Special Preparations for Treeplanting?

[Shask]

Hey, this is my first ever time I've branched (pun intended) out into treeplanting. Basically I used to live in a village and I can remember that the village owner did a special thing with his trees involving surrounding them with paving. Should this be done? Why? How do experienced players do their treeplanting?

[sabinati]

the pavement just makes it easier to place them in an offset grid with the right amount of spacing

[Tereth]

I use ctrl+l to measure. But maybe that's not the best way to do it

[jgudge]

I use ctrl+l to measure. But maybe that's not the best way to do it

ctrl L?

[DigDog]

Just make sure nothing can stunt your trees and everything is fine. Pick a nice layout (this works fine, for example) that makes sure your trees aren't stunting each other, put a personal claim on your trees to prevent animals spawning near them and build a fence around them to keep animals that spawned outside your personal claim from walking near them. Or a palisade if you're growing them outside of your village.

Also keep in mind that trees grow faster on their natural terrain. Firs grow fast on forest terrain but slow on grassland, for example.

[ramones]

Most of us probably has similar setting for trees

[Shask]

Thanks loads when you say stunted, is that permanent?

[DigDog]

I'm pretty sure it's permanent. Never bothered to actually try that out though.

[Shask]

My first tree I simply planted it in a space in the ground. Unclaimed, unfenced.
My second tree I planted and then surrounded it with paving. Claimed, unfenced.

I'll let you know what happens. Probably neither of them will grow. They're mulberry and it's on the Coniferous forest terrain which isn't native to it, too.

Next time I'll follow the advice in this thread

[Tereth]

I use ctrl+l to measure. But maybe that's not the best way to do it

ctrl L?

Yeah, you can measure out tiles. I think it was used to claim land at one point, but I use it to measure out in between trees.