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EspritFort

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Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« on: March 07, 2011, 05:36:00 pm »
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I built an elaborate pipe system for the various needs for water in my fortress. One pipe is now blocked by a fungiwood - did I just forget to smooth that one floor tile or does smoothing not help at all and I have to drain the whole system to construct "artificial" floors instead?
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 05:39:29 pm »
The answer is... umm...

You need constructed floors to prevent plant growth, yeah. Pretty annoying when I learned that too, the same way.
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 05:51:05 pm »
You could also designate custom stockpiles with nothing enabled in them over the areas, trees will not mature under stockpiles.  This does have the drawback of not displaying water levels (the water just shows the normal tile when on a stockpile), but that is not too much of an issue.
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 05:51:10 pm »
I think you can make it a stockpile that accepts no goods and get the same effect without any building.

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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 05:53:26 pm »
paved road prevent tree, but flooor does not prevent it
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 06:05:25 pm »
Quote from: gtmattz on March 07, 2011, 05:51:05 pm
You could also designate custom stockpiles with nothing enabled in them over the areas, trees will not mature under stockpiles.  This does have the drawback of not displaying water levels (the water just shows the normal tile when on a stockpile), but that is not too much of an issue.

Hm.. the obvious advantage of this solution seems to be that I apparently can apply it retroactively without having to drain the system, right?
Still need to get rid of that one fungiwood though ._.
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 07:43:48 pm »
Any building or construction will prevent trees from growing in a tile.  Floors, fortifications, stairs, grates, statues, roads, and any other such thing.  Designating stockpiles will as well.  Smoothing will not prevent trees from growing.
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2011, 10:45:53 pm »
Quote from: Krinogen on March 07, 2011, 05:53:26 pm
paved road prevent tree, but flooor does not prevent it

Constructed floors very much do prevent natural plant growth.
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 01:28:43 am »
Engraving will not prevent trees from growing, either. And if a tree does grow it actually destroys the engraving, potentially wrecking masterpieces. Of course, at the rate legendary engravers spam masterpieces losing one or two barely registers on their happiness meter so it isn't a terribly big deal. (Unhappiness caused by masterpiece loss is inversely proportional to how many masterpieces that dwarf has made -- losing a dwarf's sole masterpiece is a quick trip to the loony bin but losing one of a thousand is no concern.)
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2011, 11:09:36 am »
You can also make the channel 2 zlvelves or just block the flow every few years and harvest your wood :)
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Re: Smoothing floors doesn't prevent trees to grow there if made wet
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2011, 11:24:07 am »
Fortifications actually have one other special feature - they don't get muddy.
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