Lumbermill and Singing Grove

Complete Seren Fairhollow's Lumbermill and her recruitment quest. Seren works the grove herself; Townsfolk work priorities do not assign her trees.

Seren grows the town's wood on Rootstones. She gives you two when her lumbermill is finished. Craft more at the Town Planning Desk from stone, Life Essence and fibre.

1. Place a Rootstone on open ground anywhere inside your town.
2. Use the Rootstone and pick one of the saplings you carry. It takes one sapling.
3. Seren does the rest during her work hours. She plants the tree, sings it tall, fells it and carries everything back to the lumbermill.

The stone then grows the same tree again for free, for as long as you leave it there. Any of 32 trees works once you own its sapling.

A tree needs open space above and around its Rootstone. If there is not enough room, the Rootstone tells you what is in the way. Trees from different Rootstones cannot grow into each other, so give large trees plenty of space.

Seren can tend two Rootstones at first. Lumbermill upgrades let her tend up to six, sing faster and store more.

Open the lumbermill's stores, or any Rootstone, to see every stone at a glance. From there you can also:

• Bless a Rootstone. Spend 5 Life Essence and its next tree gives double wood.
• Uproot a tree. This frees the Rootstone so you can choose another tree or move the stone. A tree that is already standing stays where it is and becomes yours to chop. A stone that has not been planted yet returns its sapling.
• Collect all. Take everything in the mill stores.

You are free to trim or build around a grove tree. Seren simply harvests what is left of it. Breaking a Rootstone frees it in the same way as uprooting.

A lumbermill that worked the old way keeps doing so until its first Rootstone is given a sapling. From then on Seren works the grove instead, and that cannot be undone.

Training and troubleshooting

Talk to Seren to train her Mastery with Verdant Catalysts and equip a Hatchet from your inventory. She starts with a Crude Hatchet. Each timber's requirement follows its sapling's Farming Bench tier. Tier 4 needs Iron, tiers 5 and 6 need Thorium or Cobalt, and tiers 7 and above need Adamantite. Higher tools satisfy lower requirements. Each Rootstone tells you when Seren needs more Mastery or a better tool for its tree. See Mastery and training for the full progression.

Keep the stone and its future tree space clear, including overhead. A Rootstone reports obstacles, Mastery and tool requirements. Check Seren's shift, walking access and room in the lumbermill's stores. She must bring the harvest home before you can collect it.

Building Outputs in the warehouse also exposes stored mill resources. Couriers can use that timber for queued recipes.