🌲 Automatic Forestry Designations — Vehicle Ordering & Truck Pooling

We’re excited to announce two major quality-of-life features for Kayser's Automatic Forestry Designations: Vehicle Ordering and Truck Pooling!

Together, these features transform how you manage forestry logistics, allowing you to expand your logging fleet with a single click and keep your tree harvesters working at peak efficiency without constant micro-management.

🏗️ Vehicle Ordering — Direct Construction from Towers

No more manually searching for an open Vehicle Depot every time your logging operation needs another tree harvester or planter!

• One-Click Ordering: Order vehicle construction directly from the Forestry Tower’s vehicle assignment section.
• Smart Depot Selection: Automatically selects the nearest eligible Vehicle Depot to build your requested vehicle.
• Pre-Assignment: Ordered vehicles are reserved for the tower during construction and automatically assign themselves the moment they roll off the assembly line.
• Depot Highlighting & Shortcuts: View enqueued vehicle progress with gold card highlights, pan directly to the building depot, or use Shift + Alt + Click to quickly order or cancel vehicles without confirmation prompts.

🚚 Truck Pooling — Automated Fleet Balancing

Managing vehicle assignments across individual tree harvesters in a large forestry sector can quickly become tedious. Truck Pooling centralizes vehicle management at the Forestry Tower level.

• Tower-Level Fleet Management: Assign vehicles directly to the Forestry Tower. The mod virtually pools all assigned trucks and dynamically distributes them among active tree harvesters.
• Smart Rebalancing: Allocation priority automatically favors larger harvesters and higher-capacity vehicles.
• Dynamic & Seamless: Pausing, unpausing, or modifying harvesters instantly triggers a stability-preserving rebalance without disrupting active logging work.
• Clear Harvester Feedback: Manual + and - buttons on individual harvester inspectors work as normal, but feature amber warning tooltips reminding you that Truck Pooling is enabled and assigned trucks may be immediately redistributed by the tower.
• Fully Configurable & Persistent: Toggle Truck Pooling on or off per tower or globally in Mod Settings. All settings persist seamlessly in your save file.

💾 Save Compatibility & Open Source

As with all AFD features, these additions are 100% compatible with existing saves, require no new game, and can be added or removed at any time.

Chop away!

🌲 Kayser's Automatic Forestry Designations v0.1.5

Persistence is a virtue!

This is a follow-up release for AFD's Forestry information panel and per-tower controls, focused on making forestry towers remember what you told them, making the tree overview easier to read, and making the growth chart actually useful while managing harvests.

The short version: per-tower settings now persist through save/load, the Forestry information panel looks more like a native CoI panel, and the growth breakdown can highlight and mark trees directly from the chart.

💾 Persistent Tower Settings

AFD now saves per-tower Forestry designations settings with the vanilla save file using CoI AutoHelpers JSON state storage. That means tower-specific options and panel states survive quit/reload.

The saved state is intentionally compact: AFD stores only values that differ from the current global defaults.

📊 Better Forestry Information Panel

The Forestry information panel has had a visual pass so it feels less like a prototype and more like part of the game:

• Cards now use a speckled panel background texture with a subtle tint to better match the game's panel style.
• The growth breakdown bar has cleaner alignment, a clearer border, and improved spacing.
• The Trees KPI now uses a live green display box that refreshes the current managed-tree count while the inspector is open.

The Trees tooltip also now makes the two numbers clearer: the first number is the live count of current managed trees, and the second is the estimated capacity based on valid planting positions.

🪓 Interactive Growth Stages

The growth distribution bar is now more than a passive chart.

Hover a growth-stage segment to highlight the corresponding trees in the world. The highlight uses a brighter tint of that segment's own colour, so the link between the chart and the actual forest is easier to read.

Click a segment to mark or unmark those highlighted trees for harvest. AFD also opens the Tree harvesting overlay so the affected trees are visible, then hides the overlay again when the inspector closes.

The segment tooltips have been cleaned up too:

• growth brackets now have names like Young, Growing, Maturing, and Fully mature
• tooltip text is split into clearer lines
• harvest-threshold wording is shorter
• hover/click instructions are localized

Screenshot displaying the new interactive bracket with hover highlight, click-to-designate, and cleaner tooltip.

🌐 UI Wording and Localization

Portuguese translation has been added.

Several English labels were adjusted toward vanilla-style sentence case:

• Only fertile tiles is now Fertile tiles only.
• Only reachable tiles is now Reachable tiles only.
• Max tiles is now Maximum number of designations.

Localized strings and tooltips were updated to match across the included languages.

📦 Compatibility

AFD remains compatible with existing saves and does not require starting a new game.

The new per-tower state is save-backed and stored through vanilla save data. Existing global settings continue to work as before.

Thanks to everyone testing the Forestry information panel in real saves. v0.1.5 is a "make the overview earn its place in the inspector" release: less forgetting, clearer tree data, and faster harvest decisions from the chart itself.