Originally posted by Kalvix:

Right now for example I'm trying to setup and area to build a base, and my god I swear I'll be spending more time trying to flatten out the land properly than actually building the damn base.

Why flatten the land at all? Just build a foundation. In my current world we've build a whole village on a hillside and didn't need to flatten land much at all. And by that I mean, what, two buildings out of ten or so got flattened and the rest got stilt foundations. We recently gained access to stone and now I'm paving over a whole sandbar without flattening any of it.