mlieThe Soil Relocation Framework Mod adds a Dig order that lets colonists extract terrain as resource items and place it back down through the Floors menu, allowing players to move soil, ice, sand, and similar terrain while preserving their original behavior.
Soil Relocation Framework Mod Features
The Soil Relocation Framework Mod lets you relocate terrain for farming, base design, fire prevention, water filling, and freezer setups.
- Move fertile soil: Relocate scattered fertile soil patches into organized farming areas.
- Remove soil from mountain bases: Clear soil to create consistent smoothable stone floors.
- Bring soil to harsh biomes: Transport soil from other maps to deserts, ice sheets, or mountain bases for farming.
- Create underground farms: Build greenhouses or farming areas inside mountain bases.
- Use ice for cooling: Dig up ice and use stacks of it to help keep rooms cold, giving tribal and medieval colonies freezer options.
- Prevent fire spread: Remove soil from selected areas to reduce fire propagation.
- Fill water cells: Use soil to remove water cells, with cost and work time depending on the type of water.
- Fill wet bridgeable terrain: Remove mud, marshy terrain, and similar wet terrain by filling it with soil.
The Soil Relocation Framework Mod also includes recipes to grind stone chunks, stone bricks, or multiple stone bricks into sand.
Stony soil requires only 1/3 of the material normally needed to fill water or wet bridgeable terrain, giving it an additional practical use.
Optional patches
All patches in the Soil Relocation Framework Mod are optional and can be toggled in the mod settings without requiring a restart.
- Vanilla sandbags use sand.
- Ideology fungal gravel uses fungus.
- Dubs Skylights glass uses sand.
- Just Glass glass uses sand.
- Glass+Lights glass uses sand.
- VFE Architect dirt path costs dirt.
FAQ
- What work type is used to dig? Mining.
- If I am on a map without sand, how can I get sand to make sandbags? Use the stonecutter table recipes to turn stone chunks, stone bricks, or 5 stone bricks into sand.
- Can I disable sand costs, recipe changes, or other patches? Yes, all patches are toggleable in the mod settings without requiring a restart.
Compatibility notes
Mods that let you do more things with soil should work with the Soil Relocation Framework Mod, including mods that add tilling or similar soil-related mechanics.
The Soil Relocation Framework Mod automatically tries to support modded soil types.
The Soil Relocation Framework Mod has been tested and works with the Multiplayer mod.
When using TD Enhancement Pack, turn off the option to display fertility under floors, or it will report the layer underneath the new terrain.
The Soil Relocation Framework Mod is designed to work with Water Freezes.
When troubleshooting the Soil Relocation Framework Mod:
- See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: Evelyn, ZenthWolf.
