One wisp may construct a single building at a time.
You will likely want around six wisps actively harvesting wood in order to keep up your stores. Doing this, they extract wood without actually damaging the tree itself, which means it is impossible to ever run out of trees, or create gaps in your defense by over-harvesting. Wisps are able to gather wood, five at a time, by circling an individual tree. In addition to an additional mine this creates a sub-base that you can use in the same manner as your main base. You can entangle additional goldmines by moving your Wisps to one on the map, and using it to seed an additional Tree of Life. In order to entangle a mine, you must root your Tree of Life nearby. In order for a Wisp to collect gold from the mine, the mine must be “Entangled”. If you want to remove a Wisp from the mine, you select the mine, then click an individual Wisps from the unit pane at the bottom center of the interface. Up to five Wisps can collect from a goldmine at any given time.