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Selective Tree Chopping Mod/Feature Request
I want my wood furniture and structures to all match/mesh aesthetically. (I really like cherry beds with chestnut doors when those woods are both available). I can easily do this by assigning the work orders specific wood types, and I do have it set up like that.

But, I don't want to waste my chopping dwarf's time, letting them chop down trees that I won't use except to turn into ash and charcoal when I eventually get my furnaces set up. Nor do I want the undesirable logs laying around my fort gumming up space and looking ugly.

BUT, even more than that I don't want to have to spend the time individually identifying cherry and chestnut trees and manually designating each of those trees for cutting for.

What I would like, is something similar to the auto-mine option that lets you click and drag over a box and have a set options, but programmable so you can set the types of trees you want it to designate or ignore.
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AnDrew the Awesome 15 Dec, 2022 @ 10:33pm 
Cool. Simple enough. We probably, with 99.999999999% certainty, can't do it with the modding tools made available to players. Sure. That's fine. I can accept we can't as players make it happen. There are always limits on what can be done with mods in any game. But, while saying "No," is all fine, dandy, and helpful; saying "No, but" is generally marginally more fine, dandy, and helpful.

I'd still very much like this, if not as a mod–an impossibility as just established–then as feature, and the workshop's obviously not the right place to put a feature request.

I assume the devs do listen to feedback and have channels built to hear it. Where would you, as a veteran dwarf fortress player, say those channels are, so that I can direct this or any other future feature request I and others might imagine in a more productive direction?
Mobbstar 1 27 May @ 10:00am 
I know this is years too late, but DFHack is now available on Steam and has a command for this. I believe the following magic formula instantly designates all currently grown Cherry and Chestnut trees for chopping:
`getplants CHERRY CHESTNUT -a`

https://docs.dfhack.org/en/stable/docs/tools/getplants.html
Thank you Mobbstar. I should touch dwarf fortress again. It's been too long since I last lost.
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