Soil depletion

[YourLottery 4]

I've noticed that growing trees depletes the soil underneath, eventually turning it to sand. Is there a way of fertilizing or otherwise restoring soil?

[valkupo 17]

It does? That's freaking cool! I do hope there's a way for reversal though. Maybe at least prevention or a way to slow it down.

[numb162 1]

this has happened to me, but it only seems to happen in desert biomes. have you tried it in any other biome? that could be your problem

[Icarus42 4]

I couldnt figure out why a few trees kept doing that for me in my tree farm, now it makes sense. I was on the edge of a desert biome. I think that's awesome if it was meant to be like that, I hope peat will be used to fertilize the soil.

[RogueHydra 32]

I believe you're right. I noticed that over time, placing dirt from one biome into another will change the dirt type (as for the color representing what stone is beneath the dirt, the dirt will change to match the biome it's in).

[YourLottery 4]

this has happened to me, but it only seems to happen in desert biomes. have you tried it in any other biome? that could be your problem

I noticed it in a desert river biome, underground. But I think I've seen the dirt change color when planting trees in the adjacent grassland too. I've also noticed sometimes planting a sapling kills the grass underneath, sometimes it doesn't (and sometimes when chopping a tree there is grass under the trunk, sometimes there isn't).

[letalhell 8]

When I chopp a tree and there isn't grass undernearth it, the tree doesn't chopp enterily, it just chopp the block that i was aiming. I think this is a bug.