Clearing grass is tedious… some kind of little lawnmowing robot that clears a small preset sized chunk of land (ideally that can also function on slopes) would be super handy. It could also be super adorable (I keep picturing wall-e cleaning up dirt tracks…but grass).
Even better if you could feed it grass seeds and alternately use it as a grass planter.
I’d hope various robots will be a thing. Or one robot you could program in different ways^^ But I doubt it’ll really fit into the theme and balance of Boundless.
Still an idea I hope the devs will expand on^^
Sheep. Oortian sheep in a pen. 
Im gonna take an idea from most of my childhood cartoons and say that goats/goat creatures make very good natural lawn mowers. 
Pft, lawnmowing robots…where I´m from we use sheep :
Besides the joke, I think domesticated (whats the name of the goat creature again?) will do the job just like the sheep in MInecraft that need to eat grass in order to regrow their wool.
That would be a mechanic I’d hope for too^^ That the creatures change their surroundings.
As handy as sheep/goats would be to just remove it, the best half of the idea is the alternate use for planting. That and its easier to convince a robot not to wander all over the place without a fence.
If you could feed it different colored seeds and have it poop freshly planted grass somehow, and also train it to only do so in a certain square instead of wandering everywhere then I suppose it’d be an equivalent. I wouldn’t want to have to put fences all over every time I work on the landscape.
Have you ever installed a lawnmowing robot? Those things need “fences” as well. So for ingame purposes it wouldn´t matter if you are placing a fence to keep goats in an area or place some wires for the robot, either way you´d have to set up a frame of some props.
Since lawnmowing in B< is (thanks god) a one time job a scythe that removes grass in a large area around you would maybe be a better tool to sculpt the landscape?
Personally I´d prefer something “organic” as “seed pooping machine”. Maybe a cute little kiwi-like creature that can be fed with fruits to make it plant new plants?
Need a bucket so we can clear Minecraft style. Dump Source Block, flow uproots all them nasty plantseses, Pick Source back up
In all seriousness, a way to clear out tall grass in an area I want to build in would be nice.
Lol, robots wouldn’t need fences - as I originally suggested, just have them preprogrammed to cover a preset area (20x20 or something). Better yet have 3 settings for small medium and large.
Considering the behaviours programmed into wildlife have them move around freely (as they should) a robot just feels easier to setup. As cute as an organic seed pooping machine would be, I mostly picture it being a struggle.
Unless I can ride it - if I can get that #9 hunter with a saddle and have it trained to slash grass and poop seeds … I am 100% ok with that instead! In fact I’d probably prefer it… stick that on my wishlist. Also add on firebreathing and acid spitting just cause.
…I can’t help but wonder if the guy that invented lawnmowers had everyone telling him how dumb it was to not just use a sheep or a scythe