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[martinuzz]

I just breached the cavern layer in my new fort.
Last time I did that, I found a cavern, teeming with plant and tree life.
My current cavern is completely devoid of plant / tree growth.

I guess this means there's no underground water in these caverns?

If so, what's weird is that the ground *is* muddied.

[Vicomt]

had this myself a couple of times. did you change your number of cavern layers in worldgen?

I *think* it can happen any time, but my feeling is if you set number of caverns down to 1 or 2, sometimes they can be empty of plantlife. not sure whether it's a bug or not.

[geoduck]

I just breached the cavern layer in my new fort.
Last time I did that, I found a cavern, teeming with plant and tree life.
My current cavern is completely devoid of plant / tree growth.

I guess this means there's no underground water in these caverns?

If so, what's weird is that the ground *is* muddied.

I had a setup once with two layers, a tree-filled one and one like you describe. If you haven't exposed all the layers, you might want to do some more digging.

[Beeskee]

In my most recent fort, the first cavern layer is muddied but has no native plant growth. I unlocked the other layers but still nothing is growing in the first cavern, even though my self-made underground tree farm is doing fine.

Edit: My site was not reclaimed.

[INSANEcyborg]

One of my forts had nothing on the first 2 caverns, and only bloodthorns growing in the third.  Didn't have any water either, maybe its related?

[Sphalerite]

Did you reclaim?  Reclaiming cleans all contaminants, including mud, and plants won't grow without mud.

[martinuzz]

I did not reclaim.
Neither did I do any modding at all to the raws / worldgen specs.

I breached the second cavern now, it has herbs and fungitrees. Yay.
I suspect, the first cavern layer has no direct access to underground water.