Earthworks

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🚜 Earthworks

Bulldozers that level the ground for you: paint leveling designations, give the mine tower a bulldozer, and it cuts the high parts and pushes the earth into the low parts. No excavators, no trucks, no dumping somewhere else.

Three bulldozers from 48 m³ to 320 m³ a pass, and the earth keeps its layers: dirt stays dirt, rock stays rock.

Features

• 🚜 Three bulldozers: Bulldozer (vehicle depot I, 48 m³ a pass), Large bulldozer (depot II, 120 m³, with a ripper) and Giant bulldozer (depot III, 320 m³)
• ⛰️ Cut and fill: they cut the parts of your leveling designations that are above the target and push the earth onto the parts below it, the nearest ones first
• 🏗️ Mine tower vehicles: assign them under Assigned vehicles like excavators and trucks; they work the leveling designations in the tower's area
• 🪨 Layers kept: the earth moves with its layers, nothing is mined away and nothing is lost
• 🧗 Any slope: on their tracks they drive up any hill, and hills come down from the top
• 🌲 Clears the way: rocks, stumps and trees on the high ground are pushed aside; buildings and the sea are left alone
• ⛏️ Never pushes your ore away: bulldozers only cut leveling designations, never plain mining designations
• 🚚 Works with the rest: excavators and trucks of the same tower keep working as before; spare earth can go onto a dumping designation
• 👥 Teamwork: several bulldozers share the work, each on its own square
• 💬 Clear status: each bulldozer's window says what it is doing or why it waits
• 🌙 Exhaust smoke and working lamps at night
• 🔬 Research: three nodes, right after the research they need

How to start

1. Research Bulldozers (after Terrain leveling) and build a bulldozer at a vehicle depot.
2. Paint leveling designations in a mine tower's area (the game's leveling tool, next to the mining and dumping tools).
3. Assign the bulldozer to the mine tower under Assigned vehicles.
4. Later: Bulldozers II (after Vehicle assembly II) and Bulldozers III (after Vehicle assembly III) for the large and giant ones.

Good to know

• 🌍 Speaks all 21 languages of the game.
• When there is no low part left, paint a dumping designation in the tower's area for the rest of the earth (or use excavators and trucks as usual).
• They run on diesel and refuel like trucks.
• A square a bulldozer cannot reach is tried again later, and it waits longer each time.
• Can be added to existing saves, but not removed once you have built bulldozers.
• Made for Captain of Industry 0.8.7.

All models and icons are original. No game files included. Contains Harmony 2.4.2 (MIT licence).