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scribbler

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Farming in winter
« on: October 08, 2009, 12:54:18 pm »
Has it struck anyone else as odd how most crops can be grown year round on the surface, but in the underground, where the environment is fairly constant, 2/3 of the crops are seasonal?
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2009, 12:58:51 pm »
Yes.  That's why I mod my plants.  To add verisimilitude.

I like the gentle farming mod, myself.  Of course, it's probably like this because the game is about dwarves.  Greater attention is paid to the dwarven crops/food than surface crops/food.
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2009, 03:34:57 pm »
*Smacks the op* WHAT ARE YOU? A DAMN DIRTY TREE HUGGIN ELF? Learn to farm underground like a REAL dwarf and GET BACK TO WORK.  This is the one thing you were born into this world to do HOW DARE YOU QUESTION IT?
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2009, 03:40:42 pm »
I think the nobles rubbed off on the plants, and now you have to do it their way (and the way for some reason being a shortened life span).
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2009, 04:51:15 pm »
Why would you want to grow anything other than delicious plump helmets anyway? :P
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 04:58:16 pm »
I assume this is because of an oversight in the making of crops, like how on outside, muddied rock of a mountain nothing can grow(Or a platform over the ocean). In theory it should be possible, but it doesn't work.

And to the person saying the true dwarven farming is underground, remember that sun berries only grow above ground, and make the best booze, while whip vines only grow above ground for good quality flour, only an elf would willingly restrict his own diet. Don't be an elf.
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2009, 05:05:05 pm »
But sun berries make ELVEN alcohol. Wich is heresy on itself. GG get back under the dirt :|
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 05:12:42 pm »
But there's 5 crops you can grow underground (dimple cups don't count). 

How dare you question the sanctity of true dwarven alcohol.  If it doesn't have "Dwarven" in it's name it's only fit for the tree molesting cannibals.
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 05:18:07 pm »
Hey!  Sewer Brew has the kick, fumes and smell worthy of Dwarven Stout!

Heck, you can't even smoke in the same dining hall it's being consumed in!  And it doubles as Axle Grease!
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2009, 05:23:26 pm »
Blah your all heathons... To the magma pit with you!
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2009, 05:46:55 pm »
Wait...  PIT?!

You simpleton!  The only way to handle burning people alive is to have a overly complex series of gates, channels, pumps and hatches to drop the molten rock ontop of them.  And you do this in the Colosseum, before a live audience that can truly enjoy their suffering.

And on their last agonizing breaths before either their lungs burst into flames or their nerves melt off, you pour gallons of freezing water on them, hardening it all into valuable Obsidian that captures the moment of their deaths!

Pits.  Bah, Pits are for the anus of the Abyss.

((The previous post was Rated "D" for Dwarf, and may contain copious amounts of bad Dwarf humor.  Impressionable young children and those easily offended should have left the room, but will now have to be sealed in Frozen Obsidian))
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2009, 05:56:38 pm »
I would like to point out that there is no other type of obsidian than frozen obsidian. Everything else is either magma, lava, or somehow boiling.  Which would be strange, to say the least.

*boot*
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2009, 07:34:36 pm »
He hath descovered the secret of liquid obsidean! Curses, Soon they'll realize melting obsidean, then freezing it again makes pure adamantine >.>
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2009, 11:18:23 pm »
Quote from: Boogs on October 08, 2009, 04:51:15 pm
Why would you want to grow anything other than delicious plump helmets anyway? :P

well my fortress atm can survive off dwarven syrup roasts, it keeps dwarves happier and one stack can sell for up to 15,000 dwarfbucks
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Re: Farming in winter
« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2009, 11:48:09 pm »
Cooking? That is not the way of the dwarf.  >:(
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