There were no logs in 1.0, you just put the items into a menu box.

Also, your friend is flat out wrong. Most of the recipes we had at 2.0 were the same as in 1.0 (3 ores to an ingot, ingot and lumber for a sword) but the new recipes we get each patch are not rehashed 1.0 stuff. They are instead all new items with all new materials.