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fprime

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Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« on: June 05, 2009, 12:07:56 pm »
Anybody got a clear understanding on how to make tower cap farms?  I'm running dangerously short on above-ground wood.
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cyks

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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2009, 12:19:10 pm »
Do you have an underground river and some underground soil or mud?
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fprime

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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2009, 12:23:07 pm »
I have an aboveground river I can access underground.  Does that count?
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 12:23:32 pm »
I wish it did.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 12:40:43 pm »
1: Have an Underground river or pool, no, an above ground river that you divert underground does not count.
2: You must have either:
2a:Underground soil in a dark area.
2b:Any type of muddied rock/soil, free of any obstructions to growth, aka, the rock you get from mining.
3:Once these things are combined, and the river/pool is uncovered of course, you can begin your tower-cap farming, ground must be muddied once a year iirc, you will have very little growth on non-muddy soil, and no growth on non-muddy rock.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2009, 02:38:53 pm »
Quote from: Smew on June 05, 2009, 12:40:43 pm
and the river/pool is uncovered of course,

Due to mining, not Reveal. A very important detail.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2009, 02:47:44 pm »
Quote from: Smew on June 05, 2009, 12:40:43 pm
2b:Any type of muddied rock/soil, free of any obstructions to growth, aka, the rock you get from mining.

Apparently not true,  I've recently discovered.  I muddied a LARGE area,  then waited a time, and  'H'id the stones laying about.  There were a LOT of Tower Cap Saplings underneath.
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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2009, 09:36:08 pm »
Quote from: Nonsapient on June 05, 2009, 02:47:44 pm
'H'id the stones laying about.  There were a LOT of Tower Cap Saplings underneath.

Don't think they'll develop into full tower caps unless those stones are removed. Would love it if I were proven wrong- dumping thousands of stones to prepare an area for cap farming takes a ton of time and dwarfpower.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2009, 04:02:38 am »
Or you could just recruit a whole squad of dabbling miners for the process.
The easiest way probably would be to muddy a huge area of soil. no stone removal involved.
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SimRobert2001

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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2009, 05:19:40 am »
I thougth the entire "re flood The entire area once a year" think disappeared with 2d.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2009, 10:37:52 am »
well, if you look at my thread about planters not planting, its apparently still there.
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2009, 11:57:34 am »
(don't give us a link to it, whatever you do!)
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2009, 12:47:52 pm »
Quote from: Albedo on June 06, 2009, 11:57:34 am
(don't give us a link to it, whatever you do!)

I'm going to go ahead and presume he's referring to this thread, though I didn't actually read it, it is a thread in his name about planters not planting...
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=36456.msg577038#msg577038
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Re: Tower Caps for Fun and Profit
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2009, 10:41:12 pm »
Quote from: cancel.man on June 05, 2009, 09:36:08 pm
Quote from: Nonsapient on June 05, 2009, 02:47:44 pm
'H'id the stones laying about.  There were a LOT of Tower Cap Saplings underneath.

Don't think they'll develop into full tower caps unless those stones are removed. Would love it if I were proven wrong- dumping thousands of stones to prepare an area for cap farming takes a ton of time and dwarfpower.

Give it a magma bath  8)
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