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[Fanklok]

I updated to 31.12 today from 28.something and started a new fortress and dug out a big area for indoor farming, when I went to plant stuff it said I didn't have any seeds I could plant even though I have Plump Helmet spawn (they're siting one square away from a farm plot). What do I do?

[Quietust]

Add water to make mud.

[Fanklok]

Well that makes me feel silly, how exactly do I do that? I'm still not used to this new more complicated version.

[dragonshardz]

I have a similar problem; I've muddied the farms plots and all was well for a year, but when the next year came the farm plots when from red (muddied) to brown (unmuddied) and have been so ever since. I remuddied them and the same things happened. What's going on?

[bcd1024]

Well that makes me feel silly, how exactly do I do that? I'm still not used to this new more complicated version.

Water + ground = mud

There's several ways. Easiest is to dig a cavern three tiles away from a pond. Put a floodgate and fortification in the two tiles next to your plot. The third tile you can channel from above (the next highest z level). Lift floodgate to flood, close floodgate to stop flooding. Since you don't want more than 1/7 water per tile, it may help to build a drainage channel.

You can always create a room above your desired farm, channel the center out, set it to be a pond, and your dwarfs will manually fill it with water by way of buckets. (This way sucks).

There's a lot more creative ways, I love U-tubes but suffice it to say, get water to your soil and it will muddy.

[LuckyLuigi]

I have a similar problem; I've muddied the farms plots and all was well for a year, but when the next year came the farm plots when from red (muddied) to brown (unmuddied) and have been so ever since. I remuddied them and the same things happened. What's going on?

Did you smooth the stone ? Then the dwarves will helpfully clean the mud away again

[dragonshardz]

...Fuck.

[gtmattz]

...Fuck.

all is not lost.  simply build some floors over the area and then deconstruct them, the floor should be reverted to its un-smoothed state, so you can re-muddy and then remember not to smooth it again 

[Zidane]

I do two things, I drain ponds and just use the empty pond as a farm, or I breach a cavarn, and very quickly find a large patch of mud, and then completely wall and floor it off.

[dragonshardz]

Actually, I just had it designated for smoothing. I just undesignated it and boom, problem solved.

[Hans Lemurson]

Recently I've taken to breaching the caverns and then digging out wide swathes of underground soil and then just gathering the plants.  It better simulates the large areas of land that should be necessary to feed a dwarven fortress. Unfortunately this results in an excessive number of dimple-cups which can't be made into anything useful.

[Zidane]

Recently I've taken to breaching the caverns and then digging out wide swathes of underground soil and then just gathering the plants.  It better simulates the large areas of land that should be necessary to feed a dwarven fortress. Unfortunately this results in an excessive number of dimple-cups which can't be made into anything useful.

I do the same thing, but for tower-caps, during sieges.

It takes forever to did though.

[Hans Lemurson]

Yes, it does have a certain synergy with training up a new batch of legendary miners.