vatas wrote: Only real reason for marking I can think of is the concern that somebody gathering lumber will chop it down just by sheer chance but I would assume 99% time ti has the opposite effect, attracting more griefer-minded passer-by to chop the tree down.
I'm assuming as much as this, or in the cases of the ones I saw (on a claim still drying), someone figured "if I can't share it, then nobody is going to get it."
At least with the runestone, yeah, you can move it around, and if everyone moves the runestone randomly, odds of it actually being next to the "real tree" is slim. If you claim a nature spirit (tree or rock), you KNOW it's that one, especially if it's a tree or rock that can't be moved.
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