Stone Column
| Stone Column | |
|---|---|
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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. | Tunneling |
| Object(s) Required | Stone x30 Bar of Hard Metal x1 |
| Repaired With | Nugget of Common Metal |
| Can be Lifted | No |
| Hit Points | Yes (value unknown) |
| Soak Value | (unknown) |
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Build > Buildings & Construction > Mine Construction > Stone Column
Stone Columns are mining support structures which prevent cave-ins in a eleven tile radius. They are generally more convenient to build in a mine due to being built with stone instead of wood or metal.
Stone Columns are the second tier of Mining support columns, between Mine Supports and Mine Beams.
- 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
All tiles marked in blue are safe to mine. Mining a tile outside of the blue area may cause a cave-in. This structure will support mining within a 11 tile radius.
Notes
- Stone Columns can be built on the surface and in houses too for aesthetics.
Game Development
- 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."
- 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."
- Spit'n'Polish (2015-09-17)◎ >"Implemented a Stone Column, which acts as a slightly improved mine support"