Land Reclamation

[Demonius]

Playing on the new Morgana Planet I kinda first time realized that farms reclaim swamplands as agriculture lands over time. But how is it with forests? I don't think theres a deforestation option yet, or am I missing a technology and never played long enough to get it? Or wouldn't that be a thing that farmers might do, remove forests and heavy forests over time that obstruct their field expansions?

[Maerchen]

Agriculture transforms everything but ruins, mountains, hills.

[newageofpower]

Vs forests/jungles it does a check against the defense value of the local flora, which is indicated either during planetgen and reports -> xenobiology

Higher defense value = longer time to terraform to agricultural

[scottrossi]

eventually, you can have vast regions of just agricultural fields, hills and mountains. it takes time but in some of the long games i've played, i had almost no forest in my core regions, and in major AI regions.

[Demonius]

But does it affect rocky, sandy or clay plains as well?

[newageofpower]

ORIGINAL: Demonius

But does it affect rocky, sandy or clay plains as well?

IIRC only regions with more than 0 rain, and the drier they are the longer (on average) it takes to terraform.

Remember, this is RNG empire, where everything is rolled. So normally a farm surrounded by grassy plains has 25% chance to terraform a plains hex each turn...

Something with 1 rain then probably has an additional 1/256 chance of transforming to agricultural hex.