Ability to change/adjust where grates / manholes spawn on pavement#316

The manholes and grates etc. that appear “randomly” while placing pavement are actually locked to the tiles that they are able to appear on and it shouldn’t be that way because often they get very clustered together in an ugly way. Erasing and replacing the pavement doesn’t fix it because like I said the grates and other things are locked to those tiles permanently, so they technically aren’t really random. Please make it so we can have more control over them because they ruin town design plans.

Hiya, I’m happy take a look at keeping them from bunching up so much – they’re randomly placed decorations with the intent to break up large flat boring areas. Same as the reeds and lilypads on water and the different bushes on cliffs.

I’m not sure what a good solution would be to both have the benefit of this AND allow total control/override without it being invisible or confusing, so any suggestions are appreciated!

The game Mario Maker has a similar feature but it’s completely random if something appears rather than it appearing in the same spot. Maybe making it so erasing then replacing will give a different result somehow? I personally would like the grates and manholes etc to be items that can be placed but that might be a lot of extra work, I don’t know. Hope the Mario Maker idea helps.

Why not just make the grates and such terrain items? This way players can choose where to place them.