User:Bjh21/Seismic botany

These are the experimental logs of the seismic botany department at Paintbridged, decicated to discovering what happens to plants in cave-ins.

General experimental set-up

The general arrangement was to take a patch of land with vegetation, mine underneath it, erect a support underneath connected to a lever, channel around the edge of the area, retreat to a safeish distance and pull the lever. The contents of each map tile were recorded before and after the cave-in.

Experiment 1: surface vegetation

Video recording

Before		After
~	Furrowed peat	~	Furrowed peat
'	dolomite	'	dolomite
τ	Cedar Sapling	,	peat
,	Dense grama	,	Grass
≥	Dense grama	'	Grass
≥	dolomite A pile of vomit	`	dolomite
,	peat	,	peat
,	Dense knotgrass	,	Grass
'	Dense dropseed grass	'	Sparse floor fungus <from layer below>
`	grama	`	Grass
≥	Dense knotgrass	,	Grass
'	Dense dropseed grass	.	Grass
τ	Dead Cedar Sapling	.	peat
"	Shrub	.	peat
≤	Dense grama	.	Grass
.	dolomite Pebbles	.	dolomite Pebbles
↨	Cedar	`	peat
'	Dense grama	.	Grass <young tower-cap below>
τ	Pine Sapling	.	peat
τ	Pine Sapling	/	{≡wombat bone bolt≡} {≡wombat bone bolt≡} peat
'	dolomite Pebbles	'	dolomite Pebbles
`	Dense dropseed grass	`	Grass
'	Dense meadow-grass	.	Grass
τ	Dense arrow bamboo	'	Grass
ƒ	Dense arrow bamboo	,	Grass
.	Dense knotgrass	.	Sparse cave moss <from lower layer>
τ	Dense arrow bamboo	`	Grass
,	Dense meadow-grass	,	Grass
,	Dense grama	,	Grass
[	X(sheep leather left mitten)X X(sheep leather right mitten)X Dead Shrub	,	peat

Experiment 2: underground plants on the surface

Video recording

before				after
above		below
~	Furrowed peat	'	dolomite Cavern floor	~	Furrowed peat
'	dolomite	.	dolomite Cavern floor	'	dolomite
,	peat	,	dolomite Cavern floor	,	peat
,	Grass	'	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass
'	Grass	.	dolomite Cavern floor	'	Grass
`	dolomite	`	dolomite Cavern floor	`	dolomite
,	peat	,	dolomite Cavern floor	,	peat
,	Grass	,	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass
'	Sparse floor fungus	'	dolomite Cavern floor	.	Grass
`	Grass	`	dolomite Cavern floor	`	Grass
,	Grass	`	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass
.	Grass	'	dolomite Cavern floor	.	Grass
.	peat	.	dolomite Cavern floor	.	peat
.	peat	`	dolomite Cavern floor	.	peat
.	Grass	,	dolomite Cavern floor	.	Grass
.	dolomite Pebbles	'	dolomite Cavern floor	.	dolomite Pebbles
`	peat	,	dolomite Cavern floor	/	{yak bone bolt} peat
.	Grass	'	dolomite Cavern floor	.	Grass
[	X(pig tail fiber left mitten)X peat	`	dolomite Cavern floor	.	peat
/	{≡wombat bone bolt≡} {≡wombat bone bolt≡} peat	.	dolomite Cavern floor	`	peat
'	dolomite Pebbles	`	dolomite Cavern floor	'	dolomite Pebbles
`	Grass	.	dolomite Cavern floor	`	Grass
.	Grass	,	dolomite Cavern floor	.	Grass
'	Grass	`	dolomite Cavern floor	'	Grass
,	Grass	,	dolomite Cavern floor	/	{≡wombat bone bolt≡} {≡wombat bone bolt≡} Grass
.	Sparse cave moss	I	cedar Support dolomite Cavern floor	'	Grass
`	Grass	'	dolomite Cavern floor	[	X(sheep leather right mitten)X Grass
,	Grass	`	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass
,	Grass	'	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass
ƒ	Sparse arrow bamboo	.	dolomite Cavern floor	,	Grass

Experiment 4: a proper test in the caverns

This experiment was conducted in the second layer of caverns, 62 z-levels below the surface, on 7th Malachite, 262. A 10×10 area of mixed underground vegetation was undermined and dropped by one z-level.