Chopping Tree Trunks into planks Vs. cutting logs into planks incosistencies

[BarndoBoi]

Describe the bug

There's a construction option to chop planks from tree trunks that requires survival 2 and either tree cutting or wood sawing of 2+. It looks like it can give you a max of about 10 planks depending on luck and fabrication skill if I'm reading the right activity_actor entry for it.
However if you chop that same tree trunk into logs you can get up to three logs from the trunk, and split each log into planks. Chopping the trunk into logs and chopping the logs into planks also doesn't require any skills, so you can have 0 survival and make the planks, on top of the fact that you get waaay more planks that way than from the construction menu method even though it's slightly randomized.
And then there's a crafting recipe to make planks from logs that will always yield 8 planks and takes the same amount of time to do (although you need to have fabrication 1 to learn the recipe).

Something among these three options either needs to go, or be brought in line with the others.

Attach save file

N/A, you can do this just about anywhere you can get to a tree. If you want I can send you mine, but its the same exact save that's attached to issue #74052

Steps to reproduce

Chop down a tree and try chopping the tree trunks into planks with the construction menu. Then chop one of the trunks into logs, split those into planks, and observe the sizeable difference in yielded planks (even if you're a bit unlucky with rolls or low fab). You can also use the crafting recipe to make planks instead of chopping them from tree trunks and you'll get a consistent 16-24 planks from a single tree trunk (where the construction option for planks gets you a max of 10)

Expected behavior

I would expect that chopping the tree trunk into planks would yield a somewhat comparable amount to the other options, although it would be nice to just have the construction recipe removed altogether in favor of the logs option.

Screenshots

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Versions and configuration

• OS: Windows
  • OS Version: 10.0.22631.3593 (23H2)
• Game Version: de4ec39 [64-bit]
• Graphics Version: Tiles
• Game Language: System language []
• Mods loaded: [
  Dark Days Ahead [dda],
  Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food],
  Portal Storms Ignore NPCs [personal_portal_storms],
  Slowdown Fungal Growth [no_fungal_growth]
  ]

Additional context

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[TealcOneill]

/Confirm
I have a vested interested in the woodworking in the game so if possible could someone assign this task to me?

• OS: Windows
  • OS Version: 10.0.19045.4412 (22H2)
• Game Version: cdda-experimental-2024-05-25-0134 22d851b [64-bit]
• Graphics Version: Tiles
• Game Language: System language []
• Mods loaded: [
  Dark Days Ahead [dda],
  Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food],
  Portal Storms Ignore NPCs [personal_portal_storms],
  Slowdown Fungal Growth [no_fungal_growth]
  ]

[BarndoBoi]

@TealcOneill I've also been working on some additional woodworking stuff and found these bugs while I was investigating some of the yields. I'd be interested in assisting with your PR if you decide you want to do one for this issue. Feel free to send me a message either here or on the CDDA dev discord. My handle is barndoboi on discord, though you'll see me in the devcord as Victoria. :)

[TealcOneill]

Heyo, thanks for the notice! I tend to be too ambitious in my ideas, I've already come up with a list the length of my arm after being back like two weeks 😁. If you're working on it I think I'll trust you to get it done with maybe a couple of comments. Feel free to ping me on anymore woodworking related issues or PRs and I'll come take a look. Looking forward to what you come up with 👍