Devblog 5: Sawbucks, powered sawmills and water storage
The June 12, 2023 announcement moves lumber processing toward a physical Sawbuck. Players deliver logs to its queue and cut them with an axe. A powered sawmill can work over the Sawbuck to process queued logs without continuous manual chopping.
Connect the delivery route to the workstation
The powered route trades direct labour for infrastructure and passive operation. Cisterns add storage to canal networks, allowing water to be brought nearer cooking and farming. The same post explores early Family Areas and revised Water Pump visuals. Later Homestead announcements build on and change these initial experiments.