Do we still need Excavation mod?

[KiwiHawk]

We can now easily remove Landfill and charges only useful when you want to remove sand islands.

The problem is that deconstructing landfill should be locked behind a tech. Otherwise players would want to deconstruct every landfill which is not used and we fear that this might "optimize the fun out of the game".
The problem with locking the deconstruction behind a tech is that we would need to replace every existing landfill with a deconstructable counterpart because that is a property which cannot be changed during runtime. Runtime scripting should be avoided and will cause severe lag when changing a huge save.

[deweykai]

I think the "optimize the fun out of the game" argument is a better argument for allowing landfill to be deconstructed from the start.

To optimize tile usage you can build everything as a ghost, and doing so is very easy with the 2.0 changes. I think this is easier to do than mining landfill, so this fun optimization problem doesn't change much with the ability to deconstruct landfill.

The ability to undo mistakes like blocking where a pump was needed to go is a big benefit. Now you don't have to make a plan about every place that needs water access. And since you don't have to be careful about placing landfill, it actually lessens the pressure to optimize the placement of it.

[KompetenzAirbag]

I think the "optimize the fun out of the game" argument is a better argument for allowing landfill to be deconstructed from the start.

To optimize tile usage you can build everything as a ghost, and doing so is very easy with the 2.0 changes. I think this is easier to do than mining landfill, so this fun optimization problem doesn't change much with the ability to deconstruct landfill.

The ability to undo mistakes like blocking where a pump was needed to go is a big benefit. Now you don't have to make a plan about every place that needs water access. And since you don't have to be careful about placing landfill, it actually lessens the pressure to optimize the placement of it.

I would agree. I think being able to deconstruct landfill will make planning much more fun as you aren't worried to pave over pump spots.
I just enabled mining landfill in my fork of LandfillPainting.
This should have been done from the start because that would be a change that has to be done by SeaBlock, not LandfillPainting. I have not disabled it in SeaBlock again yet.
I'm just putting this here so it won't be forgotten.