Where am I going wrong

[Farmer-Giles]

I really hope someone can help me out please..
I first selected a new mod from game the US Elm Creek map and deleted everything except for career start point and map boundaries.
Then I leveled the map so that it was flat and then deleted all terain detail so that I have just a big flat square map covered in grass ( or so I thought)
When I put the map into game mod folder and load it I find buildings floating in the air, and if I click on farmlands I get loads of numbers coming up on the screen that resemble the position and shape of the farmland from Elm Creek, which I thought I'd deleted so now I'm getting confused.

[strauts6]

Buildings are loaded from placeables.xml and check farmland.xml for <farmlands densityMapFilename="data/infoLayer_farmland.grle"
Many things are referenced to their default basegame locations/file paths in modDesc.xml and map.xml.

[Farmer-Giles]

OK I found the placabkes .xml and farmland one so can I just delete .xml and will game generate a new one for farm lands and peaceable buildings..

[strauts6]

No. You have to have them in your mod map folder so you can customize them.
You should start with some tutorials first.
https://www.youtube.com/@bauerbrown
https://www.youtube.com/@shywizard2979

[Farmer-Giles]

Thankyou I'll be sure to check out videos