So Dredgeworks adds underwater patches that get deleted when you landfill them, but adds floating drills and belts that your mod recognizes but still attempts to use landfill

so it just deletes the underwater patch with landfill regardless of how I adjust the selections, unless I have enough bots and items to completely cover the patch in a single bot deployment, before the mod can put landfill under the seafloor drills and floating belts

Use the the "Omit Landfill" option to not place landfill.

Also try the using the "Omit miners on trace ores" and "Avoid water" options . Get a starter layout on land and then continue manually for the water section.

For actual compatibility it's a bit problematic how to actually implement it due to the split half in land/half in water.

Perhaps when Dredgeworks is installed, the "omit landfill" button could have a 3rd state "omit landfill over ores" that prevents accidentally deleting them, and the "avoid water" button gets a 3rd state "avoid land" to allow separate planning for land/water?

Use the the "Omit Landfill" option to not place landfill.

Also try the using the "Omit miners on trace ores" and "Avoid water" options . Get a starter layout on land and then continue manually for the water section.

For actual compatibility it's a bit problematic how to actually implement it due to the split half in land/half in water.

Any chance of this mod supporting 2x2 power poles like the buoys from dredgeworks? I really don't like the current behaviour of the mod placing land-based power poles with landfill, destroying the ore under them.