If we have Plastic Ingots, why not Wood Ingots?

It makes just about as much sense, and there's a lot of potential for jokes

 

Actually, it would be more amusing if Wood Ingots converted to Plastic Arrows and such.

 

@beegentle I think that would be just "lolrandum".

A wood ingot would be basically a plank of wood.

 

Because treating Plastic like a smeltable, real-life Ore is pretty hilarious. It doesn't really work for wood. "Hey, I just hacked this tree trunk out of the ground, it's a Wood Ingot!"

...it's just not the same.

 

Also you can melt plastic to form shapes, whereas wood would burn. /serious

 

heh, Wood ingot = huge, log-sized hunk of charcoal after passing through the Ingot Press.

 

The simplest answer is that there is no source of wood underground, wheras ores and even plastic (made of fossil fuel) can be found underground. You could argue that furniture and doors are made of wood, but... *shrug*

In any case, a joke played too many times is a joke that's lost its charm. Plastic ingot is amusing. Stretching the joke to include wood ingots, stone ingots, well... it ceases being amusing.