Mine Support doesn't prevent cave-in

[Wildsun]

Greetings.

Today a part of my mine collapsed, even if I had built Mine Supports few days ago.



On the screenshot you can see the radius of a Mine Support (next to the mine support built) and cave-in is clearly in the radius.

(Sorry for my english)

[Procne]

When did you build the mine support? Before or after falling dust appeared?
Or in other words - did you build it in reaction to the falling dust?

[Wildsun]

I built it 2 days ago, so before falling dust appeared.

I use to build supports first, and after I build piles of wood and start mining the area.

http://game.salemthegame.com/mt/ss/f40a93caf8629dbb36c3cd563bd61349

You can see the 3 other supports on this screen.

NB: I already got this bug in my previous mine on Providence.

[RonPaulFTW]

Not a bug. If you have low M&M sometimes you will need to still build additional mine supports Immediately under the falling dust.

[Wildsun]

What is 'low' for you? I've got 53 M&M.

[DarkNacht]

What is 'low' for you? I've got 53 M&M.

53 in a prof is not very high.

[Snowpig]

pro-tip: keep the materials for a support ready in a box nearby and build those only as soon as a cave-in is commencing.

[Wildsun]

pro-tip: keep the materials for a support ready in a box nearby and build those only as soon as a cave-in is commencing.

That's clearly what I'm going to do.

Sad part is that Mine Support tooltip says : 'Build Mine Supports to stop an impending cave-in, or to prevent them pre-emptively'.

If it 'works as intended' and still has a chance to cave-in, there's no real interest in building them before cave-in is happening. Just my 2cp.

[Emina]

on that pic i actually think it kinda looks like the piece you just mined out might have been partley outside the ring.

if you use enders custom client you can turn the camera in an angle so you can look at it from above and also use the Ctrl + L and cover the area so you can see where the tiles actually go, save it and then bring the cirkle up again and check if the tile that you mined was a little bit outside the ring.