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v0.34:Mud
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Mud is a coating produced when you flood an area with water. Mud covers floors, coloring the tile brown. Mud acts as a contaminant, and will harmlessly coat items and creatures exposed to it.
Note: Upon reclaiming a fortress, every single bit of mud will disappear.
Uses for Mud
Mud provides a fertile medium for the growth of plants and trees; A mud coating will allow plants to sprout on rock tiles where they normally wouldn't grow. Plants will spring up naturally on muddy tiles if you have breached the caverns, and farms can be placed on muddy tiles.
Getting Mud
Mud occurs naturally in deep caverns, and is left behind by Water. See Irrigation for more in-depth information.
Creatures exposed to mud will tend to spread it around like any other contaminant, although not in a way that is useful for irrigation.
Getting rid of Mud
Dwarves will sometimes attempt to clean muddy tiles, but only if they have the Cleaning labor enabled, and only if the mud is on a smoothed or constructed floor, and only if they feel like it, which is almost never. Dwarven mud cleaning behavior is inconsistent at best, and should not be depended on.
A more proactive way of removing mud is to construct something over the mud (Perhaps a large, cheap building like a kennel?), then deconstruct it, or smooth/engrave the tile. Mud on soil is removed easily by constructing a dirt road.
For players with too much bravery on their hands, magma will also wash away mud.
Dwarves will use water sources and soap to clean mud and other contaminants off of themselves. This process (and contamination in general) has been the subject of numerous bugs, and may still a bit shaky, so don't expect your dwarves to be clean any time soon. Fortunately, a mud coating is harmless to both creatures and items.
Other fascinating information about mud
While water leaves "a dusting of mud", the floors of underground pools in caverns are covered in "a pile of mud" which causes water drawn from them to be "laced with mud".
Titans, forgotten beasts, and demons are occasionally made of mud. Due to a bug, killing them results in a glitchy liquid "pool of" instead of a solid "pile of mud".Bug:2548
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[MATERIAL:MUD] - reconstructed from data extracted from memory
[STATE_COLOR:ALL:BROWN]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:mud]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_POWDER:dirt]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:SOLID_PRESSED:pressed dirt]
[BASIC_COLOR:6:0]
[BUILD_COLOR:6:0:0]
[TILE_COLOR:7:7:1]
[SPEC_HEAT:800]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1200] |