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[robbiec]

Hey guys.

Just started playing around with DF and loving it so far, with 1 major frustration. I'm using the latest version (0.31.06), and I'm coming across a DIFFERENT farming problem to the one a lot of people have been posting about.

I irrigate the tiles using channels set as ponds, and then wait for the water to evaporate and voila: muddy tiles. Then I build farm plots on those tiles, NO PROBLEM. Once the farm plots are built, I set them to grow Plump Helmets in all four seasons. And then ... nothing. No plant seeds job happens, even if I've turned off all my planters other labour options. The farm plots just sit there all empty, and I have to find food from other sources.

So far I've played two fortresses, and this happened both times. 

Any thoughts? Anyone seen something like this? For now I'm going to 0.28 to see if I can grow some stuff in that version. I just want to feed my dwarves

Thanks

[K4el]

Hey guys.

Just started playing around with DF and loving it so far, with 1 major frustration. I'm using the latest version (0.31.06), and I'm coming across a DIFFERENT farming problem to the one a lot of people have been posting about.

I irrigate the tiles using channels set as ponds, and then wait for the water to evaporate and voila: muddy tiles. Then I build farm plots on those tiles, NO PROBLEM. Once the farm plots are built, I set them to grow Plump Helmets in all four seasons. And then ... nothing. No plant seeds job happens, even if I've turned off all my planters other labour options. The farm plots just sit there all empty, and I have to find food from other sources.

So far I've played two fortresses, and this happened both times. 

Any thoughts? Anyone seen something like this? For now I'm going to 0.28 to see if I can grow some stuff in that version. I just want to feed my dwarves

Thanks

A screenshot would speed up diagnosis.

The one thing that wasn't mentioned in your post. Are you sure you have seeds?

[pestilence]

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your approach, but it could be that you're making your farm area above ground by building them in the area you channeled out. If this is the case, then you wouldn't be able to plant underground plant seeds.

[Miggy]

Are you sure you have plump helmet spawn? They won't try to plant anything if they don't have anything to plant.

[TheMirth]

Should also make sure that you don't have any unmuddied tiles underneath your farms or non of the farm plot will be used.

[Nonsapient]

Should also make sure that you don't have any unmuddied tiles underneath your farms or non of the farm plot will be used.

This is the most likely case,  or you just have plump helmets, instead of plump helmet spawn.

Make certain EVERY tile under the farm is muddied.

[jaked122]

I've run into a similar issue, I built a food stockpile and it began to work for no reason I can imagine

[Quadricwan]

One possibility - You mention that you've used channels to irrigate an area.  Are you trying to build farm plots on long single tile-width channels that also contain a ramp?  I would imagine that wouldn't work too well.

[culwin]

You said you channeled above the farm?
Are all the farm squares still "subterranean"?  If you channeled from above ground, the squares underneath will have become "outside".

[robbiec]

Should also make sure that you don't have any unmuddied tiles underneath your farms or non of the farm plot will be used.

This was it. Thanks for the help guys!

I'm gonna put this in the wiki, because it had me super confused