Mining around cave entrances?

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Punctilious
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Mining around cave entrances?

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To shorten my journey around a long winding path to my iron seam, I decided to make a short cut by tunnelling through a wall by my mining setup to the cave entrance as it's only about 50 or so squares away. Trouble is, I've mined all that way to find that I can't mine any more near my cave entrance, was this implemented to stop building walls around the cave entrance or something? It's rather troublesome :oops:
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Re: Mining around cave entrances?

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Yes. You should have started from the entrance.
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Re: Mining around cave entrances?

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I can mine out? From the entrance?
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Re: Mining around cave entrances?

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There's a buffer zone of about 25 tiles out from the entrance. After that you can mine as usual.
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Re: Mining around cave entrances?

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Punctilious wrote: was this implemented to stop building walls around the cave entrance or something? It's rather troublesome :oops:
Actually, it's there for several reasons. The biggest one I can think of is so that walls are effective around cave entrances.
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