along the same lines as @voxel_pirate’s response, we also have this, in regards to limited resources:
Are resources on the map finite, will we have to start a new game
because they’re exhausted? - Livestream - 18:10“I hope not, that’d be a horrible reason to restart a game … you
shouldn’t have to restart the game because you feel like you’ve made
bad choices … there’ll always be a way to find resources from
somewhere … dig deeper, trade, replant trees …”
and here’s an interesting topic, in case you wanted to weigh in on “all about trees”… 