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[Neowulf]

I've got a saved fortress made completely from gathered clay. I did add some custom reactions to make a few things moody dwarves desire (screw pressed mudstone and rough quartz, plus clay/glass/wood mechanisms), but it's entirely constructed without mining out a single tile.
And holy frick does it take a long time to build living space for even a measly 50 dwarves...

Anyway, yeah, wood logs should be processable into multiple boards (blocks) so it doesn't take deforesting your entire jungle embark to make a small house.

[Reelyanoob]

You know, with some AHK and tweak's tile-edit, possibly could hack that tree-house sort of thing into existence on a map

[Eктωρ]

I'm thinking about modding this in, not the tree house but, I could go to the raws, add an object called wood plank, so 1 log -> 5 planks, and the log itself would be useless to anything but construction. I know what to do, go to the object raw, find the wood logs and mod them, then add the planks and a reaction at the carpenter (or make a new carpenter as I don't know if you can add reactions to a workshop), and make the wood item use planks instead of logs. It would take a lot of work, and I have no idea of what I should change especiafically.'

[Iapetus]

Oh, one thing I just thought of. While the trees in this game do produce unrealistically small amounts of wood, they also grow unrealistically fast, often maturing in under a year (IIRC), so it all balances out.

I think of the trees in DF as types of bamboo: low and fast-growing.

Alternatively, think of them as being coppiced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppice
(tl; dr: some trees, if cut down near ground level, will rapidly regrow lots of small branches, which can be harvested regularly).

[Reelyanoob]

I'm thinking about modding this in, not the tree house but, I could go to the raws, add an object called wood plank, so 1 log -> 5 planks

Ummm...Lumber Mill modz

Already exist.