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Uzu Bash

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lifeless cavern
« on: November 06, 2010, 04:18:01 pm »

The second cavern floor is covered in mud, but there's no life whatsoever; none of the trees or herbs that are growing in first and third cavern. I'd poured water down a passage I dug that direction, and much of it leaked out onto the floor there. There are caps and plants growing all along that passage, which goes the same depth as that floor and deeper, but still nothing is growing in the cavern that was drenched.

What would be the cause of this? Some kind of vermin? Toxic gasses or disease?
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Quietust

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Re: lifeless cavern
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2010, 06:47:02 pm »

What would be the cause of this?

Bad luck - if a cavern layer doesn't contain any water, it will be devoid of life (though, oddly, not mud).
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Uzu Bash

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Re: lifeless cavern
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2010, 07:28:06 pm »

Mystery solved; thanks. I was expecting something far worse. Will farming still be possible there?
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JacenHanLovesLegos

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Re: lifeless cavern
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2010, 07:31:48 pm »

Yes.
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As it turns out, the pen was in fact a poor choice for melee combat in comparison to the sword.
So I just started playing this game and I accidentally nuked the moon.