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Dirt varies in color to match the rock layer directly below it. With grass covered areas, it may be hard to notice a transition between dirt colors, but the transition is much more obvious in areas with dry grass or cliffs with exposed dirt. The color of dirt has no effect on the nutrient content once tilled into farmland.
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Dirt varies in color to match the rock layer directly below it. With grass covered areas, it may be hard to notice a transition between dirt colors, but the transition is much more obvious in areas with cliffs with exposed dirt. The color of dirt has no effect on the nutrient content once tilled into farmland.
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Dirt will grow with grass on top of it, which in very dry areas will become Dry Grass, which has a rich yellow-brown color.
  
 
=== Nutrients ===
 
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Revision as of 16:24, 14 September 2020

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Dirt75.gif Dirt & Grass

Appearance

Dirt varies in color to match the rock layer directly below it. With grass covered areas, it may be hard to notice a transition between dirt colors, but the transition is much more obvious in areas with cliffs with exposed dirt. The color of dirt has no effect on the nutrient content once tilled into farmland.

Dirt will grow with grass on top of it, which in very dry areas will become Dry Grass, which has a rich yellow-brown color.

Nutrients

Farmland, also known as soil, contains three basic nutrients for crops. By using the water and nutrient modes on a metal hoe, the Player can get a visual indicator on the plots of the nutrient levels and the access to water.

Nutrients are diminished by growing crops in the soil and are replenished over time by either letting the plots "fallow" for a season or by planting your crops in cycles, choosing a crop that has a different nutrient requirement than the ones that are depleted in the earth. Dirt blocks will have no nutrients when tilled, while grass blocks will have full nutrients.

Drops

Dirt blocks will usually drop dirt items of the corresponding kind. There is also a small chance of a clay ball dropping instead of a dirt block. Grass blocks have a larger chance of dropping a clay ball.

Clay Variants2.gif Clay

Main article: Clay

Sand75.gif Sand

Sand is found along riverbeds and oceans and in deserts near the equator, as well as in small patches on the ground, more commonly in drier areas.

Appearance

Sand varies in color to match the rock layer directly below it. This can be useful to determine when the surface rock layer changes along the ocean floor.

Usage

Sand can be used in Sluices, where it is more likely to return gems than ores. It will provide 20 soil when thrown into a sluice, or the block can be placed underneath a water source, in a river or ocean biome, and right clicked on with a Gold Pan.

Certain sands (Quartzite, Granite, Chert, Rhyollite, or Phyllite) are high in silica and can be used as an ingredient in Glassworking. These Sands will display a tooltip indicating them as Silica Sand.

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Gravel is found along riverbeds and oceans, as well as in small patches on the ground, more commonly in drier areas and underneath dirt in many areas. It's primary use is in Roads, where it is placed on a dirt road before it can be mortared. It is also used in Sluices, where it is more likely to return ores than gems. It will provide 20 soil when thrown into a sluice, or the block can be placed underneath a water source, in a river or ocean biome, and right clicked on with a Gold Pan.

Gravel may also drop flint when mined, which is used to make Flint & Steel. It can be mined faster with a Shovel.

Peat.png Peat

Peat spawns in dirt below or equal to a y-level of 146, often spawning in swamps. It can be used as fuel in a fire-pit. Like dirt and clay, grass can grow on top of peat, therefore hiding the texture and making it harder to find. It can be used as a very low temperature, but long-burning fuel in firepits.

Gravity

Unlike in vanilla minecraft, dirt, grass, cobblestone and gravel are all affected by gravity. This means that without a block underneath them, they will fall similarly to vanilla sand. When grass starts falling it will turn into dirt.

Gravity in TFC is also different from vanilla gravity. Blocks affected by gravity cannot be used to form walls or pillars because they will fall over into piles unless they are supported by any other blocks on at least three sides.

Undergrowth, Shrubs, and Bushes

Undergrowth, Shrubs, and Bushes are small plants that drop sticks and straw when broken with an axe or with an empty hand. There are two varieties of Undergrowth, a leafy passable "carpet", and a small impassable plant. Undergrowth spawns in forests, while shrubs and bushes spawn more often in drier temperate areas. Like the second type of undergrowth, shrubs and bushes are impassable small plants. They serve to decorate the world and to round out the terrain.

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