Doubt it, it would be a complete rework of their terrain system.

Well it really depends of if this is something the devs would want to spend time making. If you tunnel under a big rock in the right position, you can make a cave. So if that's possible, then they just need to make a system that allows for a second bottom surface and top of the cave. Add an option on the pickaxe, dig tunnel. But the coding behind what is simple to write isn't always simple.

If they added a logical function like support beams then it might work very easily.

Core wood beams or better above causes a new "floor" surface so rock / dirt doesn't fall past it.

Originally posted by Sin:

If they added a logical function like support beams then it might work very easily.

Core wood beams or better above causes a new "floor" surface so rock / dirt doesn't fall past it.

lol that was the first thing i tried to do, shoring up a hole so i could build a tunnel .. to no avail its a no go.

Originally posted by Kraft51:

Originally posted by Sin:

If they added a logical function like support beams then it might work very easily.

Core wood beams or better above causes a new "floor" surface so rock / dirt doesn't fall past it.

lol that was the first thing i tried to do, shoring up a hole so i could build a tunnel .. to no avail its a no go.

Yet. I'm hopeful they'll add the function in the future, mine shafts seem so logical. Though it might make underground bases far too OP and doesn't seem very viking aside from natural caves.

They said in an interview that they have no plans for that. Besides they just did a big update to fix the digging system.

We can already dig underground bases/caves using big boulders. All they would have to do is add bigger boulders to make the diggers happy.

I highly doubt it. In the games current state, the map KIND of works like the old Doom engines, in that it practically might as well be 2D.

It's not a voxel game. The world isn't made of cubes that can be removed or added. The terrain uses a height map. When you dig, it lowers the height at that spot. So no tunnels.

Originally posted by Intellect Inside:

It's not a voxel game. The world isn't made of cubes that can be removed or added. The terrain uses a height map. When you dig, it lowers the height at that spot. So no tunnels.

Yep - it is simply impossible to allow tunneling without some big rework of the terrain-system (which then also includes basically everything else like how objects are placed in the world or animals move), the save-system etc....

Luckily, you can already dig under large Stone deposits, along with Copper and probably Silver. So there's a way to get caves already that doesn't involve a massive systemic change that frankly isn't going happen.

I guess you could build a natural stone roof using spawn commands?

I doubt it since it would probably require a complete rework - but why not add "fake" tunnels?

For example a craftable "grass plate" that will be recognized as ground as long as its connected to the ground at some point (aka looks like ground but actually is recognized by the game as a player building)?

edit: i actually like that caves etc are instances since this opens up a lot of great opportunities for modders to add random caves/dungeons etc. as a new instance.

Build underneath an elder spawner :)

Originally posted by Sin:

Originally posted by Kraft51:

lol that was the first thing i tried to do, shoring up a hole so i could build a tunnel .. to no avail its a no go.

Yet. I'm hopeful they'll add the function in the future, mine shafts seem so logical. Though it might make underground bases far too OP and doesn't seem very viking aside from natural caves.

Sunken crypts should give you a very accurate way to set your expectations about mines.

Plus any kind of underground tunneling would lead to cheesing raids on your home.

And, vikings were not miners.

The I would see it working with the established ground layer system, you would need to 'craft' the tunnel sections whole; like placing chunks of fully constructed tunnel