It’s Chopping Time moves the chopping from clicks to cursor placement

The axe input in It’s Chopping Time is a place to put the cursor. The developer says hovering over trees chops them automatically, with no need to click. The incremental loop begins with selecting where the pointer stays.

Nature powers use that same input in another place. Their points of interest appear, and hovering the corresponding point activates the force. The advertised earthquakes, sunbeams and storms therefore create a reason to move away from a tree; they are not described as another set of buttons to mash. Their appearance rate and exact effects are not documented well enough here to propose an optimal route across the island.

Money and colored wood logs buy permanent skill-tree upgrades. That gives the resources a later use while keeping the immediate input distinct: collect through hovering, then decide what to unlock. No individual upgrade effect is named in the source, so the tree’s size should not substitute for an example of a tested build.

There is also a concrete presentation option to inspect before settling into the loop: wave movement can be normal, gentle or flat. If repeated clicking is what you would rather remove from an incremental game, the hover rule is the clearer attraction. Consider whether moving and parking the pointer is the kind of attention you want to give this island.