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[JacenHanLovesLegos]

My civilization has ABSOLUTLY NO PLUMP HELMETS! I'm not so much mad as dissapointed. I plant sweet pods and cave wheat most of the year anyway. But no plump helmets! These are not dwarves, they are elves! I shall teach them how a real dwa- Oh wait I'm buildng an aboveground fortress.

[Sphalerite]

Did you mod your world creation parameters to eliminate the caverns?  Doing so causes plump helmets (and other underground crops) to be unavailable.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

No, I changed it to have one cavern. I still can bring sweet pods and quarry bushes and cave wheat along. Plus other underground crops.

[twilightdusk]

That's quite strange. Well, if you're doing an above ground fortress you'd want to use mainly above ground crops right?

[Quietust]

Occasionally, certain environments capable of supporting a plant will fail to have any of the plant present - for example, you might have a level 3 cavern devoid of nether-caps (happened to me personally) or a level 1 cavern without any plump helmets (also happened to me in the same fort), which is clearly what's happened to you. This also happened in previous versions - in one fortress I ran in 40d that had an underground river, there were never any plump helmet shrubs growing in my tower-cap farm.

[rephikul]

I can confirm this can happen from time to time, especially when you only have 1 cavern layer

[Particleman]

This has happened to me a couple times. In one world the only underground plants I had were tunnel tubes. No other underground trees, no plump helmets, no quarry bushes, just tunnel tubes.

[martinuzz]

Sounds cool. More room on the dwarven caravan to bring goods less useless than plump helmets

[Musashi]

Indeed, haven't found a single nether-cap yet despite having breached all cavern layers. The same way, I believe my previous fortress was completely oblivious to the existence of blood-thorn.

[UristMcDwarf]

My dwarfs live on bare minimum and a bunch of statues.

EAT PLUMP HELMETS! NO? STARVE! NO BEDROOM FOR YOU! GET IN THE DORMS OR SLEEP IN THE MUD!

[cog disso]

There are no Plump Helmets in the Champagne Room.

[Funtimes]

But do you have edible plump helmet men?

[RedWick]

I changed one world to only have two cavern layers, and I wound up genning a world that had no underground crops present.  Didn't play in that world very long.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

That's quite strange. Well, if you're doing an above ground fortress you'd want to use mainly above ground crops right?

Yeah, but I'm using underground plants to jumpstart my fortress. Also, I only did one cavern layer to increase FPS and get rid of excess z-levels. It worked, too. 20-30 FPS embark to 60-100. I mean, what good is an underground area for when you're doing an aboveground fort? Basements? Also, I've had cavern layers with nothing. Nothing at all. No trees, no shrubs. Just mud.