From Toadwater Guide

Whittling is the skill related to shaping wood into items.

Contents 1 Increasing Whittling 2 Failure Delay 3 Whittling Odds 4 Whittling Items 4.1 Birdhouse 4.2 Mallet 4.3 Plank 4.4 Scutching Sword 4.5 Shovel 4.6 Tree Tap 4.7 Post 4.8 Idol 4.8.1 Power & Value 4.8.2 Removing 4.9 Oar 4.10 Clog

Increasing Whittling

• Attempt to whittle items
  • Failing to whittle an item grants ~10% of the whittling xp for successfully whittling the same item -- see Failure Delay, below, for more info
• Use an outhouse with a whittling magazine in it
• Peform certain quests
• Eat white icicle radishes and/or GRs (temporary increase)

Failure Delay

Maximum failure delay is: delay_max = level_wood minutes.

For this period the icon for the item will be "grayed out" after the failure and will remain that way until the item's icon becomes black again. While grayed out, that item is unable to be whittled from any level wood. Note that certain buffs and edicts active at the time of failure can reduce the failure delay time. See poisoned strawberry for info about eliminating failure delays.

Whittling Odds

The easiest items to whittle include mallets, planks, shovels, and tree taps. Their odds are:

Whittling the following items are harder to whittle by a factor of X (format is ITEM, X):

• birdhouse, 4
• scutching sword, 4
• oar, 10
• clog, 20
• idol, see below

Whittling Items

Whittling is one of the most robust skills in all of Toadwater and has the most unique end products for any one skill with the exception of all the crops in farming. Note that to whittle items, you must whittle them in order of level. So, for instance, you must have created a level 1 shovel at one point to create one of level 2.

Birdhouse

An item which can be whittled. Place one on a tree to attract a bird or a Red Squirrel - the animal attracted depends on the type of tree to which the birdhouse is attached. The higher the level of your birdhouse, the sooner you can expect to attract a bird or squirrel. If a bird or squirrel is attracted, you can use it as many times as computed in the formula:

The exception to this is the Super-duper birdhouse. After that the birdhouse is destroyed and the bird or squirrel leaves.

To remove a birdhouse from a tree, it must first be empty. Select your axe and click on the tree. The birdhouse will go into your inventory if you have an open slot. Workers may not be assigned to any tree that has a birdhouse attached.

See poo and wiggleberry for information on how to remove occupied birdhouses.

For a list of all of the things you can find in your birdhouse, see List of Birdhouse Occupants

Mallet

Mallets are whittled from wood and are used to pound fences and remove statues and (rumour has it) empty toadwater hoards

Plank

Using Whittling you can make 1 plank from 1 piece of Wood . Waxing a plank will increase its grade (level).

Using Construction you can make the following with planks:

• 1 piece of Fencing from 1 plank,
• 1 Outhouse from 1 plank,
• 1 Gate from 2 planks, and
• 1 piece of Road from laying down 1 plank.

Scutching Sword

Scutching swords are difficult items to whittle. They are used to gather retted hemp.

Shovel

Shovels are whittled, and are used to dig holes for outhouses, and wells. They are also used to find seeds and compost worms.

Tree Tap

A tree tap is a whittled device that allows a player to collect sap from a tree.

To use a tap, select a tap in your inventory then select a grown, bare tree you want to tap -- this costs 1 health. A bare tree is one without a tap, an idol, or a birdhouse on it.

Immediately sap will start to accumulate on the tap (the time for the first drop to appear is the same as the time between drops, see formula below).

Anyone who steps on the tapped tree or uses a Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker while the tree is in view can collect all the accumulated sap. Stepping on a tapped tree will indicate in your Daily Log how much sap you collected and who is the tap owner (the player who attached the tap to the tree).

To remove any tap from any tree, chop at the tapped tree once with any axe -- this costs no health. Taps are reusable so it will move to your inventory. Note that any sap on a tap during removal will be lost.

The higher the tap level (equal to the tree level of the wood used to whittle the tap), the faster the sap accumulates for a given tree level. Time between drops is calculated using the formula:

Mousing over a tapped tree will indicate how many drops have accumulated, the tap level, and the time until the next drop.

Post

Posts are intermediary building elements used for building Dock Construction Kits and have other uses. Their whittling chance is same as for planks.

Idol

Idols are whittled from wood. They are difficult to whittle and cannot be waxed. Once you have an idol in your inventory, you can attach it to a tree of the same type. You may only own one idol of each tree level.

Once on a tree, any player can sacrifice the same type of tree seeds to it by selecting seeds in inventory then selecting the idol. Every [tree level+1] seeds that are sacrificed should produce one seed of the next tree level. Each sacrifice action costs [tree level+1]/10 health. So for the first action of sacrificing 16 black tupelo seeds to a black tupelo idol costs 1.6 health and grants one redwood seed then the second action of sacrificing 32 black tupelo seeds costs 1.6 health and grants 2 redwood seeds.

Power & Value

There are 3 factors which determine the power of your idol:

• The number of seeds that have been sacrificed to it
• The age of the tree to which it is attached
• The length of time for which it has been attached

Shop value of the idol is based on how many seeds have been sacrificed to it.

Removing

To remove your own idol, chop it once with an axe. Chopping another players idol will destroy the idol. However, in Darktide, the fast paced version of Toadwater, you can chop another players idol and it will not be destroyed

Oar

A "[Tree Name] Oar" can be used to create a ditch.

The process of digging a ditch is as follows:

• Use a level 31+ oar to draw a line in the sand adjacent to either a water filled square or another ditch
• Use a shovel to dig a ditch 30cm+ deep.
• Wait for it to fill with water :)

Clog

Clogs have a use in Toadwater in the juice making process.

Apart from idols, clogs are the most difficult item to whittle.