How to get ~4000 charcoal in very little time

[Turgle]

Ok so I have only just discovered the beauty of the Giant Redwood and Lumber Axe Auto Smelt with Luck combination. Pretty much, grow one of these Giant Redwood Trees:

 

Secondly, hollow it out with a Lumber Axe that has Auto-Smelt and Luck (I only had enough Luck for Fortune 2, so you can do better than this).

 

The result? Here:

[dlepi24]

I've done this at one of the huge tree biomes (I think it's like bushes or sacred saplings or something like that) and I hit it once at the bottom and then entire tree came down along with like 130 levels of xp. The amount of lag was ridiculous for about 15 seconds lol. 

[Eotf]

I've done this at one of the huge tree biomes (I think it's like bushes or sacred saplings or something like that) and I hit it once at the bottom and then entire tree came down along with like 130 levels of xp. The amount of lag was ridiculous for about 15 seconds lol. 

Xp from cutting down a tree?

[dlepi24]

When it auto smelts the logs into charcoal its the same as doing it in a furnace. So when it smelts 4000+ logs it drops a good bit of xp. 

[Eotf]

ah thanks

[Turgle]

I used to have trouble with fuel, but now I can save my coal and run off charcoal for a very long time.

[Enderman1021]

Did this and it crashed my game due to lag XD  I came back though, and I got everything, I can fuel my steam dynamos forever

[Eotf]

Is there a way to cut the redwood down in one go? when I try with my lumber axe it just breaks the normal amount of blocks

[dlepi24]

It seems to be off and on for me. I believe that sometimes when it doesn't happen, I've just cut all the wood so it's not touching the ground and then take another swing at it and I've brought the whole thing down. Also, in the sacred saplings (i believe) biome with the huge trees, I've brought it all down in one hit. So, i don't understand the exact process of the lumber axe.

[Eotf]

no matter how it just won't come down in 1 big go even if I dig some more and try again

[Turgle]

Theres a point with these Redwood right at the bottom of the massive leaves layer, just try chopping there and watch it come down from above. So much xp!!

[Bongchoy]

I still have yet to find one of these trees in my world...

[Turgle]

They seem to appear only in Plains biomes from what I've seen, and even then they generate 1 or 2 at most.

[Eotf]

Well you only need 1 sapling to grow it. 

[Turgle]

It says you need to place them in a 7x7 (49 saplings) but I soon worked out that was false information. At lease there's a lot of leaves to get saplings from.

[Loader]

Jungle saplings can work to a degree in the meanwhile, they grow much faster but give much less wood and you need to put them in a 2x2 arrangement to get the big trees.