Cliffs / Ridges - How high can you go?

[daopa]

Some quick questions:

With the right skills, is there any cliffs / ridges that you are not able to climb up?

Also can you go to the edge of a high ridge and start digging to lowering it / making it accessable?

[daopa]

Another question I just thought of ...

If someone has a Claim on a ridge / cliff and a Attacker / Raider type does the act of "Digging" to get to the cliff does this action count towards triggering defenses?

[heroicpillow]

Also can you go to the edge of a high ridge and start digging to lowering it / making it accessable?

The maximum slope you can dig is 11 "dirt". Anything higher than that is undiggable, and you'll have to constantly drop dirt on the lowest slopes in order to raise it up high enough to dig it down.

The highest slope you can make when dropping dirt is "10", so you'd have to drop an extreme amount of dirt if it was a high ridge.

In short, what you asked is not possible, without a lot of work.

If you want to see the slope of a particular tile, you can use a custom client's grid system and select that tile.

[Sevenless]

I didn't want to pipe up because I've been out of game a while, but I seem to think the highest ridge you can climb is 10 tiles (each tile being 11 dirts tall corresponding to 1 pixel in height).

Not only can you climb up and dig it down (you dig the corners down and then use Ctrl+dig to lower the ridge tile), you can also pile dirt up at the base. This is an extremely work intensive project as HP pointed out once you get past the initial 11 dirts. After that you have to raise surrounding tile corner heights as well to continue. And lower if you're digging at the top.

Furthermore, there are most definitely ridges taller than 10. I've personally seen 14 tile tall ridges and heard reports of 20 tile ones in the deepest mountains.

[Glennfinnan]

Note : faster climbing modes activated allow you to climb higher too.
I never looked at the height numbers, but did you take it into consideration, Sevenless?

[daopa]

If I was to claim a Ridge with pretty steep surroundings and expand the claim over the tiles below or above the ridge, would this make the action of digging to my Claim a Extreme for anyone who wanted to raid?

Also if people are digging and you own the land, does that yield a action for defense to trigger?

Thanks alot for all the answers and comments!

-DaOpa