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[Warlord255]

Indeed, you need to wait a good decade or two before moss shows up. And then you need constructions for it be made on. I have not tested destroying it, as I was tying to cultivate it on a castle I wanted ruined.

 But yes, you need a very old fortress. And even then you won't see carpets of the stuff. Just occasional random tiles of the stuff.

Does it spread out from said tiles?

Either way, I'm stunned.

[kein]

You guys must never play adventure mode. Moss is pretty active in a lot of ruins

[Duke 2.0]

Indeed, you need to wait a good decade or two before moss shows up. And then you need constructions for it be made on. I have not tested destroying it, as I was tying to cultivate it on a castle I wanted ruined.

 But yes, you need a very old fortress. And even then you won't see carpets of the stuff. Just occasional random tiles of the stuff.

Does it spread out from said tiles?

Either way, I'm stunned.

Nope. At least, I haven't been around long enough to see it. It just seems to be a random placement on any lit aboveground construction.
 And this site was an aboveground fort, so it was basically all aboveground constructions.

[Greiger]

I saw it all the time in adventure mode pre 3-D usually on those big multilevel pyramids in ruins, but I never saw it since.  Of course I never really visit ruins anymore too, since they no longer contain hundreds of undead.

Good to see it's still around, it added a bit of depth to an otherwise bland ruin.

[andrea]

i discover about it only now that i lost my aboveground fortress-tower game... if only i had known, i would have kept it, waiting for moss to appear on the tops of the walls, while i worked on the tower...

do moss grow only on floors? having it also on walls would be great

[LegoLord]

You guys must never play adventure mode. Moss is pretty active in a lot of ruins

Of course, ruins aren't very common anymore and they're pretty boring at the moment.  So even some one who does play adventure mode probably won't see it.

[Sysice]

it makes me wonder if Copperblazes is completley covered in moss or if the designer sometimes removes the mossy places and builds it again.

[Arkose]

I want to know if moss gets destroyed by heavy traffic like grass does.

[The13thRonin]

Moss is becoming the new fad of the day. Soon you won't be able to have a fortress without HFS, magma, flux, cave rivers AND moss  .

Kinda reminds me of when roads first came out...

[Duke 2.0]

it makes me wonder if Copperblazes is completley covered in moss or if the designer sometimes removes the mossy places and builds it again.

Again, moss grows aboveground. And to the query of it being destroyed, I'll make the top of my eastern wall my main hall to test i-

 Oh, wait. Shoot. I completely forgot that was Healedabby. Gah, gotta get to that Succession Game!

[Jakkarra]

man...

the wiki knew something a lot of us didnt.....

[Dakk]

I don't think moss will be a common thing untill we get to make the worldgen continue after we've played on a world. That way you could build up your over complicated aboveground construction, eventuall die or abandon, and come back 100 years later to find your obsidan black tower is now mossy green.

[Franz]

"Exciting" Moss Investigation:

So I found a single tile of moss when reclaiming my fort. (I forgot when I started/abandoned it, but the year of reclaim was 156.)
This sample of moss confirms that not only does moss grow on constructions, but smoothed outdoor rock as well! :O (Dolomite, in fact.) Region is Warm Mountain, no trees, no other vegetation, surroundings Wilderness.

I want to know if moss gets destroyed by heavy traffic like grass does.

To answer this question, I got the reclaim group of 70 to walk back and fort across it about fifteen times, and each time the tile was walked over about eight (?) times. That's... about 120 times the tile was walked over before I got bored, and at the end of the test the moss remained intact. So I guess it doesn't get destroyed, unless maybe moss takes 121 steps to destroy, or something.

In Adventurer Mode, moss cannot be picked up, eaten, or removed from the ground in any way. No further description of the mossy smooth dolomite could be obtained from '[l]ooking', and '[L]ooking really hard' yields the message 'Your intense search turns up nothing.'

So yeah. After two hours of intense investigation, I have found that moss is utterly unremarkable except for being strikingly green. Also that it grows on smoothed outdoor floors. Thank you and goodnight.

[kein]

I don't think moss will be a common thing untill we get to make the worldgen continue after we've played on a world. That way you could build up your over complicated aboveground construction, eventuall die or abandon, and come back 100 years later to find your obsidan black tower is now mossy green.

I was thinking something similar to that. That would be pretty awesome.

[Pnx]

I seem to recall a certain very long lived 2D era fortress having moss... also algae, or maybe it was just the algae.