Planting grass

[mfj]

So I've levelled some ground and want to plant grass back down to make it look nicer. Problem is the way it plants is in a circle, and the circle is, wrong. It plants grass beyond that circle and I keep growing grass through my deck/slidewalk: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2919810848

I've tried digging underneath the walk and then planting the grass so it doesn't actually grow it through the thing but it leaves a gap between the ground and the wood. Do I just keep planting the grass until I manage to get it perfect or is there a better way of doing this?

Thank you

[mfj]

oh and if I wasn't clear I'm just trying to have the grass line up with the sidewalk perfectly, not going through the floor but not having an area without grass

[Renlish]

With this game, the "near enough is good enough" way of thinking is the way to go. You will never really get it to match up perfectly. At least not on purpose.

My biggest tip: IGNORE the circle. It's a guide only. The grass/ground will feather out past that.

I would use beams to mark out the perimeter of your grassy area, then carefully put the grass in. Start in the middle and move in very small increments towards the sides to get the grass to butt up to the beams. You can then use the hoe to re-flatten any spots that go over on the other side of the beams but again, you have to move in very small increments to avoid removing the grass you've just carefully placed.

[mfj]

Originally posted by Renlish:

With this game, the "near enough is good enough" way of thinking is the way to go. You will never really get it to match up perfectly. At least not on purpose.

My biggest tip: IGNORE the circle. It's a guide only. The grass/ground will feather out past that.

I would use beams to mark out the perimeter of your grassy area, then carefully put the grass in. Start in the middle and move in very small increments towards the sides to get the grass to butt up to the beams. You can then use the hoe to re-flatten any spots that go over on the other side of the beams but again, you have to move in very small increments to avoid removing the grass you've just carefully placed.

Okay I'll go with that, thank you for the response :)

It's a shame you can't scroll up or down to change the affected area with the hoe and cultivator. I'm working with real limited space and when I go to re-flatten I end up getting rid of too much grass, as the perimeter is so big. Thanks again

[M.Red]

yea,its sometimes fiddly to plant gras along a line
the grass is placed in a kind of square and rolls along the invisible grid
sometimes it woks if you place a patch near the edge and then move in in little steps. the results may be not completely optimal but mostly good enough

[Krieger]

Try placing grass and then using the cultivate soil option? It doesn't feather much, like cultivate under the path

[mfj]

Originally posted by Bobisme:

Try placing grass and then using the cultivate soil option? It doesn't feather much, like cultivate under the path

I don't have enough space so it ends up removing too much grass, unless I'm misunderstanding. I gave up on that though because I don't really like the look of the grass, just gonna add some bushes and trees

[NiceGuy]

Gras will also grow on it's own on plain dirt if you did not make it a path. It just takes some days to grow.

[mfj]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

Gras will also grow on it's own on plain dirt if you did not make it a path. It just takes some days to grow.

I didn't know that. Would placing down a workbench stop this? Because I haven't seen any grass grow back anywhere I've built at

[NiceGuy]

Workbench does not prevent the growing but it needs to be plain dirt no path. That's what the "path" feature is good for in the hoe setting, it prevents grass from growing.

[Dwarflord]

Unless spontaneous grass growth only happens in meadows or takes over 100 game days to occur, I'm going to say this is demonstrably false.

[jonnin]

I have not had grass regrow in unmodded game in 600+ days.
pathen is supposed to kill spawns. It does not always --- you get the occasional rock/branch/dandilion in it. Paving also lets those things through at times.
Planting grass is the way to get it back if you pick by accident or hoe the wrong way or whatever, and plant grass also fixes 'dirty snow' in the mountains and similar things elsewhere. Plant grass really means 'put back to default', leaving pathen (dirt without grass), paved (small fitted rocks roman road style texture), cultivate (rich black dirt texture), pick (similar to pathen), and so on for your terrain painting choices. Most of them are hard to control for precise looks.

[knighttemplar1960]

The hoe is not a fine tuned tool but the pick can be. If it were me I would remove the wooden floor tiles, raise terrain where the wooden tiles were, then plant the grass, use the pick to reflatten the raised earth, and replace the wooden floor tiles (or better, use stone tiles instead of the wooden floor tiles).