Forest

**Forest** in *Kingdom* is an area between two trees on the foreground far enough from each other to form a grove on the background. These areas can be commonly found outside of the Kingdom and make up the majority of unexplored lands.

## Dangerous place

Forests outside the Kingdom are typically dangerous places for several reasons:

* Forests are dark even during the day. This causes you to lose the sense of the period of the day, and combined with the dense vegetation, it makes any incoming Greed more difficult to spot.
* Forests have a mossy ground, not edible for mounts. Without grass most mounts cannot recharge stamina, being forced to stop galloping and walk.
* Mounts have a slower gallop in there, save for the stag and the beetle.
* Constructions cannot be conducted in a woodland.
* The further into the forest, the farther from the safety of town.
* Hunters won't venture themselves into the woods, except if there's an outer wall on the other side.

In short, it is risky exploring forest areas, especially if beyond small portals past noon. When chased by monsters in the forest, a monarch with no coins and an exhausted steed will most likely lose the Crown.

## Wildlife and hunting

*Main article: Wildlife.*
 *Kingdom: New Lands* –
Deer appear in the forest during all seasons except winter.

 *Kingdom Two Crowns* –
Deer appear in the woods all year round, but with a much lower frequency on wintertime.
Additionally, a single mother boar appears somewhere in woodland during the cold season.
In Norse Lands, instead of deer, mooses populate the boscages.

## Tree and deforestation

#Tree  #Fell  #Deforest

**Tree** is the basic structural unit of a forest.

Forests can be shrunk and even completely wiped out, but only the few trees at the left and right borders of the forest area can be removed at a time. How deep are these "borders" it's usually up to a point where the sunlight can still illuminate the environment. When these trees at the border have fell, the forest in the background foliage will gradually disappear, allowing more trees to be removed.

Trees can be cut down by builders if marked with one coin, after which an "X" marking will appear carved in the tree's trunk.
After a builder fells the tree, it will disappear, and the builder will earn a couple of coins that they return to the Monarch.
*(See the table for the precise number of coins each tree can generate, along how many hits are required to cut them down.)*

 *Kingdom: Classic* – Builders return only two coins, even after collecting more.

Once the sky is clearly seen in the background that area of land is then designated part of the plains biome, allowing construction of walls, archer towers, and farms, and grass patches begin to expand along it.

Builders will not cut down trees if located too close to or behind a small portal but will however go out right after it is destroyed leaving them vulnerable to the counterattack wave if the wave comes from that side and the marked trees are far from the walls.

## Forest structures

Structures that may occur naturally in the forest include:

## Vanishing structures

Merchant settlement and vagrant camps will disappear once either of the nearest tree west or east of it has been cut. If the Monarch is attempting to recruit as many citizens as possible, it is best not to tear down trees next to camps as this will remove said camps. No other type of structure will ever disappear due to deforestation.

 *Kingdom Two Crowns* – Monarchs have the option to build a citizen house in the place of a vanished vagrant camp.

## Buildable spots

Forests do contain boulders, streams, and dirt mounds, but they are unavailable for construction upon until the Monarch orders the area to be deforested by builders.

Teleporters can be built on top of small portal's remains, while the teleporter permanent link can be built on any empty space (on top of bridges, for example).

Shops for weapons like the forge may appear on empty spaces inside a forest if an outer wall has been built beyond that forest portion, making it part of the Kingdom.

## No clearings

*This section is about New Lands & Two Crowns.*

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A forest with no clearings is a woodland that extends, uninterruptedly, without a single patch of plain, from the town center surroundings up to one of the island extremities, either to the cliff or to the dock portal.

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Sometimes RNG will give me an island with a forest from my settlement all the way to the cliff/dock portal. These often have vagrant camps near my settlement, meaning I can't clear them from my side (or else put myself in an unwinnable state), but clearing them from the other side involves a trek for my workers over a day long.
This sometimes can happen due to the random land layout generation.
This type of forest is known to impose certain difficulties while expanding the kingdom boundaries.
There's nothing players can do to avoid it.
And there's very little they can do to adapt to it.
One of the issues a forest with no gaps can cause is that it leaves Monarchs with only two options while expanding:

* Monarchs can start deforesting from the town, and plough through the entire forest, until they have enough space inside the kingdom to allow shops like the siege workshop and the forge to appear, or until they can build an outer wall from where it would be safe to launch assaults to the cliff or dock portals.

This certainly is the most obvious decision, but it could cause a Merchant settlement to vanish, or even worse, make one or more vagrant camps to disappear. So the bad consequences of this option would lead players to consider a second one, less evident:

* Monarchs can start deforesting from one of the extremities of the island, all the way to a point where it's safe to build the first outer wall—away from the town—on that side of the island.

For players with average experience this can be easily done on the first and second islands. For well experienced players it can be done with some planning on the third island. But on the fourth and fifth island this is extremely tricky, if not impossible, particularly in *Two Crowns* where islands are much larger.

## In *Two Crowns*

*This section is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*
Islands are visibly larger in *Kingdom Two Crowns* if compared to the lands in the previous titles.
Forests with no clearings are very common.
Depending on the size of the land, and on some mobility factors, like the available mount and teleporters, some of these forests cannot be deforested from the extremity of the island, even if taking advantage of recovery days after Blood Moons.
The only way to deal with them is to cut down all trees starting from town, destroying the vagrant camps on that side, and maybe replacing them with citizen houses.

The strategic decision in those cases isn't if the camps should be demolished, but when they should be.
If camps are removed too early, the Kingdom might not have enough income to recruit people from citizen houses.
Well structured Kingdoms without a robust workforce are nothing more than sand castles that will eventually be swept by the waves.
And if the expansion is done too late, that side of the Kingdom might also become vunerable to waves for the lack of extra walls, outside towers, a siege workshop (for catapults and fire barrels), a dojo (for ninjas), a pike stand (for pikemen), or a potion vendor (for berserkers), depending on the setting.

## Achievements

Clearing a huge section of woodland (the entire island in *Two Crowns*) grants the achievements:

* "By the Seventh Day I Cleared an Acre" in *Kingdom: Classic*
* "By the Seventh Day I Cleared an Acre" in *New Lands*
* "Easter Island" in *Two Crowns*.

## Gallery

A coint chest in the ruinsThe kirin in ShogunSome deer following a stagChristmas tree in *New Lands*

## References

1. ↑ Boscage, woodland, or woods.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Now 90% it's just nonstop forest. *Steam*. 17 May 2021.
3. ↑ Game developer Alan Kertz on *Steam*. 19 May 2021.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 How do I deal with large forests?, asked player Malidictus. 6 January 2021.
5. ↑ **“***Sounds like the new save didn't create a pure new level config. Try starting in a different save slot if possible?***”**—Developer Gordon on *Reddit*. 17 May 2021.
6. ↑ **“***There was a big overhaul to the parallax system, unfortunately some older saves will shuffle background sprites to the game layer. Try loading a new campaign or Challenge Island to see if it still happens.***”**—Developer Gordon on *Steam*. 21 April 2021.