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I've been suffering from lag from too many tree farms in large Bob's Mods factories, so I created a small mod to fix the problem.

Decided to polish it up a bit and post it, since I can't be the only one having the problem.

There are many ways to fix tree farms, when it gets bad in new 0.12 me and my friend have few options. Fake tree farm, which looks like old treefarm eats pollution and craft a lot of wood piles at once with long timer, you can then put wood piles to sawmill for lot of wood and gains are similar to treefarm with similar time lag.

Option B. reduce amount of check treefarm uses and increase chances for growth. So make treefarm 10x slower but 10x higher chance to grow. But probably first option is best.

Of course there is also Option C. Either don't use treefarm, or keep it for early game, then switch your production to Synthetic wood from Heavy oil instead. Can even make Heavy oil from Coal too to keep the complexity of managing multiple fluids down, so you're effectively replacing wood with coal.

Can you even make lot of wood from it? I play scalar mod too so i require tons of wood.

cpy wrote:Can you even make lot of wood from it? I play scalar mod too so i require tons of wood.

Just edit prototypes/recipe.lua and adjust the "gh-logs" recipe to what you need. energy_required is the crafting time, and ingredients and result_count should be self explanatory.

Personally I'd vote for this mod to replace the original requirement for treefarm presence.
It gets problematic at 4-5 farms and when you reach 9 it can get nasty.

I was always replacing it with synthetic wood - that needs lots of oil and that "worse" recipe that nets more heavy oil would help a lot.

orzelek wrote:that "worse" recipe that nets more heavy oil would help a lot.

thats what I forgot to add