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[nameless]

It appears that I can't farm on soil underground in this version?  Are we back to irrigating?

[sbr]

I believe so, it is fantastic.

[tigger89]

It seems we are.

Now I have to figure out how to rescue a fort built on an extreme-cliff map, with the water source a good 7-8 z-levels below the farms I dug out, and no livestock industry.  Aboveground farming ftw, I guess.

[Whitney]

Are you sure the location you are trying to farm on is soil and not rock?

[DFAddict]

I was able to build a farm underground but couldn't assign plump helmets, pig tails, dimple cup or cave wheat seeds to grow on said plot, all of which I started with. I haven't attempted to irrigate yet.

[UristMcHammer]

I can confirm that irrigation is required.

[Thndr]

Any suggestions on irrigation? Such a total scrub at it.

[Nikov]

Basic irrigation is quite simple.

Dig a series of little interconnected 3x3 rooms on one Z level. On the next floor up, dig channels through the roof at the very center of each room. Designate each channel as a Pond, Not Full. Dwarves will then grab a nearby bucket and dump water into the center of the 3x3 rooms, slowly muddying them. Set the rooms to inactive once you finish watering a room so it won't flood entirely and drown your dwarves. Designate the room as a farm plot and then profit.

[Thndr]

so no immediate zlevel below surface irrigation without poking a potential hole in my fortress after bucketing a shitload of water?

Bummer, too bad they couldn't just throw water on the ground. or make a barrel of water explode.

[Ampoliros]

Baughn posted in one of the GD threads that the irrigation-required-on-soil thing is a bug

[Thndr]

Baughn posted in one of the GD threads that the irrigation-required-on-soil thing is a bug

Makes sense, used to be able to do it and now can't. Thought it was just difficulty increase due to it being too easy to farm a whole -1z for plump helmets and feet an entire fortress

[nameless]

I can't seem to figure out how to see the entire list of my dwarfs skills anymore.... Any ideas?  I used to use +/- iirc

[Aklyon]

Baughn posted in one of the GD threads that the irrigation-required-on-soil thing is a bug

Yay!

[Nikov]

Baughn posted in one of the GD threads that the irrigation-required-on-soil thing is a bug

Yay!

Strictly speaking, it is also a feature.

[Fossaman]

I don't care for said feature. I hope it gets changed back.

In the meantime, though, bucket irrigation is for squares. My procedure is to find a murky pool and dig into it from my farming rooms. As long as there are some cheap wooden doors in the right places, it should be pretty easy to get a 1/7 layer covering everything.