Lumber zone

[Zombull]

To eliminate some micromanagement, add a new zone tool that lets the player designate an area of the map for lumber. The trees should not all immediately be marked to cut, though. Instead, the zone should provide a production bill system that lets the player specify which types of tree and production threshold similar to crafting tables.

[AileTheAlien]

You can get something similar to this, if you make a large grow-zone, and then disable sowing. You don't get to specify what trees, but your pawns will auto-harvest any trees which are fully grown.

[Roolo]

You can get something similar to this, if you make a large grow-zone, and then disable sowing. You don't get to specify what trees, but your pawns will auto-harvest any trees which are fully grown.

I also use this method and it works fine. However, the mechanic isn't really obvious and I think it would help many players if a hint is included in the learning helper.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

You can get something similar to this, if you make a large grow-zone, and then disable sowing. You don't get to specify what trees, but your pawns will auto-harvest any trees which are fully grown.

I also use this method and it works fine. However, the mechanic isn't really obvious and I think it would help many players if a hint is included in the learning helper.

True. I use the same method as well, but in no way would I expect anyone new to the game to figure that out early on.

[Klomster]

Agreed.

I usually just randomly cut trees i want, and choose a sorta close fertile soil area to put a tree growing zone with cecropias.

But it should be part of the tutorial.

[AileTheAlien]

Maybe harvesting doesn't happen per grow-zone, but instead is an 'area', like snow-clearing? If it defaulted to expanding that area on grow-zones, then it'd act like vanilla, but have one fewer button on the zone itself. See also, separating out different actions into different 'areas'.