Forestry not happening

[chic.aeon]

I haven't played in a year and a half so a bit rusty. Meanwhile I have a district zoned forestry and a VERY dark green area of trees. Still I only have generic pouting industry. A search brought up a comment about a forestry mod which I don't have. I do have a "plant more trees" mod. I use almost no mods because of the issues.

Is the more trees mod a problem? If I turn off that mod will I be able to have forestry? Or do I have to turn off all mods and start over. Not a huge deal but a puzzle and I hate polluting industries.

Thanks.

[MessengerOfRage]

your tree mod should not be a problem.

there are 2 kinds of forestry industry, the base game one and the DLC one.
it sounds like you got them mixed up.
I think you are trying to grow base game forestry in a DLC forestry area.

base game forestry is grown by:
1) drawing a bog standart district with the leftmost tool from the districts & areas menue.
2) giving that district a forestry specialisation (found in another tab of the districts and areas menue)
3) zoning yellow industry... it will grow forestry procesors if not on green forestry resource or a mix of extractors and processors if on green forestry resource.
even if your tree mod somehow breaks the green forestry resource you should still get forestry processors not generic industry.

DLC industry is done by:
1) drawing an DLC industry area, the tool is also found in the districts & areas menue but it's NOT the leftmost one, it's one of the others.
2) making it DLC forestry by plopping the forestry main building inside
3) hand placing other DLC forestry buildings.
(you can switch 1) and 2) around, the main building comes with a ltiny industry area ontop which one can extend with the industry area brush.)

to make it even more confusing base game districts and DLC areas can overlap.

I think you are doing steps DLC-1 and base game 3.
make sure to draw your forestry district with the bog standart district tool, the leftmost one from the menue and then give it a forestry specialication (a little tree icon should be next to the district name.)

[chic.aeon]

Thanks. I realized after I posted that I didn't say I wasn't using the Industries DLC (I think that is the one with various and more complicated works. I only have the base game and Green Cities as I remember. And then my post was held for awhile as I am "new again" :D

I have used the same method as you outlined MANY times in the past and I did follow all your instructions (which were very clear by the way so will be helpful to have in the forum archives for sure). The "self sustained" housing is working fine. The District SHOWS a leaf and a small building. I am assuming that the leaf icon took the place of the pine tree icon? I have done the steps a few times and still I only get polluting industry. I am going to load up an old (and huge) game and see what is happening there.

Honestly I have no clue if it isn't the tree mod. I only have a handful of very basic mods being used.

Thanks. There could also have been a change with how that all works in the last year and a half but seems odd that the houses are modern and lovely as I expected them to be and the industrial part not working.

Any other ideas are very welcome.

[chic.aeon]

OK I loaded up an old an big game. While I had very little industry left I did have a big section of forestry and some smaller sections of farming. HOWEVER this was when the game opened and was frozen. The minute I got the timeline going an error message came up and the game was completely frozen,

Could not load type 'Problem'. [System.TypeLoadException]
Was the message. Even the task manager had a hard time closing the game.

So I am guessing that something is wrong there. And THAT is what is going on now.

Will try another old game with a different title but I am guessing the same thing will happen. I can also try a new game with all mods turned off. I seem to remember some folks having to remove all reference to mods and have an empty list and start over.

OR I could just live with polluting industry and work around it (insert sad face)

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[chic.aeon]

Found an earlier version of the same big game (all that is left in my saved files) and I DO have forestry there and working. So definitely puzzling.

BUT the icon there is different so perhaps I don't actually have "forestry" selected for my new game district? In the new game I have a pretty leaf with three main leaves showing for that district designation.

[Free1]

Originally posted by chic.aeon:

Thanks. I realized after I posted that I didn't say I wasn't using the Industries DLC (I think that is the one with various and more complicated works. I only have the base game and Green Cities as I remember. And then my post was held for awhile as I am "new again" :D

I have used the same method as you outlined MANY times in the past and I did follow all your instructions (which were very clear by the way so will be helpful to have in the forum archives for sure). The "self sustained" housing is working fine. The District SHOWS a leaf and a small building. I am assuming that the leaf icon took the place of the pine tree icon? I have done the steps a few times and still I only get polluting industry. I am going to load up an old (and huge) game and see what is happening there.

Honestly I have no clue if it isn't the tree mod. I only have a handful of very basic mods being used.

Thanks. There could also have been a change with how that all works in the last year and a half but seems odd that the houses are modern and lovely as I expected them to be and the industrial part not working.

Any other ideas are very welcome.

The leaf icon designates eco-friendly commercial; the little pine tree icon found under the industry tab of the district tools, is still applicable to designate forestry industry to a district.
Hope this helps :)

[Free1]

Originally posted by Free1:

Originally posted by chic.aeon:

Thanks. I realized after I posted that I didn't say I wasn't using the Industries DLC (I think that is the one with various and more complicated works. I only have the base game and Green Cities as I remember. And then my post was held for awhile as I am "new again" :D

I have used the same method as you outlined MANY times in the past and I did follow all your instructions (which were very clear by the way so will be helpful to have in the forum archives for sure). The "self sustained" housing is working fine. The District SHOWS a leaf and a small building. I am assuming that the leaf icon took the place of the pine tree icon? I have done the steps a few times and still I only get polluting industry. I am going to load up an old (and huge) game and see what is happening there.

Honestly I have no clue if it isn't the tree mod. I only have a handful of very basic mods being used.

Thanks. There could also have been a change with how that all works in the last year and a half but seems odd that the houses are modern and lovely as I expected them to be and the industrial part not working.

Any other ideas are very welcome.

The leaf icon designates eco-friendly commercial from the Green Cities DLC; the little pine tree icon found under the industry tab of the district tools, is still applicable to designate forestry industry to a district.
Hope this helps :)

[chic.aeon]

:D. I figured out the leaf was "organic". Thanks forgot that. I did some experimenting and I an get FARMING to work but not forestry. Again this is on a dark green area with trees so a puzzle there. It is like the forestry choice isn't really an option. But I can live with farming although at the moment it will not be organic as it is on polluted land. But an experiment. Will try forestry again later in another spot. May have been "me" but repeated tries with the other choices working leads me to believe there is an actual problem.

Can always try on another game. This one is very new so no big loss. Thanks.

[chic.aeon]

UPDATE: Started a new game. Same map. All working now as expected. No clue.

[Free1]

Glad to hear at least it's working, cheers!