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== Description ==Paving is the skill needed to pave dirt , e.g. for faster travelon [[road]]s, covering your yard to prevent nature taking it over, laying the floor of your [[house]], or simply for aesthetic pleasure.

Road construction is very important in Wurm, it lets you go places - fast. On a paved road you can reach speeds up to 17.31km/h compared to the 11km/h on grass and less then half of that on sand. That in combination with finding your way around (which many seem to have trouble with in Wurm) makes it pretty obvious that roads are a good thing to have. == Items required ==

== Method == Paving is done on [[Terrain:Packed dirt|Packed dirt]]. Simply activate the item you want to pave with, right-click the tile and choose 'Pave'. Paved tiles can be converted back to [[Terrain:Dirt|Dirt]] by equipping a shovel and choosing '[[Destroy pavement]]'. [[Vynora]] frowns upon such actions for Vynora followers, however. [[Body strength]] of 20 and [[Digging]] of 10 is needed for destroying pavement. Destroying pavement gives digging skill, not paving skill. == Levelling == To make a road level to walk on (so does not slope to one side), stand on the higher of the two sides and examine the tile border that crosses the road to the lower side. You will need to do some combination of [[digging]] the higher side and dropping dirt on the lower side to bring this to "this slope is level".  In normal grassy areas, it may be possible to simply choose '[[flattening|flatten]]' on each tile as you walk along the road, but this often does not work because of rock, uneven numbers of dirt, lack of dirt in your inventory or low digging skill. A player with a higher [[digging]] skill may also flatten paved tiles of any type provided they're not too close to a building / wall or on deeded land where they do not have permission. The dig & dump method however will always work, unless there is a fence preventing dirt from being dropped. It may also be possible that a road has to be placed near a 30+ slope, in that case, it's better to [[flattening|flat-raise]] to flatten your tile because any dirt dropped will slide down.

When using flattenPaving is done on [[packed dirt]], one may find it handy except floor boards on [[dirt]] or [[marsh]]. Activate the item you want to pave with, right-click the tile and choose '''Pave''stop' the flatten action once the slope hits the desired value, instead of allowing the entire flatten to take place. This can make evening out slopes along a hill much faster.

== Slopes Unpaving==Paved tiles can be converted back to dirt by equipping a shovel and choosing '[[Destroy pavement]]'. [[Vynora]] frowns upon such actions for her followers, however. [[Body strength]] of 20 and [[digging]] skill of 10 is needed for destroying pavement. Destroying pavement gives digging skill, not paving skill.

The optimal road slope is 20. Any slope greater than 20 may physically hurt you if running down the road at full speed. Riding a ==See also==*[[horseRoad]] though will allow travelling up and down slopes up to 30 without problems.