Literally posting this the second I encountered it because it’s extremely annoying.
Mine hole hitbox is less than 3x3 (something like 2x2ish) making it very reasonable to put a square palisade around it either with a 5x5 (placing the minehole and 3-wide prepforgate around it) or 4x4 (ctrl-shift placement offsetting to fit in a pre-existing 2wide gate palibox)
Now you’re forced to make a larger pali to protect the pyre, since its hitbox doesn’t allow placement of 3wide gate palis. I havent checked but I assume the hitbox is one of those shitty octagons, and the outermost rocks prevent building of even a 5x5 box around it.
Make it smaller, there’s no way this is intended. Mine pyres have to be protected since they’re just sitting there for SEVEN DAYS and having to make a massive pali that’s bigger than it needs to be for the eventual minehole is dumb