LumberJack

LumberJack

Statistics

Type	NPC
Max Life	250
Defense	15
KB Resist	50%

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The LumberJack is an NPC vendor that will spawn once the following conditions have been met:

• There is an empty house.
• The total amount of Tree tiles chopped down is at least 500.

Once he moves in the first time, the player will not need to chop more trees for him to respawn.

When threatened by enemies, he will defend himself by throwing exploding The Lumber Jaxe.

Items sold

Inventory

Item	Cost	Availability
Wood	10	Always available.
Boreal Wood	10	Always available.
Rich Mahogany	15	Always available.
Palm Wood	15	Always available.
Ebonwood	15	Always available.
Shadewood	15	Always available.
Ash Wood	20	Always available.
Pearlwood	20	In Hardmode
Spooky Wood	50	If Pumpking has been defeated.
Cactus	10	Always available.
Living Wood Wand	1	Always available.
Lumberjack Mask	1	Always available.
Lumberjack Body	1	Always available.
Lumberjack Pants	1	Always available.
The Lumber Jaxe	1	Always available.
Sharpening Station	10	Always available.
Wooden Token	1	Always available.

Living preferences

	Biome	Neighbor
Loves	Forest	n/a
Likes	n/a	​Princess ​Squirrel
Dislikes	n/a	Dryad
Hates	n/a	Demolitionist

Shimmered Form

Shimmered LumberJack.

When the LumberJack is submerged in Shimmer he will transform into his shimmered version. He can be returned to his classic look by submerging him in Shimmer again.

Tree Treasures

The LumberJack's Tree Treasures option gives the player a critter depending on where, sometimes when, it was used. It can only be used once per day or night.

Biome	Quote	Woods	Critters	Fruits
Desert	"While I was chopping down a cactus this thing leaped at me, why don't you take care of it?"	Cactus	Scorpion	n/a
			Black Scorpion
Jungle	"These mahogany trees are full of life, but a tree only has one purpose: to be chopped. Oh yea this fell out of the last one."	Rich Mahogany	Buggy	Mango
			Grubby
			Frog	Pineapple
			Sluggy
The Hallow	"This place is a bit fanciful for my tastes, but the wood's as choppable as any. Nighttime has these cool bugs though, take a few."	Pearlwood	Lightning Bug Blue Fairy Green Fairy Pink Fairy	Star Fruit
				Dragon Fruit
Glowing Mushroom in Hardmode	"Whatever causes these to glow is beyond me, you're probably gonna eat them anyway so have this while youre at it."	Glowing Mushroom	Glowing Snail	n/a
			Truffle Worm
The Corruption or The Crimson	"The trees here are probably the toughest in this branch of reality.. Sorry, just tree puns. I found these for you here."	n/a	n/a	Elderberry Blackcurrant Blood Orange Rambutan
Snow	"This neck of the woods is pretty eh? Here I've got some of my favorite wood for you."	Boreal Wood	n/a	Cherry
				Plum
Ocean	"Even on vacation, I always fit in a little chopping. A couple annoying birds fell out of a palm tree. Take them off my hands.. maybe cook them up?"	Palm Wood	Seagull	Coconut
				Banana
The Underworld	"I looked around here for a while and eventually found some weird, ashy trees. Very fragile. I also found these little guys. Please take them, they're hot to hold."	Ash Wood	Hell Butterfly Magma Snail Lavafly	Spicy Pepper Pomegranate
Underground or Cavern (50%)	"I certainly didn't expect to find such wonderful trees down here. Check this out."	n/a	Gem CritterGem Critter	GemsGems
Underground or Cavern	"Went for a long haul today, but there were only so many of those strange trees to go around. I did find a lot of these, why don't you give some of them a new home?"	n/a	Mouse	n/a
Forest during Windy Day (50%)	"Seems like the wind brought a bunch of these out of hiding. Some people say they're good luck. All I know is, the only luck I need is a sharp axe!"	Wood	Ladybug	Lemon Peach Apricot Grapefruit Apple
Forest at Day (33%)	"Back in the day, people used to forge butterflies into powerful gear. We try to forget those days... but here have one."	Wood	Any Butterfly	Lemon Peach Apricot Grapefruit Apple
Forest at Day (5%)	"I found this, but I'm not a sappy person. You can have it instead."	Wood	Eucalyptus Sap	Lemon Peach Apricot Grapefruit Apple
Forest at Day	"These little critters are always falling out of the trees I cut down. Maybe you can find a use for them?"	Wood	Grasshopper Squirrel Red Squirrel Bird Blue Jay Cardinal	Lemon Peach Apricot Grapefruit Apple
Forest at Night	"Chopping trees at night is always relaxing... well except for the flying eyeballs. Have one of these little guys to keep you company"	Wood	Firefly	Lemon Peach Apricot Grapefruit Apple

Notes

• The Lumberjack will deal significantly higher damage against Mourning Wood, Everscream and Splinterlings.
• The Lumberjack is a useful NPC to have when building as he eliminates the need to chop down trees for wood.
• He does not sell Dynasty Wood.

Names

The Lumberjack can have the following names:

• Griff
• Jack
• Bruce
• Larry
• Will
• Jerry
• Liam
• Stan
• Lee
• Woody
• Leif
• Paul
• Ben

Tips

• The Tree Treasures option can be helpful to get critters and fruit that are used in enchantments, such as the Apricot in the Iron Enchantment.
• The Portable Sundial can be used to skip the cooldown between Tree Treasures.

Quotes

"Dynasty wood? Between you and me, that stuff ain't real wood!" "Sure cactus isn't wood, but I can still chop it with me trusty axe." "You wouldn't by chance have any fantasies about me... right?" "I eat a bowl of woodchips for breakfast... without any milk." "TIIIIIIIIIMMMBEEEEEEEERRR!" "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day!" "You won't ever need an axe again with me around." "I have heard of people cutting trees with fish, who does that?" "You ever seen the world tree?" "You want what? ...Sorry that's not the kind of wood I'm selling." "Why don't I sell acorns? ...I replant all the trees I chop, don't you?" "What's the best kind of tree? ... Any if I can chop it." "Can I axe you a question?" "Might take a nap under a tree later, care to join me?" "I'm an expert in all wood types." "I'm glad there's more trees to chop here at journey's end." "Red is one of my favourite colors, right after wood." "It's always flannel season." "I'm glad my wood put such a big smile on your face." When Nurse is present: "I always see [Name of Nurse] looking at my biceps when I'm working. Wonder if she wants some of my wood. When Player has Lucy the Axe in their inventory: "Lucy from that universe.. Interesting things await you."

Happiness quotes

When homeless: "No lumberjack is complete without a log cabin to call home!" When neutral: "I'm happy as long as the world has wood that needs chopping." When far from home: "This is too far from my cabin. I should get back and sharpen my axe." When in a sparse area: "Fewer people around means I can swing my axe all I want with nobody in the way." When overcrowded: "I think it's getting crowded around here." "Too many people around. Nothing ruins a good chopping session more than chopping down someone." When in the Forest: "There's nothing like good old fashioned wood chopping in the Forest!" When in an Evil biome or the Dungeon: "There's nothing to chop in the Corruption/the Crimson/the Dungeon!" When near the Squirrel: "I chop down trees, <name of Squirrel> plants more, we're the perfect duo." When near the Princess: "<Name of Princess> is better with an axe than I expected!" When near the Dryad: "<Name of Dryad> told me to start hugging trees... so I taught my axe to hug trees for me." When near the Demolitionist: "<Name of Demolitionist> doesn't get me at all. Bombing a forest isn't woodchopping!"

Trivia

• The Tree Treasures line "Back in the day, people used to forge butterflies into powerful gear. We try to forget those days... but here have one." is a reference to the Thorium Mod's now removed Butterfly Plague, which were used to craft several upgrades to the Butterfly Staff and a few enchantments.
• The line "I eat a bowl of woodchips for breakfast.. without any milk." is a reference to a quote from SpongeBob SquarePants, with nails being replaced by woodchips.
• The line "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day!" is a reference to Monty Python's 'The lumberjack song' with that being a line in the chorus.
• The name Paul is a reference to the folklore spun Lumberjack Giant named Paul Bunyan.
• According to Deviantt's dialogue when LumberJack is present, he is likely unbelievably powerful, to the point where even trying to fight him is meaningless.
• Judging by Mutant's dialogue when LumberJack is present, Mutant is extremely afraid of him.

• The Bestiary entry for the LumberJack: "A wholly ordinary lumberjack that loves collecting critters and chopping wood of any kind. But could there be more to him than meets the eye? Secret godly power? ...Probably not."

History

• 3.2: Tree treasures now give Pepper or Pomegranate in the Underworld.
• 3.1.3: Added Ash Wood to shop and tree treasures.
• 3.1: No longer sells pearlwood before hardmode, deals increased damage to Mourning Wood, Everscream and Splinterlings, added Apples to tree treasures.
• 2.8.7: Now sells Bamboo.
• 2.8.6: Tree treasures now give more critters.
• 2.8.4: No longer sells Acorns and Gemcorns.
• 2.8.1: Now sells Acorns and Gemcorns.
• 2.5.9: Increased price of cactus.
• 2.5.6: Fixed not being interactable.
• 2.5.4: Added new Critters and Tree shaking drops to tree treasures.
• 2.3.1: Changed how shop works internally, now sells Wood Platforms.
• 2.3: Now gives snails properly.
• 2.2.7: Tree treasures now gives 5 critters and 50 wood of the respective tree type, now sells Living Wood Wand.
• 2.2.5: Now moves in after 500 Wood have been gathered, now sells wood token.
• 2.2.2: Resprited, can be spawned using King Statue.
• 2.1.1: Added snails to tree treasures.
• 2.1: Added tree treasures.
• 1.4.1: Added new names.
• 1.0.4: Now sells Sharpening Station.
• 0.10.0: Added more quotes, now sells wood from Tremor and Jenosis mods, now gives wood daily, sell prices reduced.
• 0.9.0: Will now move in without wood token after initially spawning.
• 0.6.0.0: Introduced.