Nature already got your back, buddy.

Schinopsis brasiliensis is a extremelly hard wood native from northern Brazil. It's main use is on the construction business as a reinforcement for the structure of the roof and for furniture, support for train tracks, or even as a replacement for steel reinforcement while concreting stuff. Oh, and bludgeoning weapons. Nice, really nice bludgeoning weapons.

This wood is so hard that that it was nicknamed "quebraxo", or "quebra-machado", meaning axe-breaker. It is a bit ligther than granite, having around 1.5g/cm³ for it's density and being twice as hard as bubinga wood.

This wood is so hard that punching a concrete wall is actually less painful than punching one of those evil trees.

(I may be a bit paranoid but I think they are actually made of alien micro-nanites ready to inject mind-controlling drugs on the populace. But don't let them know that I told you so.)

In fact, regular tools, like axes and handsaws (saws you use with your hands, not to cut hands. You get it.) have a really hard time to cut it. You need a very good chainsaw or a water-cooled industrial saw to cut trough a bunch of those without losing your tools.

Luckily, those trees grow in really useful sizes, being mostly straight up. This means that you can put them to use with less cuts, which makes them a way easier to use material than granite while losing to it by very little regarding durability.

Australia has a bit more extreme wood from the aptly-named ironwood family, which beats even the Schinopsis and is probably the closest thing you can get to a rock that makes photosynthesis. And is also probably poisonous. And carnivorous. And infested of snake-eating spiders and who knows what more. Australian things are scary.

Australia is scary.

Nature already got your back, buddy.

Schinopsis brasiliensis is a extremelly hard wood native from northern Brazil. It's main use is on the construction business as a reinforcement for the structure of the roof and for furniture, support for train tracks, or even as a replacement for steel reinforcement while concreting stuff. Oh, and bludgeoning weapons. Nice, really nice bludgeoning weapons.

This wood is so hard that that it was nicknamed "quebraxo", or "quebra-machado", meaning axe-breaker. It is a bit ligther than granite, having around 1.5g/cm³ for its density and being twice as hard as bubinga wood.

This wood is so hard that punching a concrete wall is actually less painful than punching one of those evil trees.

(I may be a bit paranoid but I think they are actually made of alien micro-nanites ready to inject mind-controlling drugs on the populace. But don't let them know that I told you so.)

In fact, regular tools, like axes and handsaws (saws you use with your hands, not to cut hands. You get it.) have a really hard time to cut it. You need a very good chainsaw or a water-cooled industrial saw to cut trough a bunch of those without losing your tools.

Luckily, those trees grow in really useful sizes, being mostly straight up. This means that you can put them to use with less cuts, which makes them a way easier to use material than granite while losing to it by very little regarding durability.

Australia has a bit more extreme wood from the aptly-named ironwood family, which beats even the Schinopsis and is probably the closest thing you can get to a rock that makes photosynthesis. And is also probably poisonous. And carnivorous. And infested of snake-eating spiders and who knows what more. Australian things are scary.

Australia is scary.