make wood useful

[Lemon]

I think its because the wealth makes you think its useless. Its good for newer players to craft items for cheap and level up crafting skills or for cheaper early game items. Just because many of the older players are already obscenely wealthy doesn't mean you should make things that newer players need such as low tier arrows, normal barricades, some low tier weapons more expensive than they are right now. Instead of dumping wood by the masses into the economy, they'd just be flooded into Sturdy Wood, making what higher tier players want more affordable.

A good way to expand on the usefulness of wood would be to give it a Steel equivalent. Maybe Treated Wood or something. Metal has Steel, Cloth has Leather (which is pretty shitty and I think there should be a different one), Bone Shards have Bone Powder (which is fairly useful and expensive), but Wood doesn't upgrade into any intermediate tier type. Granted there is no 4th crafting class that would accommodate it, it could be decent on armorsmiths because Cloth to Leather is a poor upgrade.