I'm sure I've just overlooked it somewhere, I have a hard time differentiating between the shade of the ground sometimes for no other reason than the fact that I'm a goon.
I know what you mean though with it making it easier to stay on one island. But if you are building any significant project you will still run out of resources even with the transmogrifier. Especially with the cost offset appropriately. If you need a lot of steel, you'll be going through a ton of...