I love Fulgora's music. And I enjoy reading about the challenge of making this awesome music that always has to be designed to not be too distracting to the player. How about this: When the music is finished, you take everything that is left on the cutting floor and build a few actual songs per plan...

You can also use wood in boilers to create steam for coal liquefaction or electricity to automate getting rid of it. ... I feel like a giant fool. My whole post is kinda invalid, YES, this is what I have overlooked. Wood isn't useless and you don't have play inefficiently on purpose or waste it on ...

Wood is a fuel. Burn it as such. Put it into your furnaces, your boilers, or as a last resort your vehicles. Yes, those are the options that I listed in my post. While you don’t want it to clog your logistics system, you can make use of that system to efficiently remove any wood you may have. Yeah,...

I guess there isn't a real (automated) use for wood, because there isn't an automated way to acquire wood and wood isn't growing back. This precisely. The game is about automation, so why would the devs include a required ingredient whose acquisition can't be automated? You seem to miss my point. I...

Edit: I didn't think of using wood to make steam for coal liquefaction. Wood has a use case and doesn't need to be destroyed on purpose, so my post can happily be ignored. tl/dr: What is the design thought behind the decision to not give players sensible and automated ways to use wood? Wood is an in...