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Balanced Soil

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Mod, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

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12 Aug, 2021 @ 4:57am

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Description

Balanced Soil

A Vanilla Friendly and Gameplay Balanced way of constructing soil flooring allowing you grow crops anywhere on the map.

No more pesky gravel, sand and stone floor to block your perfectly laid out crop patches.

Changes

- Adds a new floor type "Garden Soil"

Balance

- Requires research: "Tree Sowing"
- Has 120% fertility so Rich Soil (at 140%) still has a purpose .
- Has 250 Work to Build (Same as Paved Tiles).
- Costs 2 Wood to build.
- You get back 0 resources when deconstructing.
- Has all the effects of regular soil (Slowing down movement, Filth, -1 beauty).
- Can be built over everything apart from Water and Mud (Use the Moisture Pump for those).
- Will NOT bloat your Colonies wealth.

Notes

- Highly compatible with other mods as it is just a new .xml Def File.
- Safe to be added or removed from save games at anytime.

DLC

- Full support for Vanilla.
- Full support for Royalty.
- Full support for Ideology.
- Full support for Biotech
- Full support for Anomaly

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Randomorph 28 Jun @ 7:28pm

Just wanted to say this is a really good take on adding cultured soil.

- No extreme growth amounts that invalidates all other soil (or even hydroponics)
- Actually requires a research to use
- Requires resources to make
- Is still just dirt for all other purposes (including wealth)
- Gives a reason to still value rich soil
- Doesn't add a ton of crap like fertilizer, dirt objects, recipes etc to the game

It might be a bit strong in an extreme desert, ice sheet, or sea ice, but wood is already exceedingly rare in those places. Either way, well done on balancing it.