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[Paul]

I recently realised that, with the new plant tokens, creating growable trees was possible. I tried this a long time ago but it didn't work well at the time. So, heres a mod that lets you grow trees in a farm.

It allows you to grow all tree types as plants, and then convert them to the appropriate wood + 2 seeds in the smelter. All tree-plants have appropriate (What I see as appropriate, anyway) colors, tiles, and seed names.

They all take 2 years to grow, so plant them early. Also note that the smelter reactions use 1 stack, so each tile you plant is effectively 1 tree no matter how good your growers are. I advise custom stockpiles that accept only the tree-plants and don't allow barrels, as smelters have problems detecting plants in barrels. You can still issue a manager order if they're in barrels, but you can't do it manually.

The trees only grow in appropriate biomes.
Trees by biome (some are in multiple biomes):

Temperate: Pine, Cedar, Oak, Maple, Willow, Larch, Chestnut, Alder, Birch, Ash
Tropical: Pine, Cedar, Mahogany, Acacia, Kapok, Willow, Candlenut, Mango, Rubber, Cacao, Palm
Wetland: Mangrove
Desert: Saguaro
Taiga: Larch
Underground: Tower-cap

The good/evil trees are growable in appropriately good/evil areas. Highwood (the Savage tree) seems to be growable anywhere, even though it has a [SAVAGE] tag. I guess that doesn't work for plants? Whip vines in the unmodified raws have the same issue.

Download the mod here.

[Mulch Diggums]

Ooooo....very cool. I'll download it after I get the new version.

[Deon]

Here comes the easy solution of the glacier problem .

[slink]

Has anyone gotten this mod to work? 

I was able to buy the seeds for the farmable trees from caravans, but they didn't come up as a choice on my aboveground farm plots.  I thought maybe it was because I had none of the plants on hand.  I tried harvesting every wild plant on my map and found none of the timber plants.  I also could not buy any.  When I checked the raws, I found that the frequency is set to 0, as is the cluster size.  At that point I made some plants by smelter reactions so I would have some of the plant on hand when I tried to plant the trees.  I still can't plant any of the seeds, though.

[sunshaker]

I don't use this mod but I do have a similar personal mod that works pretty much the same way. It probably has something to do with the Frequency and cluster size (I use Frequency 100 Cluster size 1) or with some syntax error I can't spot because I'm tired and need to go to bed.

It might also be Biome related or there is a some kind of bug that prevents you from growing certain plants until you see one (either purchased through the caravans or found growing wild).

[slink]

The biome statements match the ones for the trees, more or less.  Sometimes they are more general, as in ANY_TROPICAL rather than a specific tropical biome.  I have the real trees growing so I should have been able to grow the timber crop if it was going to work. 

I've now converted my timber plants back into logs and seeds, and I will probably just convert the smelter reactions to make seeds from seeds so I can cook acorns, chestnuts, and pine nuts for a lark.  It would have been nice to farm the trees, but changing the frequency and cluster size retroactively didn't seem to do anything.  I'm in the middle of building for a pyramid challange so I'm not going to regen the world right now. 

Heck, with all these non-obtainable plants I can even edit the display text and have squash seeds, celery seeds, and sesame seeds.