The wooden plank is a simple and common weapon to find, but its main use is to salvage into wood. It is craftable on the Assembling table as a level 1 recipe, although this is rarely done as there are more useful weapons.
Locations

Wooden planks have multiple looks on the map. The two obvious ones are the appearance as actual planks, or as a bunch of sticks. They can also be found as a chess game board or a cat scratching post.
- Sacramento Suburbs
- Planks making up the base of the gardens north of spawn, as well as the one west of the barn (west of spawn).
- Bodega Bay
- South west corner near the campsite on the beach. The the right of it (near the car) is 4 on top of each other.
- Downtown Santa Rosa
- From the spawn, go to the North east until you reach the road. Then, go to the west until you hit. Right behind the Veterinary building there are 2 wooden planks.
- Mazon College
- From behind door of the Rats Sports Shop Secret passage, go to the north west. There are two salvageable Wooden Planks.