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Title explains it all.
I play factorio for the visual side of the game, I adore the look of the industrial buildings and the surrounding nature but the health bar on these kinda ruins the look in my opinion.
It's quite easy to crash into trees and rocks accidentaly and after playing a world for a while the amount of damaged objects only increases and you cant really fix them, only destroy them entirely.

My suggestions to solve this would be:

• Make the healthbar dissapear after a while and reapear only when interacted with (destroying it, damaging it.

• As mentioned in the title, make the trees and rocks visually damaged (trees possibly wouldn't need any new textures as the polluted and dead trees could be used)

• Make trees heal over time, making the health bar disseapear on full health

• Or make a hybrid out of these mentioned solutions.

The game is very pretty and I like to keep my trees and rocks.

Trees / Rocks with damage could also yield less items when mined.

+1

I also get frustrated when I see rocks/trees with health bars that I actually drove into, shot, or grenated. Even worse is when I try to destroy the trees with healthbars, just to get them away, and then I hit another tree.

+1 for trees/rocks having slow health regeration. It makes sense for trees. And can a rock really get hurt? If you shoot a hole in a rock, it's still a regular rock, it just has a hole in it now

Trees do regen:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Ent ... g_per_tick

healing_per_tick

Type: float
Default: 0.001666 for Prototype/Tree, 0 for the rest of entities