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[LaikaBauss]

Hey guys.

So i've started a new fortress on a warm florest biome. Started diggin my fort out and stuff.
Then, giant badger boars attacked. I had my animals outside and some of them died ( the babies and smaller ones ).

I realized i should make a pasture inside my fort, but after one year, i dont have ANY fungus on inside the fort.

I wander, what does moss or fungus takes to grow?

[Uristoteles]

dig deeper, find one of the caverns. Once breached, moss and fungi should start sprouting on all underground soils.
Sometimes a cavern is devoid of plant life, it's very rare though.

[LaikaBauss]

I already fount a cavern, but havent dug it out. I avoided it as my layers are completely devoid of any weapon - making metal. All i got is gold. TONS of gold. Im waiting for the next dwarven caravan to buy weaps.

There is however a tiny hole on the top of the cave ( that made me "discover" it ), but i dunno if its connected to any fungus. Will that stop the fungi from growing?

Also, the floor of my fort is made of sandy clay loam and sand. Will fungi grow on that?

TY!

[Uristoteles]

hm, that hole should be enough, did you look at the ground of the cavern if there's moss and such?
And yes, sandy clay loam and sand are considered soil.

[Garath]

If there is fungus in the cavern, it might have to do with the hole, Just mine out another tile to make it a bigger hole and then build a wall there to close it again. It doesn't have to stay open for fungus to spread

[ORCACommander]

fungus once a cavern is discovered/breached requires 2 things to grow: 1 natural soil or 2 mud

[greycat]

If there is fungus in the cavern, it might have to do with the hole, Just mine out another tile to make it a bigger hole and then build a wall there to close it again. It doesn't have to stay open for fungus to spread

If a cavern has been revealed, and it contains vegetation, then the size of the hole used to reveal it doesn't matter.  The spores are released immediately.

[Garath]

I'm not sure. I didn't want to make an actual hole once, so I smoothed and carved fortifications before mining a tile, and that didn't allow spores to spread untill I'd made hole

[LaikaBauss]

Just found out there aint no fungi on my first cave.

Is the second layer a sure shot to have fungi?

Its being tough to find that second cave, for some reason.

[Garath]

it's never a 'sure shot', but the chance of a cave not having fungus is actually pretty small, it needs no water in that level, so no cave with fungus is very rare. You could always try the 3rd cavern too :p