Tree Blood

[Euphenics]

Applications for tree sap are woven deep into history. Food, medicine, illumination, industry, etc. Extracting it shouldn't be complicated.

The first step is to craft a tap from a block of wood or a nugget of metal. Then the tap is driven into the tree, creating a tapped tree. Sap will accumulate in the tap as honey does in a bee hive. Metal taps will draw sap faster. The sap can be collected with a bucket periodically.

The quality and type of sap is dependent on the tree it was obtained from. Maple and birch sap can be boiled down in a caldron into syrup (1:40 reduction for maple and 1:>80 for birch irl, but I think 1:10 will suffice) and further into sugar. Conifer sap can be reduced into resin. Resin can then be distilled into rosin and turpentine, dissolved with linseed oil in vinegar or turpentine to produce varnish, or used as is for other applications such as torches.

Not quite so certain about other trees.

[sabinati]

pretty sure this is planned
e: if not it should be

[Potjeh]

Syrup is the only reason I'm raising maple quality.

[Sarge]

Pretty cool.

[Oblivior]

while there at it, Tree Hars to use as Glue

[Bl1tzX]

I came in here expecting a post about how trees should have massive amounts of blood leaking out whenever you cut them down to make you feel guilty.
(Is it just me? Yeah, just me.)

Moving on-topic, I don't think there's anything wrong with maple syrup on your pancakes, is there?

[Jungletoe]

+1 for sap and pancakes!

[melzar]

and to prevent clear-cutting newbies, after cutting so many trees down in a short period of time you will get the debuff called "sticky hands" which causes you to chop trees down at a much slower rate!

[Scattertom]

and to prevent clear-cutting newbies, after cutting so many trees down in a short period of time you will get the debuff called "sticky hands" which causes you to chop trees down at a much slower rate!

and to counter that you have to make special cloves made from latex that hasnt been invented yet
or somthing that actualy has been invented

[DDDsDD999]

I came in here expecting a post about how trees should have massive amounts of blood leaking out whenever you cut them down to make you feel guilty.
(Is it just me? Yeah, just me.)

You were not the only one. Seems logical, but too many steps. If this is implemented, Im just giving my Character the lazy option. Plain pancakes. Dun, dun, dun.