Mine Beam

Mine Beam
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Mining, Deep Artifice
Object(s) Required	Bar of Any Metal x8
Repaired With	Bar of Any Metal
Can be Lifted	No
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Supports hold up the mine's ceiling to prevent cave-ins.
Note: Mine supports can be built on the surface and in houses; however, serve no function
Note: Mined tiles will still show dust animation (see Mining page) when under the radius of the support, to warn of cave-in tiles, but cave-ins won't occur under support.
Caution: whenever a mine support is removed, all tiles under it are checked for unstable mine tiles. If there are unstable tiles within range, which are now, with the removal of the mine support, unsupported, the removal will cause a cave in. This means that you can now tear down mine supports without cave ins, if you still have proper support around it

Support Radius

Any tile within the active radius of the Metal Mine Support will be protected from cave-ins, said range being two tiles larger in range than the Stone Column

Quoted from Loftar:

 :<SuperDaddy> Does it count if the radius is touching part of the tile?
 :<loftar> Well, to be precise, it needs to touch the exact center of the tile.

This means tiles covered by the support radius just slightly aren't supported.

Quoted from DDDsDD999:

 :<DDDsDD999> The new mine support is shit. 8 of any metal, but it's only a 2 tile
       radius increase from stone. It's only useful for pretty looking underground larp villages,
       for any practical purposes it's useless.

Notes

• Added in update
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