🌲 Bjorn’s Whittier Sawmill Revamp – Realistic Industry Overhaul

This mod completely reimagines the Whittier Sawmill into a multi‑input, multi‑output industrial hub that feels alive, balanced, and challenging.
No longer just a log‑to‑lumber converter, the sawmill now consumes a wide range of supplies and produces a diverse set of outputs, all tuned for a more realistic gameplay rhythm.

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✨ Key Features

🔹 Expanded Inputs

• Logs (primary feedstock)
• Coal (open hoppers) & Charcoal Briquettes (covered hoppers) for the powerhouse
• Steel Bands, Packing Materials, Hand Tools, Machine Parts for maintenance
• Urea‑Formaldehyde Resin for plywood production

🔹 Diverse Outputs

• Dimensional Lumber, Oak Planks, Plywood
• Woodchips, Wet Pulp
• By‑products: Brooms, Scrap Metal, General Waste

🔹 Balanced Storage & Transfer Rates

• Inputs/outputs sized for ~1 week of operation
• Transfer rates slowed from “instant” to “busy but manageable”

🔹 Powerhouse Integration

• Dedicated coal & briquette unloaders with realistic car restrictions
• Coal in open hoppers, briquettes in covered hoppers
• Supplies energy to the sawmill

🔹 Track & Loader Improvements

• Multiple log unloading tracks with higher capacity
• Expanded lumber & chip loaders for longer trains
• Waste & scrap loaders for by‑products

🔹 Compatibility

• Works with REX’s Whittier Papermill & other yard revamps
• Integrated compatibility with t‑cave’s machining & manufacturing

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📦 Daily Input & Output Rates (Tier 5)

Inputs

Logs – 270 units/day (11.3 logs/hour)
Machine Parts – 12 t/day (0.5 t/hour)
Misc Parts – 12 t/day (0.5 t/hour)
Hand Tools – 12 t/day (0.5 t/hour)
Coal – 12 t/day (0.5 t/hour)
Charcoal Briquettes – 21.6 t/day (0.9 t/hour)
Steel Bands – 21.6 t/day (0.9 t/hour)
Packing Material – 21.6 t/day (0.9 t/hour)
Urea‑Formaldehyde Resin – ~4,747 gal/day (197.8 gal/hour)

Outputs

Dimensional Lumber – 1,166.4 t/day (48.6 t/hour)
Wood Chips – 583.2 t/day (24.3 t/hour)
Plywood – 583.2 t/day (24.3 t/hour)
Oak Planks – 117.6 t/day (4.9 t/hour)
Brooms – 93.6 t/day (3.9 t/hour)
Wood Pulp – 76.8 t/day (3.2 t/hour)
General Waste – 7.2 t/day (0.3 t/hour)
Scrap Metal – 7.2 t/day (0.3 t/hour)

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📝 Changelog

Version 0.2.0 (Current)

• Balanced transfer rates (scaled to 5–20× daily need/output)
• Balanced storage (~1 week buffer)
• Revised car type filters:
  • Coal → open hoppers only (HM, HT)
  • Charcoal briquettes → covered hoppers (HMR)
  • Removed gondolas from briquette deliveries
• Expanded outputs: oak planks, plywood/boxplanks, brooms, wet pulp
• Added by‑products: general waste, scrap metal
• Added support supplies: steel bands, packing material, hand tools, machine parts
• Powerhouse integration: new unloader tracks

Version 0.1.1

• Extended unloading trigger on MP1 for modern boxcars
• Adjusted resin usage to realistic levels
• Realigned tracks for new assets
• Removed open hoppers from woodchips
• Added resin as input for plywood
• Redesigned entry tracks for compatibility
• Added compat with Chromer’s, JblackTRUCK’s, Alina’s revamps
• Adjusted woodchip production to 1/3 of lumber
• Added waste outputs & new inputs

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🔧 Recommended Mods

• MVR’s Logging Cars
• Latoms 100 Ton Log Railcar
• Vanilla Forestry Extensions – ensures sufficient log supply
• Some Kind Of Madness – for deeper industry interaction

✅ Vanilla Logging‑camps will supply enough logs to run at Tier 4.

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🙌 Credits

• C_L_B – asset pack
• Griz1231 – mod editing tool

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⚠️ Important

When updating from earlier versions, delete the old mod before installing this one to avoid complications.

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💬 Support & Questions

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