Utility question: does anyone know of a dfhack plugin or utility which can automate tree farming?
What I'm after is a way to designate an area for tree-cutting each month without user input, to allow for a longer fortress timespan without any user input (auto-plant gathering would be a nice bonus). My goal is to generate a young world, build and set up by the year 10, and then leave the fort running for so long that there is nothing else left alive in the world.
There are a fair few tools that can help keep the fortress running relatively normally (eg autolabor, autobutcher, workflow), but all of these require raw materials from somewhere. I've worked out how to automate indefinite production of items made of green glass, metals, and fire clay, but I need a zero-input source of wood if I want to avoid the gain-from-smelt trick with metals (for bins, armor, etc.) I know metal is more dwarfy, but I want an immortal fortress with as little cheating as possible - and I have this image of totally insane dwarves waiting in the dark for the world to die, even willing to emulate elves if it means they can outlive every other race and flood the world with lava at the end of time...
Sadly nothing like this seems to exist (please prove me wrong!) - surely someone has created a tool for such a trivial task?