Canal Excavator

by jurgy

Introduces a machine that can excavate tiles, extracting stone, and transforms them into water when the dug tile touches another water source. Supports all Vanilla Planets.

Utilities
10 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
6.88K
Environment Mining Fluids

g Suggestion - Allow Excavators to mine Landfill to change the type of water that replaces it

6 days ago
(updated 6 days ago)

Hi, huge thanks for the mod, it's really nice to have such a tactile way to deal with this issue!

One issue I'd like to be able to address using this mod is changing the type of water on a given tile. As we all know, Alien Biomes adds Shallow Water which can allow Biters annoying little side ways into your base, and I'd love to have a way to dig up that shallow water and turn it into deep water. (Especially in places I thought I was already protected).

Not really sure how the mod works under the hood but a suggestion for a way to make that work is to either allow landfill to be mined (and mined landfill replaces whatever water was filled in with the "dug" state) or to just allow us to directly dig up water tiles themselves, so that neighbouring, different water can flow in. Not sure if there's some situations that might allow you ways to sneakily expand growable biomes on Gleba doing this but also... irrigation is a cornerstone of farming?

5 days ago

Thanks for the kind words! I will think about digging up shallow water, but unfortunately with the current implementation I can't think of an elegant way to support that right now.

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