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.
== Slopes ==
The optimal road slope is 20. Any slope greater than 20 will physically hurt you if you travel down the road at full speed.
A road with a slope of 24+ is self-defeating and fairly useless.