Support Beam

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Description

A wooden construction made from logs, shafts and metal ribbons intended to support walls in mines.

Method

1. Activate a Shaft and right-click the Log, select Create>Miscellanious>Support Beam
2. Activate a Shaft and right-click the Unfinished Support Beam, select Continue. Repeat x3.
3. Activate a Iron ribbon and right-click the Unfinished Support Beam, select Continue. Repeat.
4. Activate a Log and right-click the Unfinished Support Beam, select Continue.

Items Required

• 4 Shaft - 1.0kg
• 2 Iron ribbon
• 2 Log - 25.0kg

Resulting Product

• Unfinished Support Beam
• Support Beam - 60.0kg

Usage

1. Activate a Support Beam and right-click the cave wall, select "Reinforce Wall".

Notes

You need to attach a Support Beam to every wall of a cave tile to prevent the tile from collapsing. You cannot mine a reinforced tile, but it will help to prevent cave collapse. A single Support Beam will help prevent cave in withing about a 5x5 area, having less prevention further from the beam, and almost total prevention 1 tile from the beam.

Hint: If you are making the support beams outside of the mine, your best approach is to leave it unfinished (e.g. requiring a shaft or a ribbon) and place them in a cart as more unfinished support beams fit in a cart than finished ones.