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.
| Crafted at | Ingredients | Items |
|---|---|---|
1  | ||
Digging[ | ]
To be able to plant trees, you need to prepare the soil by digging a hole. This can be done in two ways:
- Dig with a stick or spade directly in soil
- Dig up a tree stump with a spade.
Bots programmed to dig holes in soil tiles will also dig up tree stumps.
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.
| Crafted at | Ingredients | Items |
|---|---|---|
1 | ||
1 | ||
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.
| Crafted at | Ingredients | Items |
|---|---|---|
1 | ||
1 |
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.
| Crafted at | Ingredients | Items |
|---|---|---|
1-2  | ||
1-2  | ||
