Rust Wood Tea
Wood Tea is the chainsaw player's best friend. A Pure Wood Tea triples your wood-per-tree yield for 30 minutes, turning a single chainsaw run into enough wood for a tier-3 base. If you build big or build often, Wood Tea is non-optional. Like every Rust tea, it follows the standard tier progression: 4 berries make 1 Basic, 4 Basics make 1 Advanced, 4 Advanced make 1 Pure.
Recipe & tiers
| Tier | Effect | Duration | Berries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | +50% wood yield | 30 min | 2× red + 2× blue (R/B/R/B pattern) |
| Advanced | +100% wood yield (2×) | 30 min | 4× Basic Wood Teas combined |
| Pure | +200% wood yield (3×) | 30 min | 4× Advanced Wood Teas combined (~64 berries total) |
Brew at a Mixing Table or Cooking Workbench. The order of berries in the slots matters — check the Berry & Tea Reference if unsure. The Tea Brewery Calculator tells you how many of each tier you can brew from your current berry stockpile.
When to use it
Chainsaw runs for base building. Drink before heading to a forest or tree-dense area — the 30-minute window is enough for several thousand wood from a chainsaw + Pure tea combo.
What it stacks with
- Chainsaw — The classic combo — chainsaw fells trees fast, wood tea triples the yield
- Max Health Tea — Different slot, drink both for safety while travelling
- Ore Tea — Stack if you're grinding both wood and stone/ore in one run
What it doesn't stack with
- Another Wood Tea — drinking a second one replaces the first (use Pure once).
- Pickaxe wood (low-yield); the buff applies but the bottleneck is your tool speed, not yield.
Tips from the wipe meta
- Pure Wood Tea + chainsaw = 3× wood per tree, ~3× wood per second. Skipping it costs 60% of your potential haul.
- Brew enough wood teas before a build session. A T3 base is 100k+ wood; one Pure tea covers most of that in a single run if you've found a good forest.
- Avoid trees in the open during PvP hours — the noise of a chainsaw while tea-buffed is a target.
Common mistakes
- Brewing for hatchet runs — the buff helps but most of the time loss is the swing speed, not the yield.
- Drinking and going to mine ore — wrong tea, ore tea applies to stone/ore.