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[Jay]

Climbing is why he hasn't added them back in, as I understand it.  It's just what I remember seeing in the dev notes.

He hasn't added them back in because fixing the roads is still (from what I heard) part of the 1000 items in the countdown.

[Demonic Gophers]

From the Dev Now page:

I've also smoothed out cliffs for the most part. There will doubtless be some bugs from this, and we'll definitely want to get occasional cliffs back in (once you can climb, anyway), but they were everywhere and made moving around almost impossible. Now it does some local smoothing first and you can pretty much walk anywhere you want, unless you hit a river or the ocean.

(Emphasis added)

[Erom]

Does the "don't erode cliffs" worldgen parameter not work or something?

No, it doesn't! Even with # of erosion passes set to 0 and "don't erode cliffs" set, you get lots of single tile wide slopes with down and up ramps right next to each other. You may occasionally get a few tiles of cliff, but only 1z level and 2-3 tiles long. You of course can get little chunks of cliff where a feature cuts through something, but you get that regardless of erosion settings.

[d4nte]

Why not just create mini-cliffs (assuming you have specific gameplay reason in mind)? Got tired of thieves walking down the slopes into my otherwise walled-off fort entrance, so I mined the slopes away.

That is, unless you want to have massive cliffs for some specific reason?

[Footkerchief]

Why not just create mini-cliffs (assuming you have specific gameplay reason in mind)? Got tired of thieves walking down the slopes into my otherwise walled-off fort entrance, so I mined the slopes away.

That is, unless you want to have massive cliffs for some specific reason?

Massive cliffs are neat natural features!  Building into a cliffside is really cool -- usually it's just the top of your fortress that's exposed, but with a cliff, you can dot the cliff face with windows etc.  I intend to try a dwarven cliff dwelling sometime.   Also they're also great for hurling goblins to their deaths and general mayhem of that kind.