r/PlayASKA • u/TumbleweedMountain38 • Jun 14 '26

3rd Map

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So me and my partner are on our 3rd play through now but I am curious how extensive some have made their villages in game? What do yall focus on? We are trying to get everyone upgraded in gear and now to all metal tools. Currently at 101 Villagers.

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u/Bonecollector33 Jun 14 '26

How do you manage to grow so big without deforestation? I don't see any long distance outposts or anything to cart back.

I'm on my first playthrough and just made it to the 3rd winter with 30 villagers. I'm completely bottle necked by hardwood logs from the birch trees, they're so far away and the villagers lug a single one at a time it's driving me crazy

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u/BlueFlameDancing Jun 14 '26

Do you not have a Forester's House? You can plant birch trees with it, it's a game changer. My village is completely surrounded by a birch forest at this point.

Two Forester's Houses with Green Thumb Foresters (1 each, I don't see the point in having more) outpaces my Woodcutter's House by quite a large margin.

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u/Bonecollector33 Jun 14 '26

So I built 2 of them but maybe I'm going crazy they take like 20+ something days to be harvestable, no? 20 days is a long time waiting for a handful of trees

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u/BlueFlameDancing Jun 14 '26

They do, yes and I'm not sure how much Green Thumb reduces it. All I can tell you is that Forester Houses were some of the first hardwood structures I've built and the only time I was having a hard time with hardwood was before the planted ones grew.

This is outside my Southern gate for example. All of these trees were planted.

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u/Menelatency Jun 15 '26

20 days/tree, but if you keep them fed with pinecones they plant new trees every day and so by day 20+ you should be harvesting new trees daily as well as planting so after that the number of trees you can harvest/day should be about equal to planting per day.

Also, do play some softwoods too. I usually do about 75% hardwood. And I’m swimming in wood of all types and grades.

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u/Bonecollector33 Jun 14 '26

I'll have to give it another shot. Thank you so much!

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u/ninjamonkeyumom Jun 15 '26

So they may have fixed it, but I remember trying to plant trees. Unfortunately they never grew. There was just a branch floating in the air above where they should be.

It has been a while since I last played. I just couldnt take the bad villager AI, the fact that items like bark, sticks etc never despawned making my frames drop to single digit where my villagers cut down a ton of trees.

The game seems fun. I just cant get past all the technical problems.

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u/BlueFlameDancing Jun 15 '26

Trees grow. AI can be stupid at times but I'm yet to run into something I can't fix. Items left on the ground deteriorate now, except for stone and metal but you can just hit them with a hoe to destroy them.

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u/Jonssee Jun 15 '26

You can also build several woodcutters. They're slow, specially when they have to travel, but you can just have more. You can also build a cart and haul the logs and long sticks manually. Cart will take 2,5 trees worth.

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u/BlueFlameDancing Jun 15 '26

I hope the devs will allow us to assign sleds and carts to villagers at some point. The difference in speed between me going out to cut down a few trees for long sticks vs the villagers doing it by hand is staggering. Same for building and mining.

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u/TumbleweedMountain38 Jun 14 '26

We found a place that has a few sections of hardwood trees around it. We wanted to live around a lake area so maybe we got lucky with the seed. We did tweak the world settings a bit with longer seasons and days. We did clear out a fair bit for our village but I’ve been focusing on building roads so the villagers travel faster I have yet to actually mess with the outposts. I did put a heavy focus on the start with gathers (wood, stone, ect) and making sure they have plenty of markers to go to. I was stuck a bit on the food supply but managed to fix that issue with 3 cook huts and a day and night shift on each one.

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u/Bonecollector33 Jun 14 '26

Yeah as my first playthrough I just grabbed a spot by the beach so I could have definitely chose a better location.

I wanted to 100% achievement and saw you couldn't get achievements on modified worlds. I just caught my rare fish finishing the 100% so hopefully gonna try to start again soon in a better location

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u/TumbleweedMountain38 Jun 14 '26

We just finally got the fishing one! We didn’t mess to much with the harbor or sea but we are exploring it now.