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Picture and subject basically says it all. I could place landfill over an offshore pump which made it an.... inland pump?!. I would expect either the landfill to not be allowed to be placed over the offshore pump, or for the offshore pump to stop functioning. The offshore pump continued to work without issue.

This has been reported before, it is not a bug.

Okay, what's the logic behind it not being a bug?

skintkingle wrote:Okay, what's the logic behind it not being a bug?

It is a well

The best part of this bug is that the two mods that had the same issue already fixed it. Landfill (The original Mod), you can't place a landfill on top of any structure. Finite Water, when the lake dries up, the pump turns off.

Ranakastrasz wrote:The best part of this bug is that the two mods that had the same issue already fixed it. Landfill (The original Mod), you can't place a landfill on top of any structure. Finite Water, when the lake dries up, the pump turns off.

I implemented a large portion of the landfill logic into the base game and decided the same thing I did when I wrote Landfill 2: filling in water over entities like the pump didn't subtract from the gameplay and adding in extra logic to disallow it didn't make it more interesting.

We could easily add in logic to prevent you from filling in water near offshore pumps but I don't believe it would make the game any better.

True enough.

Hmm. I wonder if you can make it so that when you landfill, it leaves underground water, so that you can still place offshore pumps.. Or groundwater pumps rather.

That might be interesting. Also if you can do that as part of the generation...

I totally agree that some way to re-place pumps after they got destroyed by accident or by enemies would be nice (rather than having to redesign the whole setup because you can't place them where they have been before)
though building far away from the water won't be a problem anymore once we can transport water in barrels