Underground Farming Tutorial? EDIT: DERP I KNOW NOW

[Goralight]

Can someone please explain to me how underground farming works? Any tips and hints would be a world of help too because I have'nt a bloody clue!

[Zumomo]

you can only plant mushroom on an underground farm.

and you need an underground area which was flooded with water and so created mud piles ;)

[Julianos]

you create a room underground near a lake, you open the wall to the lake and your room become partially flooded and can now be used for mushroom, the mud musn't see the sun, don't open the roof

you can also dig hole line every 3 tile,at level 0 at -1 you open a room around this tile and wait the the rain to fall in the hole, the rain will make mud around the holes, but the sun win dry it under the hole but not around

[Goralight]

Thank you both very much :)

[Blarint]

A third way is to use a body of water, flood a room one level lower than the lowest bit of water, and then build your farm room above. dig the floor above the room full of water, and you will flood the farm. then just replace floor and mine out more wall to drain.

[SilverRose]

But what about mushroom seeds?

[Tarot1970]

When your kingdom is advanced enough (somewhere around 50000 KW), the merchants will start bringing the seeds.

[SilverRose]

well poo then, :P

I don't even think I've had a kingdom last that long XD

[4zero4]

I think I have a bug where I have prepared an area properly for mushroom farm, and I have plenty of seeds in stock, but my gnomes won't plant any mushrooms!

[tlparry]

Your gnomes cannot plant mushrooms if the soil was not turned into mud. The dicussion here is on three ways you can flood your fields before planting.

[SilverRose]

no its like around 15k not 50k for the mushroom seeds.

[Thorgrimm]

you can also make a rainpool it looks ugly but it works
ramp down a 7x7 on lvl 0
ramp down a 5x5 on lvl -1 in the unramped square
ramp down a 3x3 on lvl -2 in the unramped square
ramp down a 1x1 on lvl -3 in the unramped square
dig hole on the ramp on lvl -4
mine a 3x3 room with the midlle tile under the rainpool
designate it as an underground farm you will have a 8 tile farm
the rain will flow down the ramp to the farm, you could make it from the 3x3 step on lvl 0 but rain is randomly generated and it could happen that no rain will fall into your rainpool

i noticed by excavating, that with an enough deep ramp you can create a new pool of water so i tried it with mushrooms, both work