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Author Topic: Trees or plants in the underhive?  (Read 3763 times)

Offline DegenerateElite

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2018, 01:02:03 PM »
The rich import their food.

Everyone else eats fungus and corpse starch.


Mushroom filled fungus grottoes would be pretty awesome too.  In fact, most of that wouldn't be too far off some fantasy cavern type stuff.

Offline 3 fingers

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2018, 06:18:36 PM »
Algae farms?

Offline Wachaza

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2018, 11:17:07 PM »
Vats of yeast or algae, insect, invertebrate and mushroom farms on rotten food, human waste or corpses, hydroponics, tissue cultures for animal protein would all work without natural light. Only the edges of the hive would have the light to grow "proper" vegetables and crops and using those plants to support actual meat animals would be the height of conspicuous consumption decadence.

Offline Timotl

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2018, 08:25:51 PM »
Peppercorns, when painted, look great as “snowball” type mushrooms and are easy as can be....

Offline Bahir

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2018, 05:25:33 PM »
All great suggestions guys. I think I'll start with some 'shrooms.

Offline beefcake

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2018, 07:04:44 PM »
What about some sort of predatory plantlife like the venus flytrap that gets sustenance from things it. I reckon that would give some diversity from fungus. And as Jim says, spores. Maybe some huge version of the soores from alien covenant.


Offline Grimmnar

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2018, 05:20:02 AM »
I did. It depends on how big you want your mushrooms.

A disc of plasticard. Drill a hole in the centre and add a length of wire through it. Secure the wire... you now have a stem and crown.
Pad out the wire, with putty, to the thickness you want the stalk to be and let it dry.
Put a thin layer of putty around the underside of the disk and then mark it (like spokes from the centre, outward), with a sculpting tool... let it dry.
Add as much putty as you need to the top of the disk and smooth it down (into a dome shape) and over the sides slightly (to cover the end of the spokes on the underside of the disk)... let everything dry and mount to a base for painting :)
Now stop stalling and post the pics.
I think I am following your steps but you know I am a pic kind if guy.

Grimm

Offline Inso

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2018, 09:51:35 PM »
Now stop stalling and post the pics.
I think I am following your steps but you know I am a pic kind if guy.

Grimm

What pix? I have made mushroom men before and have posted pix... and this method uses a similar technique but I haven't made mushrooms... so no pix of them (it's just mushroom men with a stalk for a body... and it is so simple, it doesn't need pictures... the instructions are plenty clear enough ;) ).

Offline thenamelessdead

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Re: Trees or plants in the underhive?
« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2018, 06:47:35 PM »
How about Japanese knotweed?