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Probably been there since the introduction of the tiles, just nobody had messed with them yet to the level and scale I did yesterday

Had a hand-crafted map (basically replaced all the water tiles with shallow water for gameplay reasons on Gridlock) and during the game found out that you actually cannot landfill shallow water tiles.
Accidentally made for some very interesting gameplay, but on the other hand, does not make sense that you are unable to landfill it in.

Could we have this changed so the shallow water tiles can be landfilled, please?

P.S. If anything, I'd make deepwater landfilling costs much higher cause you need more material to fill in deeper water - could be a nice stone sink too and people really work for it

Thanks for taking the time to write up the report.

Shallow water tiles are intended for use in upcoming campaign to create areas where players can walk, but where they can't build anything (including landfill).

Understood.

Follow up question then - can, maybe, a fillable type of tile be added? Same graphics, just an additional landfillable type? Using a mix of fillable and non-fillable tiles in the editor can give a lot of interesting options for creating maps

Edit:
Actually to think about it - this can be applied to all water tiles and be a setting: fillable and non-fillable

You can make area that can be walked over (by player, not by biters though) by making 1x1 water holes. Which you will be able to landfill. Other than that, I am sorry, we are not taking requests in bug reports subforum.