Mine Beam
| Mine Beam | |
|---|---|
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| Vital statistics | |
| Size (obj)Structure footprint in tile units.<br><br><i>Rounded-up from source.<br>Source: 0.526 x 0.526</i> | 0.6 x 0.6 |
| Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills that enable a given object or item. | Mining, Deep Artifice |
| Discovery Req.This(<i>discoveryreq</i>) is only for items that need to be discovered in addition to items listed in "Object(s) Required"/<i>(<i>objectsreq</i>).</i><small><br><b><i>(Temporary active on all pages, but leave empty if "None".</i></b><small> | (None or Unknown) |
| Object(s) Required | Bar of Any Metal x8 |
| Repaired With | Nugget of Any Metal |
| Can be Lifted | No |
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Build > Buildings & Construction > Mine Construction > Mine Beam
Mine Beams are mining support structures which prevent cave-ins in a thirteen tile radius.
Mine Beams are the third tier of Mining support columns, ahead of Mine Supports and Stone Columns.
- Mine Support: 9 Tile Radius
- Stone Column: 11 Tile Radius
- Mine Beam: 13 Tile Radius
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 caveins won't occur under support.
Mine support take damage every time it prevents a cave-in.
For a mine support structure to prevent a cave-in, it must touch the center of the tile:
| <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 column radius just slightly aren't supported.
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
Game Development
- Coq au Arch (2026-04-23)◎ >"Added "Stone Arch Tunnel", a larger tunnel made from stone."
- Coq au Arch (2026-04-23)◎ >"Character should no longer stop auto-mining when not planning to mine out unsupported tiles. Notable that the character would sometimes stop for no reason when excavating tunnels."
- Monumental Tunnel (2026-03-27)◎ >"Reworked mine supports to handle more arbitrary support definitions."
- Monumental Tunnel (2026-03-27)◎ >"Added "Monumental Column", a pretty massive mine support. Suggested here!."
- Melon Support (2026-03-05)◎ >"Reworked the mine support display to one which properly indicates the actually supported tiles, rather than a somewhat difficult to read radius. The tiles indicated as supported are visually distinct; if only covered by a damaged support, if covered by multiple supports, or if in the placement mode for a new support. Let us know your mileage, and feel free to suggest improvements."
- Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >"The higher tier mine supports have been given more HP (1.5x, 2.0x, respectively.)."
- Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >"Mine Supports now take less damage when preventing cave ins (about 0.5x). When a Mine Support prevents a cave in, the normal collapsing stone effect is played on it to indicate that."
- Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >"When outside the protection of a mine support, encountering a mine warning tile (e.g. one near a cavein tile, where cave dust falls) will interrupt area mining operations."
- Spring Chicken (2019-09-12)◎ >"You can now leash horses to mine beams."
- Cigar Box (2019-05-04)◎ >"Can now leash animals to mine beams (the metal ones)."
- Navy Seals (2018-01-31)◎ >"Added toggle to "Display Mining Radii", displays mining radius of all mine supports."
- Smithy Butterfly (2017-10-25)◎ >"Added "Mine Beam", metal mine support."
- Colorful Troll (2016-03-10)◎ >"Removing mine supports now only causes caveins if the removed minesupport had at some point prevented a cavein."