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Balanced Soil
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Mod, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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12 Aug, 2021 @ 4:57am
18 Jul @ 3:52am
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Balanced Soil

Description
Balanced Soil

A Vanilla Friendly and Gameplay Balanced way of constructing soil flooring allowing you grow crops anywhere on the map without being too overpowerd, but still giving you the freedom to build nice farms.

No more pesky gravel, sand and stone floor to block your perfectly laid out crop patches.

Changes
- Adds a new floor type "Garden Soil"

Balance
- Requires research: "Tree Sowing"
- Has 120% fertility so Rich Soil (at 140%) still has a purpose .
- Has 250 Work to Build (Same as Paved Tiles).
- Costs 2 Wood to build.
- You get back 0 resources when deconstructing.
- Has all the effects of regular soil (Slowing down movement, Filth, -1 beauty).
- Can be built over everything apart from Water and Mud (Use the Moisture Pump for those).
- Will NOT bloat your Colonies wealth.

Notes
- Highly compatible with other mods as it is just a new .xml Def File.
- Safe to be added or removed from save games at anytime.

DLC
This mod checks what DLCs you have and only changes their content if you have that DLC so you can have none or any combination of DLC Installed.

- Supports 1.6
- Supports Royalty
- Supports Ideology
- Supports Biotech
- Supports Anomaly
- Supports Odyssey
28 Comments
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PremierVader 18 Jul @ 11:02am 
Great! Cant wait to use on gravship!
Josh Mate  [author] 18 Jul @ 3:52am 
Now updated for 1.6 and Odyssey!
PremierVader 15 Jul @ 8:58am 
Working for 1.6?
Dj0z 30 Mar @ 8:28pm 
If this isn't bugged in some way, it seems to be just what I need.
Cactus Dualcore 25 Jan @ 5:10am 
Currently, you can construct Garden soil over Marshy Soil in swamps, even without the research and it will automatically be placed as structural support below anything that can not be built directly on Marshy Soil, but could be placed on bridges.
Randomorph 28 Jun, 2024 @ 7:28pm 
Just wanted to say this is a really good take on adding cultured soil.

- No extreme growth amounts that invalidates all other soil (or even hydroponics)
- Actually requires a research to use
- Requires resources to make
- Is still just dirt for all other purposes (including wealth)
- Gives a reason to still value rich soil
- Doesn't add a ton of crap like fertilizer, dirt objects, recipes etc to the game

It might be a bit strong in an extreme desert, ice sheet, or sea ice, but wood is already exceedingly rare in those places. Either way, well done on balancing it.
Josh Mate  [author] 12 Apr, 2024 @ 1:10am 
Now updated for 1.5 and Anomaly
PremierVader 7 Feb, 2023 @ 8:41am 
Hey will there be any settings to change the cost?
Josh Mate  [author] 2 Jan, 2023 @ 8:31am 
@yoemso yes it's a floor tile.
yoemso 1 Jan, 2023 @ 4:23pm 
is it can be placed?