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=== Terraces ===
Using what you've learned, you can now shape the land into terraces. Think of some [http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/ida-china-pho-environment.jpg oriental hillsides.] Doing this on a mountain side is pretty extreme, and beyond the scope of this tutorial. Doing this on small gentle hills is useful so that you don't end up with a large flat spot, followed by a very steep hill! Example '''B''' above is what we are aiming for. We want a flat tile, followed by an angled tile, followed again by a flat tile. This will allow the land to follow a hill, while maintaining useful land!
Removed terraces portion, not on topic of understanding digging.
In example '''B''' we see that although we have flattened the first tile, now the second tile has a slight raise! This is because you are dealing not only with individual tile flatness, but also terrain flatness. To remedy this, as the arrows show, you would have to lower the whole first tile by digging 1 dirt out of each square to match the other two tiles.
