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[Sithlordz]

OK, I've got my farmer dwarf, and a farm.  Plump helmets all year round, but he isn't planting seeds.  He goes to no job, after planting one seed, and then everyone starves.    

I've deconstructed the farm, and the farmer has no hauling labours on so I see not why he wouldn't want to farm.

Edit: I also have a woodworker/farmer and metalworker with the farming labour on.    Still no plants.

Edit: Made plots in a new place.  Seems to be working now, strange.

[ April 14, 2008: Message edited by: Sithlordz ]

[ April 14, 2008: Message edited by: Sithlordz ]

[Cavalcadeofcats]

Had you built your farm plots on arable soil? (That is, either sand/loam or irrigated stone?)

Were the farm plots entirely indoors?

Had monkeys made away with all your seeds, cackling gleefully as they scampered off the map?

Any of those could affect matters.

[Sowelu]

Hm.  What happens if a farm is straddling two biomes, only one of which can have plump helmets?

[GreyMario]

Plump helmets grow anywhere underground as long as a farm plot can be built there.

[Derakon]

According to the wiki, a farm plot that is both underground and aboveground will only use whatever half is appropriate for the seeds you've selected. Biomes don't enter into it; any aboveground seed can be grown so long as you're aboveground, whether you're in a glacier or a desert or whatever; ditto for underground plants.

[ikkonoishi]

quote:Originally posted by Derakon:
<STRONG>According to the wiki, a farm plot that is both underground and aboveground will only use whatever half is appropriate for the seeds you've selected. Biomes don't enter into it; any aboveground seed can be grown so long as you're aboveground, whether you're in a glacier or a desert or whatever; ditto for underground plants.</STRONG>

Nothing grows outside in freezing climates.