best way to great a downhill ramp

[Zoey C]

is their an easy way to create a driveable downhill ramp? my excavator wont reach to the bottom of my hole and I need to get down there to the gold. I need to buy the bulldozer but the last playthrough didnt work so well trying to make a ramp downhill

[fyredawg96]

Loader works well

[prostkr]

I have found it easiest for me is to make ramps from the bottom up. Get them close with the Excavator and them pack them in with the dump truck. I have also made one nice one top down right next to the hard granite sides from the top down with the loader. I went kind of at an angle and used the granite to stop from cutting to deep. the dozer is a pain as it wants to self level all the time.

[gristle1080]

I've found the 2 ways i prefer to use,either start with a very large flat surface(already created with BD) and using BD, then hold the blade down key to create a slope, starting where you want slope to finish and making multiple passes with like maybe one vehicle length to begin with and each pass getting longer as your slope increases - its only like 20% grade and BD only pushes so much..smaller passes make less mess out the side of the blade to clean up

2nd way was to have a smaller flat surface(with BD on it already,fuelled and probably fuel tanker- learn from my mistake) and using digger ,carve the entire face down to bedrock so it has a cliff type look- this gives you area to push the dirt you move..then BD just short of the cliff and push the dirt you move off the side,reverse half length or so past where you started and go again...the cliff will disappear and a slope will emerge ,until finally you have something you can drive nicely down and up

Things to avoid while making slope
Driving on a non processed area with one track, can dig blade into ground and rip up area already done
Not having sufficient area to push dirt as you create slope
Try not to fall off your cliff by going to far (not once but multiple times) - can be an issue to get BD back up,have a second rough area to drive back to where you working
Don't release blade down key - slope is only created when holding key down - blade key released just makes flats

No idea if doing any of this loses some of your gold

[Twisted0ne]

I build steeper ramps from the bottom up with the Bulldozer

rough out angle with loader or excavator.

using keys (controllers can move the blade slightly and give bad results.)

lower the blade to the flat setting at the just before the bottom of the ramp and tap the blade up key 3 times.

rough out the ramp, fine tuning the blade height as needed.

you can lower the blade once the tracks are fully on the ramp To get the flatter surface (be very careful as you can do a lot of damage when you dig into the ramp)