Paving and garden beds
Cobbles, flagstones, gravel, boards and the rest, and a bed for your flowers.
Paving is the quickest way to make a place look lived in. It goes down a tile at a time from the Build menu, under Paving, and most kinds make you quicker on your feet as well. It changes the ground itself, so you can still walk, ride and pull a cart over it.
| Paving | Costs | Speed | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobblestone path | 3 stone | 122% | Cobbles, set by hand. Walk faster on it. |
| Flagstones | 3 limestone | 122% | Big flat slabs of limestone, laid close. |
| Marble paving | 3 marble | 122% | Pale squares of marble. Hard to come by. |
| Gravel path | 1 stone | 115% | A stone broken small and raked level. |
| Sand path | 2 sand | 105% | Sand tamped down. Soft underfoot. |
| Packed earth | 2 dirt | 112% | Dirt stamped hard. Cheap, and it keeps the mud down. |
| Boardwalk | 3 logs | 118% | Split logs laid side by side. |
| Garden bed | 1 log, 2 dirt | 100% | Good soil in a log edging. Plant flowers or crops in it. |
Cobblestones are the everyday choice. Flagstones need limestone and marble paving needs marble, so those two are worth saving for the front of the house. Gravel, sand and packed earth are cheap ways to mark a track, and a boardwalk is handy along wet ground.
Garden beds#
A garden bed is a square of good soil in a log edging. Flowers and crops both grow in it, and it keeps a planting tidy beside a path or under a window. You don't need to till it.
Taking it up#
Tap a paved tile and choose Take up. You get back everything that went into it and the ground underneath is left bare. Only the person who laid it can take it up, so a neighbour can't lift your front walk for the stone.
Paving can't go on a floor or in the water, and you can't lay one kind on top of another. Take the old one up first.