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Lumber Mill

The Lumber Mill enables access to different types of Timber throughout Draenor.

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Allows you to mark medium trees for additional Timber.

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Comment by Beetle01

This is one of the buildings that will be introduced with the Garrison in Warlords of Draenor expansion pack. This is the second level of 3, with 1 more upgrade available.

This will very useful for all players, and has the following abilities for each level:
Level 1: Generates a daily shipment of Material, but the Mill can store at most one shipment at a time. New shipments are only produced if free storage space is available.
Level 2: Now stores up to two shipments of Material.
Level 3: Unlocks Specializations, and Material capacity increases to a maximum of four daily shipments.
This can only be placed on a medium lot.

Other buildings that can be placed on a medium lot include:
Lunarfall Inn / Frostwall Tavern Level 1
Barn Level 3
Trading Post Level 1

Comment by Teryx

One work order on any level Lumber Mill allows 10 Timber to be turned into 20 Garrison Resources in 4 hours, maximum 840 in one week. The baseline weekly Garrison Resources income for all sizes of Garrison is 1008, 1 per 10th minute.

With Phylarch the Evergreen, which comes with Evergreen, assigned to a Lumber Mill Level 3 you get 30 Garrison Resources per work order and the maximum weekly yield becomes 1260.

The only benefits you get from upgrading to a higher level Lumber Mill is being able to tag more trees for cutting, and getting access to the abovementioned follower.

The Lumber Mill work orders can also return Apexis Crystal.

Any level Trading Post Level 1 can convert 5 of a random daily reagent to 10 Garrison Resources, maximum 420 in one week.

Based on the current beta.

Comment by Altorion

I don't believe the level 2 requirement listed is correct. I can't check in game at the moment but my warlock is level 95 and has the Talador outpost and I was able to build the Level 2 Lumber Mill. (If I remember right the requirement listed on it in game was Talador outpost or level 96).

Comment by yuriken

I am unable to assign a follower at the level 2 Lumber Mill. It appears the level 3 version is required. This is unfortunate, as I have already gained Weldon Barov / Alexi Barov and would like to see his benefit at the mill. I wanted to add the comment here as it isn't clear from other comments nor from the game's UI/tooltips at what point the ability to add a follower is available to this building. It appears you have to wait until level 3.

Comment by yuriken

While Weldon Barov / Alexi Barov is listed on Wowhead as having the Garrison building = Lumber Mill Level 2 (as shown here: http://www.wowhead.com/building=138#rel-followers), he cannot be assigned to that building. In fact, it seems (from comments here) that he can have some crafting traits randomly assigned, but I don't believe the Lumber Mill is an assignment option for him (it still seems to hold that Phylarch the Evergreen is the only available option here, and requires a Lumber Mill Level 3).

Comment by 0Aloreth

I can't get the blueprints for this upgrade. I've got my Spires of Arak outpost, but it won't become available. I am not level 98 at the time of posting this.

Comment by Thrope

The lumber mill is designed to be a temporary building, enabling you to more quickly build your garrison and all buildings to level 3. All reagents which can be purchased with garrison resources can be obtained in better ways, making the mill fairly useless once you have all plots complete. However, be sure to have 1k resources on hand when you trade out your lumber mill, so you'll have enough to fully upgrade your new medium building.

A level 1 lumber mill may produce 120 resources per day, paying for its cost of 100 resources in a single day.
At level 2, 3.3 days of production will pay for its total cost of 400 resources, and you'll continue producing 120 resources per day.

At level 3, you'll initially produce the same number of resources, and will cover the total cost of 1k resources in 8.3 days. Farming large trees will eventually get you the follower Phylarch the Evergreen, increasing production by 50%. If you do this quickly enough(*) the additional 5 days which a level 3 lumber mill requires to pay for its upgrade can be paid in only 3.3 days, for a total of 6.7 days' production to fully cover a level 3 lumber mill. All production after this first week is "profit", to the tune of 180 garrison resources daily. This production will fully build & upgrade a small building in 2.5 days, a medium building in 5.6 days, or a large building in 12.5 days. (* - "If you do this quickly enough" probably will not be on your 1st toon, as the achievement required for the level 3 blueprint will take 12.5 days from when your mill is first built. But it is a meta achievement, so your alts can help speed this up.)

What does this mean to you? The earlier you build & begin using a lumber mill, the more benefit you receive. As your garrison grows, so too does the cost of installing a new lumber mill vs. the benefit you will receive from it. As long as all buildings in your garrison won't be complete within the week, and you have an empty medium plot, a lumber mill offers you a noticeable benefit. If your garrison is closer to completion, installing a new lumber mill becomes more cost than benefit. If you're a completionist and wish to build & upgrade every building available, only to raze it & replace it with the next, then a lumber mill is your best friend.

For comparison, a trading post can also get you 180 resources per day (for a different and very tangible cost), missions can bring in about the same (possibly more with good RNG and higher follower item levels), and doing nothing but clicking your cache will get you 144 resources daily. Using all other venues possible, including killing rares, can net you over 500 resources per day with a little work. A lumber mill could raise this income to 700. If you haven't completed Draenor questing, you could get much, much more by doing so.

Many variables are present, but I'd say as a general rule of thumb, upgrading your main garrison building to level 3 is the decision point. Building & upgrading a lumber mill on your new medium plot at this point should save you a couple days in the long run. Building later than this is probably more cost than benefit, though this is dependent on your current garrison configuration and plans for the future. Building a lumber mill as soon as possible is much better. If you want the most bang for your buck after upgrading your main garrison building to level 3, simply build a level 1 lumber mill & don't upgrade it.

Note: If you are a heavy PvPer on a realm w/ a good PvP population in Ashran, the gladiator's sanctum can offer huge rewards (250 resources per nemesis quest). As it's the same size plot, it's something to consider before building your lumber mill. If you regularly run PvP raids and net thousands of kills daily, the gladiator's sanctum could prove extremely lucrative and will gear you up as well.

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