Summary:
My hearthlings and Goblins can airwalk
I have dug out an area for clay.
Normally Goblins and Hearthlings would walk around but both can walk over it through the air as if the earth is not gone.
Thanks for the savefile, @groms.
I haven’t been able to reproduce it on new savefiles, but it seems that in yours they still think that the terrain is there.
Also, it takes a lot of time to mine an area that big manually. I tried with insta-mine but they still path over the terrain.