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The new trade union items for orchards that reduce the amount of forest that you need don't seem to be working correctly: Hand Pollination Method, Get Rich Quick Volume I, & Optimized Pruning. The total amount of Forest Density effect is +60%, and the total extra productivity is +55%. The total forest density change is therefore the same as it is for the items that that affect Wood and Charcoal in the Old World: Teutonic Technical Secateurs, Druid's Sickle, Industrial Thresher. The footprint of an Orchard is the same as the footprint of a Lumberjack's hut.
I therefore expected that a layout of 20 tightly packed Lumberjack's Huts around a single Trade Union that works in the Old World with every Hut working at 100% base efficiency could also be used for 20 Orchards. However, this isn't the case. I find that several of the Orchards have Base Efficiencies well under 100%.
Has anybody else tried this yet?
