Water Ford adds terrain tiles for Factorio 2.1: a ford you can walk
across, the matching Wooden Flooring for dry land — and the
Cobblestone pair: a road ford vehicles actually drive across, plus
the Cobblestone Path for dry land. The wooden pair keeps footpaths over
the water; the cobble pair opens it to traffic.
Wooden Ford
- Cross water on foot — ford rivers, lakes and your Cargo Ships
waterways. Biters and Pyanodon's land caravans wade it too. - Cargo Ships vessels still sail over it and fish swim across the deck:
the crossing keeps the water navigable. - Vehicles keep out: cars and tanks are stopped at the shore, so a ford
stays a footpath. For drivable crossings, that's the Cobblestone Ford
below. - The deck lies under animated water, with wooden pilings standing
semi-submerged at the rims and ballast stones tinting at the waterline:
a real shallow crossing, not a floating walkway. - Water stays water: placeable on water only, and fish and other
water-dwellers treat it as water. Offshore pumps can no longer be placed
on it. - Unbuildable: a ford is a crossing, not landfill — you can't construct
buildings on it.
Wooden Flooring
- Honey-toned plank boards for camps, yards and walkways — land only.
- A raised wooden bumper edge at the waterline and a wooden trim
against other terrain, so board edges read as built, not cut. - Same boards, same palette as the ford deck — the two tiles read as one
family.
Cobblestone Ford
- Drive the crossing: cars and tanks roll straight over, so the
outposts on the far bank are a road trip, not a bridge-building project. - Walkers stop at the shore: you and your enemies alike. The road is
yours — biters can't use it to walk into your base. - Hand-laid cobbles rise through the water: crowns breach the surface,
the joints below read submerged — a road that wades, not a floating
platform. - Ships still sail over it, and the deck stays water to everything
else: no offshore pumps, no buildings, placeable on water only.
Cobblestone Path
- Pave roads and yards in grey-blue cobbles that read as one family
with the ford's deck. - Land only: paving won't go over water — for a crossing, use the
Cobblestone Ford.
Works standalone; with Pyanodon's Alien Life all four tiles join the
wood/stone chains and the caravans get their crossings.
Notes
- Source and issues: github.com/drdozer/water-ford