@Tentacular!: Not sure about that specific mechanic, but this version of the mod stopped updating 3 years ago. Mlie forked it to 1.5 last year, and intends to update it to 1.6 at some point in the foreseeable future (this will take some time due to the addition of new terrain types).

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3248607572

Seems to be when I add soil to water, the water reclaims it rapidly. Am I doing something wrong?

the dig tool wont seem to work, i drag and click and it doesn't highlight area.

I have an issue with this mod that makes the soil cost of adding sand to water 640, the other recipes work at 10 as needed

I don't know if it has anything to do with it
But I also have the TIllable soil
Ogrestack
And ReGrowth mods that's the only things I might think might cause an issue.

quick warning, dont try to till soil, it tills it but then when you harvest a crop from it, it destroys the soil and reverts it to whatever was placed there before

Made an update of this:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3248607572
Hope it helps anyone!

@Cozy Fawn unzip into rimworld/mods

Also great for creating caves if you want to leave overhead mountain there.

I can not begin to tell you how much I appreciate this mod.

Combined with Mountain Roof Removal mods, it's great for creating custom gardens in heavy mountains.

How do I use that @Reisen?

No Steam upload?

Don't want to commit to maintaining this unless its officially unsupported by the author, but here's an updated 1.5 build of this and consistent map stone for the time being.

Source code changes included, if you want to build it yourself:

https://mega.nz/file/z5wwQRoQ#Evdg9Rr-MocAyqoV7X0TpuWdM5gHFFkPXBOQFk5pEiQ

1.5 plan?

frothing at the mouth for this mod, someone throw money at this wonderful modder

Update it

How many Ko-Fi needed to get 1.5 ? ;)

Absolutely can't wait for this mod to update. One of my all time favourites!

1.5 waiting room

And he's gotta be fresh from the soil

He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast

till the end of the night

Holding out for a hero

Thank you so much! This was so better than simply soil.

Hmm...comments below aren't too positive about not working in new update. Bummer.

1.5 update waiting room.....

@azzachaz
Probably because this mod isn't updated to 1.5 yet.

Getting a bug with 1.5...

Can't dig soil at all it just comes up non highlighted.

@Baine09
Known bug.
When soils that are replaced by other mods are removed, such as after reclaiming soil from the quarry mod, removing the soil leaves soil.

Probably a bug, when you harvest over tilted soil. the ground seems to return to what it originally was

This gotta be most balanced soil mod out there.

my pawn just digs and i never get the soil? not an expert at reading logs but does it truly need mapconsistentmapstone mod? since thats what im getting spammed with

Exception in JobDriver tick for pawn Tail driver=JobDriver_Dig (toilIndex=1) driver.job=(SR_Dig (Job_771154) A=(158, 0, 176))
System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100006c (from typeref, class/assembly CMS.MapComponent_StoneGrid, UdderlyEvelyn.ConsistentMapStone, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)

If I want to change the amount of soil mined, which parameter should I change?

Absolutely LOVE the mod. But have you considered making it so soil relocation ignores world border? rich soil where you cant use it is very annoying, So it would be amazing if that was possible.

are you able to expand bodies of water with this mod?

@RealLifeHobgoblin if you were saying that in response to TeH_Day, I get the feeling that they aren't using Nature's Pretty Sweet for the filth removal feature (alone). The other mod may perform better but the feature that they are talking about Permeable Terrain doesn't have - i.e. soil becoming 'wet soil', etc.

Use Permeable Terrain from Owlchemist instead. It performs better

Is there a way to make this compatible with Nature's Pretty Sweet (continued)? That mod makes it so rain and other weather effects can alter terrain, and that new terrain is not diggable despite being a normally-diggable terrain (Wet Sand can't be dug, but Sand can).

Or if there's already a patch for this somewhere, could someone let me know?

Also, I haven't tested Solid Propane Compounds, but I believe the same issue would apply the way it does for Packed Snow since Solid Propane Compounds are also diggable.

Alpha Biomes has a variety of new biomes it adds, some of which produce new terrain types. I don't know about most of the other ones except for the Propane Lakes biome since I always play on that biome. Within said Propane Lakes biome there is Packed Snow and Solid Propane Compounds, with Packed Snow having a small amount of fertility (5%). When I dig Packed Snow it turns the spot into stone floor but doesn't provide any resources. As far as I know Packed Snow can't form over time, so any snow I dig can't be moved to a new spot nor would I be able to replace the packed snow I removed. Would it be possible to make a patch for it so I could move the packed snow around? It would mostly be for aesthetic purposes (and maybe growing if I can figure out how to make use of that 5% fertility), so if you decide to put it at the bottom of your priority list then I understand.

Ok, so are you using fertilizer from dubs for me that ended up being the problem, and not using it allowed me to till soil just fine. I'm also pretty sure I was using the rich soil from soil relocation so if the problem for you wasn't with fertilizer try using rich soil instead of normal soil. I also recommend if all the other suggestions fail create a throwaway save that is set to manual saving so it doesn't save over your current one and turn on debug and just mess around to see what is causing the problem.

Yeah, I am. So in more detail:

It starts as stony soil.
I dig up some soil, and put soil on the stony soil.
I till the stony soil using Vanilla Plants Expanded.
When the tilling a plant is harvested on tilled soil, it gets untilled, so you need to till it again.
But instead of the soil I placed on it, it's back to stony soil again. Thus I now need to put soil on it again.

@Afropenguinn I think I might have had the same problem as you are you using dubs bad hygiene

So there is a problem with tilling soil in Vanilla Expanded. I relocated soil on top of my stony soil, then tilled it, and after tilling it went back to stony soil.

man this is such a good mod, its so simple, doesnt add a ton of wierd stuff or item bloat, just lets you do something everyones wanted to do

I'm pretty sure the problem was actually with dubs fertilizer.

Could also have to do with dub bad hygiene fertilizer.

I'm having a problem where rich soil despawns after harvesting a crop. I think it might have to do with the plowing from vanilla expanded. I am also using more tillable soil so that could also effect it.

How does this work with VFE Medieval's digging?

could you add compatibility with fortifications industrial expanded always though the sandbags were a bit op this would totally balance them.

I have discovered an interaction with Expanded Materials - Stones and Mortars.
Upon installing that mod (and I will be reporting this there) cloth is no longer an ingredient for sand bags, instead both sand from this mod and sand from that mod are. It also reports an error when sandbags are being generated (via siege or encounters such as bandit camps).

Is it possible to force the pawns cut the plants upon the soil block before shoveling the soil? In my copy, the tree just disappeared, which is not so realistic.