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[ehertlein]

I have a room I dug into clay as a farm. Its a large 8x8 section, when it dug the final two spaces I noticed they were stone. I am not terribly interested is HUGE projects to get those floors muddy. Is there a way I can haul some water there to make them so? I learned that designating them as pond doesn't accomplish the task as there needs to be a channel or hole for that.

If not, I guess I can live with the missing farm space.

[Blucher]

I have a room I dug into clay as a farm. Its a large 8x8 section, when it dug the final two spaces I noticed they were stone. I am not terribly interested is HUGE projects to get those floors muddy. Is there a way I can haul some water there to make them so? I learned that designating them as pond doesn't accomplish the task as there needs to be a channel or hole for that.

If not, I guess I can live with the missing farm space.

Dig a channel in the ceiling above it and designate a pond there.  One or two buckets of water will probably be enough to muddy a few tiles.  Note that this probably won't help with subterranean crop farms if it's on the level just below the surface.  Once a tile has light on it, it's forever lit.  (Even if you floor over the hole in the ceiling.)

[Skyrage]

I have a room I dug into clay as a farm. Its a large 8x8 section, when it dug the final two spaces I noticed they were stone. I am not terribly interested is HUGE projects to get those floors muddy. Is there a way I can haul some water there to make them so? I learned that designating them as pond doesn't accomplish the task as there needs to be a channel or hole for that.

If not, I guess I can live with the missing farm space.

Dig a channel in the ceiling above it and designate a pond there.  One or two buckets of water will probably be enough to muddy a few tiles.  Note that this probably won't help with subterranean crop farms if it's on the level just below the surface.  Once a tile has light on it, it's forever lit.  (Even if you floor over the hole in the ceiling.)

That will probably be fixed when the lighting arc is introduced.

[ehertlein]

I guess I'll just leave them as rocky for now. Seems silly that I can't get a dwarf to dump some water on the floor.

[LegacyCWAL]

8x8 is pretty big.  2 missing tiles won't really hurt food production that much when you're that big.

[Pilsu]

If you dig it 2 z levels deep, you can build a staircase in the middle and floors to all directions to drop the water from

Only 1 tile wasted in the middle, put a statue in it or something

[Eater of Vermin]

I'd just assign those two squares as a seed stockpile to save a bit of haulage.  [shrug]

[ehertlein]

Thats not a bad idea at all. Shame that I can't designate the whole room as a farm and have it simply ignore those two squares. I seem to have to designate all around those 2 spots.

[LegacyCWAL]

You can position the plot over the existing tiles, it'll just ignore them and automatically cut them out of the designated area.

[ehertlein]

Ahhh... wonderful. Glad I posted here. I learned a lot.

[Exponent]

If you're willing to cheat, you can use my For Each Tile module that works with the Tweak utility.  You can place water (among other things, such as magma, blood, and pus) on any open tile, or even just directly mark the tile as muddy without bothering with water at all.  But like I said, it's clearly cheating, and I know that many prefer to avoid it.  In some cases, though, I can justify it to myself.  For example, like you said, a dwarf should be able to fill a bucket with water and dump it on the ground.  But since they can't, a little cheating can't hurt that much.  Your perception may vary.