Primitive Wood Harvester
How to get it
Unlock at Wood Milestone 1, then place on trees.
- Reach Wood Milestone 1 (hand-gather Oak Wood counts).
- Place a Primitive Wood Harvester on trees from Select Building.
- Pipe the output into a Primitive Chest to finish the first automation objective.


Shared route notes for every building live on the buildings hub — steps above cover this item’s unique path.
Overview
First auto-gather machine. Unlock at Wood Milestone 1, place on trees, then pipe Oak Wood into a Primitive Chest. Harvested items count toward milestones, unlike Assembler crafts.
Where it shows up
Covered in: Nightwater biomes & resources (expand the island), Nightwater first automation (wood chain)
Still unknown
- Exact radius and cycle time from a still HUD.
- Later harvester tiers.
Other buildings
All buildings →WorkbenchEarly Primitive build; Select Building panel shows a wood-logs cost.Research TableEarly tutorial build using wood and planks; opens the research book.Primitive Rock CrusherUnlock on the Stone milestone track, then place on rock nodes.Primitive Plant FarmerUnlock on the Wheat milestone track, then place on plant patches.