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[Beeskee]

It seems like plant and tree growth is controlled by a slow, simplified version of Conway's Game Of Life. I can't plant natural plants and trees to test any patterns, but I've noticed they rarely grow too close to each other, and if they do, they seem to die off faster.

[Astramancer]

That's because the soil as a 'water saturation' value, and plants and trees use up water.  To many close together, and there's not enough soil water to support them.

It's a very robust system that naturally leads to drier areas having less vegetation and wetter areas having more.

[mnjiman]

I love DF.

[nbonaparte]

I hereby commandeer this thread and make it about creating a cellular automata in DF.

[breadbocks]

I hereby commandeer this thread and make it about creating a cellular automata in DF.

We shall build a computer in DF based of the calculator someone made a while back, and we shall download Conway's Game Of Life onto it.

[claer_runway]

and we dont care how long itll take to manually upload the data!

[breadbocks]

Is it that large? If it is, time to build an in-game internet uplink. Sounds like -100FPS territory.

[Sowelu]

Shrubs in ADOM follow Conway's Life rules...

[Syntic]

Personally I think it would be more amusing to get pump stacks set up in such a way as to do a Conway's game of life with Lava...

[Syff]

That's because the soil as a 'water saturation' value, and plants and trees use up water.  To many close together, and there's not enough soil water to support them.

It's a very robust system that naturally leads to drier areas having less vegetation and wetter areas having more.

Are you sure?  The presence of "Soil moisture tracking and ability to moisten soil (buckets or other irrigation)" on the current dev list suggests such a feature is planned, but not yet implemented.  The biome has a rainfall value, and I'm sure that plays a role in determining (above-ground) plant growth, but I don't think there's any kind of direct moisture value yet.

[qwertyuiopas]

Even if it doesn't now, it could fake it by reducing the probability of growing a tree near other trees.

[Fenrix]

'Oh, cool, elephants.'

You can imagine that didn't end incredibly well 

EDIT: sigh. I have NO idea how I managed to post that in the wrong thread. If someone wants to:

a) delete this post
b) tell me how to

That would be great.

[JonBrant]

Yep, time to get started on my DF version of this with flood gates.... be back in a year or two

[Africa]

I too thought this was going to be about building a water and pressure-plate powered Game of Life IN-GAME. My God would that be epic.

Anyway, I was just watching the Planet Earth episode on jungles today and omg, I want to embark in one. The DF jungles just don't seem that epic since instead of massively tall trees and a canopy it's really just the occasional (not even all that dense) tree tile.

[Arkose]

That's because the soil as a 'water saturation' value, and plants and trees use up water.  To many close together, and there's not enough soil water to support them.

It's a very robust system that naturally leads to drier areas having less vegetation and wetter areas having more.

That's pretty brilliant: physically reasonable and efficently implementable.