Feature Overview
Managing a sprawling industrial empire requires knowing exactly how your facility behaves when you close the application. In Lumber Inc, your sawmill utilizes a hybrid Offline Income & Automation model. While certain foundational logistics and construction crews operate around the clock, heavy transport lines require your active presence. Understanding these boundaries ensures you can prevent production bottlenecks and maximize your passive earnings while away.
How to Access
Offline progress tracks automatically the moment you exit the application. Upon launching the game after a period of absence, a specialized Welcome Back Report summary window will immediately appear on your main screen, highlighting the exact cash and Village Coins your workforce accumulated in your absence.
Core Mechanics
Your timber business splits its operational mechanics into two distinct categories depending on your application's status:
What Works OFFLINE
These production sectors run continuously in the background while the application is completely closed or running minimized:
Forest Cultivation: Your lumberjacks continue to chop down mature trees, and your planting crew keeps planting new seeds.
Basic Milling Revenue: Active machines on your sawmill floor continue to process wood and automatically generate baseline passive income.
Administrative Sales: If his automation toggle is enabled inside your manager settings, Samuel will continue to accept and complete recurring sales orders on your behalf.
Structural Engineering: Ongoing Workshop projects and house construction timers continue to count down and progress naturally.
Village Influx: You accumulate passive Village Coins from your unlocked properties up to your specific village offline storage limit.
What Works ONLY ONLINE
The following logistics channels completely pause the moment you disconnect and require you to be actively inside the game application to function:
Manual Log Shipping: Regular sawmill shipping board orders are never processed or completed autonomously.
Internal Facility Logistics: Automated forklifts move materials around the warehouse and transfer logs between machines only while you are actively online.
Direct Actions: Any administrative commands requiring physical tapping or manual manager triggers are completely frozen.
Important Rules
⚠️ The 50% Passive Scaling Penalty: Running a factory remotely naturally introduces minor administrative overhead. Because internal warehouse forklifts pause when you disconnect, your background operations yield income at a flat 50% rate compared to active online gameplay. This 50% modifier applies universally to both your primary sawmill cash earnings and your offline Village Coins collection.
Tips and Strategies
Level Up Samuel Before Closing: Because forklifts stop moving offline, Samuel is your only saving grace for moving full warehouse inventory while you sleep. Upgrading Samuel's card increases his auto-order frequency and warehouse headroom, letting you secure a much larger portion of that 50% offline income.
Queue Up Long Builds: Since Workshop construction timers count down at a full 100% speed regardless of your online status, always launch your longest house blueprint builds right before you close the game for the night or head to work.