User blog:Legofries/Cavecrawler Wood Farming Tips!

I shall warn you that this guide is ... not as good as the lava wood guide, but I'll say whatever I can to help.

Let me also say before you read this guide that cavecrawler wood is very hard to get. If you want to farm this for money, don't do it. Only farm it for buy-and-sell or (please be descent when you do this) small designs for your house. Even gold wood has the same, if not slightly better value than cavecrawler wood, and is a lot easier to farm.

Vehicular concerns

 * Bring only one truck of any size. A trailer is possible, but going up the ramp near the maze entrance is really hard and manually grabbing wood by wood is something you'll have to deal with.
 * Maximum loadout is Val's Hauler, and for those who are willing enough, one trailer. As mentioned earlier, going up the maze ramp will be impossible for the truck to go up, even with just one small trailer.
 * If you wish to bring a trailer,

Axes

 * Bring the best you've got. If you'd want to ragequit when you've gone lost in the maze, exit the game and come back. That way you'll still have all your axes, but at a cost of your truck. There's no worry for your axes, ragequitting saves them!
 * There's no risk at all, unlike when you're inexperienced in climbing the volcano obstacle course.

Anything else?

 * Friends.
 * Doing this alone makes you feel some sad solitude and no additional excitement of finding the glorious cave.
 * At the same time, all of you save time instead of doing it alone with no help.
 * As a last resort, in case one of you glitch out, the others will still have some wood to share.

Solving the maze
There is NO perfect "walkthrough" on YouTube or anywhere.
 * Defaultio programs the game to but "black walls" in the mazes to make dead ends of routes that were actually used. This makes farming very hard and makes cavecrawler wood really hard to get.
 * You wanna know how I was successful once? I went to YouTube and got to the cave, but going out got me blocked by a black wall. This forced me to an hour or more of trial and error getting out.
 * This is how others do it. Trial and error.
 * Refer to Jerrick's map here.
 * Download his map, go to an editing software (paint, photoshop, etc.) and trace your route. Always keep note of where you're going, like "Okay, left turn. draw on the map."
 * Do it long enough and you'll hopefully make it.

Collecting the logs!
Once you make it to the cavecrawler cavern, just cut a lot of trunks. Save time and space and try getting the largest wood and leave the branches behind. Branches are only a second priority, or when you just want to fill the truck up.

Small/medium trucks

 * For small trucks, refer to figure 3.1, but flip the position of the wood. Make the log overhang over the head of your player, and make the other end dig in to the rear end of the truck. Going uphill is what you need to do when you're finished. The technique on the image is used for downhill movement.
 * Same with small trailers, if you wish to bring any.

Large trucks

 * No worries at all. Cavecrawler wood isn't as wide or long as lava; you may stack it with the "classic" style. As many people do, you just line the wood up - make it straight and stack more if you can.
 * Same with large trailers, if you wish to bring any.

Dealing with trailers
Trailers are really hard to deal with.
 * Unhook your trailer once you're at the "entrance ramp", then you bring up the wood. This would make you prioritize number of logs/branches you could bring home over the time you'll take: up to ~30 additional minutes bringing the wood up by walking and putting them back into the trailer (of course, once you've brought the trailer back to sea level), unlike when you just brought one big truck.
 * If your truck can't take it, just do the above: bring the wood up manually, then bring the truck up.