19)
• Unlocks at Carpentry level 8
• Station: Wood Chopping Block
• Inputs and yield: 10 Heartwood → 10 Fine Wooden Planks

Note: Some older listings show the unlock one level earlier; in current builds, treat Carpentry 8 as the requirement.

What you need: Heartwood (tier‑2 wood)

The only input is Heartwood, the game’s tier‑2 log resource. It comes from tougher trees than early Sapwood sources and is effectively the “raw” version of fine wood. Expect to upgrade your chopping axe before you can reliably harvest it. In the field, the right trees tend to take significantly more swings to fell than starter trees; many players mark these spots and return after a tool upgrade since trees respawn on a short cadence.

Step‑by‑step: crafting Fine Wooden Planks

  • Level Carpentry to 8 so the recipe appears in your Wood Chopping Block list.
  • Gather at least 10 Heartwood for a single craft (yields 10 planks per batch).
  • Use the Wood Chopping Block and select Fine Wooden Planks; queue as needed.

If you see Fine Wood Beams but not planks, you’re close—planks require a slightly higher Carpentry level than beams, so push one more level and check again.

Where Fine Wooden Planks are used

Planks are baked into a broad swath of mid‑tier recipes—roughly a couple dozen in total. You’ll use them for:

  • Half‑Timber building pieces (floors of multiple sizes, narrow/long variants, stairs).
  • Workstations and utilities, such as the Alchemy Table and Distillery.
  • Furniture and storage, including items like the Banquet Table, Wrought Iron Reinforced Chest, and Decorated Chair.

Plan for ongoing Heartwood runs if you’re committing to Half‑Timber architecture or spinning up several benches in parallel.

Efficiency and leveling notes

At difficulty 19, Fine Wooden Planks are a reasonable craft while you’re climbing through the teens in Carpentry. Success chance ramps quickly with each level and reaches 100 percent around Carpentry 19. Past that point, the experience per craft drops sharply, making planks a poor primary leveling option in the 20s compared to other recipes. Use them as a milestone craft to unlock builds rather than a long‑term XP farm.

Quick reference

Property Value
Category Building material
Tier 2
Item level 20
Skill / Difficulty Carpentry / 19
Unlock level Carpentry 8
Station Wood Chopping Block
Input Heartwood ×10
Output Fine Wooden Planks ×10
Max stack 50

The core takeaway is simple: get Heartwood flowing, hit Carpentry 8, and convert in bulk at the Wood Chopping Block. With planks on hand, Half‑Timber builds, key stations, and a chunk of mid‑tier furniture open up without friction.