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[Darthlawsuit]

How do I get cave moss to grow? I breached the first cavern a year ago (in game) and still no cave moss or anything on my muddy soil. I want to move my animals indoors so they can stop dying outside but no moss...

[Bobnova]

Does the cavern you breached have cave moss in it?
If not, that's your issue.
If so, I don't know.

[Darthlawsuit]

Yes it does. The cavemoss doesn't seem to be spreading in that cavern either. Some mud floors in the cavern right next to cave moss and it doesn't seem to be spreading in it at all

[Eagle_eye]

Perhaps it needs to border another moss tile?

[Mageziya]

Nope, in my fort (That just died in an unrelated incident) when I decided I need subterranean 'plants' I simply used dwarven radar, dug down to caverns, breached one tile, sealed it off, and BAM cave moss and fungi trees growing in my farm area.

[WealthyRadish]

Did you use 'k' to view the muddy tiles? The plants' image don't seem to show up, even if they're there.

[Darthlawsuit]

Did you use 'k' to view the muddy tiles? The plants' image don't seem to show up, even if they're there.

Yup nothing. In the cavern there is a line of muddy soil next to moss and yet no moss grows there. Is this a bug with the new version?

[DrKillPatient]

If it is a bug, it's a new one; I've never heard of this (although I know of issues where cave moss grows before you breach the cavern). Try to breach one of the other two cavern layers, perhaps breaching this one didn't register whatever it needed to start growing the moss?

[WealthyRadish]

You could also try DFhack's 'feature' command to trigger it.

[Darthlawsuit]

Ok so I used dwarf fortress hacks to revel the second cavern and now it is working. Seems there is a bug with the first cavern now.

[herrbdog]

If it is a bug, it's a new one; I've never heard of this (although I know of issues where cave moss grows before you breach the cavern).

Not a bug, if the caves have already been breached in a previous fort in the same biome, moss/plants/trees will grow in any new forts in that same biome.

[G-Flex]

If it is a bug, it's a new one; I've never heard of this (although I know of issues where cave moss grows before you breach the cavern).

Not a bug, if the caves have already been breached in a previous fort in the same biome, moss/plants/trees will grow in any new forts in that same biome.

I don't think you mean "biome" here (maybe you mean "region"), but how exactly is this not a bug? What happens in one fort a few regional/world map tiles away shouldn't really have that sort of impact on another fort.

[Quietust]

When you breached the first cavern, did you actually discover it at the time or had you used "reveal" beforehand?

If you don't get the popup announcement about discovering a map feature, then you haven't actually discovered it.

You could also try DFhack's 'feature' command to trigger it.

...and that's how you can fix it.

[Iosyn]

Nope, in my fort (That just died in an unrelated incident) when I decided I need subterranean 'plants' I simply used dwarven radar, dug down to caverns, breached one tile, sealed it off, and BAM cave moss and fungi trees growing in my farm area.

God don't remind me.
My very first well cistern had underground trees growing in it, and bloody trees in the mushroom farm too.

[Darthlawsuit]

If it is a bug, it's a new one; I've never heard of this (although I know of issues where cave moss grows before you breach the cavern).

Not a bug, if the caves have already been breached in a previous fort in the same biome, moss/plants/trees will grow in any new forts in that same biome.

New world new fort never built on it before