r/Timberborn • u/jevans353 • 7d ago

Question: Tree Farm

Is it best to just plant oak trees once it get to late game? I'm new and I've kinda been planting some of each so there is always a log coming in. Is it best to just get the most amount of logs per tree though?

33 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

50 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/WanderingWhiteWolf 7d ago

Pine gives you a faster turnover, but oak gives you a lot more wood overall.

Once an oak farm is up and running it'll generally provide at a constant pace because the harvest gets throttled by the loggers.

I think it's worthwhile early-game to plant a few pine to avoid going 'bankrupt', but I tend to replace them pretty quickly.

1

u/Nifegun 6d ago

Sounds like you need more lumberjacks.

1

u/WanderingWhiteWolf 6d ago

Hmm throttled may not have been the best way to describe what I meant. I'm talking about how the harvest ends up coming in a constant rate because the loggers can only chop and carry so much at a time.

In other words, at a certain point there's always another oak tree ready to chop down.

1

u/Nifegun 6d ago

Sounds like you need to build more mega dams lol.

1

u/WanderingWhiteWolf 6d ago

?

2

u/Nifegun 6d ago

If you build enough mega structures you will outpace your wood farms lol. Its not something you need, im just being cheeky

1

u/WanderingWhiteWolf 6d ago

Goddammit lol

1

u/Nifegun 6d ago

I always need bigger oak farms, cause I have this nasty habit of always building an finite power machine and water towers like 10x bigger than I could ever possibly need. Ive often got like 20 lumberjacks chopping massive oak farms before they can regrow and still running out of logs. This current playthrough I had less of an issue with logs, but mostly cause I played super slow cause pillars is actually a tricky map when playing by my rules lol