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Sawmills

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Sawmills in the Idea Tree

Sawmills is one of the Idea Tree Icon.png Idea Research, section Resources in Frostpunk 2. It can be researched from the start of the game. It unlocks a Sawmill Building that increases Materials.png Materials output from Extraction District builded on Frozen Forest deposit.

The Research costs 50 Heatstamps to start and takes 12 initial weeks to complete. The Building costs 80 Heatstamps and 40 Prefabs to be built.

It unlocks the research for Advanced Sawmills, Charcoal Plants, and Foundries.

Sawmill[edit | edit source]

Massive sawmill in which frozen wood is cut and treated to be used as materials.
~ Ingame Description.

Neutral variant of Sawmills Idea Research.

Untreated Sawmill[edit | edit source]

Massive sawmill in which frozen wood is cut into usable materials without undergoing any treatment, speeding up the process but exposing people to mould spores and fungi.
~ Ingame Description.

Adaptation variant of Sawmills Idea Research.

Mechanised Sawmill[edit | edit source]

Massive sawmill loading frozen wood directly into mulching machines that separate usable materials from waste byproducts.
~ Ingame Description.

Progress variant of Sawmills Idea Research.

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