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[BLitZ]

You can also try making all of your water courses 2 wide because toady has go tin it so that trees tower caps included_verify wont grow next to each other.

[Ashery]

You can also try making all of your water courses 2 wide because toady has go tin it so that trees tower caps included_verify wont grow next to each other.

Not true as I have two tower caps growing next to each other in my obsidian farm plumbing.

[Hyndis]

Just go with a paved road. Doesn't prevent the ground from getting muddy, but does prevent the growth of everything, both shrubs and trees. Below and above ground too.

[happydog23]

I did some testing on a fort of mine.... I had a few hundred young tower caps in an area full of hidden stone...

They will not reach maturity while there is stone on that square.... so all that hauling of stone I did so that I could build things to keep trees from going was somewhat counter productive...  Oh well... I still like to minimize loose stone.

If those rocks ever move though, the tree will instantly be full grown.

[Aspgren]

If those rocks ever move though, the tree will instantly be full grown.

Good thing that rocks can't be moved by the water current then. This is pretty useful.

If you, like me, dig a 1x1 channel under each well (that's what i called the cistern) it's a chore to go down there and remove any tower cap that sprouts and messes up the well. Can't go down and pave the floor either so just pop a stone down there and the problem is solved  great!

[Skorpion]

It WILL grow. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying. I've seen it happen.

It's not a matter of anyone telling me anything.  It's a matter of having some fairly complex water-driven machinery involving literally hundreds of tiles of drainage channels covered with constructed floors.  Intermittent water flow makes them muddy, but I've never once seen so much as a shrub grown on them.  And yes, I have an underground river on site, and rough cavern floor that isn't covered with anything that gets muddy fairly quickly has plants grow on it.

Tower-caps will grown on smoothed rock floor.  Maybe that's what you saw?

I've seen them grow on floors constructed over soil.

[Quietust]

Paved roads are actually an extra-special case when it comes to preventing tree growth - they not only prevent tower-caps from maturing, but they will also periodically destroy any shrubs or saplings underneath them (as part of their logic which also resets any ore floors to the default layer stone).

Alternatively, if you're not averse to being cheap, you can simply designate empty stockpiles on top of the desired tree-free areas and they'll prevent any existing young tower-caps from growing to full size. If, at some point, you decide that you want to drain and pave the area, you can then remove the stockpiles and observe as tons of tower-caps instantly grow to full size (and then cut them down before proceeding with the paving).