Set a wood or cash target, convert it into minutes and hours with the rates you measured, and decide how much of it your offline axes should cover.
Every My Wood Farm goal reduces to one chain: cash target → wood needed → time required. Wood needed = cash target ÷ your cash per wood. Active time = wood needed ÷ your wood per minute. Offline coverage = your offline wood per hour × hours away. Two inputs you measure (cash per wood, wood per minute), one you choose (hours away), and the whole plan falls out — no guessed game constants, because none are published on any checked source.
Example numbers only — your measured values replace every figure.
| Step | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Convert cash to wood | 20,000 ÷ 2 cash per wood | 10,000 wood needed |
| Offline coverage first | 100 wood/hour × 10 overnight hours | 1,000 wood free while away |
| Active remainder | 9,000 ÷ 50 wood per minute | 180 focused minutes |
| Sanity-check the rate | repeat the 1-minute test mid-session | If it reads 45, the plan becomes 200 minutes — adjust, don't panic |
The quiet lesson in the table: the overnight 10 hours covered only 10% of the target at this example's rates. Offline is a bonus, not a strategy — unless you upgrade first, which is exactly what the main calculator's payback section decides.
Expansion costs are not published — record the in-game price, convert it to wood with the table above, and fill your current plot with axes first. The fan-guide doctrine: space only pays once something is working it. Details in the farm systems reference.
Axe prices are not published either. Note the in-game cost, then demand a payback — use the tier list ladder to know which tier you're buying into before committing.
If the reported code rewards are real, a 10-minute double-production window is worth your wood rate × 10 × 2 in extra wood — tiny, but free. Check the codes status and plan a session around it, not a grind.
Each one shows up in real farm sessions more often than any math error.
Rates older than the last official update timestamp are estimates, not plans. Re-run the one-minute test and the sell check before committing a multi-session target.
Chasing 10,000 wood at 50 wood/min when an affordable upgrade would farm the same target at 65 is paying the slow rate by choice. Check payback first, then set the target.
Wood in storage is not cash. End active sessions on a sale, and measure cash per wood at the same time — a plan without a sale is a stockpile, not income.
Divide the cash target by your measured cash per wood. Selling at 2 cash per wood, a 20,000-cash goal needs 10,000 wood. Always re-check cash per wood after an update — it is the number silent rebalances move first.
Divide the wood needed by your wood per minute for active time, or by your offline wood per hour for away time. A 10,000-wood goal at 50 wood/min is 200 active minutes; at 100 wood/hour offline it is 100 hours — which is why real plans split the target between the two.
Compare the two rates honestly: active minutes produce roughly 30–60× what the same real-time hours produce offline in most players' measured setups — but offline hours are free. The standard split is: buy upgrades, farm actively for payback, then let the night shift cover the rest.
Not farming harder — raising the rate first. An upgrade with a payback under one session shortens every future target. Run the candidate through the main calculator's upgrade section before grinding the full amount at the old rate.
Measure the two rates with the beginner one-minute test, split the target with the table above, buy upgrades on payback, and let offline production eat the remainder while you sleep. Re-check both rates after every entry on the update watch — the game changes weekly without telling anyone.
