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: Destroying a mine support underground will immediately cause a cave-in to occur, even if all tiles are supported by other supports.

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 "Smithy Butterfly"