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Deteramot

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Question about Tree Farms....
« on: March 23, 2010, 06:03:40 pm »

I know that you have to find an underground body of water, and that reveal doesn't work for finding it. However, do you have to use the water from said underground body, or can you just use water from an above ground brook?
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 06:12:01 pm »

Yes, once you discover an underground river or lake, and you will get an announcement when you do find it, you can then grow tower caps anywhere underground, using water from any source.

Also you'll even get tower caps growing in soil. If you dig through soil, and it is subterranean but not muddy, tower caps will grow on their own. Slowly. You get far, far more density of plants if you let them grow on muddy rock.
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 06:13:28 pm »

what about muddy soil?
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 06:21:07 pm »

Yes, once you discover an underground river or lake, and you will get an announcement when you do find it, you can then grow tower caps anywhere underground, using water from any source.

Also you'll even get tower caps growing in soil. If you dig through soil, and it is subterranean but not muddy, tower caps will grow on their own. Slowly. You get far, far more density of plants if you let them grow on muddy rock.

Alright, thank you.
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 06:21:54 pm »

what about muddy soil?

Dunno. Haven't tried it. Most likely though it would work the same as muddy stone. The underground plants sure do love their mud.

They still grow in regular, non muddy underground soil, but far, far slower and more spread out than in mud.
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2010, 09:03:52 pm »

what about muddy soil?

Dunno. Haven't tried it. Most likely though it would work the same as muddy stone. The underground plants sure do love their mud.

They still grow in regular, non muddy underground soil, but far, far slower and more spread out than in mud.

My personal experience has shown that, for me at least, muddied subterranean soil has had towercaps grow faster than muddied stone, but it could all be coincidental rng accidents, since i haven't actually performed any science on it.
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Re: Question about Tree Farms....
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2010, 10:29:30 am »

They do grow faster/more densely on muddy soil than muddy rock. No idea what the stats are (the search button is aaaaaalll the way up there and my mouse is down here!) but they look more scarce on the 1/4th of my huge tree farm.