Why is it still not possible to generate water in the editor?

[DrHappy 0]

Why is it still not possible to generate water in the editor?
The only way to get water on the whole map is the generate button, but it also generates islands which I don't want. I want to create my own islands and have them in the ocean. This is not possible. About 11 months later in development and there is still no such feature. I wrote a thread about it sometime after the release on your steam forum.

The second way to get water is to use the terrain sculpt water tool with a radius of 5. Seriously? Am I supposed to paint an entire map until I have an entire ocean? Every inch of a map, with a small brush? Also the flatten tool flattens at different levels even though it shouldn't. Atleast you would think it shouldn't. Can't say I am amazed at your development team. After all the game is not only advertised as a "unique sandbox adventure game" but also as a game creator, and tools to create water is such a basic feature that it should be in the editor already.

I could sculpt islands in the ocean but it just makes the islands look very odd as the sculpting tools aren't very good.

[WijkagentAdrie 384]

I'm gonna +1 this, my last build needed some terrain work and some of the terrain tools, including water, smoothing and flattening are still seriously broken. For me it's because of things like this that builds don't get finished or don't get started with at all, since it's very tedious/impossible to make what you want.

[Indomitus 388]

It was mentioned in a recent post that water is one of the big upcoming enhancements (they mentioned it as one of their biggest current challenges).  No mention of when we'll see it though.  I'm hopeful that will come with a general overhaul of the terraforming tools, because they do need a lot of improvement.