Farms only have a leave fallow option

[Darkside99x]

Sometimes for no reason I can tell my subterranean farms lose all planting options.

I had 2 such farms providing all my needs for 5 years and decided to expand for variety and shortly after all 7 farms gradually started losing all planting options until I dismantled one and had to remuddy the floor which allowed planting in the rebuilt farm and any adjacent farm the water touched.

I was under the impression that subterranean farms were a one and done thing with regards to irrigation, did that change at some point and if so what determines it as my original farms ran for years without more water?

Or is this a bug?

[Owl]

They have to have access to plantable seeds, try making a stock pile with seeds near by

[Darkside99x]

I have all of the usual things up and running, as I said I had the first two farms running for 5 years.

What I want to know is it normal for the farms to lose all options to plant for any normal reason.

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

I have all of the usual things up and running, as I said I had the first two farms running for 5 years.

What I want to know is it normal for the farms to lose all options to plant for any normal reason.

This sounds like a bug, I don't think farms have ever needed irrigating like that.

How far underground are you? Could dying trees on the surface be getting those plots marked as outside, limiting what can be grown there?

[Darkside99x]

5 levels down so I don't think that's likely,

Chalking it up to a bug at this point.

Cheers guys.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

Chalking it up to a bug at this point.

More likely it's your own error.

[Darkside99x]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

Chalking it up to a bug at this point.

More likely it's your own error.

Very helpful, thanks.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

Originally posted by AlP:

More likely it's your own error.

Very helpful, thanks.

If you want help, you need to provide information instead of "chalking it up to a bug".

[Darkside99x]

Can you read?

I'd try that first.

All relevant information is in the original post and following post.

I asked a yes/no question as to whether something was a function within the game now not how farming works.

[AlP]

No relevant information is in any of your posts. Only things that YOU think are relevant.

[Darkside99x]

As a someone asking a specific question, that's kind of how that works.

[MadDawg2552]

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Irrigation

"Once your floor is successfully muddied, no further irrigation will be required, unless you somehow accidentally remove the mud (by building a constructed floor or chopping down a tree, for instance)."

[AlP]

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

As a someone asking a specific question, that's kind of how that works.

Deciding that something is a bug is not how that works.

[Darkside99x]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Irrigation

"Once your floor is successfully muddied, no further irrigation will be required, unless you somehow accidentally remove the mud (by building a constructed floor or chopping down a tree, for instance)."

Yeah, thats what I had been working with.

A few minor things have changed with the latest version though and was just making sure this hadn't.

For further novelty on this issue when I remuddied the floor for the final two farms the area is now covered in the blood of creatures that died on the surface 5 levels up and years past in game.

I'm just going to leave the screwpumps set up this time as it has so far 100% fixed the issue when I rewater the areas affected.

Cheers.

[Johnny]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Darkside99x:

As a someone asking a specific question, that's kind of how that works.

Deciding that something is a bug is not how that works.

Do you need a hug buddy?

[rkjesseryu]

You don't have a hole above your farm do you? Like you chop a tree down above a floor and now it's sunlight and you can't plant mushrooms in sun.