Materials | Woodworking ESO guide, tips

Last update: 11 May 2016

In Woodworking (like in the previously described branches of crafting) there is a total of 9 materials (types of wood), from which you can create your items. Those are: Sanded Maple (available from the beginning of the game), Sanded Oak, Sanded Beech, Sanded Hickory, Sanded Yew, Sanded Birch, Sanded Ash, Sanded Mahogany and Sanded Nightwood. Obviously, you have to spend quite a lot of time before you reach the level of expertise to be able to craft items from the highest quality materials. Nonetheless, the benefits compensate for the time spent.

The following table represent the following: rough wood, processed wood, as well as the range of levels, required to be able to craft something from those materials:

Wood	Wood Icon	Rough Wood Icon	Range of levels
Sanded Maple			1 - 14
Sanded Oak			16 - 24
Sanded Beech			26 - 34
Sanded Hickory			36 - 44
Sanded Yew			46 - 50
Sanded Birch			Veteran 1 - 3
Sanded Ash			Veteran 4 - 6
Sanded Mahogany			Veteran 7 - 8
Sanded Nightwood			Veteran 9 - 10

A thing worth noting, is that in order to process wood from a rough state, you will need 10 units of a given rough wood. For every process of sanding you will receive from 7 to 10 wood pieces, as well as (though it's quite rare) a chance to receive one of the Resins - the quality of a Resin increases with the subsequent tiers of wood types, that is for sanding Maple you can get as much as a Pitch.

There's a total of 4 Resin types, which serve the purpose of upgrading the items from Woodworking:

Icon	Name and description of a Resin	How to obtain
	Pitch - allows you to upgrade an item from white (Normal) to green (Fine). By default (without investing in Resin Expertise), each Pitch increases the chance to upgrade an item by 20%.	From a Lumberjack Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of green (Fine) items.
	Turpen - allows you to upgrade an item from green (Fine) to blue (Superior). By default (without investing in Resin Expertise), each Turpen increases the chance to upgrade an item by 15%.	From a Lumberjack Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of blue (Superior) items.
	Mastic - allows you to upgrade an item from blue (Superior) to purple (Epic). By default (without investing in Resin Expertise), each Mastic increases the chance to upgrade an item by 10%.	From a Lumberjack Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of purple (Epic) items.
	Rosin - allows you to upgrade an item from purple (Epic) to gold (Legendary). By default (without investing in Resin Expertise), each Rosin increases the chance to upgrade an item by 5%.	From a Lumberjack Hireling and / or from the process of deconstruction of gold (Legendary) items.

It is worth sticking to one, golden rule, if it comes to Resins - try to not use them at all while being on the lower levels of experience. The reason for this is simple - in a couple of hours (depending on your level), you will swap out most (if not all) of your equipment (you will either find it, get it as a quest reward, or simply create it on your own), and all the Resins used in the previous, now unwanted items, will be lost forever.

It is the most important in the case of rarer Resins (like Mastic and Rosin), which are much more difficult to obtain, thus being way more valuable - even if you won't be using them by yourself, you can sell them to other players, earning quite a bit of gold.