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[Viken]

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to both Dwarf Fortress and modding in general, and have no skills or knowledge of any of the common program langauges or anything.  But I do have a question, or better yet, a suggestion for a rather simple mod.  Assuming it hasn't already been done (and I missed it), or its hard-lined into the game itself:

A mod that would allows trees to drop more than 1 (one) log at a time when cut down. 

The deal is, most trees in the real world could be used and cut into several logs (or even planks), instead of just a single chunk per tree.  Not only would this allow you 'not' to have to clear-up your entire map if you need wood resources, but would dramatically increase the usefulness of wood-burners and the like when you need a type of coal for forging.  So, can it be done?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

No, it's hard coded.

[Viken]

Well, that blows a hole in my bubble. Thanks for the straight-forward answer though.

[Impaler[WrG]]

The only real way to mod the 'rubber hits the road' game play level is to do either new reactions or new/modified creatures and some cost adjustments, everything else is essentially decorative in nature.

[Viken]

See, I know nothing of how to do that.  I was actually talking of changing the value of how many logs you'd get from felling a single tree.  Other than that, I have no idea what it would intel or require.

[darkflagrance]

You could mod the game so that the wood trees drop can be processed to a multiple units of a "lumber wood" item at a Smelter, that also counts as wood.

[Viken]

I believe I'm going to do the FREE_WOOD mod listed in the wiki. It seems the easiest, sense there is always so much stone laying around.

[PTTG??]

I did the smelter reaction one a while ago. I made the "pine" tree, and "finished pine" tree without any biomes (so it won't appear in nature).

Then I just made a smelter reaction that turned 1 pine log into 5 or so "finished pine logs" that could be used. The nice thing with "Finished" means that means that things like a "finished pine bed" just sounds like it was made with planks and stuff rather than raw logs... which it was.

It was a little tedious to go and make a different "finished" form for all trees, though... though I can't recall how I made it select the correct tree type to match the input. I may have had to just make one "finished wood" tree, but then you wouldn't get the different densities, for what that's worth.

[Viken]

I couldn't get it to work, and now the only reaction in my smelter is Make Steel; which is the one I removed [FUEL] from.  Odd, but I think I messed up my game somehow.

[forsaken1111]

I did something similar, making a 'lumber' tree without biomes and a smelter reaction to transform any unit of wood into 3 'lumber' logs. It looks odd but it works. Could change the name to anything else for aesthetics. (Lumber Bed isn't the best name ever, but neither is Pine Bed really.)

[Viken]

Could go through and rename the entire deal as Lumber Yard; xD Never need charcoal or lumber again! Lol. 

[Viken]

That really is odd.  No matter how I change my FREE_WOOD addition as a reaction, it doesn't appear in my smelter.  And all of the original smelter entries are missing in-game, except for the modded MAKE_STEEL entry I was testing out.  Any ideas?  Or do I need to make a new world for this? 

[forsaken1111]

That really is odd.  No matter how I change my FREE_WOOD addition as a reaction, it doesn't appear in my smelter.  And all of the original smelter entries are missing in-game, except for the modded MAKE_STEEL entry I was testing out.  Any ideas?  Or do I need to make a new world for this? 

If you change the total number of reactions you must generate a new world. If you mod an existing reaction to make wood you should be fine.

[Viken]

Oooh, okay.  I see now. Hm.  I'll have to do that then. I already switched back to my original raw, but I kept the modded one so I'll just start a new world. Thanks!

[Foxbyte]

In the new release you can make custom workshops. I would *love* to see a Sawmill or some sort. Requires power, a mechanism and a giant saw blade. Turns wood into finished planks which would be more efficient for building [But I guess couldn't be used for carving or making bolts or something?].