by Dondy » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:55 am
I don't think too many people will spend a lot of time deforesting to get interesting wood shavings. I can't say for sure. But you can cut down an awful lot of hard to replace trees without finding that interesting curl of wood shaving. In the same time you can definitely find an awful lot of renewable dandelions, ants, cone cow materials, wishbones, doll materials, toy boat materials and so on if you decide to look for them instead. And while you are out hunting for the dandelions you get to explore, interact with people, hunt, forage, get savaged by wild beasts and do all the other fun stuff that you don't get to do while wearily leaving a trail of lumber behind you.
I suppose the deforestation will depend upon the bot makers in this world. We'll have to wait and see.