2 hours ago, theFlu said:You may be correct, but you've phrased it a little .. incompletely. If there's a "hanging bottom block" to your pole, then yes, a tall enough pole of wood frames will eventually fall. But if the nerd pole starts from normal solid ground, with solid blocks all the way to bedrock, you can happily nerdpole all the way up to the world ceiling - after which you can't place any more blocks as the game couldn't save them.
Not quite, but pretty close.
A blocks is as equally supported as the block below them, vertically. Or, if there is air below them, then their support is slightly weaker than the strongest block beside them. That horizontal support weakens the farther out you go horizontally without any vertical support.
Thus:
A vertical column from ground up will show as bright green when you view stability. That's the strongest.
A horizontal arm will show as bright green from where it is supported and slowly change to yellow, orange, red, and black when you view stability. Anything showing black will fail taking some of the red blocks with it.
In Cell Tower #1, the upper third of the tower is all yellow, well supported. The lowest third of the tower shows bright green on the four main pillars. The tower's horizontal span isn't very big in any place.
Here's how the structural integrity looks. Notice everything is well supported. Yellow is still well supported. Dark Red and Black are bad. Some crossbars will show as black but that's something about the block definition, not integrity. (Some blocks always show black and don't fail.)
Here's the entire tower...
And here's the upper third...
