If you need wood...plant trees...

[BoxingBud]

Seasonal fruit trees don't have to stick around until next year, you got a good supply of wood cutting them down off season!

[rapidsfinesse]

It is unwise to cut down fruit trees.

(I have double wood chopping skill - it gives 8 wood, without it - 4 wood in chopping).

- Each fruit tree seed costs 400 coins. When chopped down, it gives 8 wood.
- 1 wood costs 20 coins in Ryis's shop. 8 wood * 20 coins = 160 coins to buy the same amount wood from Ryis's shop.

So when you chop down a fruit tree, you lose 400 - 160 = 240 coins.
or without Double chopping skill (4 wood per tree), you lose 400 - 80 = 320 coins.

Plus, there are many trees in Mistria outside your farm that grow back the next day after chopping and give you 8 FREE wood each.

I did an experiment and chopped down every tree in Mistria outside my farm in one day. The result was 543 free wood and 52 hardwood:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3405113183

[PichuYang]

...or just let players plant actual trees, not fruit trees.

[BoxingBud]

What I do is sell the fruit or cook it into stuff then sell that but once the season is over I cut them down for the bonus wood, usually the profit margin is pretty high if you're just selling the fruit, higher if it can be cooked into stuff (as well the chance to drop an extra dish which can be sold) Feeding any fruit to livestock is 4 glass beads a feeding which is great if you got a full coop/barn. Once the season's over that bonus wood isn't too bad if you cut down the trees.

[BoxingBud]

Originally posted by rapidsfinesse:

It is unwise to cut down fruit trees.

(I have double wood chopping skill - it gives 8 wood, without it - 4 wood in chopping).

- Each fruit tree seed costs 400 coins. When chopped down, it gives 8 wood.
- 1 wood costs 20 coins in Ryis's shop. 8 wood * 20 coins = 160 coins to buy the same amount wood from Ryis's shop.

So when you chop down a fruit tree, you lose 400 - 160 = 240 coins.
or without Double chopping skill (4 wood per tree), you lose 400 - 80 = 320 coins.

Plus, there are many trees in Mistria outside your farm that grow back the next day after chopping and give you 8 FREE wood each.

I did an experiment and chopped down every tree in Mistria outside my farm in one day. The result was 543 free wood and 52 hardwood:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3405113183

How often do town trees respawn? I mean I could check in a bit myself. If it's daily or even weekly that's a much better way.

EDIT: I see you said that earlier! Sorry I missed it.

[rapidsfinesse]

It is daily, the next day all trees are fully grown again and you can chop again and get 543 new FREE wood. Or you can buy it from Ryis's shop for 20 coins per wood:
8(4) wood = 160(80) coins.

As you remember, a fruit tree seed costs 400 coins, and if you chopped it down for 8(4) wood, you need spend 400 coins next year again to buy the fruit tree seed.

So If you instead buying from Ruis chop down 10 your fruit tree - then your money loss will be:
240 *10 = 2400 coins (with double chopping skill) or
320 * 10 = 3200 coins (without double chopping skill)

Not only did you lose money, but the main loss in your situation is time, as well as the missed harvests from your fruit trees (9 days required for the trees to grow, and in that time, your trees could have provided three harvests).

[BoxingBud]

You get the money back from just selling the fruit it bares, as long as you get one round of selling (Planting them too late), the tree made back it's costs, I've been selling the fruit and making profit even if I keep some to feed farm animals. Needed wood so when they were out of seasons I chopped them down, planted different fruit trees for that season. I still got money from growing crops and cooking them if I could, or just selling, Farming game profit margins tend to not be difficult. Still it's better to just chop down the dailies for sure, if you need wood.