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Naraceaus

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Underground Pastures
« on: March 21, 2012, 06:28:23 pm »
Hey Guys,

I want to make pastures for my animals safe. I read on the wiki if you breach the right caverns, trees and shrubs will grow on underground soil/muddied rock. Will breaching the caverns also make grass grow underground?

Thanks Guys
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Schizotek

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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 06:36:55 pm »
Well....fungus....but yeah it functions as grass.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 08:05:37 pm »
Quote from: Naraceaus on March 21, 2012, 06:28:23 pm
if you breach the right caverns,
Quote from: Naraceaus on March 21, 2012, 06:28:23 pm
Will breaching the caverns also

Any cavern is the right cavern.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 08:07:58 pm »
make sure to wall it off (on all levels of teh cavern) if the section you want for a pasture isn't already. otherwise you are inviting GCS in.... which might not be a BAD thing mind you now....
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2012, 08:23:31 pm »
Just breach any cavern, then wall it off.  All of your soil layers and/or muddied rock areas will start growing underground plants.  That food, wood, and pasture.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2012, 08:43:58 pm »
Awesome, I think its funny that the animals can eat fungus as a replacement for grass.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2012, 08:21:50 am »
I just got a cavern that most certainly was not the "right" cavern.  It was moss-less.  Even after introducing water to it, fungus refused to grow there.  I had to hunt out another cavern to get my underground forests going.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2012, 08:25:22 am »
Quote from: Naraceaus on March 21, 2012, 08:43:58 pm
Awesome, I think its funny that the animals can eat fungus as a replacement for grass.

Embark in an evil area and watch them eat eyeballs and wormy tendrils (made of muscle)
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2012, 02:28:50 pm »
Quote from: slothen on March 22, 2012, 08:25:22 am
Quote from: Naraceaus on March 21, 2012, 08:43:58 pm
Awesome, I think its funny that the animals can eat fungus as a replacement for grass.

Embark in an evil area and watch them eat eyeballs and wormy tendrils (made of muscle)

What a splendid mental image, cows grazing on a field of wriggling eyeballs and tentacles.

Wait, wha
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2012, 02:51:38 pm »
Quote from: slothen on March 22, 2012, 08:25:22 am
Quote from: Naraceaus on March 21, 2012, 08:43:58 pm
Awesome, I think its funny that the animals can eat fungus as a replacement for grass.

Embark in an evil area and watch them eat eyeballs and wormy tendrils (made of muscle)

I imagine them more of a plant muscle. like a venus flytrap.
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Re: Underground Pastures
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2012, 02:56:23 pm »
Quote from: Destructicus on March 22, 2012, 08:21:50 am
I just got a cavern that most certainly was not the "right" cavern.  It was moss-less.  Even after introducing water to it, fungus refused to grow there.  I had to hunt out another cavern to get my underground forests going.

That is because that cavern layer was generated without any water.
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