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crossmr

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Clearing Sand
« on: June 03, 2013, 04:59:25 am »
Is there anyway to clear the sand that has had moss growing on it?
With moss, sometimes other things come and it screws up placing new farm plots.
Can anything be done?
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2013, 05:56:24 am »
Put something on it. Floors or a road will stop the moss.
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2013, 06:08:18 am »
Quote from: Trif on June 03, 2013, 05:56:24 am
Put something on it. Floors or a road will stop the moss.

How does one build a dwarven time machine?
I want to clear it after moss has grown.
The moss itself doesn't stop the plots, but certain things that grow on the moss do. Trees I can cut down, but certain plants create dead spots.
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2013, 06:35:11 am »
Moss will disappear if you put floor or road on it. Instead it will be road/floor tile. Tree saplings will not, as far as I understand, but I'm not sure.

You can't really "clean" the sand, because sand is all you have.
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2013, 07:24:57 am »
if you build the floor and then remove it, the tile underneath will be clean (layer material). Also works for cleaning blood and mud
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2013, 07:31:20 am »
The easiest way is to designate a dirt road (b-O) over the 'blocked' tiles. This will remove all plants, requires no material to work with and can be done by any adult.

Most importantly, this _does_ remove tree saplings and dead bushes, both of which block construction of farm plots and can't be removed by the standard designation jobs (plant collection and treecutting).
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2013, 07:57:28 am »
also, you can put a floor grate on a sand-tile, this will prevent the growing of plants and the sand can still be gathered through the grate.
I don't know if it works with floor bars and I'm not sure if a tile must be zoned for sand gathering before a grate is build on top.
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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2013, 04:24:22 pm »
Dirt Road is the way to go. They are NOT objects, the action of making a dirt road merely strips vegetation from the tiles.
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crossmr

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Re: Clearing Sand
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2013, 07:01:43 pm »
Quote from: PrimusRibbus on June 03, 2013, 04:24:22 pm
Dirt Road is the way to go. They are NOT objects, the action of making a dirt road merely strips vegetation from the tiles.

I'll try that. kind of annoying making new farm plots after breaching caverns.
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