Ah, the firewood bonanza of the latest patch! The 50 % boost means your logs will double in the world, so if you keep a dedicated chest, it fills faster than a waterfall. First, calculate your base storage: if your chest holds 100 logs, you’ll now get 150 per harvest cycle, giving you an extra 50 logs each time you clear a patch. That extra 50 is huge for long‑term builds—you can stockpile a full winter fuel stack before the snow even falls. Second, the legendary stone axe is finally balanced; you only need X stone and Y wood instead of the absurd old recipe of Z iron and a dozen trees. So you can shift your budget from wood to stone mining and your inventory spreadsheet will look cleaner. Set a target of 500 logs for winter, adjust your mining schedule, and keep an eye on how the extra wood frees up your craft slots. Balance is key; too many axes can choke your inventory, but the right number keeps your fire alive.

Good plan – just remember the exact drop‑rate numbers so you can model the buffer correctly. If the patch notes say “firewood spawns are up 50 %,” that means if you normally hit one log per minute, you now hit 1.5 logs per minute. That’s a 33 % increase in real time, so keep a counter or a quick spreadsheet: log‑per‑minute versus hours until your 500‑log goal. Also, the legendary stone axe recipe now costs only three stone and one wood; so swap three iron ores for a stone crate each time you reach the axe threshold. That frees up three iron slots for, say, a shield or a chest plate. Watch the patch notes from five years ago – that was when they introduced the “sawmill” mechanic; if you can build one early, you’ll get logs at 200 % of the normal rate. Keep the momentum, but always double‑check the numbers; one wrong assumption can turn a full‑sleeve winter into a campfire blizzard.