Ice World: Can you grow trees under cover?

[BurgerKing]

Bottom Line: I dont like snow ruining the field, it makes walking slow and sometimes trapping the dwarfs. In Desert World, I can build a row of rocks to prevent sandstorm from ruining the field and trees will grow here. But in Ice World, I could not get trees to grow?

any ideas?

[mikeydsc]

Make sure that the dirt is above sea level and if you build up in sky can not be above 10 or so iirc. I make a roof of dirt in the sky and trees will grow below that. but also things will spawn in it too like yetis.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=326186096

[BurgerKing]

On Desert World, I can build covers and trees will grow under cover. (Been playing a lot of hours on Desert World). Of course the strip of land where I intend to grow trees is not below horizon. YET on desert world, trees grow inside the pit 10~20 blocks below the sea level.

But on Forest and Ice World, this does not seem to be the case. Hmmm... Perhaps, the game is factoring "sunlight"?

My intention for having cover is to:
#1. Prevent sandstorm from ripping the soil. using Rock blocks works as cover.
#2. For Ice World, it is to prevent Snow from covering the soil instead.
#3. For forest, there is no reason.
I just want to harvest trees on flat terrain (faster mobility).

[ehyder]

I have been able to grow trees under cover in all worlds. At least in the past I have; not tested in 1.0. Try kickstarting them with the growth spell once you get it. And make sure your surface is not underground, or too high in the air.

The trees growing below sea level may be a bug, or 'sea level' may not actually count as underground. Now I have to go check that out. I usually determine where the underground starts by knocking out background blocks. If sky shows then that level is above ground.

[smoothed]

I grew trees on top of lava with a layer of dirt,but stripmined everything above it.

[mikeydsc]

Originally posted by smoothed:

I grew trees on top of lava with a layer of dirt,but stripmined everything above it.

Just for curiousity I would like to see a screenshot of this. I have never ever heard of anyone growing trees that low before.(no sunlight)

[smoothed]

this one is down far
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=316167015
I didn't save a shot of it right on lava, i'll try and do it again.

[ehyder]

How far underground are those trees growing?

[smoothed]

bottom of dirt beginning of sand. Large world.

[mikeydsc]

Wow maybe its the slime torches giving off the needed bioluminesence? Haha
So there is nothing above as you strip mined everything? I tried that before and never got anything to grow, maybe I wasnt deep enough?

Do the waves spawn down there also? What about the goblin camp?

[smoothed]

They have to spawn down there.........there's no" up there" Nothing above, I did use magic forest though.

[mikeydsc]

Ahh that makes all the difference, they didnt grow naturally.

[smoothed]

Is any of this natural?.......lol

[BurgerKing]

Originally posted by smoothed:

I grew trees on top of lava with a layer of dirt,but stripmined everything above it.

I have seen this happen on my game also.

But when i want to grow trees with cover on top, it does not wanna (ice and forest worlds). using the magic forest skill is luck luster as well.

[smoothed]

Here ya go, trees on lava.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=368140367