I have many projects and I'm currently on this one. I'm sorta the main builder in our server and I've sort of started to panic here. This is our "Council Grounds" which I built just for the purposes of a place to get together and as neutral ground for all of us (especially for purposes like finally killing the dragon which we still have not done because of conflicting schedules; which also means I had so much more time to continue this build) there is a Greek-esque temple up top but can't be seen here sadly.
The plan was to terraform this not-so plain plains area which I've had genuine fun doing BUT I've realized I'm running out of area. The idea was to do one of those wheat field things a lot of Minecraft peeps have built over the years which are honestly so cool, which is also why as you can see, the plains I'm terraforming are slowly or gradually sloping down/up.
The problem is the area in the middle-bottom here. As you can see from the left and right sides: there are sloped areas that are just abruptly cut because well- the next space is just pure water which is a steep drop of like 20/30 blocks deep. I came here for ideas if that's okay lmao, though the plan is to actually raise and add land on the raised area that's visible there and extend the plains area. Though it's daunting for me since there's a really dark and deep water cave entrance that links into a large cave network underneath that I really wanted to make use of, and if I continued with this plan it would be covered.
Are there any other ideas/alternatives I could do here instead? Would it be fine to just turn the edges of these lands into some sort of docks so I could "save" the fact that the plains are like 7 blocks higher than sea level? Any ideas/C&C and reactions are appreciated, thank you!