Often when gathering resources, mainly wood, routine is as follows, chop the tree down and then chop it again for resources. But very often after i have cut down the tree i cannot chop it again for some reason, the game targets things around it. I found a simple solution, that is to dig once with a pickaxe at the top of the tree, then one can chop it again. This is not gamebreaking, the temporary fix i have been doing works, it is rather an annoyance.