Can't plant saplings on empty field?

[Sourc3]

i try to plant saplings in my newly bought field, there was only grass on it.. No trees in the cordon of it's land borders.. Yet, the game says "There are too many trees. Cut down some first"

I tried to plow, cultivate and move all my other vehicles away from the field, yet I can't plant a single one..

[SeaDog]

I read that there is a hard limit for number of trees on a map.

[Usedfireball]

The game does have a limit to how many trees can be on the map before it will allow any to be planted, I think some mod out there did raise that limit though but I don't know how much. Obviously a tree heavy/forestry map will be over that limit too. In that case going to have to cut down as many trees as you can.

One mod map I am currently playing on has a fancy hedge or fence of some sort that can be removed with a chainsaw and/or stump grinder, some maps with removable barbed wire fences also function the same way. Each one of those posts that you can cut count as a tree too, so your limit might not just be from actual trees.

[Sourc3]

Well that's pretty stupid tho.. kinda defeats the purpose.. i can still plant poplars, just not pines..
I wish they'd upgrade for the next farming sim game

[Usedfireball]

The tree limit is supposed to protect those with low end PCs from crashing the game too much, although you *should* notice performance issues before that but many will just keep planting trees... Probably a hold over from an older version, realistically it could be set higher for each new version (old computers being replaced...) but so far they haven't.

[Sourc3]

yeah, thanks anyways dude.. Guess I can't play mod maps then :(

[Usedfireball]

Some mod maps are quite open and don't have many trees, those would be a good fit if you want to put in some trees and let them grow up.

My pet peeve with mod maps are the ones with large chunks of land you cannot buy full of trees or a tree lined map border with the trees just beyond what you can get to, those I do not like. Pretty much impossible to plant trees on those under normal circumstances.

Some of the better made maps have things that count as trees, that can be removed (like with a chainsaw) but that are mainly for decoration.

The Pacific Northwest map has some barbed wire fences that can be removed, just have to cut the posts with the white tops. That map might be pushing the tree limit without removing the fences, but I didn't test it for sure.