Plants grow inside.

[Daddy Kon]

I have a room, all concrete with a steel door. It has 2 'square frame' blocks I use as windows. I put down a farm plot and planted pumpkins just to screw around. The plants grow inside. Do they just grow inside now or is it the window?


Thank you.

[seven]

It's the window. Even a 1 block square window will let a number of plants grown, in a triangle pattern.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2931304713

[Tahnval]

Is it me or is that triangle the wrong way round? Shouldn't the narrowest point be at the window? Probably not a triangle either, but that's explained by simplification and everything being blocks.

[seven]

I believe it is just calculating distance from the light source, not where light would shine. If we had individual plant and not blocks it would probably be closer to a half circle in shape.

[Daddy Kon]

Originally posted by seven:

It's the window. Even a 1 block square window will let a number of plants grown, in a triangle pattern.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2931304713

Thank you. Now I know.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by seven:

I believe it is just calculating distance from the light source, not where light would shine. If we had individual plant and not blocks it would probably be closer to a half circle in shape.

This. It's not a triangle, it's a diamond shape. If you let in light from above, you'd get the full diamond. And it 100% is just calculating Horizontal distance specifically from the block where there is light.

[Sr Humungus]

If want to build underground (or inside a building) a farm (and if the mechanic didnt change), you can.

You'll need a sun source not a light source, to let you plants grow, and each "square" of sun light, let grow plants from a 6x6 squares radius, so, knowing this, if you want an efficient farm inside your house or underground, make an square hole to let sun go in (no matter how much depth you want it or in surface), and put a 6x6 farm plots (like the diamond shape, but 360º).

Things you must know:

Check how many squares the plants will grow up, not the same a potato, a coffee plant or a yuca plant, each plant will grow to different squares up (1,2 and 3).

Careful if you build inside your base, plants fully grown adds extra weight, and can collapse your base without reason.

Each sun square is for 6x6 square radius, if you wont respect this, outside plants wont grow, so, if the idea is to make a big farm think how many sun squares you'll need.

And if you want an underground farm, from each sun square at the surface, build an small tower of blocks around it, why? to not let zombies enter your farm.