Choose an area of terrain no larger than 40 feet on a side within range. You can reshape dirt, sand, or clay in the area in any manner you choose for the duration. You can raise or lower the area’s elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can’t exceed half the area’s largest dimension. So, if you affect a 40-foot square, you can create a pillar up to 20 feet high, raise or lower the square’s elevation by up to 20 feet, dig a trench up to 20 feet deep, and so on. It takes 10 minutes for these changes to complete.
At the end of every 10 minutes you spend concentrating on the spell, you can choose a new area of terrain to affect.
Because the terrain’s transformation occurs slowly, creatures in the area can’t usually be trapped or injured by the ground’s movement.
This spell can’t manipulate natural stone or stone construction. Rocks and structures shift to accommodate the new terrain. If the way you shape the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse.
Similarly, this spell doesn’t directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries any plants along with it.
* - (an iron blade and a small bag containing a mixture of soils--clay, loam, and sand)
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Posted Jan 9, 2020Is mold earth kinda like a small scale version of this spell? Can't I get much of the same work done, given enough time?
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Posted Apr 25, 2020Mold Earth can't really make structures. It acts more of an excavation/digging tool, while Move Earth allows you to actually shape and form the area to new structures.
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Posted Nov 19, 2020yeah, kinda
this one is just much more efficient
(sry I was replying to WaxDragon)
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Posted Jan 22, 2021So does the terrain return to what it was after the spell ends, or is it that the Duration is the amount of time you can work on terrain before your reshaping of it becomes permenant?
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Posted Mar 17, 2021The duration is the amount of time you can work on the terrain just know the spell works slowly.
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Posted Apr 8, 2021Ah drat. If this spell worked by Volume of instead of chunks, this would be maximum stonks.
To illustrate, a PC could carve a 5ft by 5ft Tunnel, 2560 ft in length in a mere 10 minutes. At those speeds you would be mining 107 cubic ft. of material every second. Stunningly, a PC would be able to keep pace with the removed materials. If the tunnel described above was to be made, the depth of the hole would increase by roughly 25.6ft after one round has passed. A PC would would be able to be at walking speed and the tunnel would build itself before their eyes.
What a neat way to expedite dwarven mining, or build rapid fortifications for an approaching army. A maximum volume of 40 ft by 40 ft by 40ft is already a huge amount to work use, but it only gets even more ludicrous with the full duration of this spell. Well.... if it could cast this way. Be wary DMs.
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Posted Sep 25, 2021Half that. The spell specifies an area, and the depth can be half the targeted area's largest dimension (with a maximum targeted dimension of 40ft), so the maximum resulting volume would be a 40x40x20 foot space. Still a lot, though.
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Posted Aug 3, 2024Given the spells' names, I'd expect their effects to be switched.