Most excellent! Gore for all!
Are plants able to be harvested at different stages in their growth cycle? Can a plant have multiple products produced from gathering them this way?
The raws posted for the artichoke suggest that this will probably be the case - the HEART growth has [GROWTH_TIMING:0:59999], and the FLOWERS growth has [GROWTH_TIMING:60000:119999], which would simulate the edible heart turning into an edible flower (which is what actually happens).
I never got why they consider mushrooms trees.
A lack of molecular biologists, perhaps?
Could be. Elves don't seem to be all that bright in general.
Case in point:
Wood > furnace > coal > smelter > smelt iron > repeat > forge > forge iron bars > pickaxe > mine rock
"We love rocks! We know for certain you didn't harm any trees to obtain it. Give us all your mugs!"
Everyone knows that pickaxes and anvils grow on underground tree mushrooms. Dwarves are saying that, and dwarves never lie, right?
As far as the Elves are concerned, you powered your furnaces with either coke or magma, and they're perfectly fine with that (even in the old 2D versions, Elves were explicitly offended by
charcoal and didn't care about
coke smelted from bituminous coal, even though you used charcoal at some point to start the production line).