Trees are objects on the level that contain wood for braves to chop down. Trees can hold from one peice of wood to four peices of wood.

Trees grow one more piece of wood every 68 seconds (they will not grow if they have the maximum ammount of 4 piles though). However, if the trees are completly cut down, it will only grow back after 330 seconds, which is roughly 5 times slower.

To avoid this, players usually harvest (farm) so that they have plenty of wood quicker - and to avoid times when there are no trees at all. Harvesting is specially needed in levels with few trees, and it used online quite alot. In multiplayer, if a level has few trees, players will fight for them, so be warned: save your own trees and try to steal or destroy the enemy's ones!

Only braves can carry wood, but a spy can be sent to burn a tree. It some levels, it is recomendable to place building plans carefully, avoiding building above trees. This is because when a plan is above trees, the braves will have to chop down any tree completly so they can build there. Don't forget that, unlike other games, trees are the only physical resource in Populous - the other resource is mana.

When a brave is sent to chop a tree (manually or as he is building) but that tree is not reachable for any reason (could be in a stel hill, or in another island) he will turn idle and place his hand up. After some time, that brave will start losing health points and eventually dies, unless you move it. This happens quit alot in online gaming, so pay attention to non reachable neaby trees.

On a particular funny note, all trees in the single player have 4 wood piles except for some trees on level 25 - those trees have 8 wood piles. This happens because there are two trees - one above the other - on the same spot.