# Pathfinding/ Road Discussion

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/pathfinding-road-discussion/6012>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [May 1, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/pathfinding-road-discussion/6012 "2014-05-01T14:06:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/pathfinding-road-discussion/6012/24 "2014-08-21T18:38:25Z")

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Wasn’t your last thread locked?

> [@Roads anyone here](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/roads-anyone-here/6348):
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> When will we have access to roads? Would be nice to have different types of roads, like the first one would be created when people walk on a line for a many times, the second one would be cobble stone and the third would be something more smooth like a slab? the first one would be like the one in timber and stone.

Also, there is this:

> [@Will there be roads?](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/will-there-be-roads/772):
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> Will there be (functioning) roads? Will they improve the speed of your people or just be cosmetic? If so, will they emerge automatically by well-trodden paths, or do you need build them yourself? And if there will be roads, will the roads be upgradeable or maybe even autoupgrade? (One feature I really liked about Settlers 2 (which this game reminds me a lot of) was that roads that were used a lot would eventually upgrade to darker roads (and add pack animals), it was a very good way to visua…

> [@Pathfinding/ Road Discussion](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/pathfinding-road-discussion/6012):
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> The question was already asked nearly a year ago in the first couple of weeks of the Kickstarter [whether or not there would be roads](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/will-there-be-roads/772). A response to this at the time was: "We want our pathfinder to take into account the type of terrain, so there’ll be a cost, maybe the cost of traversing a road is half the cost of traversing grass which is half the cost of traversing rocky terrain. " A year on and with some discussion on roads re-emerging I think it’d be interesting to open a new thread pertain…

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