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I was looking at Tree Farm, but I simply want to defoliate without wasting the wood- is there somewhere a doohickey similar to a mining drill to harvest already placed trees?

You can use construction robots and a deconstruction blueprint to remove trees without losing their wood.

Are you sure?
In my last game I use wood in all my trains, cars, tanks...
I have enough stocks of wood for two more games.
Although my entire base is powered by solar panels and accumulators.
Boilers and fuel forges consume wood faster.

Although I very disappointing to lose the wood when forests are cut down.

Udav wrote:Are you sure?
In my last game I use wood in all my trains, cars, tanks...
I have enough stocks of wood for two more games.
Although my entire base is powered by solar panels and accumulators.
Boilers and fuel forges consume wood faster.

Although I very disappointing to lose the wood when forests are cut down.

I had so much coal for everything, I didn't even mind using poison capsules to remove forests out of the way...

btw - what's a fuel forge ?

jockeril wrote:btw - what's a fuel forge ?

I mean fuel consuming furnaces (stone/steel).

ThaPear wrote:You can use construction robots and a deconstruction blueprint to remove trees without losing their wood.

I'll have to look into this one; I want the wood, don't want the trees.

While we're on this, Why Do I need iron sticks for rail, but NOT wood for ties? Or do you not use wood in Europe?

Railroad ties were traditionally made of wood, but pre-stressed concrete is now widely used, especially in Europe and Asia. [1]

patfly wrote: While we're on this, Why Do I need iron sticks for rail, but NOT wood for ties? Or do you not use wood in Europe?

Resource availability. In green areas wood is plenty. Have fun building wood ties in a desert.

Stone and Iron, on the other hand, are available anywhere (unless you messes up the world creation or 'RNG hates you' situation).

Udav wrote:Are you sure?
In my last game I use wood in all my trains, cars, tanks...
I have enough stocks of wood for two more games.
Although my entire base is powered by solar panels and accumulators.
Boilers and fuel forges consume wood faster.

Although I very disappointing to lose the wood when forests are cut down.

Construction bots cut down trees & take the wood to storage chests or requesters short on supply. Been this way a long time. Using weapons kills the trees & destroy it's wood.

roman566 wrote:

patfly wrote: While we're on this, Why Do I need iron sticks for rail, but NOT wood for ties? Or do you not use wood in Europe?

Resource availability. In green areas wood is plenty. Have fun building wood ties in a desert.

Stone and Iron, on the other hand, are available anywhere (unless you messes up the world creation or 'RNG hates you' situation).

Smartass. In the US concrete ties are the rarity. But I have seen that Europe uses them almost always now. Hence my question about it-

@ ThePear: I actually did NOT know CB's would do that- and I learned that they'll pick up everything in the Dec field...holy crap wat a fiasco my first try was, lol

concrete is a lot more durable and stronger than wood