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Author Topic: (40d) Weird floor issue, underground farming  (Read 579 times)

Marade

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(40d) Weird floor issue, underground farming
« on: July 17, 2009, 11:40:36 am »

I posted a topic in the Gameplay section of the forum and was told to do a bug report. I quote what I wrote in that post, and provide a savegame that can reproduce the problem:


Hello Fortresseers!

I have just recently dared to venture into the realm of Dwarf Fortress, and have followed the PDF tutorial! Today I decided to try starting a new fortress from scratch, and I ran into a small problem.

After digging a bit into the mountain I found a "hole" in the mountain spanning roughly 30x30 squares and only 1 z-level. This hole had "silt loam" labeled as the floor and I think "Perfect! A farming area". So I build the farming plot there, and it doesn't say I can't. When the Farm is finished, however, it tells me I don't have any suitable seed even though I have a barrel of plump helmet spawns.

Upon closer inspection the floor under the farm has turned into a basalt floor, and after removing the farm I cannot put a new farm in the same place. Not giving up I try it again a bit further in, and get the same result. Do I need to irrigate the floor to be able to farm in there? I'll show you a picture of it and maybe you can tell me what the problem is.



Many thanks!


http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1227

Irrigation helped, but the problem is still there with the dry tiles.
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