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While it's not immediately obvious (I stumbled over it by accident), landfill can be blueprinted as follows:

1) Go near a big lake out of roboport range
2) Equip landfill
3) Create landfill ghosts with shift-click in the lake; create whatever shape your blueprint should be
4) Capture the landfill in the lake with a blueprint as usual

Result: You have now a landfill blueprint, which makes filling large lakes easier.

Edit: As of 0.13.9, this doesn't work anymore

Nice tip! Definitely will make filling in large bodies of water much easier.

Don't forget you can increase and decrease the size of landfill just like concrete by using the + and - keys

W000t? + and - !!! i wasted so much hours filling half the ocean !

saturn7 wrote:Edit: As of 0.13.9, this doesn't work anymore

What changed in 13.9? I skimmed some of the patch notes, and did searches for strings such as "blue" and "fill" and "land" but didn't find anything.

Peter34 wrote:What changed in 13.9? I skimmed some of the patch notes, and did searches for strings such as "blue" and "fill" and "land" but didn't find anything.

It was changed in 0.13.7. Landfill was never intended to be blueprinted.

FactorioBot wrote:

• Bugfixes
  • Fixed landfills could be included in blueprints. (28471)