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PaperJack

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Furrowed loam
« on: October 17, 2009, 07:27:17 am »
What's furrowed loam ?

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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2009, 07:39:57 am »
fur·row
1. A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
2. A rut, groove, or narrow depression: snow drifting in furrows.

I've found this happens in DF when dwarves walk over soil tiles a lot, on the surface that makes grass tiles turn to sand tiles, below surface it furrows loam and the like. I've had it as well, it doesn't do anything special, but it is a nice detail that shows how deep DF can be.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 08:01:18 am »
the matter is that the tile has been walked on less than ten times.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2009, 08:07:38 am »
"Furrowed" soil tiles also appear after you deconstruct wall, stairs, floor and similar, dwarven-made constructions.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2009, 12:08:21 pm »
Furrowed soil only shows up when you build/deconstruct a wall, build a road (paved or unpaved), or place a farm plot. Outdoors, it will gradually become unfurrowed, but underground it presumably remains furrowed until enough traffic goes across it.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2009, 12:19:35 pm »
even just designating the farm plot and canceling it furrows soil
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 03:15:22 pm »
Yes, but that's actually the result of a bug - they're only supposed to furrow the soil once they're fully built.
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Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 04:14:45 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on October 17, 2009, 12:08:21 pm
Furrowed soil only shows up when you build/deconstruct a wall, build a road (paved or unpaved), or place a farm plot. Outdoors, it will gradually become unfurrowed, but underground it presumably remains furrowed until enough traffic goes across it.

It also shows up in destroyed buildings in human towns.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2009, 10:46:41 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on October 17, 2009, 04:14:45 pm
Quote from: Quietust on October 17, 2009, 12:08:21 pm
Furrowed soil only shows up when you build/deconstruct a wall, build a road (paved or unpaved), or place a farm plot. Outdoors, it will gradually become unfurrowed, but underground it presumably remains furrowed until enough traffic goes across it.

It also shows up in destroyed buildings in human towns.

Does it show up specifically where the walls/floors used to be, or around the buildings? If within the building itself, then that's just a subset of the first example I listed.
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Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2009, 04:23:47 am »
I've seen it after my fields froze and thawed.
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Re: Furrowed loam
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2009, 04:32:10 am »
Quote from: Quietust on October 17, 2009, 10:46:41 pm
Does it show up specifically where the walls/floors used to be, or around the buildings? If within the building itself, then that's just a subset of the first example I listed.

Can't remember.  It might just be the deconstructed walls thing, yeah.
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