Rimworld Mining Roof

Rio tinto s borax mine in boron calif in 2010.

Rimworld mining roof.

You didn t mine out a mountain you mined out a hill. So if you mine a roof that has already collapsed it re collapses and kills you immediately. For some reason the regular rock areas collapsed as i was mining them. This means that the largest square room you can have is 10x10 internal.

Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items. So i try to remove the mountain roofs so they don t collapse by declareing a no roof area but on some tiles it will never be possible to declare that area and if i let the roof collapse and remove the debris it just collapses again presumably forever since i tried removing it 15 times and it still collapsed. Although this time is the same for all materials the amount per cycle varies. What can i do about this.

So i then took some guys and mined the collapsed roof at which point they each died as they finished their square. Use the regular remove roof area option found in the architect zone area menu to draw an orange area above the roof you want to remove. Wait for a pawn to remove it or select a constructor pawn and right click the area to instruct him to do it right away. A roof tile that is 4 tiles to the east and 4 tiles to the north of a support pillar will not collapse as it is squareroot 4 2 4 2 5 66 tiles away from it which is less than 6 tiles.

A quick and cheap structure to store materials and food can be made with a 9x9 roof and a wooden or steel wall in the middle. Any square 9 x 9 or bigger should have 1 support right in the middle. When i say add in i meant not dig that area though you can add in the supports stone or metal before the hole reaches critical size. A roof collapses if there s no support rock wall within 6 squares of the tile.

Any roof tile that is at a 6 tile distance away or more from the nearest support will collapse. They will remove it like any other roof. So this took out 4 people. You can avoid a collapse by either not mining the whole thing or building a wall to support it.

It ll only take 5 resources to build since roofs don t cost anything and it ll be a good enough starter storage. You can add a couple of walls on the corners to make it safer from roof collapse. If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive. For diagonal distances just apply the pythagorean theorem.

Use the planning tool to mark out your planning mining and add in the support columns based on the size of the hole you ll be leaving. A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.