Ramps and stairs are too steep

[Tragic Mishap]

The ramps and stairs in this game are almost completely useless because they are at a 45 degree angle. I have to really be going fast in a buggy to get up the ramp. On foot, I get stuck and have to jump. Players should be able to move easily up the ramp somehow. Ramp incline needs to be 30 degrees or less.

Stairs have a similar problem. They are functionally no different than ramps. They are virtually impossible to climb in any way resembling a normal stair. In practice, I have to get a running start and jump up them. It's just better to build regular blocks as stairs so I'm not constantly sliding down. It would be better to have just two or three stairs per block so there's an actual platform the player can step on. Otherwise no one is going to use the stairs. We will just use regular blocks. The problem is that the avatar doesn't actually take steps in the game. It's motion is not determined by stepping. It's determining by continuous movement.

A possible fix for this would be to make stair and ramp blocks bigger than a single block. For instance, if you made ramp and stair blocks two block lengths horizontally and one block length vertically the incline would be 26.565 degrees. That way the incline and the block positions, which I assume are hardcoded into the 3D space of the game, would match up and be less than 30 degrees. That would actually make them usable.

EDIT: Corrected for trigonometry.

[Real Goblin]

I agree, but special "slabs" would have to be created as to have an even 30* slope.

[Tragic Mishap]

Obviously you did not read my post. I suggested a solution.

[Real Goblin]

Not true. I read the first paragraph lol x)

[FluffyNevyn]

I think a better solution is to introduce variable friction surfaces. leave stairs the way they are, but make them high friction so that the player can just walk up them and not slide down. or something. I have no idea, but I do agree something needs to be done there, the stairs as they are are pretty much useless.

[Fetchbunny]

I have seen some reports that running up them doesn't work. You have to just walk up them and not be all in a rush about it.

[Alan]

+1. Stairs and Ramps are useless by now. Could use some fix...