Forestry

Forestry (or tree farming) in Autonauts includes 3 necessary phases and 2 optional phases:
 * Logging (cutting down the tree)
 * Digging (digging up a stump and/or digging a new hole)
 * Planting
 * Seed Making (optional)
 * Seedling Making (optional)

Overall cycle
Here is the overall cycle of Forestry :




 * A solid line marks a necessary process, and a dotted line marks an optional process

Logging
To cut down a tree, you need to use a tool. First, you can use a stone, and as you progress in the game you can make axes to cut down trees. All the different kinds of trees produce 1 log each when cut down.

Digging
To be able to plant trees, you need to prepare the soil by digging a hole. This can be done in two ways: Bots programmed to dig holes in soil tiles will also dig up tree stumps.
 * Dig with a stick or spade directly in soil
 * Dig up a tree stump with a stick or spade.

Planting
To plant trees, you need some kind of seed or fruit. The standard pine trees can be grown from Tree Seeds or Tree Seedlings. Seedlings can only be made with a Seedling Tray which is unlocked by research. The process also requires Fertiliser. In turn, seedlings grow 3 times faster than normal tree seeds.

Fruit Trees grow from Apples and Palm Trees grow from Coconuts.

Seed making
The easiest way to get seeds/fruit to plant is to use a Wooden Mallet on the tree. All the different kinds of trees will eventually drop seeds/fruit this way. However, normal trees can also drop extra seeds when cut down, so farming normal trees with mallets is typically not necessary unless you need more sticks. Fruit and palm trees will drop their fruit when cut down only if the fruit has already grown, but bots programmed to chop fruit/palm trees will not wait for fruit to grow before chopping them down, so it is best to only use mallets with them.