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TL;DR

The player can place landfill on water, and floors of stone and concrete ..
But as a means of protection or only by propriety, what if the player could also remove blocks from the floor? And leave at a lower level generating the block of water

What ?

Decrease the level of the ground to generate the block of water, it can not be collected and will always appear a level below the earth, it can also only be generated around surfaces that already have a slope, for example, the terrain can only Be demoted if any of the surrounding terrain is lowered. If the terrain is lowered and has buildings and the terrain is lowered, it will not affect the constructions or it will be impossible to demote the land so as not to destroy the factory spontaneously

Why ?

It could be a new form of defense, only the guspidores could attack from afar, the mordedores .. well, they would have to be killed by the leisure or ballistic towers

The idea behind not allowing this (as it has been suggested many, many times before) is that if you make a moat surrounding your base, it will be impenetrable. You won't even need to spend resources defending against spitters if you make a wide enough moat (and I'm not sure if the spitter AI would take advantage of it even if it could attack over a small moat).

As Jap2.0 says.
The devs have already stated there won't be any water-adding-land-removal possibility in vanilla just because it would be too OP and would wreck the game balance.

Jap2.0 wrote:The idea behind not allowing this (as it has been suggested many, many times before) is that if you make a moat surrounding your base, it will be impenetrable. You won't even need to spend resources defending against spitters if you make a wide enough moat (and I'm not sure if the spitter AI would take advantage of it even if it could attack over a small moat).

Solution: amphibious biters

that's how you do a proper feature creep