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(Deprecated) Advanced Brewing Greenhouse

Advanced Agriculture fixes many of the issues encountered by this mod, with wild foraged plants retaining their native biomes while allowing all farmable plants to be planted in any arable biome ([BIOME:NOT_FREEZING].)

Changes brewable plant biomes to allow them to grow in all temperate and tropical biomes.
Changes underground plants to grow year-round.

This mod should be compatible with most other crop mods, as the changes are simple additions to the plant objects.

These changes are made due to the fact that plants can only be planted in farm plots if the farm plots are in that plant's native biome. This mod changes plants to accept any temperate or tropical biome as "native" (so they will also grow wild and can be foraged). With this mod, you can build a "greenhouse" to supply your taverns, or just ignore silly things like winter and grow plants year-round outdoors without protection. The choice for immersion is yours!

Sliver barb still requires evil surroundings to appear naturally, but seeds can be planted in any non-freezing biome.
Sun berry still requires good surroundings to appear naturally, but seeds can be planted in any non-freezing biome.
Whip vine still requires savage surroundings to appear naturally, but seeds can be planted in any non-freezing biome.

Sun berry and sliver barb are changed by Remove Plant Alignment, as these plants have to be re-written to remove their surroundings token, which can cause mod incompatibility. These plants are unavailable in trade due to elves missing a necessary entity token and humans not settling in areas they grow. Enhanced Trading fixes the issue that these plants are not traded by elves.

This mod is intended for use with Advanced Brewing and Advanced Milling.


!!WARNING!!: Due to the default fortress seed cap, seeds in your fortress stockpiles and farm plots may be deleted when merchants arrive with seeds. This is not due to this mod, but the mechanics of vanilla dwarf fortress. This is how it works:

Each species has a specific seed cap in vanilla of 200. Once this limit is reached, new seeds of that species cannot be produced by brewing, eating, or milling. However, you will still keep any seeds you have of that species, and you can go over this limit if you buy more of these seeds from merchants.

Your fortress has a total seed (all species) of 3,000. When this cap is reached, seeds are deleted starting from the oldest first, regardless of species or storage location. This includes seeds planted in farm plots. Seeds in merchant caravans also count towards this fortress limit as soon as they enter the map. If you are at or near the fortress cap of 3,000 seeds, and a merchant brings 300 seeds to offer, 300 of your already collected seeds will disappear, because your seeds are older than the seeds the merchant is bringing.

Some math: There are 157 species with seeds in vanilla Dwarf Fortress. The species seed cap is 200. The fortress seed cap is 3,000. You can safely farm only 15 (3,000/200) species of plants with the default settings. Furthermore, there is no safety cap for merchants, so if a merchant brings 200 seeds (of any type), you could potentially lose all of your seeds for one type of plant (including ones planted in farm plots).

To fix this, navigate to your Dwarf Fortress install folder (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress), go into the prefs folder, and find these lines:

[SPECIFIC_SEED_CAP:200]
[FORTRESS_SEED_CAP:3000]

Change the specific seed cap to something lower. The more varieties of plants you farm, the lower you can safely keep this and still produce enough food.

Change the fortress seed cap to something higher. I recommend [number of types of seeds in your game (vanilla is 157)] times [your chosen specific seed cap] + [buffer for merchant caravans (I'm not sure how many they can bring maximum)].

The settings I use are:
[SPECIFIC_SEED_CAP:30]
[FORTRESS_SEED_CAP:7000]

This effectively makes the fortress seed cap ignored by the game, allowing specific seed cap to be the determination of the maximum number of seeds you can store. I don't want to worry about losing the ability to grow entire species because of merchants showing up with extra seeds.

This isn't something that can be altered by a mod, or I would upload one to fix it.


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