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Is it possible to mod frozen brooks to stop looking like stone?
Title. I wasn't able to find an existing mod that attempted this (searching brook/ice/frozen/etc).

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2917479518584016/132B747FB42633C3130DDD15DC3467FB83D882F5/
(screenshot of what I'm talking about)

In the top of the screenshot, you can see what standing water looks like when frozen. Looks like ice. The little specks of stone littered about, are in fact stone. Specifically chalk. And then you have the frozen brook passing through, looking exactly like the specks of stone. It throws me for a loop every new game, making me think I found a "stone road" or something lol, before I realize "Oh, it's a brook." for the 10th time.

Doing a bit of searching, I found some random threads talking about this, some dating back towards steam release 2 years ago. They explained that ice is treated like stone with a low melting point, and that's probably why it looks like that. But they didn't explain why regular water has an ice texture, while brooks take on a stone texture? They also had the habit of telling people that, this was probably low priority and will be probably fixed once they start looking into art. ....but 2 years later, still got stone roads.

Some of the recent mods related to showing the flow direction of water, got me thinking about this. Has anyone tried to change this?
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Brooks look different also because they're a different type of water because you can walk over them unlike other water sources where you plunge into them and can drown Brooks you can walk across them freely
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