Originally posted by Oakshield:

When it comes to support strength from the ground up:

(strongest support first)

1) Earth walls
2) Stone walls
3) Iron Beams
4) Core Beams
5) Wood Beams.
6) Darkwood Beams.

Yggdrasil wood is only for decorative purposes now. But somehow I have the feeling it'll sooner or later may have some support beams - but still as decoration - as well.

That is wrong, it's more like:

1. Earth
   
2. Iron
   
3. Marble
   
4. Stone
   
5. Core
   
6. Dark
   
7. Wood

And horizontally:

1. Iron
   
2. Core
   
3. Dark
   
4. Wood
   
5. Marble
   
6. Stone
   Impossible: Earth

With marble able to vertically hang slightly, and stone breaking immediately. Horizontal stone is pretty much exclusively arch & floor tiles only.

And Yggdrasil wood makes some specific pieces, spiral staircases are more functional than decorative.

When it comes to support strength from the ground up:

(strongest support first)

1) Earth walls
2) Stone walls
3) Iron Beams
4) Core Beams
5) Wood Beams.
6) Darkwood Beams.

Yggdrasil wood is only for decorative purposes now. But somehow I have the feeling it'll sooner or later may have some support beams - but still as decoration - as well.


Thorin :)

Iron beams and cages provide more support than stone or marble, and marble is better than stone.

Core and darkwood beams have their uses too, since they have length of 4m, and overall the material has slightly better support than wood, but nowhere close to stone or metal.

That leaves regular wooden pieces as the worst option.

Originally posted by jonnin:

oh... this is important... are you asking about smashability or structural integrity? I think all the answers are the same anyway, but they have different resists/immunity.

Yeah, this very reason took me quite a while to understand the difference between stone and black marble; they both have 1500 durability, but marbles resistances are MUCH better than stone.

The 4 meter log vertical and the 4 meter dark wood vertical, will let you build higher than just plain stacking 2 meter wood vertical beams I believe. Adding the iron wood inside these will let you build very high structures.

The combination of stone and core log supported with iron wood beams (need to be continuous from the ground contact) will let you build the highest without mods or spawned in artificial support.
A screen of a boathouse I built. Longship parked under a large building. It even has a stone fireplace upstairs.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2053113256282784437/E6138848232F26CC2A8441CA53B24BCC481F79B4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

ok thanks a lot

You can clip darkwood beams over iron, so why not both?* (it won't add strength to iron beams but iron beams are the strongest anyway.)

*If you're expecting damage then repairing the inner iron beam could be a problem, which is a pretty good why not.

iron beam by far

iron (gates, doors, beams, floors) and ironwood are about the same.
I am not 100% sure but I think core wood is next; dark wood is mostly decorative.

Originally posted by iamoffline1:

acc. to wiki darkwood beam = 400 durability,
wood iron beam (which i presume you mean) = 2.000 durability

oh... this is important... are you asking about smashability or structural integrity? I think all the answers are the same anyway, but they have different resists/immunity.