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I've seen a lot of talk about clearing pesky forests with tanks, flamethrowers, rockets, even manually.

But I've not seen much discussion about by far my favorite method: Construction bots!

Take your deconstruction planner, drag click over any number of trees, and blamo! You even get to keep the wood.

Then yout inventory fills up with wood and the bots can't get back into your inventory so you have you trek all the way back to your base to clear out your inventory.

My tank is exclusively wood-fueled

bigyihsuan wrote:Then yout inventory fills up with wood and the bots can't get back into your inventory so you have you trek all the way back to your base to clear out your inventory.

No you need a storage chest for the wood.
Deconstruction planner is not available in the early game where you need the most wood.

It's my favorite method, very efficient for large areas.
Tank/shotgun quicker if I'm just in a hurry to make a path and careless to be wasteful about it.

Plenty of times have made a wooden chest and filled it with wood, just left it out in the middle of nowhere.
Lately I use requester chest to feed wood from trash slots into a boiler.

I usually just ram through it with the tank when making roads/tracks/powerlines. To actually clear cut an area, I do exactly what you do with it.

And I have my power station rigged to use wood, coal, and fuelblocks in that order. So all that unwanted wood that ends up in my inventory becomes steam power to carry my base through the night when the accumulators aren't quite keeping up with it.