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[malimbar04]

(EDIT: not above ground, but without breaching caverns. I mispoke in the title)

Alright, so this was more of an accident, but the results are awesome.

In a previous fort (combinering) I dug into all 3 caverns. Because of this and other things my fps was down to around 10, and I was afraid of what would happen if I had a siege - so i abandoned it. Several dwarf years later, I embark a few squares away from it. Much to my suprise, my underground farm is immediately populated by underground trees and plants. Having an internal source of wood is awesome.

I assume they are unlocked by biome? Otherwise, do we have any other explinations of this?

[Dutchling]

awesome

[TolyK]

hmmm.. maybe it's because one of the squares you embarked on before was marked "cavern_breached=true" or something, and it worked for you.
or it's global.

[Poindexterity]

its all about mud dude.
well, mud and time.
and rest.

my 2nd or 3rd fort ever, before i ever knew there were caverns to breach, i had just figured out how to drain a pond into an underground chamber i'd dug out.
I dug the chamber out WAY bigger than i needed for my farming operation and figured "screwit" and just left the mud there to- well- mud.
after about a few months i noticed tiny little mushrooms growing there and a few months after that, they had grown into a tower cap and a fungi-wood.
also, i found out, if dwarves step on them while they're still tiny, they die.
the shrooms, not the dwarves.