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[awdball]

If I reclaim a section of ocean, then in the mud left behind I can build a farm but it complains that there are no valid seeds. I have lots of overlander seeds of every type available (through many years of herbalism plant gathering).

I've tried outside light above ground, inside light above ground. I've tried pond filling to make mud ( using the trick that water pumped from salt water into a walled and floored area becomes potable ). But the only way I can farm in the middle of the ocean is if it's under an overhang and therefore underground. And that doesn't care if it was sea water or potable water that got it wet.

Also I have no problem creating and seeding farm plots in inside or outside light above ground areas in the soil layers.
AWDBall

[ April 05, 2008: Message edited by: awdball ]

[PTTG??]

Yes, that's because though there is no water there, it is still in an Ocean Biome, and no surface plants are allowed to grow there. Internal areas are simply muddy cave areas.

[awdball]

Damn, now that's got me thinking all sorts of nasty bloat like thoughts of kelp and other oceanic plants. It seems like a tiny bug that the ocean biome overrides plant growth and invalidates reclaiming ocean. But I can see it's easily more of a new feature that would take a bit of work to allow oceans to spawn plants when reclaimed, or to spawn plants appropirate when under water like algea, kelp, seaweed. It would seem you should be able to build a castle overhanging an ocean but still have farming inside it allowed but then you'd have to track what z levels the ocean is in and not in.

Now I'm thinking that to truly make my green glass fort under the ocean as close to perfect as I can I would have to lower the foundation one more level but leave a layer of the living rock untouched inside the walls. Just so that I could have a safe haven of underground in there and a small farm.

[Chariot]

quote:Originally posted by awdball:
<STRONG>Damn, now that's got me thinking all sorts of nasty bloat like thoughts of kelp and other oceanic plants. It seems like a tiny bug that the ocean biome overrides plant growth and invalidates reclaiming ocean. But I can see it's easily more of a new feature that would take a bit of work to allow oceans to spawn plants when reclaimed, or to spawn plants appropirate when under water like algea, kelp, seaweed.</STRONG>

ocean biomes can infact be given plants, which grow. mine are currently growing coconut and date palms on the beach(not actualy in the water, but on soil/mud within the biome)