[SOLVED] Forest Resource - Making Your Own

[LemonsterOG]

Question: Before the Industries DLC you could "make" a forestry area buy simply placing a lot of trees in a small space. Ya know, like a forest. :-)

With the DLC, when you place forestry "extractors", they place their own little forest to harvest. Do you still need to place them in the forest area created by placing a bunch a trees or can they be placed anywhere?

Edit: Marked as "solved".

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by LemonsterOG:

Question: Before the Industries DLC you could "make" a forestry area buy simply placing a lot of trees in a small space. Ya know, like a forest. :-)

You can still make a vanilla forestry area (and the other three as well) by painting a normal district and then clicking on the industrial specialization tab and telling it to be the type of industry you desire.

Originally posted by LemonsterOG:

With the DLC, when you place forestry "extractors", they place their own little forest to harvest. Do you still need to place them in the forest area created by placing a bunch a trees or can they be placed anywhere?

Yes, you'll still want to place your InDLC industrial areas on the resource they want to exploit (so on oil for an oil area, on farmland for a farm, etc). Having said that, you can still make a forest just about anywhere and place your extractors over them. The only two things that I can think of that will prohibit this would be the available space and how steep the terrain is.

[LemonsterOG]

Thank you for the response. That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure.

[Belhade]

I believe the "grove" from the forest DLC zoneis just decorative, and still needs the forest area "underneath" it.

[LemonsterOG]

Thanks @Belhade. I'm just about to start the game again, so I'm going to experiment. (It's 3:25am now...oh...2:25am now on the east coast.)

[LemonsterOG]

Done testing. Yeah...the DLC area works the same as the district area. You have to have a forest around the area you plop the DLC extractors, otherwise they say there's not enough natural resources. I knew all of this, I don't know what happened to my brain. Maybe I was cursed by someone on Halloween to cause me to have brain farts.