Filling in holes in the landscape? Green Mars

[psionyx]

Ok so, I have a perfect spot to build a dome, putting it in range of several resources to make it a great habitat. The problem is that spot is exactly in the center of a crater. And I can't seem to figure out how to just fill the crater to bring it up to level with the rest of the area.

Is that even possible? I checked in the landscaping options, and none of them seem to work to actually just fill in the area. It either changes the soil type, but it's still a hole, or it's about making a ramp, which I'm not trying to do.

Can someone help me out here? I find it bizarre that in a game that lets you terraform as much as this one, you can't simply fill a hole to bring it level with the surrounding area, so you can build on it.

Thanks

[FrostDust]

You want to use Landscaping > Flatten. Click on a flat spot next to the crater, move your mouse to cover the spot inside the crater you want to build on, and then click to finalize the landscaping order. You can shift-click in the middle of this process if you want to lay down a more complex shape than a straight line.
If part of the laid-out area is within range of your drone coverage, drones will start working on it. You can also assign an RC Dozer to it if you have one, either to speed up the process or because its out of the range of your drones. Since you're filling up a crater, you'll need a supply of waste rock nearby, normally from a waste rock dumping site, or you could manually order an RC Dozer to pick up waste rock from a distant location.

[Flare |UKCS|]

As above, and you can resize the shaping tool to make it easier to fit as if even a tiny piece is under a built object the whole lot will go red indicating it wont work.

Filling in craters is a good way to use up unwanted waste rock, BUT you may want to also consider using the RAMP option to go up or down heights instead of defaulting to tunnels, and that may create or use waste rock depending on the ramp.

It does take a while, so dont go mad filling in huge craters, fill to the needed space, then later fill in the rest when you got resources to spare.

I typically use a commander RC with 4 drones beavering away and try keep the project out of range of the main drone command hubs, so as not to have my base drones stuck on that for ages.
A transporter can be used to ferry needed waste rock to sites away from the main hub.

[psionyx]

Ah, that worked perfectly. Thanks you two.