[MOD 0.16] CanalBuilder

[MostlyNumbers]

Take a swim, feed those hungry steam turbines, dig a moat, or dig canals to connect bodies of water (useful for boat and ship mods).

Download:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CanalBuilder

Additions:

Waterfill - replace dirt with water
Swimming - Players, vehicles, and biters can cross shallow water

Balance:

Waterfill can only be placed adjacent to existing bodies of water - no spawning water from nowhere
Waterfill only produces shallow water, which biters can cross
Water will slow down biters (and players) roughly 50%
Minimum 3-tile width, since this can be used as a high-throughput water pipe for reactors

Let me know if you're able to translate for other locales!

[dgw]

This added a great new dimension to my existing late-game save—biters suddenly got into the center of my base and I had to figure out from where. Fun!

I noticed that trains leave ripples when driving over rail bridges (from e.g. Beautiful Bridge Railway). Somehow I don't think rail vehicles should get ripples added.

[MostlyNumbers]

Glad you like it!

Also good find, I'll fix that.
Was your character in the train? The ripples are tied to the player position, so it's possible third-party mods that let the player go over water (like a train bridge) could incorrectly trigger them. If you could confirm, trains on autopilot shouldn't have ripples.

[dgw]

Yep, I was riding my shuttle train and it pathed over a bridge.

[Muppet9010]

Is this mod still supported, as theres a report of desync in MP on the Mod Portal discussions. We have seen desyncs when using this mod with others, so not sure which is the cause as very intermittent.

I am not sure if this is safe:

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local function replaceDummy(placed)
	dir    = placed.direction
	pos    = placed.position
	surface = placed.surface

As they aren't local variables.