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[laylong]

I have seen tons of different mods out there for every facet of the game. But I have yet to find one or a way to disable the change whereby  you need to muddy ground to grow anything. Is there any out there? Or could someone provide the settings I would need to mess with?

Thats change really ruined the game for me.

[soul4hdwn]

plant above ground or irrigate, there is a few easy steps on the wiki for irrigation that it shouldn't be a bother.
think soil layers let you grow just fine unless someone can verify or give better help/info.

[Tiphareth]

The irrigation thingie is a bug.

[Nolor]

plant above ground or irrigate, there is a few easy steps on the wiki for irrigation that it shouldn't be a bother.
think soil layers let you grow just fine unless someone can verify or give better help/info.

No, you need to muddy everything -- even soil -- to grow anything underground. Exception being the caverns, they start muddied so you don't need to irrigate them. It's been 'confirmed' as a bug, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

For the time being, though:
The simplest way to irrigate though, is to use a muddy pond. Dig a large chamber (this will be your farm) close to a muddy pond. Put a door on it, then breach the pond. Wait a little while for the water to evaporate, and then you're done.

Example:

Spoiler: easy farm (click to show/hide)

Step 1, dig farm next to pond.
................
.~~~~~.        .
.~~~~~.  (farm).
.~~~~~.        .
.......        d
................

Step 2, breach pond.
................
.~~~~~.~~~~~~~~.
.~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~.
.~~~~~.~~~~~~~~.
.......~~~~~~~~d
................
Congratulations, you now have a working farm.

[UnLimiTeD]

Filled with Magma!

[JusticeRings]

I try really hard to always have a river on hand for well/irrigation. It is a pretty simple matter to get two flood gates hooked up and watering a room.

[bowdown2q]

is there a way to mod that need away? I mean... I could always set up a smelter to make plants out of nothing, but that's a little cheating...

[o_O[WTFace]]

You could just gather some plants and set up an above ground farm.  Its sounds crazy but it works (I think).

[Kazang]

I have always used at least some sort of above ground farm for food and booze variety for my dorfs.

[G-Flex]

Seriously guys, you're overthinking this. It's not hard to just dig out a murky pool and let it drain out into a sufficiently sized room, and then shore up the murky pool again with walls/floors/whatevers. Why would you mess around with smelter reactions or modding to get around a requirement that's so painfully easy to fulfill? Unless you're in a desert or something, in which case, well, you embarked on a freaking desert, so don't expect to get food easily in the first place.

I mean, it's not like there aren't about a half-dozen other ways of getting food. You can hunt/trap animals, raise animals and butcher them, gather plants, bring sufficient food from home to last a while, grow above-ground crops, import food, and possibly one or two I forget. And now, with the way butchery works in the recent versions, killing a relatively small number of animals can keep a fort going for a very, very long time.

[UnLimiTeD]

Too long for my taste, can you make dwarfs eat more? lol.

Though, it's totally possible to embark on a site that has neither animals nor water.
(though, getting everything costing two or less, you are pretty much set for over a year right now.)

[Martin]

I've irrigated farms with bucket brigade before. It works fine, and isn't so hard if you consider that you need farm space proportionate to the number of dwarves you have - so you can just expand as you get more bucket haulers and re-muddy.

[laylong]

Lord, all these replies and all I get from it is getting called lazy.

I asked for help, not some half assed opinion. You must be retarded to think everyone plays this game the same way 

[Ilmoran]

Lord, all these replies and all I get from it is getting called lazy.

I asked for help, not some half assed opinion. You must be retarded to think everyone plays this game the same way 

No, you were given alternatives because what you asked for is a way to mod around a bug.  There isn't one.

[Tiphareth]

Lord, all these replies and all I get from it is getting called lazy.

I asked for help, not some half assed opinion. You must be retarded to think everyone plays this game the same way 

Go sod off, we aren't your personal army and we aren't here to fix your issues. If you want advice, take it. If you do not want it, shut it and go fix it yourself. You have absolutely no right to insult anyone because you can't get your head around the search function.