Can I grow grass where the biter bases used to be?

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Can I grow grass where the biter bases used to be?

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This all used to be biter land, its very desolate looking, can I turn it back into grass?

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Not in vanilla. The land is generated once at startup. You can’t plant trees or grass. You can use landfill to fill in water but you can’t remove landfill once it’s placed. The biter bases generate ooze which stains the ground and can’t be removed. You can place and remove stone and concrete tiles but the ground underneath is not changed.
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MassiveDynamic wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:34 pm Not in vanilla. The land is generated once at startup. You can’t plant trees or grass. You can use landfill to fill in water but you can’t remove landfill once it’s placed. The biter bases generate ooze which stains the ground and can’t be removed. You can place and remove stone and concrete tiles but the ground underneath is not changed.
Damn. Guess im paving over all this "ooze" then.
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No. Not in vanilla at least.
[Edit] Too late.
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You could try to place conrete and then remove it.
Concrete removes decorations with certain percentage and biter bases drop decorations I think.
So placing and removing concrete might clear up the terrain.
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If you want to save a little bit on resources you can use stone bricks instead of concrete if you're just going to pick it up anyways.
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maxp779 wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:27 pm This all used to be biter land, its very desolate looking, can I turn it back into grass?

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orzelek wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:47 pm You could try to place conrete and then remove it.
Concrete removes decorations with certain percentage and biter bases drop decorations I think.
So placing and removing concrete might clear up the terrain.
Gave it a shot, dosent remove the biter ooze though :(
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darkfrei wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:13 pm
maxp779 wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:27 pm This all used to be biter land, its very desolate looking, can I turn it back into grass?

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You can disable decoratives:
This just removes the little shrubs and stuff, biter base ooze remains there. It looked even more desolate with decorations off :lol:
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orzelek wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:47 pm You could try to place conrete and then remove it.
Concrete removes decorations with certain percentage and biter bases drop decorations I think.
So placing and removing concrete might clear up the terrain.
No. I spent 5 minutes tiling and untiling a slime covered area with concrete tiles, it changed nothing.
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Looks like you just might have to accept that you live in a desert
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I feel as a mod it would be possible to carry over a tree type to gras/wheat ?

that may be even interessting for mods dabbeling in biomatter/energy/food
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