Random Idea regarding annoying forests

[JJRob1989]

Ok, so I'm new here, and maybe this has been suggested before, but using a tool to harvest trees is slow, tedious and annoying. This is a game about automation! Steam engines making electricity to power your machines of automated creation! Vehicles to transport you where you wish, destroy as you please, and carry cargoloads anywhere you deign necessary! So why is it we still, even in the mid to late game, need to either blow up trees with grenades and rockets (fun but excessive for many reasons) burn them down with a flamethrower (again, fun but excessive) or run them over with vehicles? Why don't we have some form of chainsaw, or logging machine that we can pilot, to clear swaths of trees while still giving us a resource? Trees can still be used even in the mid to late game, fuel is always useful even in the lowliest form. And it would be yet another option, branching out into something that could provide a use or for some of us, a little more realism. If I were marooned on an alien world and I had forests in my way, the last thing I would think is "Lets make high explosives and blow them out of the way" I mean cmon, You'd need a high enough explosive yield that it would not only vaporize the trees, it would probably vaporize you! Anyway that's my two cents. Curious what other players and devs think. Have a good one guys!

[Thegrover]

We have bots that fly from put backpack to do our bidding...

[ssilk]

With v0.13 you have also fire and can burn the forrest.

But the basic assumption is a bit false. Factorio is about automation, yes, but also about lonely fight.
I just want to mention, that there are a lot of mods, but I think the vanilla should not be changed in this detail.

[MindChanger]

I think it would be pretty nice to have ability to use Deconstruction planner and robots from our backpack to cut down marked trees by them.

[ssilk]

Have you tried to do this?

[MindChanger]

Have you tried to do this?

Wow... just wow... So we got answer

But now the problem is overloaded agazines with wood but well, it works pretty fast at least

[tanelorn]

Lol I love it!