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Farming question
« on: March 23, 2011, 03:40:07 pm »
Can you plant plump helmets and cave wheat on sand? Grass doesn't seem to mind growing on it. How about cave foliage?
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Re: Farming question
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 03:44:26 pm »
If the tile is marked as subterranean then yes.
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Re: Farming question
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 06:50:58 pm »
Another question-- How necesary is potash for farming? I seem to be farming fine without any...
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Re: Farming question
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2011, 06:57:01 pm »
I think I've used potash maybe once, early on, when I first started playing.  I never bother with it anymore, it's far too each to overproduce crops even without it.
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Re: Farming question
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2011, 07:12:30 pm »
Potash helps getting more plants from every seed early on with low skilled planters, and with legendary farmers it ensures huge stacks of plants resulting in barrels with more booze / bags with more quarry bush leaves (the latter being nice if you plan on exporting meals). With wood coming for near no price at all in 3/4 seasons and the process requiring nothing more than buying the wood and punching in make ash x30 in the manager and setting all fields to season fert on, I see no reason not to use it.
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Re: Farming question
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2011, 07:14:54 pm »
Potash is good for a quick boost of production.
I never use it, so it's probably not essential.

Some farming tips: Use a small numper of skilled growers rather than a large number of unskilled, and turn the
  • rder "all dwarveves harvest" to "only farmers harvest", or you'll be wasting grower xp on non-grower dwarves.
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