"Time to get your feet wet (or not)"
CAUTION: This mod does override the vanilla terrain (deep water, shallow water, mud, marsh). It will conflict with any other mod touching these!!!
(will work with Vegetable Garden[ludeon.com] by dismar if you load vegetable garden before this mod in your modlist)
(will work with fishindustry[ludeon.com] if you load it before this and load sd_prepareforfishing[ludeon.com] after this)
- adds 2 research projects (bridges, terraforming)
- adds 1 linkable bridge type (sea + land bridge)
- adds fundament to build on shallow water, platform to build on your fundament for structurs later on
- adds the option to terrafrom terrain from solid ground to deep water or from deep water to solid ground (needs several steps)
- adds a terraforming category in the architect menu
This mod does NOT add any growable soil to place, pls use other mods for this.
Details:
Some words of caution (again i know): The mod enables you to place impassable, indestructible terrain (deep water). This will potentially break the Ai of your enemys, makes raids a joke and so on. so as always up to you to use or abuse. on the plus side, you can build nice bases^^
The woodbridges added by the game can be build out of 20 stuff (wood,stones,metals). You can place the Landbridges on any terrain you would build normaly. To build them on water you need to add a fundament first (25 steel). This can be placed on mud or shallow water. You can place a bridge on that fundament. You can not place buildings on bridges, since they are a building themself (only way to enable them to be dragable and linkable). To place buildings on water you have to construct a platform (50 steel) on a fundament. Building platforms is very work intensive(9000). The bridges are the fast/easy to construct solution, the platforms are more permanent and there for more work intense.
The research is divided in the bridges part (unlocks fundament, platform, bridges) and the terraforming part (options: dig up water, place shallow water, place deep water). The bridges research is neolithic tech level. the terraforming is medieval tech level. i wanted both to be a lower tech level to be able to use these in low tech runs (castle building^^).
All terrafom options just cost work. To terraform ground to deepwater, you have to dig up water first (places mud tile), place shallow water on these and then place deep water on the shallow water tiles. The process is quite work intensive. the deepwater work is double the cost of the others (5000 and 10000). To convert deep water to ground you have to place shallow water on the deepwater tiles. After that use the fundaments and place a platform on them. the platforms have the same stats and texture like concrete (just bit darker to see difference). they support heavy buildings. so you should be able to build anything on there.
the terrain tiles added are basiclly floors. which mean you can remove them with the "remove floors" command. this will result in the original terrain. the only exception if found is the original deep water will turn to sand terrain. you can terraform deep water with this (faster) by just building shallow water and then remove the floor. as always use or abuse how you like ;)
if you want the options to terraform up to growable soil use the vegetable garden[ludeon.com] or tilled soil[ludeon.com] mod. The vegetable garden mod needs to be loaded before the bridges mod in your load order(override some same terraindefs). the tilled soil mod should not matter, since i dont saw any overlap there in what it adds.
Due to how the game identifies things the Fishing Pier add by the Mod Fishindustry[ludeon.com] is not compatible with the watertiles added by this mod. you can use sd_prepareforfishing[ludeon.com] to make it compatible.
i wrote a short paragraph concerning the issues/compatibility with this mod in the forum thread for it.(mostly for other mods). if you interested in that.
For Rimworld version: Alpha 15c (0.15.1284)
Ludeon forum topic:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=26276
If you are looking for a Dropbox download link check the ludeon forum topic.