Plains Dot

[Zep Tepi]

I found a very nice area for a base. It's an open meadow area bordered by a rich swamp, a black forest with lots of crypts and a trader, and a mountain with three frost caves. It also has one tiny dot of plains, although there are more plains around the mountain.

I'm wondering if I would be able to make a safe plains farm there, but I don't see any plains when I'm on the ground. I only see it on the map. The green meadow grass meets the mountain snow and there's nothing of the plains to be seen. Do you think I can get it to work if I flatten the terrain to reset it a bit? I already put a workbench down to be safe.

If anyone wants to build here the seed is nfemVPwfyW

It's a good seed with everything nearby but not all on the starting island.

[KingKickAss]

You might have to sacrifice a few flax or barely trying to make it work. Check what biome you're in as you walk around the area since the minimap might be a little misleading. You'll know the moment you plant something if you can or not.

I made my plains farm right on the edge of the biome and I don't think I've had a single plains monster come mess with it. I didn't even build anything, just tilled the area, planted flax and left.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

I found a very nice area for a base. It's an open meadow area bordered by a rich swamp, a black forest with lots of crypts and a trader, and a mountain with three frost caves. It also has one tiny dot of plains, although there are more plains around the mountain.

I'm wondering if I would be able to make a safe plains farm there, but I don't see any plains when I'm on the ground. I only see it on the map. The green meadow grass meets the mountain snow and there's nothing of the plains to be seen. Do you think I can get it to work if I flatten the terrain to reset it a bit? I already put a workbench down to be safe.

If anyone wants to build here the seed is nfemVPwfyW

It's a good seed with everything nearby but not all on the starting island.

If you see it on the map it's usually there but if its a measley one pixel in size, the amount of land then for you to use for farming upon is going to be extremely small and not going to meaningfully be helpful.

I suggest finding a map with a bit larger set of pixels of plains for your purposes.

As for making it safe, plains mobs wont spawn if you pepper the area with workbenches etc of course.

Also that dot is right on the coast as well and may be partially submerged given its small size.

I've a seed with a decent sized plains sliver nestled on the slope of a mountain biome and that of a black forest one. It had mobs spawning at first but once I teraformed the slope to be more flat(2 terraced) and put many benches and structures around/in the spot, I've not had any mobs spawning for hundreds of days there and I've space enough for hundreds of crops to grow if I so choose.

[jonnin]

Just be sure that your anti-spawn blankets the whole thing if you don't want any plains enemy to pop up. My home is like this, but I let the plains enemy spawn to keep the riffraff out... they are most excellent at farming boar, deer, necks, grey dwarves, skeletons, blobs, trolls... anything that comes along is murdered every night. Its glorious. If you need loot beyond this, smack a rock with your fists or something to make noise :)

[Foxglovez]

One thing to think about is if you have no enemies you also wont get easy loot. Popping a few skeetoes every day, plinking the 2-3 lox hanging about, and even fulings will increase your bow skills and give you lots of pies & needle arrows. You just need decent earthen walls and a little ditch around your base there. And your idea of making the base at a convergence of biomes is a good one. Makes events pretty fun.