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i believe you ended up near the next entrance. put fires, and continue mining:)

grimkid wrote:i believe you ended up near the next entrance. put fires, and continue mining:)

I believe trolling is not allowed in help and following your advice will most likely destroy OP chances for a cavedown located near the entrance.

What about the scenario where he is not ridiculously lucky and he mines away all black tiles without finding a cave down ?
Chance to cave down increases with several things, one of those know is time. At the beginning chance for a cave down is very low.

JohnCarver wrote:Every cave down starts at something worse than a 1 in 30,000 Hard Rock to find. The more certain things happen, the better those odds get. The farther down levels you go. The worse 'starting' position you are at for the purpose of calculating those odds.

from: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12311&p=186587

the chance for a cavedown to spawn off a black wall is rather low initially, but rises over time based on some (unknown) measure of activity in the mine. I've found that just ignoring it for a few days sees a considerable chance increase. If you ignore it for a few weeks you're more or less guaranteed a cavedown on the earlier levels.

Chrumps wrote:from: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12311&p=186587

Kandarim wrote:the chance for a cavedown to spawn off a black wall is rather low initially, but rises over time based on some (unknown) measure of activity in the mine. I've found that just ignoring it for a few days sees a considerable chance increase. If you ignore it for a few weeks you're more or less guaranteed a cavedown on the earlier levels.

Oh thank you a lot!

i have a cave down near the entrance in a mine. i am not trolling.

Chrumps wrote:What about the scenario where he is not ridiculously lucky and he mines away all black tiles without finding a cave down ?
Chance to cave down increases with several things, one of those know is time. At the beginning chance for a cave down is very low.

JohnCarver wrote:Every cave down starts at something worse than a 1 in 30,000 Hard Rock to find. The more certain things happen, the better those odds get. The farther down levels you go. The worse 'starting' position you are at for the purpose of calculating those odds.

from: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12311&p=186587

For clarification... is not finding a cave down at all a possibility?

Adelewhy wrote:For clarification... is not finding a cave down at all a possibility?

It is a real possibility to dig out a single black rock node without finding a cave down. It happened to me and my townmate (in different mines).
A mine level is huge, so there is always another black rock node to try again. One just has to find it.
The point was to find a cave down as close to entrance as possible, because when you dig a deeper mine you will have to walk that distance multiple times.

Chrumps wrote:

Adelewhy wrote:For clarification... is not finding a cave down at all a possibility?

It is a real possibility to dig out a single black rock node without finding a cave down. It happened to me and my townmate (in different mines).
A mine level is huge, so there is always another black rock node to try again. One just has to find it.
The point was to find a cave down as close to entrance as possible, because when you dig a deeper mine you will have to walk that distance multiple times.

Thank you for clarifying!