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[alway]

well, dust is mostly dead skin cells, so the dwarves don't have to excrete any other way, and can still provide food for the fungus.

Now that, I like.

The perpetual motion machine explaination was more interesting though.

[zchris13]

They make the waterwheels out of dead skin cells.

[Leonon]

(snip)course this would still violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but hey, poop!

Wouldn't be the first time Dwarfs violated the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

[Limul Thak]

True 'dat.

[Vactor]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

underground plants are green, unless they are growing on something muddy, in which case they inherit the brown from the tile.  I hope at some point this gets fixxed, as verdant green underground forests are much nicer to look at.

[LegoLord]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

underground plants are green,

Not in real life they wouldn't be.  Fungus.  Not plants.  That's the whole point of people worrying about the feasibility of underground farming.  They don't see how it is actually possible.

[Vactor]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

underground plants are green,

Not in real life they wouldn't be.  Fungus.  Not plants.  That's the whole point of people worrying about the feasibility of underground farming.  They don't see how it is actually possible.

thats all nice and all, but we're talking about dwarf fortress, not real life

[zchris13]

We could just have our dwarves paint them green.  For flavor.

[Greiger]

Joe MincedPuppet: Oh hey! Quarry bush leaves!  Yum Yum!  Wait...why are they purple?

Bill TinyTallows: New mandate, all food has to be painted purple.  Take a bite, it's plump helmet flavor too.

Joe MincedPuppet: Why oh why did we choose the plump helmet loving mayor over the star sapphire loving one!? *Fist shake*

[Leafsnail]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

See: Quarry Bush wiki article.

I reckon they get their heat energy from magma.

[Byakugan01]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

See: Quarry Bush wiki article.

I reckon they get their heat greeness energy from magma Dead elves.

You gotta do something with the dirt those rotting corpses produce, maybe this is how the quarry bush is possible: it's fueled by the death of elves.

[LegoLord]

The underground plants get all their nutrients from the soil. That's why they aren't green.

See: Quarry Bush wiki article.

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Just to make sure things are clear here.

I can easily see the leaves as a method of dispersing spores.

[jaked122]

Wait, so booze is really just thousands of refined cell-sized mechanisms, waterwheels and pumps?

 That... would explain things.

yes, your dwarves are ETERNAL!!

[Sasasing]

I'm sure Toady is Terry Pratchett in disguise

[Firnagzen]

Oooh. Idea; we need to recreate Ankh Morpork in DF!

Begin with a human city with a river running through it, occupy a few *ahem* unoccupied houses and start digging! Bonus points for lots of silt and mud, further bonus for using perpetual power: The Axle.

Darn. Now I have a hankering to find a city...