How to flatten ground and fill in holes with dirt?

[Zombiescu]

How do i fill in land with dirt and not dirt blocks? then it looks natural and not a block? also im trying to do the colony first home base mission, do i build the building in the creator or just in build mode?

[PlutonArioch]

It is not yet possible to place dirt, or any other terrain voxels.
As for the building: I dont know the mission you are talikng about(I dont play Story), but the functional colony buildings are replicated like items. If you need to build a house though, use buildmode, you can not create a whole building in the creator.

[Tizona]

this is a problem, I'm gardening in my nice landscaped patch of land, and I miss click, and oh look my shovel or pick is in my hand, and YAY DIVOT IN MY GARDEN! that I CAN'T ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FIX!

one option, is to simply allow dirt blocks to be tilled into garden soil, OR perhaps a special dirt block that's just called "hummus" and you place that down, to create your nice flat gardens.

but I'm frustrated with making gardens, and not able to ADD tillable land, only remove it.

[RjaKotari]

One way of fixing the problem of divoting. Unselect your tools while trying to build. I learned that real fast.

[Tizona]

Originally posted by RjaKotari:

One way of fixing the problem of divoting. Unselect your tools while trying to build. I learned that real fast.

No, that's not fixing that's PREVENTION. Sure it's a great habit to learn but it does NOT help us who've aready mucked up a nice organised garden bed, for example.

[Compy]

if you mean ( bury the dead quest ) you just have to loot ash boxes from the bodies , put them on the ground and place a dirt box on them .

base building are ready made objects , they aren't boxes , but you can build buildings ( by boxes ) over them to protect them from creatures attack

[Tizona]

Originally posted by computerchy:

if you mean ( bury the dead quest ) you just have to loot ash boxes from the bodies , put them on the ground and place a dirt box on them .

base building are ready made objects , they aren't boxes , but you can build buildings ( by boxes ) over them to protect them from creatures attack

Ahhh, no. more like...I want a flat FLAT garden, [just as an example] and I'm mucking around, with my pick or shovel out, and oh crap, I made a wonking divot in my garden plot, because dumb. but I can't UNDO what i did, I can't fill in the damned divot I'd dug. that's what we're talking about. it'd be cool if yo ucould plant on "dirt blocks" but ya can't. it's basically stucco at that point.

[Excommunicatus]

Yeah, right now the only way to repair a misclick with digging tools is to reload your game from an earlier save.

I'm hoping that in the future we'll be able to both a) Have a way to replace terrain voxels to restore the natural terrain, and b) Be able to fertilize and plant on our placed dirt blocks (with a better texture than the current orangy-yellow) so we can lay out much better farm fields.

[Compy]

unfortunately there is no way to refill the ground , there are some people asked about this before so they maybe add this feature , and thety also said that you can do this obn world edfitor , world editor will be usefull in 0.9 wich it maybe will released on march

[mistawiskas]

Being able to build earth/maria moving equipment would be tits too. There are so many times that I wish there was a working excavator handy.

[Tizona]

Originally posted by computerchy:

unfortunately there is no way to refill the ground , there are some people asked about this before so they maybe add this feature , and thety also said that you can do this obn world edfitor , world editor will be usefull in 0.9 wich it maybe will released on march

glad to hear that it seems this dilemma has gotten to the dev's ears. let's hope it makes it in! even if it requires special gear, I don't mind!

[PlutonArioch]

The devs posted about that quite a while ago, and said (if I remember correctly) they will implement it later, bound to a tool. So I assume we get either a new tool to place terrain back, or the shovel gets a new ability at some point.

[Tizona]

Originally posted by Arioch:

The devs posted about that quite a while ago, and said (if I remember correctly) they will implement it later, bound to a tool. So I assume we get either a new tool to place terrain back, or the shovel gets a new ability at some point.

excellant. Ieagerly await. let us hope it works for stone as well, though mostly soil.