Additional ways of obtaining wood

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Hi

I know this is not a wish concert. But maybe some suggestion will materialize in the game … :mage:

I do not know how many days it takes to strip all the islands from wood, e.g. by building intensively. But I know the islands lose their charm after logging.

Or you want to long stay in the built main base but there is no wood here. :rowing_man:

Any way to make renewable wood would be a valuable change.

  1. A tree from which branches can be broken without destroying it (climb a tree, break off). After some time, the branches grow back. The mechanics already exist (Yucca, Palm). The ideal for this seems to be: Ficus Tree, Ficus Tree 2 (Cartographer). It would be so natural. And ecological. :deciduous_tree:

  2. Palm trees grow back after logging. Even for a very long time. :palm_tree:

  3. Cultivated sapling (like Yucca). After the branches are broken off, the trunk remains, giving rise to new wood. :seedling:

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i agree with some long time period of regrowing trees. even 30 days or 60 days for a small palms or ficus trees to regrow. Or coconut planting, like some sort of possibility to make yourself a palm… just coconut, in crafting planted coconut and then just water it to grow into full. Something like that would be nice i think.

sorry for my english :slight_smile:

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It would be so natural… At the beginning of the game, I was surprised that this couldn’t be done.

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This is so true! Another option would be for the developers to add Bamboo to the game - it is present on Pacific islands and would be a FANTASTIC building material option! And it grows so fast so it could “realistically” respawn quickly like Yucca. Honestly I was shocked it wasn’t in the game! It makes so much more sense than chopping down palm trees for wooden sticks!

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I like this idea. It would be perfect for creating irrigation systems for crops. And how great it would be for building the raft components. FANTASTIC - that’s the right word.

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I agree. What tends to happen is I run out of wood then raft to another island and get lost as trying to navigate without an in-game map (cartographer is hit and miss with North being not-up) is tricky.

A logical option could be that palm saplings grow to juvenile (non-harvestable) then full-grown palm trees so the player has the balancing challenge of breaking the sapling for fibrous leaves or leaving it alone to grow into a palm. This would be similar to the carrots and potatoes feature in Minecraft where you can eat the carrot straight away or plant it and grow more.

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I agree. The very name of ‘palm sapling’ suggests that they will grow. If this is not the case, they should be called: always young palm sapling.

If you grow a lot of yucca, it will be enough for the ropes and the fire. Jedanak it takes a long time. Anyway, the leaves of large palm trees are better for burning a fire. But are there so many of them?

From the player’s point of view, it is more convenient to have more wood harvesting options.

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I initially assumed they would grow into mature palms.

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Me too. I did not cut it for a long time, watching if it would grow. Maybe we wait too short. A few hundred days might not be enough?

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I’d love to see palms growing up. It would make cutting trees more strategic. Maybe you want to skip those small palms because they’ll grow large later. Leave a large one untouched so small ones can start to appear. Cut everything and be a sad panda.