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[PocheHuilée]

I really love Aboveground farming and always plan around it. However, this time I was surprised with the following message : No seeds available for this region. I have plenty of seeds for various aboveground plants and vegetables, from caravans or gathered around the fort. It is possible that not all of them made seeds yet, as the new crops are poorly documented and I do not know what to do with most of them. It seems some can only be cooked, which logically would yield no seeds.

On another topic, my marksdwarves seem to neglect training. Every now and then I see a dude take a couple of shots at the archery target, but most of them hang in the meeting hall with "no orders".

I have plenty of quivers, crossbows, archery targets and ammo. They are set to train at several archery targets.

Additionally, my farmer workshops are not creating any seeds. I heard there is an easy fix. What is it?

[stinkasectomy]

what region did you embark on? since 40.01, crops can only be planted on biomes they can grow on naturally. so in addition to mountains, glaciers, tundra and oceans which can have nothing ever, you cant grow, say, blackberries in a scorching desert. i believe all of the old, fantasy plants can be grown anywhere other than the four above biomes (not sure about whip vines, sunshine and sliver barbs on non savage/good/evil areas).

on top of that, apparently it is possible to get some seeds for trees, which aren't plant-able (there was somebody who had pear seeds).

generally with the real world plants, if you haven't harvested them with plant gather, you can't plant them

[greycat]

what region did you embark on? since 40.01, crops can only be planted on biomes they can grow on naturally.

That was also true in older versions (at least 0.34.11 for sure, but I don't know how far back it goes).

[PocheHuilée]

Well the point is moot now, since my fortress succumbed to a tantrum spiral after one of the starting 7 died.

I did gather a lot of plants around, but maybe they had no methods of generating seeds. Is the embark zone split into several biomes? Maybe my farm was not located in the right place. I was in a half-mountain, half-forest place.

[greycat]

Is the embark zone split into several biomes?

It can be.  Totally depends on where you embark.  You can cycle through the biomes in the pre-embark screen by pressing F1, F2, F3, etc.  Once you've embarked, that information is no longer readily available, but you can sometimes see a clear boundary between biomes.  (There may be snow in one but not in another around one of the season boundaries, or there may be trees & shrubs in one but not the other, or the soil type may change, etc.)

A mountain biome cannot grow any plants, and that includes farm plots.

[PocheHuilée]

Is the embark zone split into several biomes?

It can be.  Totally depends on where you embark.  You can cycle through the biomes in the pre-embark screen by pressing F1, F2, F3, etc.  Once you've embarked, that information is no longer readily available, but you can sometimes see a clear boundary between biomes.  (There may be snow in one but not in another around one of the season boundaries, or there may be trees & shrubs in one but not the other, or the soil type may change, etc.)

A mountain biome cannot grow any plants, and that includes farm plots.

So if I moved my farm over to the next biome, it could accept seeds?

[stinkasectomy]

should do, yes.

some biomes have clear differences (sand deserts will be sandy, mountains won't have trees etc) but things like forest/marsh boundaries can be harder

the most reliable way in my opinion is to look at soil type at the top layer. biomes almost always, if not always have different soil type to surrounding biomes

 a few 1x1 dirt roads (b)uild- dirt r(O)ad - will make furrowed soil (or will show sand which can't be furrowed)

or if its not safe a little exploratory digging