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TL;DR

I’ve planted many trees to make my base more beautiful and natural-looking, but it's frustrating to watch them all become lifeless, even though I’ve worked hard to make the factory clean.

What?

I propose that trees grown from higher-quality saplings should be more resistant to pollution - ideally, trees from perfect-quality saplings would be completely immune and never turn dead.

Optional idea:

Let construction bots replace dead / slighty dead trees with new saplings

This would

Add meaningful value to sapling quality (currently it's unused),

Encourage more eco-friendly base designs,

Provide a beautiful and interactive incentive to optimize for low pollution,

Make bases in late game more satisfying to design visually.