Harvest trees

Make trees harvestable with the harvest tool to get wood, add a recipe to the refiners or recyclers to turn wood into its constituent pures, and add a way to plant new trees. Trees would give more wood depending on their size.
Another possible addition would be a Bioformer/Genetic Editor industry to make higher tier tree seeds that grow to produce higher tier materials.
Right now trees are just uninteractive scenery, so adding a use for them, as well as a way to plant/place them to make your territory look better or harvest later could be nice.

Under consideration Suggested by: Refresh4 (08 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 19 Dec, '21

Comments: 6

09 Oct, '20
WolfPilot Merged
Trees are solids and should be considered this way.
There is no way in making the planet an even surface. Nowadays you have the tutorial to learn how to fly.
Maybe you should only advance in "forrest regions" if you are able to.
This could also help to escape PvP
10 Oct, '20
Dmitry Nesterov
Yes. A good idea. This may come in handy here:
Ax (requires wood mining skill 1). Portable Chainsaw (requires mining skill 3). Industrial chainsaw (can only be installed on vehicles, requires skill 5). You can cut not only trees, but also bushes. Bushes can be harvested without tools. The building is a sawmill (makes rough wood smooth). The foundation for tree germination (there are options with different sizes, there are ports for tape and pipes), after germination, the foundation is removed.
15 Oct, '20
NQ-Naerais Admin
"Make trees solid again" (suggested by WolfPilot on 2020-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Oct, '20
Andy
Along with this I would love to be able to place actual terrain (non-precious ore) onto constructs. At least on Static or Space Constructs. Being able to put a little grass, or sand, or snow on a construct would be amazing for decor aspects. And as such, not like it would influence the game or work as any sort of voxel shielding or anything (given it has zero hitpoints).
25 Oct, '20
littleboyblue
even having diffrent types of dirt being able to grow difrent types of plants and/or trees would be fun. :) right now dirt is just in the way but i would like to landscape and create somthing that looks cool and not like a swiss cheese ant hill.
18 Nov, '20
raz
No thanks to static Trees...
Biggest issue is , you have an area that is many tiles wide packed full of dense forests and you need to be able to land your ship on the tile in the center..
You must now find a tile many kilometres away from your destination and run on foot to your destination, spend hours preparing a landing pad and then run back just to land your ship... Or worse...
I guess it comes down to this, are you playing the game to enjoy a game? or Are you playing the simulator to experience the difficulties of life?