Any point to an untended Gauranlen tree?

[Red Earth]

I've just been selling the seeds and I've never grown one at all. Do they do anything useful in their own, or to they need a commitment?

[spean]

If you're in a low fertility biome I find they're a good way to get wood and food via the dryads.

[MadArtillery]

Temperature, toxicity, and biome ignoring wood/berry/medicine production, Combat pets that can't bleed to death and regrow lost limbs, immune to disease and infections as well, and lots and lots of hauling. Conciousness and manipulation don't seem to be actually effect pruning speed for whatever reason so perfect job for brain damage or half cycler pawns.

Biggest thing about the trees is you can attach multiple to a single person so you can be running 12 hauler dryads out of a single planter. Slaves are very good for this without needing recreation and/or the half cycler so they can endlessly labour away forever on trees you may even be able to manage a 4th tree combining both together at 20 plants skill and tree meme. I like to keep a table, meals and bedding out in the tree farm to maximize efficiency. Trees are very pretty so it's usually quite impressive for a dining room if you wall the tree farm in to get it to count as a room. Get your passion/burning passion moods boosts while getting all your hauling done or unleash the SWARM

Edit:
OH I forgot to mention unlinked guarlen trees automatically fight fires with their dryads. 2 upkeep free fire fighters for your crops or whatever you feel like protecting with them.

[Ivarukฅ(^•ᴥ•^)ฅﾉ彡]

it's like the mechanator stuff that the tribals can use i very much value them. just get someone with a burning passion for plants and you're good to go. the barkskin dryads are neat, the med producing ones can give a real nice boost so you can turn them into industrial meds. I wouldn't recommend assigning one person to multiple trees that's simply too much for one person to attend to if you want to get to 4 dryads.

The clawer dryads actually ♥♥♥♥ too, with their damage anything without armor just gets diced up. it says they aren't durable but as long as they still have movement, they can make it back to the tree for a pod heal. i had one get shot in the head where he wasnt conscience enough to walk, so i gave him a go-juice and it worked.

[MadArtillery]

Clawers actually have pretty good armour penetration. Assuming the wiki's numbers are accurate 80%. I think one tree is definitetly underselling how good a well run tree pawn can manage but if you don't want to dedicate any scheduling, rooms or effort at all one pawn is indeed pretty garented a minimum of 4 easily without issue. I think 8 is also quite manageable with a bit of effort though and is usually where most of my people end up landing. Tree pawns a very dedicated though, don't expect anything else out of them.


Tree connection is a legitimatly good meme just because of the pruning effectiveness, one of the few that actually has a major upside to go with it's downsides and you can really go ham with trees with that meme. if only more memes were designed this way I may actually have liked ideology. Should have mentioned it in the upper post but I'll atleast put it here.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Red Earth:

Do they do anything useful in their own, or to they need a commitment?

They cover a decent area with high beauty moss. The moss is +10 beauty each, and the tree itself is +6.