Originally posted by Biita:

Why wasn't the glitch kept as a feature? I just don't understand why they want us to farm so many rocks.

I have a island i'm trying to raise to build a castle on and i've gone through tens of thousands already. And i STILL haven't even started the castle yet.

Only the dev team can really give you that and they probably won't :)
I guess one thing to say is that terrain raising is highly exploitable. Lofted builds are inaccessible to the bad guys... all you get is an occasional lobbed rock or drake spew hit and little to no damage per raid. You can also use it to make the walls of your home, which is cheaper than using rock blocks (those cost about 6 rocks for the same as 2 clicks raising terrain). On top of *that*, raised home walls also function as ground points to take your build higher than usual.

My home does exactly that... the entire lower 'floor' is only terrain with a rock floor tile 'roof'..
I don't think they intended for this kind of power (enemy immunity and extra high builds) to be trivial to accomplish.