II'm making a small land like the bowl of a crater entirely enclosed by cliff wall. I'm thinking maybe a 3X3 land.

I was thinking it might be easier to put in static features first to give an outline of the terrain and then pull the land up to blend in instead of building the land first.

Has anyone tried it that way? I was actually thinking of copying likely chunks of other world spaces and then modifying to suit in order to speed things up.

Any advice about creating land would be helpful. Most of the video tutorials just talk about the controls mainly not about how to get real looking terrain.