No idea how foresters are working (but they do?)

[SEISO]

TL;DR: Forester needs some more info on details screen to get an idea how it's working and what's requirement for workers.

Case 1: There is a darkwood forest near H village which eventually became a good place for Fallout 5. I placed a Forester and when I visited it next time, it was completely restored.

Case 2: Exactly same outpost and same forest, I kicked previous worker and I hired new one with low Farming skill. I figured out eventually that I need a Farmer at least with 7 out of 10 skill to make it work, I hired one and Forest is less than half planted. Even if I set priorities to Farming only, the guy will just stand in Idle mode doing nothing at all.

Case 3: Again, same outpost / forest. I found some funny moment here: there was 4 thumps, 3 of them was replanted, but 1 thump keeps ignored at all, and it basically at same place as mentioned ones.

Case 4: Hardwood forest near B towns. I checked many times, there are farmers, there is everythin - and a complete ignore of replanting. Nothing helped at all, tried everything. But, what surprised me a lot and why I created a thread - Forester lodge displays that over 200 tree sapling was produced. Surely I limited tree sapling in warehouses, there was no way to produce that amount of tree saplings at all, but it somehow did and I checked forest, not a single sapling here, but it doesn't look that forest could completely gone out - it survives for more than 130 days, most radius is cleared, but it never runs out completely.

I'm not sure how it works, devs could you share how it works?

[SEISO]

One more: with Case 4 it may be possible that new trees are just not being rendered properly, but I didn't see anyone cutting an invisble tree. Something really strange here with forester lodge

What I tried:

- Increasing amound of tree sappling to store. Maybe game being stuck when it's not possible to product more tree saplings, but it doesn't seems to work
- Changing log/hardwood priorities in Forester Lodge. No effects
- All possible combinationation of skill priorities. I'm not even sure if Farmer is required, I saw 5/5 Farmer planting tress and 8/10 Farmer doing nothing at all
- Removing thumps. No changes
- Maybe Forester Lodge does not plant trees exactly near village? But in Case 1 it did re-planted every single tree even closest one

Also, I found that eventually in my main village some trees are cutted down. Problem here that my village don't have any lumberjacks with active logs production.

[Ruffio]

Foresters isn't as much planting tree's where there was none. They just make sure "log" tree's regrow in the same place they was cut down. You can't plant a new forest where there was none to start with, or plant a different type of tree etc. It's more like respawn a tree you cut down..

[SEISO]

I'm not planting a new forest, it's all forests from start. There is basically exactly same forest which worked (re-planted) and then stopped to work with all thumps up.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by SEISO:

I'm not planting a new forest, it's all forests from start. There is basically exactly same forest which worked (re-planted) and then stopped to work with all thumps up.

idk... I cut down tree's, my forester make sure they get re-planted and regrow. Forester is a farming task though.

[SEISO]

Happy days, all thanks to you, Ruffio!

It may works, it may not. I found it very unconsistency how it works - sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes completely not. It seems that thumps are trigger of problems and I finding out some random thumps all over the map where I have no outposts at all. Seems like those thumps are not replantable and being spawned instead of normal trees