So about preventing mine collpases any ideas?

[meganoth]

I usually build a central pillar 3x1 with a staircase winding around it to reach resources at any height. And keep  a ceiling of >5 blocks height, so blotches of sand in there are supported by blotches of resource and stone. Except for a small entrance on a side.

 

I might add smaller pillars sometimes, but on the whole I never had a cave-in of the ceiling with often just this one central pillar.

 

3x1 because this makes it easy to dig under one block of the pillar and fill it up with wood again without momentarily loosing stability, even if I remove one block too much.

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2021 by meganoth (see edit history)