Lumberjack - Night City Timber

Fell trees in Paleto Forest, cut them into logs and haul them to the sawmill. Solo or with a crew of up to 6.

How to start

Find the Night City Timber pin on the map (Paleto Forest sawmill).
Press E on Hank, the camp boss and pick Start shift. You need a driving licence.
You change into work clothes (they stay on until you clock out) and your truck waits in the truck bay.

Choker Setter / Feller: a flatbed (6 logs).
Bucker and up: a logging rig with a log trailer (12 logs). The trailer hitches itself; if it doesn't, reverse onto it.

Fell - walk up to a tree with the orange paint mark and press E. Saw, then hit the skill check.

Clean cut: the tree falls roughly away from you. Rough cut: it can twist a long way to the side.
TIMBER! A red zone shows where it will land for 3 seconds. Get out of it - a falling tree knocks you down and hurts. A helmet look takes most of the damage.

Buck - the felled tree has 2-4 sections. Press E on each one to cut it into a log (small skill check).
Move the logs - on each log pick:

Choke & winch it onto the truck - the truck (or trailer) must be within 20 m. Fastest.
Carry the log - heavy, one at a time, no running or jumping. Take it to the truck (E on the truck) or straight to the log deck.

Unload - drive to the sawmill log deck and press E (on foot or in the truck). You get paid per log.

$12 per log, clean logs +15%, rough logs -25% (quality = how well you felled and bucked it).
Shift target 40 logs (more for a crew: +60% per extra member). Past the target every log pays x1.5 overtime.
Finish shift at the camp boss with the target met for a $200 completion bonus (minus $150 if the truck isn't back at camp).
Career tier adds up to +30%, VIP adds its bonus.
Crews split each unload between everyone who pulled their weight (felling, bucking and loading all count). Stand around doing nothing and you get no cut.

Levels also give faster sawing, extra logs per truck (+1 every 5 levels) and more Timber Points.

Consumables: water, coffee, sandwich, energy drink, bandage.
Splitting Hatchet - lets you split firewood at the mill bench.
Pro Saw Chain - felling and bucking 30% faster, easier felling check.
Felling Wedge - you choose which way the tree falls (away, left, right).
Long Choker Cable - winch logs from 35 m.
Looks: Forestry Helmet & Visor (falling-tree protection), Flannel & Braces, Timber Boss (helmet included).

Gear is bought once and works on its own.

Mill bench (E): Log -> Debarked Log + Bark; Debarked Log -> 3 Wood Planks + Wood Scraps; Debarked Log -> 4 Firewood (needs a hatchet).
Dolores, the timber buyer buys planks ($3), firewood ($2), scraps ($1) and bark ($1), up to $1,500 an hour.
A log you were carrying when the shift ended is yours to process.

/lumberjackplace boss|buyer|bay|trailer|deck|bench|area - move an NPC / place to where you stand. Moving area moves the default tree rings (and resets the field).
/lumberjacktree add (tree at your feet), remove (nearest staff tree), clear, defaults on|off, regrow (every tree stands again), list.
/lumberjackplaces, /lumberjacklevel, /lumberjackpoints, /lumberjackcrews, /lumberjackendshift, /lumberjackoutfit save|reset <standard|helmet|braces|boss>.
F9 -> Jobs -> Civilian jobs -> Lumberjack: places, crews, outfits, points.

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