Originally posted by Kraft51:

Originally posted by Mozzy:

Right, you can fit 2 iron cooking stations on 1 hearth - but on that same hearth, you could have put 10+ wood stations.

2 iron = 10 meat at once
10 wood = 20+ at once

even aside the need for rare chain for iron station, you're getting easily double capacity or more per hearth with wood.

so what, you are limited to only lower grade foods then, why would you ever want to do that?

Same question back at you - why would you want to cook things up till serpent meat / lox slower than stacking bunch of cheap wood racks in same space?

Especially when by definition of game progression, no one starts at iron but introduced to wood first. So paraphrasing same question, why would you want to go from superior capacity to inferior capacity? Why would you ever do that?

Also, for lots of players, a good long part of the game is before ever encountering serpent or lox. That's a ton of time to get used to the capacity speed of wood vs downgrade with iron.