# Dirt everywhere

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521 "2019-04-03T18:25:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Grimm\_Spector](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/grimm_spector/32/5132_2.png) [@Grimm\_Spector](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Grimm_Spector)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/1 "2019-04-03T18:25:09Z")

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I’ve been excavaiting for things like walls and cellars, and I have a lot of dirt kicking around on the floor. What do people do with all this dirt??

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**Author:** ![MamaLlama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mamallama/32/7246_2.png) [@MamaLlama](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MamaLlama)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/2 "2019-04-03T18:54:02Z")

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Yea I dunno what to do with it all either. Looks like it is intended, tho, since this issue was closed.

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/29066>

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**Author:** ![QuietCoyote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/quietcoyote/32/6451_2.png) [@QuietCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/QuietCoyote)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/3 "2019-04-03T19:23:35Z")

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Eat it???

That could work.

Otherwise, it would make sense to make dirt(sand)bags from them, but I don’t think that’s in-game

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**Author:** ![Saladofstones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/saladofstones/32/4859_2.png) [@Saladofstones](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Saladofstones)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/4 "2019-04-04T01:44:26Z")

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The main thing I use it for is to dump out into the fields, it seems like dropping soil on bare ground eliminates it, but otherwise soil is so insanely volume-intensive that I just use debug strength to lift it all and drop it somewhere else

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**Author:** ![darktoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@darktoes](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/darktoes)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/5 "2019-04-04T01:46:02Z")

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Ameobic molds and shoggoths will destroy anything they walk over. If i want something gone I debug spawn a mold on it then kill it.

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**Author:** ![hydroplatypus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hydroplatypus/32/4070_2.png) [@hydroplatypus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hydroplatypus)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/6 "2019-04-04T02:16:52Z")

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Interesting that this produces soil, but constructing a downstair into dirt ground does not produce any. Bit of an inconsistency there.

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**Author:** ![darktoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@darktoes](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/darktoes)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/7 "2019-04-04T02:21:20Z")

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Trying to get CDDA to follow conservation of mass to some degree is one of our priorities. Having dirt appear when you dig and disappear when you fill them in kinda falls into that, but it sounds like it wasn’t really finished.

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**Author:** ![Trigon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/trigon/32/2668_2.png) [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/dirt-everywhere/19521/8 "2019-04-04T02:46:12Z")

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We could probably allow it as a construction material for wattle and daub walls first off, but having some real use for it would be nice. I’d recommend rammed earth or the equivalent, but with the amount of rain in New England it probably isn’t viable.