You can use your weapons to clear them out.

Dec 23, The fastest and easiest way to clear trees is with a Poison Capsule, which I typically set up for manufacture. They'll clear trees in a very clear trees with drones factorio radius; toss and wait. Very little player interaction involved.

The recipe comes from Military 3, whose cost includes 50 blue potions. Grenades and shotguns will also clear trees; they are more time. Apr 11, Factorio > New Players & Game Help Drones are the fastest. you can clear enitre forests with the click of one button. #8. Captain Tenneal. Apr 12, @ am Depends if you want wood in your inventory or not.

Destroying the trees avoids this but you can use any extra wood from harvesting them to fuel things like boilers and such. If the bots just sat there, they had nowhere to put the deconstructable items (trees/rocks) probably because your personal inventory was full. SHIFT-click with Blueprints should always clear stuff, if your build area is in range of Roboports/personal-roboports. Seems like you changed something internally and if its not possible anymore that's ok.

Just asking since it was really nice on maps with a lot of trees. Really enjoy your mods! Hi, sorry the mod is so much simpler without handling the mining of trees, and only dealing with resource entities. May 14, Ailure wrote:I forgot how deep in the tech tree it is, but the tank is wonderful for clearing out trees and is what I used at the point when I did need to clear them stumpcut.bar do token damage to the tank, but it's so small that I could drive through a big forest without worry.

Edit: It's a early-midgame tech, requires science pack 3 but isn't too deep in the tech tree if you beeline for it (it Missing: drones.