Vitalize

[beorn]

I thought that this spell worked on all normal tiles except grassland -- but I don't seem to get the option in jungle.

Was I wrong, did it change, or am I missing something?

 

[Mesix]

The jungle is probably grassland undernieth. Forest and Jungle are features that lay ontop of a tile type. Most Jumgle is grassland. Vitalize does not change the forest or jungle features, just the base tile undernieth.

 

[beorn]

Thanks. That makes sense.

I had read earlier somewhere that vitalize worked on mountains, but I am finding that not to be true.

 

[Ecofarm]

Thanks. That makes sense.

I had read earlier somewhere that vitalize worked on mountains, but I am finding that not to be true.

Can you cast bloom on a mountain? I've seen mountains with forests naturally. Never tried it.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

you cant get a caster on top of a mountain so no. were the forested mountains next to a nature node? the nature flare event causes forests to spawn on all adjacent tiles, enven on mountains.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I think that you might have been able to in .30, using Druids. You might still be able to in .31d, but only if the druid was upgraded from an FoL unit.

Then again, it might check for passable terrain in the SDK ike ti does for improvements and features, so it might be blocked. Maybe in only worked on peaks in my modmod, since I went to python to allow the elven civs to use bloom on improved tiles.


If I remember correctly, Vitalize can be cast on peaks but has no actual effect.

 

[Zechnophobe]

I think that you might have been able to in .30, using Druids. You might still be able to in .31d, but only if the druid was upgraded from an FoL unit.

Then again, it might check for passable terrain in the SDK ike ti does for improvements and features, so it might be blocked. Maybe in only worked on peaks in my modmod, since I went to python to allow the elven civs to use bloom on improved tiles.


If I remember correctly, Vitalize can be cast on peaks but has no actual effect.

You can still do it in .30d, but it doesn't do anything. I happened to have a game open with some nature 3 druids, so I tested. Seems you can't use a 'goto' command to move a druid to a peak, however, have to use the keyboard. Sorta weird.

 

[smjjames]

hmm, I think you are forgetting about Yannon (or something) the woodelf, he can bypass impassable terrain, even going on top of mountains. So maybe someone used him to do that? I don't see how the AI would do it though.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Yvain the Woodelf, basically a Druid hero for FoL, who shares this ability with druids

I don't think you have to use the keyboard; the goto command follows the contour of the land, so you have to click almost on the tile above it to make it go to a peak tile.

 

[xienwolf]

It does still work on Peaks, if you look closely at the base of a Mountain you can tell what the underlying Terrain is. Barring that, you can never cast it more than 3 times on a single peak, which gives away that the tile has finally become Grassland underneath.

I used to put 1 of my druids on "Peak Duty" when I had finished polishing the rest of my territory because I thought that Deserts could spread to adjacent Tiles

 

[Zechnophobe]

Yvain the Woodelf, basically a Druid hero for FoL, who shares this ability with druids

I don't think you have to use the keyboard; the goto command follows the contour of the land, so you have to click almost on the tile above it to make it go to a peak tile.

Yeah I know, but I had literally 0 luck actually getting it to path there... maybe If I was right next to it?

I'm guessing the auto-path generated via goto specifically ignores impassable terrain or something. I'll play with it s'more when I get the chance.

 

[Demus]

I used to put 1 of my druids on "Peak Duty" when I had finished polishing the rest of my territory because I thought that Deserts could spread to adjacent Tiles

still useful, but for a different reason: When hell terrain spreads to a desert peak, it turns into a burning sands peak, which not only eats away CPU spead, but i think it can actually spread it's fire to forests near the peak!

 

[smjjames]

Yvain the Woodelf, basically a Druid hero for FoL, who shares this ability with druids

I don't think you have to use the keyboard; the goto command follows the contour of the land, so you have to click almost on the tile above it to make it go to a peak tile.

yea, Yvain, thanks. I couldn't remember the exact name.