Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26815144-20161015095443/@comment-25841881-20161028210011

Plants can grow - horribly - in sand, and the only thing you plant stuff in in MC is dirt, and the ice is over very crappy soil. Since you already have to clear away the snow if you want to farm in Forodwaith, there's no need to make what appears as soil be not-soil. And as for the desert-main sand, you wouldn't be planting it in the sand, but in scattered patches of actual soil.