[B18] Soil Enhancement

[EarthyTurtle]

This mod gives you the ability to break rocks down into various soil types. Starting with gravel, and working through to rich soil. Unlike other mods this mod does not add new soil types, but rather gives you access to existing soil types. So growing becomes more viable on harder maps (like extreme deserts and ice sheets) without access to growable soil.

Start with:

   
• Researching Stonecutting. This unlocks the creation of gravel and sand at the stonecutting table.
• Research Soil Enhancement to unlock soil and rich soil which is craftable at the stonecutting table and blood n bone which is craftable at the butchers table.
• Soil takes gravel and hay to make, requires a growing skill of 8.
• Rich Soil takes Soil and Blood 'n' Bone to make, requires a growing skill of 12. (blood n bone is crushed at a butchers table using 1 corpse).

Screenshots:
Hard at work
Totally no colonists in that pile...



Download here:
B18 - Soil Enhancement v1.1 (Current)

Compatibility:

• Placeable anywhere in your modlist.
• Is perfectly safe to install into existing save files, plug'n'play.
• Can be removed from save files, as long as ALL items of Soil Enhancement are removed from the save first.
• Haven't encountered any incompatibilities with other mods as of yet.
• Lemme know if any problems pop up.

Author: EarthyTurtle
Steam Link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1346819398
License: 'I Like Rock' is under the creative commons license. Cite, learn and use aspects from this mod, credit optional but appreciated . Please do not outright copy this mod and/or re-upload without my consent.

[Crow_T]

I can't help but love the idea of literally pulverizing my enemies into dirt

[Ruisuki]

an interesting alternative to tilted soil

[Canute]

Hi,
please rename the "Crush gravel" into "Crush chunks into gravel bag".
So these recipes become more intuitive for this mod.

Maybe the same for "Crush creature" into "Create blood&bone from corpse"
And you should maybe adjust these recipe so small corpse don't give the same like large ones.

[Canute]

So i played a bit with it so far, and found it very useful.
It is good alternative to Fertile field.

But it is a bit annoying that you allways need to previous lower bag to craft a better one.
Since you change the terrain type and not a floor i don't think you can get back bag's. Like when you installed soil on a gravel, you are geting a gravel bag.

My idea is that you only can build sand,soil on gravel terrain, Rich soil on Soil terrain. And remove the gravel bag from soil,rich soil recipes.
Or maybe give 4-5 gravel bag out of 1 chunk.