Ore patches now spill over into the sea as submerged variants. Dredge them up with new floating hardware, and build deeper into the blue with water-placeable refined concrete.
From what I see, concrete or Bricks currently cannot replace Refined Concrete that is placed over Water, deep water, etc. that I assume is because the Refined Concrete lacks landfill beneath.
Would it be possible to add some code to detect this and replace the Refined Concrete first with Landfill then the Brick or Concrete?
I suspect that it's not possible - I could be wrong, but even if I am, all I can think of as a maybe would be a rather elaborate process (allowing other tiling materials to be placed on refined concrete but then intercepting the request and applying a custom script), likely with tangible performance overhead. I may take a poke at it in the future, but it's unlikely; the source is now available if you or someone else figures out a way it might work in a more efficient manner and manages to implement it.
Would it be possible to allow landfill to replace Refined Concrete when over water? Then blueprints could be staged.
Unfortunately I am not too familiar with modding Factorio, I try to submit bugs where I can. I am in awe of what everyone has been able to achieve with this game.
