Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress

Fantastic Trees
Stogie 20 Dec, 2022 @ 11:36am
Tree Suggestions:
Bleeding Birch - Bone-white tree that sprays a punch of foul-smelling red sap when you cut it down.

Dwarfwood - Trees made of petrified wood that must be mined instead of chopped. Dwarfwood can function as either stone OR wood in construction and crafting.

Meatspire - A "tree" composed of flesh and bone for evil biomes. Meatspire bone can be used as wood. The meat is edible. Its presence makes your dwarves uneasy for obvious reasons.

Giggleleaf - (not sure if this is possible) A rare talking tree for good biomes, which will interact with passersby as a legendary-grade comedian. Great place to build a tavern! It screams when cut down, which traumatises anyone nearby. Its wood is extremely valuable, though, especially if used to craft an instrument or toy!

Weepleaf - A tree that occasionally rains watery sap from its branches (behaves identical to salt water). Its wood is both fireproof and waterproof.

Woodwarden - A very durable tree that turns into a hostile treant if another tree is cut down within its vicinity. Turns into wood upon death, which can be used by carpenters to create especially sturdy armour.

Miner's Noose - A tough little tree that sprouts all over the place. Creates huge tangles of roots underground that are tough to mine through.

Yggdrasill Sapling - (This is 100% impossible to accomplish with current modding tools, but its fun to dream) A rare massive tree found only in the deepest forests. Woodworkers can be directed to carve stairs and rooms into it as though it were made of stone, allowing a fort to be constructed up amongst its wide branches.
Last edited by Stogie; 24 Dec, 2022 @ 11:55am
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Wyntr Stardust  [developer] 20 Dec, 2022 @ 1:03pm 
Nice ideas!
Stogie 24 Dec, 2022 @ 11:41am 
Originally posted by WintersKnight94:
Nice ideas!

Thanks! I will probably update this with more ideas as they occur to me, as you've somehow given me tree brain.
Flynt 24 Dec, 2022 @ 5:22pm 
Wheatwood Tree - Small, fast growing, dense trees (As in grow close together, if possible), only 1-2 tiles high. Drops 1-2 logs at most, kinda light weight. If let up, drops a type of pod used for harvesting wheat of some kind.

Fiberbranch / Cordwood / Spiderleaf Trees - Trees that, when felled, provide a type of wood that can be used to make a plant based thread of some kind; 1 log makes 2-3 thread? If left up to drop fruit, can use 3-4 of the "fruit" to make a spool of thread, or brew it into some very cheap, low quality booze. If going spider flavor, sometimes spawns some kind of spider when chopped down?

Faux Nestwood (Unlikely to be a thing you can mod in with current mods) - A tree that attacks birds or anything else that gets up into its branches, but doesn't attack at ground level.
Wyntr Stardust  [developer] 8 Jan, 2023 @ 12:18am 
Added bleeding birch and dwarfwood, though im still tweaking them.
going to add your 'miner's noose' idea next, but i might change its name.
'miner's noose logs' doesnt roll off the tongue very well, despite me loving the idea.
and
"+Detailed+ Miner's Noose Log Floor" is a laughable mouthfull ^_^
Wyntr Stardust  [developer] 8 Jan, 2023 @ 12:19am 
also, i like Flynt's idea of a fiber-bearing tree, but i think im gonna call it something more like "Wickwood"
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