Flattening Land For Building....

[ShaftAlmighty]

Any coolkid secrets or tips to speedening the process? I always found it exceedingly annoying.

[Itharus]

Hold down shift to make slopes (lets you aim up/down on a slope to sort of smooth it relative to where you stand). The flattening only goes a bit at a time, and not too much from where it's starting. You'll need a pick to lower heights that are too high, and you'll need rocks to fill where it's too low, eventually. You can only change the terrain something like 10 height tiles or the like (maybe 15?) -- so no caring a flat path through a mountain or anything -- but you can cut a road.

And nope... there's no speed up unless you mod. It's a labor. It's supposed to be. This is a pretty chill game that expects you to put in the labor. If it feels slow, go try out Wurm Online/Unlimited for a bit and you'll come back thinking this game is super fast.

[JohnRando]

Exceedingly annoying is working as intended. Unhandy and excruciatingly tedious could also describe the process.

Instead of flattening - pickaxing - flattening - lifting - flattening and so on...I would love a "flatten terrain" tool that would straight up flatten the ground any amount necessary and "add or remove" the required amount of stone from the inventory in the process. Or just remove, by all means, if that would be considered more "balanced".

[Complaintdesk]

Ever since I had land that I laboriously levelled glitch, reverting not only to its craggy original condition, but also to extreme mountainous type terrain I have been very frugal when it comes to levelling land. The first time this happened was in a Draugr village I had restored and repurposed as a foreign HQ, where I have been told it is a common glitch. Now I will insert vertical and 45 degree posts into the ground as foundations and build my flooring on top of them. Half submerged stone blocks also make great foundations upon which to build level structures on uneven ground. Now when I chose to repurpose a Draugr village, I will destroy 1 or more of the buildings, using the pre-levelled base on which to build or use for garden plots.

To get perfectly level ground using the hoe, I chose the height I want my land to be, set my camera for a straight down overhead view, then slowly move forward constantly clicking to level. This is the most effective method I have found after playing the game for over 3000 hours. Be careful to step back every now and then and survey your work as there are some areas that will not level, requiring one to add height or remove land using the pickaxe.

Land I levelled in a Draugr reclamation project: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900820733

The same land a few hours later after having glitched: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795535497

[Sunny]

it flats to the level you're standing on, rather than spreading out the place you're pointing

putting logs down, standing on the log, and leveling it out that way gets it pretty dang flat. I did a castle that way once.

[Hiryukaen]

Originally posted by JohnRando:

Exceedingly annoying is working as intended. Unhandy and excruciatingly tedious could also describe the process.

Instead of flattening - pickaxing - flattening - lifting - flattening and so on...I would love a "flatten terrain" tool that would straight up flatten the ground any amount necessary and "add or remove" the required amount of stone from the inventory in the process. Or just remove, by all means, if that would be considered more "balanced".

Look for the mod hoe radius,terrain reset for balanced mods.
For unbalanced and cheaty buildshare has a terrain edit that you can set the distance of instant flattening based on your character facing position. It only flattens forward and to the right though.
There was also another mod that had a gif in its picture gallery that showed the ground being flattened as the player ran. I don't remember what that one was called.

[Mringasa]

I generally pick to an approximate level, then choose my "level" spot and work outward from there with the hoe. Rain can help since the shiny surfaces really shows the difference in elevation between two spots.

If you can get a good rhythm going with your picking though, you can breeze through most of a mountain. Just have to get used to how far forward to move in between each swing so you get the terrain at roughly the level you want without that up/down slope because you picked too close/far.

Kill Eikthyr a few times and make a bunch of bone antler picks. They are cheap AF stamina cost, and damage doesn't matter when you're picking. You can almost regenerate what you are using in terms of stamina cost once you have carrot foods. If I'm doing large amounts of terraforming, I generally carry 6 of them since their durability is so low.

[jonnin]

stone floors, if done carefully, auto-correct small issues with the terrain by sinking into it and normalizing the surface due to their thickness. Wood floors can go on top of that if you want wood look.

you can use wood floors to show you where problems are. snapped together, if the floor tile is buried or has a gap you can see it, but its tedious to correct.

The cultivator can help at times when the hoe is struggling.