Mine supports without metal

[meus]

Might have been suggested before... but couldn't find any - mostly just topics exist about balancing mine support costs.

Could we have a kind of a mine support that requires no metal?

It could be some wooden support that requires more rope or just more wood (or bone glue, for example).
Or some kind of a brick (or stone) vault or arch - without metal required.
It may have e.g. 6 tile radius, as opposed to the (currently) lowest 9 tile radius one which, however, requires metal.

[Regnurr]

Bone glue sounds good, but there is actually one, sorta. Your mine entrance itself acts as a support in a radius, so you can make a mine entrance and use that in place of a wooden beam. Might be helpful if you plant your claim on top of iron or another metal you detected with rustroot, this way you can safely get your first bar.

[azrid]

But why?

[meus]

For example, when mining just to make a tunnel to another area, or mining for coal, etc. - but still not having metal.

[azrid]

Metal is already easy enough if you just prospect as intended.
You don't even need coal to get bars for supports.

[wonder-ass]

i agree a simple rock/wood based mine support that only gives protection in 1x10 radius would be ideal.

[meabeab]

personally imagine these as
frame/arch shaped supports for tunnels timbering with 3 tiles radius and dual collision box (hex shaped hitboxes for less stucking movement)
As seen below, should require some additional mining due to wide outer bounding box

            
 

[AnTeN_Li]

Digging without support is easy enough. Not need support that requires no metal.

[wonder-ass]

im sure youve mined a LOT of tiles to come to this conclusion yes yes.

[azrid]

im sure youve mined a LOT of tiles to come to this conclusion yes yes.

Joined: Wed Sep 07, 2011

Im sure he has.