40d:Tower-cap

Tower-cap

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Biome
Subterranean water
Wet Dry
Graphic
No graphic
Properties
Deciduous	no
Density	600
Max trunk height	{{{max_trunk_height}}}
Max trunk diameter	{{{max_trunk_diameter}}}
Trunk branching	{{{trunk_branching}}}
Heavy branch radius	{{{heavy_branch_radius}}}
Branch radius	{{{branch_radius}}}
Root radius	{{{root_radius}}}
Heavy branch density	{{{heavy_branch_density}}}
Branch density	{{{branch_density}}}
Root density	{{{root_density}}}
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Tower-caps are a type of mushroom-like Template:L Template:L. Once fully grown, they can be designated for Template:L and produce tower-cap Template:Ls. Tower-caps will grow only if you have discovered an Template:L Template:L or Template:L. Such features can be located using the Template:L and on the local view during embarkation, if the relevant Template:L and Template:L parameters are set.

In order to prevent a tower-cap from growing (which you will want to do to prevent tower caps from blocking drainage floodgates), laying down Template:Ls, constructing Template:Ls or designating Template:Ls will prevent tower-cap growth.

As with normal trees, they take about 1 and a half years to fully grow.

Underground tree farms

1: If an underground river or pool has been discovered, tower-caps will start spontaneously growing in Template:L subterranean areas (rock or soil). Tower caps will also start growing in any subterranean soil, so long as that tile has either soil walls on the z-level directly beneath it (intact soil, not mined out), or there is a muddied tile within 2 tiles on the same z-level. Muddied soil has a denser production than dry soil. (Note: it is unconfirmed whether tower caps will appear throughout the map or only in the same biome that the underground water is in. See talk page for details.)

2: This basically means that if the underground area is irrigated, there is a much better chance of getting tower caps to grow there.

3: The distance or Template:L to the underground river does not matter. Simply discovering an underground pool or river is enough. (does not work if you use reveal.exe)

4: It is thus possible to make a (big) safe underground chamber where your dwarves may harvest wood without exposing themselves to the dangers of the surface world.

5: Harvesting tower caps will anger the elves just like normal wood harvesting.

To design a tower-cap "farm", refer also to the Template:L article.

Beware that young tower caps, like young Template:Ls, are fragile and will be quickly killed if repeatedly walked upon.

Raws
[MATGLOSS_WOOD:GIANT_SHROOM] [NAME:tower-cap][ADJ:tower-cap] [TILE:5] [PREFSTRING:great size] [WET][DRY] [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER] [SOLID_DENSITY:600]

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