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[Halnoth]

So, using dfliquids I have found a way to get grass, shrubs, and trees to grow at the top of towers or really anywhere you want. Below are the steps you need to take to do so;

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Step 1: Move the obsidian entry from inorganic_stone_layer to inorganic_stone_soil and change it to the following;

[INORGANIC:OBSIDIAN]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:obsidian][DISPLAY_COLOR:2:7:0][TILE:142]
[LAVA]
[SOIL]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1600]

You can leave the color as the default obsidian one but I changed it to peat for looks.

Step 2: Paint obsidian directly 1 z level below where you want the grass. You have to have this base layer of soil for the grass to grow.

Step 3: Build ramps or something to access this new layer so you can paint an additional obsidian layer on top of the first one. Also, you need the ramps for the next step.

Step 4: Mine out the top obsidian layer.

Step 5: Construct floors over the new obsidian floor.

Step 6: Deconstruct the floors you just built. You need to do this step and the last step because for some reason grass will not grow on the naked obsidian and by constructing/deconstructing floors the tile is changed to the predominant soil type in your area. Obviously you need to make sure that this type is not also obsidian.

Additional information;

I think this requires a world regen but I am not sure. This could also be done easier if someone modified dfliquids to also draw say peat and you added the lava tag to peat. As well obviously the cons of this are that you can’t use obsidian as a stone or at least not the way I did it. Someone better at editing raws might be able to allow both but I have no idea if it would still allow grass to grow. Someone will need to do additional testing if they want to keep obsidian as a stone. Additionally, for some reason no matter what I did grass would not grow if I made the obsidian from mixing magma and water, you have to directly paint it.

[Halnoth]

Bumpin this because I have seen alot of people asking about this lately.

[MarcAFK]

I wonder if this works

[Halnoth]

It does you can see pictures of it in action in this thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69186.30

Why would I post this if it didn't work? This isn't just an idea, I've used it... alot.

[MarcAFK]

Uh, i dunno i'm tired, i should have said, i wonder if it works without regen

[Lamphare]

hum...
it's promising
but i still want obsidian as stone
*sigh*

[Halnoth]

Yes it requires a regen.

You can make anything have a stone with [IS_STONE] but I can't say if you would still produce the results since I haven't tested it.

[Lamphare]

yes anything would be considered as stone with [IS_STONE] tag,
but then it seems [SOIL] overrides [IS_STONE] i.e. modding bosidian with both of the tags produce a world where obsidian is soil....mining it does not end up with stones(talented miner mining out 100 obsidian tiles)
but it can be smoothed and engraved.

alas, i guess the only tradeoff is obsidian weapons, and maybe other obsidian items.

well custom reaction turning other stone into obsidian could help. *Alchemist*