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I've seen this twice now. Here's how it works: I see some resources in the middle of infertile land (e.g., swamps). I move a Pioneer there, build an outpost -- and lo and behold, some of the tiles in the outpost's ZOC suddenly become fertile: I can build cities on them. That can't be right.
The land could be Fertile_Land. Both Fertile_Land and Plains are named Plains in the XML. So its entirely possible that you see a creature lair with tile props that doesn't make it look like normal and when u mouse over it says plains-grassland or plains-fallen and once the lair is removed theland that was there is fertile_land.
If you want to check this copy the terraintypes xml to your mod dir and change the displayname for Fertile_Land to "Fertile" (or something other that plains) Now in your tooltip you will see which land is fertile as opposed to normal "plains" land.
I've seen this too. settlable land will suddenly show up near an outpost where it didnt exist before.
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