Shafts
Shaft connections, unless special ones are added, always transfer the same amount of speed and direction There are 2 tiers of shafts available.
Wooden ShaftsShaft
Wooden Shafts are meant to be a cheap and weak solution to transfer energy in early game or in very large and slow networks.
Wooden tier is available in 8 wood types mostly based on Hardwood trunks.
Birch
Ash
Fig Blue
Oak
Maple
Fir
Redwood
Stormbark
They can be obtained with the Woodcutter's Bench see more in Machines and Benches

Component details
The Shaft is the base of every component, made with Refined Iron.
It is used alone in the world or in recipes to create gears or machines with it.

