{"id":721,"date":"2017-12-17T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2017-10-08T22:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:07:32","slug":"day-109-on-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/day-109-on-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 108: On structure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 108:<\/p>\n

Occasionally, when I dig up from a chamber below where I am, I hit a wall from a chamber above, instead of a floor. That’s annoying.<\/p>\n

I could avoid the problem by sizing every space I carve equally, so that they’re all 3 meters by 4 meters, by example. I’ve seen the results of mining companies that follow that kind of policy.<\/p>\n

There are a few problems with doing that:<\/p>\n

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  1. Every room starts to look the same, so regardless of how well you map, it’s easy to get lost. That’s not a big deal in a small mining operation, but in a large one, it can literally be deadly.<\/li>\n
  2. Crossing a half distance underground, one does not want to open dozens of doors. TRUST ME.<\/li>\n
  3. The ore doesn’t cooperate with that layout, so you end up with a lot of empty spaces behind walls or spaces you weren’t planning to dig out but have to because that’s how you get the chambers evenly spaced.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Another alternative is giant rooms. There’s only one problem with that:<\/p>\n

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    1. The ceiling gives way and you die.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      No matter how high or low the gravity of a planet or planetoid or asteroid, eventually gravity wins the fight and no manner of stabilizing poles will last forever.<\/p>\n

      So my mining chambers are somewhat randomly sized. (They’re a lot more randomly sized when I don’t have to sink a torch every three meters to keep the local fauna away.) That means sometimes when I dig up, I hit a wall. One can’t carry maps this size everywhere.<\/p>\n

      Anyway, that’s the quick reason why my digging is annoying the duck out of me today.<\/p>\n

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      stupid walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Day 108: Occasionally, when I dig up from a chamber below where I am, I hit a wall from a chamber above, instead of a floor. That’s annoying. I could avoid the problem by sizing every space I carve equally, so that they’re all 3 meters by 4 meters, by example. I’ve seen the results … <\/p>\n

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