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XelNigma

Vertical Support beams dont work?

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Im still very new to this mod, but I was digging up using vertical support beams to keep cave in from happening.

it was my understand that support beams prevent cave ins in a 5x1x5 area. So thats how I was using it. until I got a cave in now I have cobble stone all around my vertical support beams.

So do I need to use horizontal support beams to have the 5x1x5 protection zone with the vertical beams only used to get the horizontal ones up there?

It appears I know even less about cave ins than I thought. It was my understanding that cave ins will only trigger if you mine a block that has air under it. yet I just dig out a block that had stone all around it expect for the one side I could reach it from, I got cave ined.

Some info on how cave ins work exactly would very much appreciated.

~man buried alive.

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Yes you do need the vertical support beams as well, if the horizontal beams aren't supported every within 5 blocks then you just have a useless piece of wood on the ceiling

So from a side view your mines should look something like this

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This leaves you with a max of 10 horizontal supports between vertical supports.. But mining past that 5th horizontal support you are risking a collapse so a safer way would simply be this

|=====|=====|

Edit: And yes vertical beams need to touch the ground or be supported themselves, they can't float in the air

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