--- key: mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets type: mechanic id: game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets lang: en title: Cutting down trees with bullets summary: Sufficient gunfire damage to a trunk makes a tree fall. updatedAt: '2026-10-22' status: active url: >- https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/ jsonUrl: >- https://gamemechanics.pro/api/v1/knowledge/en/mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets.json markdownUrl: >- https://gamemechanics.pro/content/knowledge/en/mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets.md aliases: - Fell trees with gunfire tags: - Game design techniques - Destruction - Environmental traces - Satisfying sourceIds: - source-63c510eb3f8dd7dd - source-b979e769e14b8977 - source-cff58c28c1ea31ce - source-0835dd664889e4de sources: - id: source-63c510eb3f8dd7dd title: 'Game Mechanics: Cutting down trees with bullets' url: 'https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets' verifiedAt: null - id: source-b979e769e14b8977 title: Crysis (2007) url: >- https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/crysis verifiedAt: null - id: source-cff58c28c1ea31ce title: 'Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008)' url: >- https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/mercenaries-2-world-in-flames verifiedAt: null - id: source-0835dd664889e4de title: Enlisted (2024) url: >- https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/enlisted verifiedAt: null relations: [] placements: - catalogId: game-mechanics id: gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets title: Game design techniques url: >- https://gamemechanics.pro/en/mechanics/game-mechanics/#gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets categoryIds: - gm-category-destruction - gm-category-satisfying - gm-category-environmental-traces supersededBy: [] attributes: preview: updatedAt: '2026-10-22' title: Fell trees with gunfire description: Sufficient gunfire damage to a trunk makes a tree fall. image: src: images/mechanics/world-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets.webp width: 460 height: 282 game: Crysis sourceUrl: 'https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets' originalUrl: 'https://cdn.gamemechanics.org/webm/crysis_forest.webm' sourceFrameSeconds: 1.3 credit: Crytek; frame from clip via GameMechanics.org rights: >- Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Source host: GameMechanics.org. Visible source watermarks preserved. All rights reserved; excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0. caption: Shooting a palm trunk alt: >- The Crysis sight is aimed at a palm trunk, with dust and sparks around the impact point. markers: - x: 51 'y': 40 label: Hits damage the tree trunk tips: - Check falling-tree collisions and changes to available routes. examples: - title: Crysis url: 'https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets' endsAt: null provenance: >- Editorial reference index based on the 199 public Game Mechanics pattern pages checked on 2026-10-20. Original concise RU/EN definitions by gamemechanics.pro; pattern names, category associations and game-reference URLs retained from gamemechanics.org. The source gallery includes a film analogy. Linked materials retain their original rights; references are upstream attributions, not independent verification. license: CC-BY-4.0 codeLicense: MIT attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors catalogKey: catalog/game-mechanics --- # Cutting down trees with bullets id: game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets type: mechanic key: mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets lang: en status: active url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/ Sufficient gunfire damage to a trunk makes a tree fall. ## At a glance ![The Crysis sight is aimed at a palm trunk, with dust and sparks around the impact point.](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/world-cutting-down-trees-with-bullets.webp) [Crysis](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Source host: GameMechanics.org. Visible source watermarks preserved. All rights reserved; excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0. [Source recording](https://cdn.gamemechanics.org/webm/crysis_forest.webm), 1.3 s 1. Hits damage the tree trunk - Check falling-tree collisions and changes to available routes. - [Crysis](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets) ## How it works Sufficient gunfire damage to a trunk makes a tree fall. ## Variants ### How the technique works - Sufficient gunfire damage to a trunk makes a tree fall. ## Context and limits All 199 Game Mechanics entries at the check date: player actions, systems, presentation techniques and contested patterns. Entries are grouped by their first source-card category; all categories appear in their descriptions. Definitions use original wording. References link to game-specific galleries; images and videos remain at the source. ## Connected materials ## Sources and provenance Editorial reference index based on the 199 public Game Mechanics pattern pages checked on 2026-10-20. Original concise RU/EN definitions by gamemechanics.pro; pattern names, category associations and game-reference URLs retained from gamemechanics.org. The source gallery includes a film analogy. Linked materials retain their original rights; references are upstream attributions, not independent verification. - [Game Mechanics: Cutting down trees with bullets](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets) (id: source-63c510eb3f8dd7dd) - [Crysis (2007)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/crysis) (id: source-b979e769e14b8977) - [Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/mercenaries-2-world-in-flames) (id: source-cff58c28c1ea31ce) - [Enlisted (2024)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/cutting-down-trees-with-bullets/game/enlisted) (id: source-0835dd664889e4de) CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors