I started a new village and followed some wood cutters. A couple of them decided to go very far from the village and start cutting trees there. In the picturethe two traveling wood cutters are in the circle and the village is up to the right, mostly out of picture as indicated by the arrow. I turned on ‘Harvest’ overlay to show that there are trees quite much closer to the village than the tree these two guys decided to cut down.
How do wood cutters decide which tree to cut down?
IF you have a destination for the timber, like a Prioritized Build Site, they do tend to cut designated ‘harvest’ trees near it, but it’s not a sure thing. When I designate a wide swath of trees to harvest, as you have in the screenshot, harvesting can take place all over the map.
I have found in many cases that it is more efficient to designate trees near where the early construction is going on, because that tends to concentrate the harvesting and cut down on time required to drag timber back to the construction sites.
That’ of course, requires that you monitor the trees and areas designated for ‘harvest’ to make sure the harvesters haven’t run out of designated tredes to cut.
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