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So it is impractical for keeping your windmills clear. Also, the colony manager mod comes with an option to designate a zone where colonists will cut down all trees, regardless of growth %. if you're worried about trees blocking your windmills, just lay some flooring. You. Jul 29, Try selecting a colonist and right-clicking one of the trees you've designated for chopping.

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It should give you either an option to priorotise that work above everything else, or an error saying why you can't prioritise that work. Well, it gave me the option to prioritise that work so now I can at least manually chop down trees one by one.

Dec 16, Colonists assigned to growing will automatically cut/harvest any harvestable plant that reaches % grown inside a growing zone, regardless of whether it's marked for being cut or not (this may or may not seem obvious, but there are a lot of threads. Only colonists assigned the plant cutting job will chop down trees. A colonist may be directly ordered to chop down a marked tree. Select a colonist assigned to plant cutting, right-click a marked tree belt not dropping, click Prioritize cutting.

The time it takes a colonist to chop down a tree. The cut tree order is available as normal, when clicked on it it's like the order isn't registered (current action doesn't change to cut tree), I tried on a new prisonner and the order registered for like 1 second before disappearing, after this he had the same problem as others and the order won't even register. May 26, To circumvent these challenging conditions, trees were cut down in the winter. One settler in McGillivray Township reported that he and his wife cut trees on 8 acres over the winter and the next spring they logged most of it by hand.

The couple cut logs into short lengths, more easily handled. Nov 29, The British government made it illegal for colonials to cut down white pine trees over 24 inches in diameter- preserving the trees for use as masts on British naval stumpcutting.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.