Mine Support
| Mine Support | |
|---|---|
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| 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 |
| Object(s) Required | Block of Wood x16, Bar of Common Metal x1 |
| Repaired With | Block of Wood (repairs 33.3% per unit) |
| Can be Lifted | No |
| Hit Points | 150 |
| Soak Value | 3 |
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Build > Buildings & Construction > Mine Construction > Mine Support
Mine Supports are mining support structures which prevent cave-ins in a nine tile radius. They can be bit of a hassle to build due to requiring wood.
Mine Supports are the first tier of Mining support/columns, below 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 takes damage every time it prevents a cave-in. If not taken care of, this can eventually result in destruction of the Mine Support which triggers a massive 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
All tiles marked in blue are covered by mine support. When unstable tile in a radius is mined instead of cave-in support takes damage. Mining a tile outside of the blue area may cause a cave-in. This structure will support mining within a 9 tile radius.
Variable Materials
Game Development
- 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."
- Loose Velvet (2023-06-22)◎ >"The higher tier mine supports have been given more HP (1.5x, 2.0x, respectively.)."
- Navy Seals (2018-01-31)◎ >"Added toggle to "Display Mining Radii", displays mining radius of all mine supports."
- Colorful Troll (2016-03-10)◎ >"Removing mine supports now only causes caveins if the removed minesupport had at some point prevented a cavein."