Core Keeper Wood Farm: How to Automate Wood with Root Seeds and Drills

What you need for a wood farm

Machine	What it does	Power	Recipe
Root Seed	Grows into a root that spreads wood	Not needed (needs watering)	Not craftable (see how to get it)
Drill	Mines the tile in front of it, i.e. the wood that spread	Needed	Iron Bar ×10, Scarlet Bar ×10 Made at Automation Table
Crude Drill	The tier before the drill	Needed	Tin Bar ×8 Made at Automation Table
Conveyor Belt	Carries the mined wood	Not needed	Tin Bar ×2 Made at Automation Table
Robot Arm	Puts the wood into a chest	Needed	Iron Bar ×5, Scarlet Bar ×5 Made at Automation Table
Electricity Generator	Produces power	—	Copper Bar ×10 Made at Electronics Table
Electrical Wire	Carries power (can be hidden under floors)	—	Copper Bar ×1 Made at Electronics Table
Table Saw	Turns wood into planks (advanced)	Needed	Wood ×8, Copper Bar ×5, Iron Bar ×5 Made at Tin Workbench

Related seeds, the Coral Wood Seed and the Gleam Wood Seed, let you farm coral wood and glow wood the same way.

How to build a wood farm (step by step)

1. Plant the Root Seed: plant it in ground tilled with a hoe and water it. It grows into a root in 10 minutes.
2. Prepare ground for the wood: the root spreads wood onto dirt, turf, grassland, clay, grass, beach sand and crystal ground. Surround it with these and leave room to spread.
3. Point drills at it: aim a powered drill at the tiles where wood appears. Place it so it can't reach the root in the middle (if you break the root, no more wood grows).
4. Collect: wood mined by a drill comes out of the drill's back side. Carry it with a conveyor belt and put it into a chest with a robot arm.
5. Test before you expand: start with one root and one drill, and watch until wood actually lands in the chest.

Tips for a more efficient wood farm

• Wood spreads in random directions: planting many seeds doesn't mean every row grows the same. Build a small one, watch where it grows, then copy that shape.
• Fix gaps: adding a root can change how the rows beyond it grow. Fix that section before you expand.
• Hide wires under the floor: wires can go under conveyor belts, and conveyor belts don't need power.

Automating planks (Table Saw)

Put wood into a powered Table Saw and it turns into Plank of the same type. It stops when the power is cut and resumes where it left off when power returns. Adding more of the same wood doesn't reset the cutting timer, but switching to a different type of wood does. Check the saw's input and output before connecting it to the rest of the line.

When wood doesn't grow or isn't collected

Mechanics from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) pages "Root Seed", "Guides/Electronics and Automation", "Table Saw" (CC BY-SA 3.0), which cite the Explorer's Guide 1.3 and game 1.3 data.

More automation guides

• Automation guide (overview and machines)
• Farm automation (planting, watering, harvesting)
• Automatic fishing (Fishing Net)
• Mob farms (spawn tiles)