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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!

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.

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.

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

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: As they aren't local variables.