How to Get Fuel in Graveyard Keeper 2 (Firewood Shed Guide)

Quick answer

Fuel is not an item you carry. Build a Firewood Shed (10 Sticks + 2 Bronze Nails), chop Firewood at the Chopping Spot, and load it into the shed: 2 Firewood adds 20 Fuel.^[1]^[2] Furnaces, kilns and ovens in the same area then draw from that shed. You need separate sheds for indoor and outdoor equipment.^[1]^[3]

Firewood Shed tiers

Tier	Build cost	Technology	Fuel per load
Firewood Shed I	10 Stick, 2 Bronze Nails	Bronze Melting (10 red, after Bronze Works); unlocks with Furnace I	2 Firewood → 20 Fuel
Firewood Shed II	20 Stick, 6 Bronze Nails, 2 Bronze Detail	After Bronze Forge (20 red, 5 green)	2 Firewood → 20 Fuel

Data from the Fextralife wiki.^[2] Both tiers load at the same ratio.^[2] Shed I holds up to 100 Fuel at a time, so top it up before a long smelting run.^[3]

Step by step

Collect Sticks by chopping trees and clearing yard plants, and Bronze Nails from broken barrels and trash piles (or make 6 from Bronze Scrap at the Wooden Anvil after Bronze Works).^[1]
Build the shed from the blueprint desk. The first one is on the wall to the left of your bed for the house; there are also blueprint desks for the yard, Alchemy Lab and Vineyard Basement.^[1]^[2]
Make Firewood at the Chopping Spot: 1 short log, or 20 sticks, gives 10 Firewood.^[1]
Load the shed with its Add wood recipe: every 2 Firewood becomes 20 Fuel.^[1]^[3]
Craft. Stations in that section now pull fuel automatically.

How far does a log go?

These numbers come straight from the recipes above:

You chop	Firewood	Fuel once loaded	Enough for
1 short log	10	100 (one full Shed I)	3 iron smelts at 30 Fuel each, with 10 left over^[4]
20 sticks	10	100	5 Melted Fat batches (20 Fuel each)^[5]

"20 Fuel" in a recipe means 20 fuel units, which is 2 Firewood, not 20 pieces of firewood.^[1]^[3]

Where you need a shed

House: for the oven.^[1]
Yard: for the Furnace and Kiln.^[1]
Alchemy Lab and Vineyard Basement: they have their own shed blueprints for their stations.^[2]

A shed only feeds the stations in its own area, so one outdoor shed will not power your indoor oven.^[1]^[3]

Can zombies handle fuel?

Only partly. Wikily's station data says no zombie worker can be assigned to Firewood Shed I, so loading the shed stays a manual job.^[3] What zombies can do is gather: the Wikily zombie job list includes a Lumberjack Stand (the zombie needs an axe), which keeps wood coming in.^[6] You need zombies first; see the Resurrection Table guide, and keep an eye on the zombie limit.

Common problems

"Not enough fuel" with a full shed next door: the shed is in a different section (house vs. yard).^[1]
Firewood in inventory but fuel still 0: Firewood must be loaded into the shed; the station cannot use it directly.^[2]