Skills
Woodwork Tukang Kayu
Timber from the jungle, fibre and coconuts from the palms, and everything you build at the boatyard. Woodwork is the skill that gets you off the island.
Trees
Jungle trees give timber. Click a tree to cut it. Every 4 ticks you get an attempt; when it succeeds you get one timber and 25 XP. After each timber the tree has a 28% chance to come down, leaving a stump that grows back in 25 ticks (15 s). On average a tree gives 3.6 timber.
There are 29 trees on Perhentian, mostly in the island's jungle heart, and 78 in the forest south of Kuala Besut.
Trees will need a hatchet
With tools, you need a hatchet to cut a tree. Pak Mat lends you your first one. Better hatchets cut faster, and in part 2 the hard woods, meranti and cengal, need a better hatchet before they will even take a cut. Hatchets and the forest.
Coconut palms
Palms grow on the sand. Each attempt takes 4 ticks; a success gives 20 XP and either a coconut or coconut fibre, half and half. After each success the palm has a 20% chance to be stripped bare for 20 ticks.
Coconut fibre is the most useful thing on the island: it becomes rope, rope becomes a boat, and fibre and timber together make arrows. Coconuts are food (3 HP).
9 palms on Perhentian, 6 on the Kuala Besut beach. Palms will stay tool-free: you climb them.
Your chance
Every gathering attempt in the game, trees, palms and fishing spots alike, uses the same rule:
| Woodwork | Chance (tree) | Attempt | With lesson | XP an hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35% | 2.4 s | 1.8 s | 13,125 |
| 5 | 47% | 2.4 s | 1.8 s | 17,625 |
| 10 | 62% | 2.4 s | 1.8 s | 23,250 |
| 15 | 77% | 2.4 s | 1.8 s | 28,875 |
| 20 | 92% | 2.4 s | 1.8 s | 34,500 |
XP an hour counts cutting time only, without the lesson: no walking between trees and no full pack.
Pak Mat's lesson
Find Pak Mat at the boatyard. Cut five timber for him and he teaches you to let the blade do the work: every tree and palm attempt is one tick faster from then on (4 → 3). That is a third more timber an hour. He also gives you 150 Woodwork XP.
Making things
Woodwork is also the crafting skill. At the boatyard on Perhentian you twist fibre into rope, cut staffs, fletch arrows, weave a vest and build your boat. Crafting has the recipes.