Underground gardening?

[Echo Weaver]

I was reading through release notes for previous versions, and I found a detailed description of nerfs for underground gardening... which indicates that this is something that plenty of players were doing.

What makes underground gardening appealing?

Is it possible to get a lower temperature underground so that heat-sensitive crops can grow?

[Maelstrom]

It's more for cold climates.  Underground gardens at the right world height level can farm nearly all year round in the harshest of climates.

[Echo Weaver]

25 minutes ago, Maelstrom said:

It's more for cold climates.  Underground gardens at the right world height level can farm nearly all year round in the harshest of climates.

OK, that makes sense.

I assume underground temperatures tend to equalize, with a hotter surface leading to cooler temperatures underground and cold surface leading to the reverse?

Is underground gardening still effective at 19.x?

[Maelstrom]

I do not know.  I haven't done underground gardening.

For warm climates farming in the sky with Lucy (pardon the pun) will be more productive as temperatures drop with increased elevation.

[Brady_The]

15 minutes ago, Echoweaver said:

Is underground gardening still effective at 19.x?

That really depends on how you definite "effective". The wiki offers further information on this subject matter.

[Echo Weaver]

1 hour ago, Brady_The said:

That really depends on how you definite "effective". The wiki offers further information on this subject matter.

Right. That was the wiki entry that got me asking in the first place. It describes the new limits on underground farming, but it doesn't explain why one would want to do that or how much the original value of underground farming was reduced.

[Thorfinn]

Unless you are in polar, it's more hassle than it's worth. It's trivial to stock a cellar with so much food that in a few game-months, you will be working full time producing barrels to compost all the rot. 

[Krosis]

I am currently playing in the artic with underground farming on, and at y=1 I get arround +20°C compared to the surface. It makes a really big diference!

[Dandyroot]

On 10/25/2024 at 1:33 AM, Brady_The said:

That really depends on how you definite "effective". The wiki offers further information on this subject matter.

That part of the wiki talks about "levels" with respect to depth below sea level. in this case, does anyone know how deep one "level" is? is it one block to a level or is it more?

[Echo Weaver]

On 11/14/2024 at 9:08 PM, Dandyroot said:

That part of the wiki talks about "levels" with respect to depth below sea level. in this case, does anyone know how deep one "level" is? is it one block to a level or is it more?

I think a level is just a vertical row of blocks.