New update 094 is killing my industry. I need wood to make coal, woodfire, woodwork, … But you decrease density, I must stop playing that save because my city will die in winter when I run out of wood.
Note that my city have 5k population, request wood in trading center just a drop in the ocean.
The change to log production has taken a devastating turn in 094 compared to 093. I know there was a density decrease in the 094 update. Now, my Forester Camps will only plant a fraction of what they did before. Not only that, but those trees seem to grow much slower (possible bug?). An oak tree planted by a Forester is still Immature at 5 log after 10 years, while a tree I planted as decoration in mature at 11 log after less than half that time. My log stores are dropping fast for a 3k population, and buying them from traders is not the answer as there is not enough to buy. I have 8 Forestry Camps. I could build 8 more, but I don’t think it will be enough.
Soon I will have to shelf this city to keep from loosing it until a solution is found. For now, I am going to try supplementing trees from the decoration menu to get enough wood in the Forester Camp’s work area. This used to be done before Work Camps were upgradable.
My request is… Please return wood production back to 093 status.
This game is a treasure! I’ve been playing for years.
Keep up the great work!
Also, I am incorporating the Root of the First Tree relic…
The forestry change needs to be reversed pronto, also if we could choose just to grow oak trees, that would solve alot of issues, I’m planting oak trees one at a time atm:(
Also if traders could bring logs more regularly please:)
I know you can request, but they bring a pitiful amount:P
I have four upgraded work camps just planting trees and when I need wood (and have surplus labourers) I just CLEAR portions, otherwise one camp is used just to harvest anything in that area while the camp which planted it is planting somewhere else. And I buy logs when they appear, though I wish I could buy planks.
Seems after a while traders stop bringing logs all together, in ten years not a single trader with logs after year 80:(
a bit offtopic but how did u reach 5k population? 
i have 1.3k and its barely increasing
0.9.4 ruined forester camps
The changes in 9.5 seems to have solved the issue.
I loaded in on year 130 after the 9.5 update, and let the game run for a few years. At that time all of my camps were marked to also chop down trees that were not mature.
At year 134 I changed them all to only chop down mature trees, and the numbers went up right away, and the prompt for “empty workareas” has not appeared since.
I have noticed the Forrester now plants trees more sparse then my arborist. I understand they were trying to stop the problem of too dense and causing parking issues but a tree every 3 tiles is a bit excessive. Might as well go back to mass planting your own decorative trees
FYI the 0.9.5 patch confirms that forester tree growth is bugged in 0.9.4
Has the 9.4 tree wood value fallen? Used to be a mature tree gave you 11 logs or more, now I’m seeing values of 6, even my (gold) planted trees are getting 5 or 6, though with these I can improve the density.
it has always depended on tree species
These always only grew to half the mature level, anyway, so I’ve only ever seen 6 for maples and oaks and less for the others. (but tbh, I don’t really plant the others for gold)
