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Under some circumstances a warning message will appear in the events event window while mining or [[tunnel]]ling to inform the player that they are either unable to continue on the current tile or that continuing may cause unusual effects.

; The cave walls sound hollow. : Appears This appears when mining into another shaft and the height difference is not dangerous.

Mining will be no longer possible when receiving one of the following messages.:

; The cave walls sound hollow. A dangerous You hear crumbling on the other side shaft could emergeof the wall and the floor starts to crack. [The cave shudders from some imbalanceshaft would be too steep and unstable.] : Occurs inside a mine. This message appears when the undermining previous tile being mined shares above, as in a single corner with an existing tunnelsteep upwards dropshaft would be created. To continue adjacent tiles must be mined out before mining can continue on There is no fix for this tile, though mining another wall, and changing tunnel direction, may work. See example on Going from the rightother side down should work. ; Cannot have cave entrances meeting diagonallyA ''<item name>'' on the surface disturbs your operation. : Occurs This message appears when there is another cave entrance diagonally. It can be two tiles away from an item like a felled tree, an altar, a forge, large chest or other item is on the tile giving the message. Mine out surface over or near the adjacent tiles, so tile where you can connect the two entrances by a are attempting to mine or tunnel. Move the item to proceed. ; The mountainside would risk crumbling. You cannot tunnel here A surface highway interferes with your tunneling operation. : Occurs This message appears when opening tunneling would break through a new tunnel from highway on the surface. Caused when there is already  ; The current tile needs a tunnel to flat border level with the back or bottom of the adjacent cave entrance.: This message appears when you need to surface mine the sides bottom slope of the entrance adjacent tile or if to match the slope of the mine entrance, only when creating a tunnel is ahead but to far down to connect tomulti-tile entrance. Surface mine down  ; The current tile needs to reduce face the same direction as the slopes, then attempt to tunnel againadjacent cave entrance.; The cave walls look very : Adjacent entrance tiles must all face the same direction. ; Lowering the floor further with such a high ceiling would make the cavern unstable. You cannot keep mining here. : Occurs inside a mine. Happens This message appears when mining close to the top of ceiling is too high above the rock layerfloor.  ; The ceiling of the newly mined tile would break the rock layercave walls echo strangely. Can sometimes There must be avoided by an open tunnel diagonal from the wall you are mining downwards or by lowering the mine floor , and thereby opening the new tile you would need to approach it from a bit lowerdifferent direction.; The cave walls look very unstable and dirt flows in. You would be buried alive. : Occurs inside a mine. Happens : This message appears when the tile being mined will break out to the surface, but the surface is not exposed rockshares a single corner with an existing tunnel. To excavate it the rock continue, adjacent tiles must be mined out before mining can continue on this tile. See example on the surface must be fully exposedright. ; A dangerous crack is starting to form on the floor. You will have to find another way. [The The cave shudders from some imbalancewalls look very unstable.] : Caused by undermining previous tile mined above, as in Mining here would open a steep upwards dropshaft would be created. No fixcave exit, though mining another wallbut there aren't enough solid walls to support it, and therefore changing tunnel direction, worked on same tileso you stop mining. Going from the other side down should work: This message appears when mining close to the top of the rock layer.; The ground is too steep to mine at here. You need ceiling of the newly mined tile would break the rock layer in a way that would try to make it more flatform an impossible entrance. : Occurs occasionally when This can sometimes be avoided by mining downwards or by lowering the mine floor down. The cause is unknownand opening the new tile a bit lower. ; The ground sounds strangely hollow cave walls look very unstable and brittledirt flows in. You have to abandon the Mining here would open a cave exit, but the dirt above would bury you alive, so you stop mining operation. : Occurs on This message appears when the surface when there's already a tunnel on tile being mined will break out to the tile being tunnelledsurface, an but the surface is not exposed rock. To open the entrance cannot , the rock on the surface must be mined herefully exposed. ; The topology here makes it impossible to To continue mining forward this can sometimes be avoided by mining downwards or by lowering the mine in floor and opening the new tile a good waybit lower. : Occurs when trying  ;The ceiling is too close.:Occurs when using concrete to create raise a mine entrance on a perfectly flat rock floor tilethat is less than 20 distance from the ceiling. 1 corner must be lowered with surface mining ; The ground is too steep to continuemine at here.<br>This can also occur if both corners nearest You need to make it more flat. : This message appears occasionally when mining the lowest corner are the same heightfloor down.<br>Has also been reported underground, probably when mining that tile would The cause is unknown. ; You cannot create a flat mine entrance. Mining downwards may work in this casetunnel here.; The mountainside would risk crumbling. You can't ground sounds strangely hollow, and there must be open a hole herespace under the surface that would make the entrance unstable. : Occurs This message appears when attempting to create there's already a mine entrance tunnel on a rock the tile that is too steepbeing tunneled. The maximum slope is 270An entrance cannot be mined here. ; There is no space You hear crumbling beneath your feet. The tunnel to mine here. Clear the area first. open cave underneath would be far too steep and unstable.: Occurs when opening a new tunnel from the tile occupied by the player has 100 a pile of itemssurface. Clear This message appears when there is already a tunnel to the back or the area.; You fail to produce anything here. The rock is stone hard. : Occurs on the surface. This means sides of the entrance tile you are attempting to excavate or if a tunnel is actually an ore veinahead but too far down to connect to. There's nothing Surface mine down to do about itreduce the slopes, you simply have then attempt to make your entrance on another tiletunnel again. ; The mountainside would risk crumbling. Note that if you make the entrance one tile below the vein, the You can't open a tunnel will open right into the vein and cannot be extended until the vein on a surface this steep.: This message appears when attempting to create a mine entrance on a rock tile that is depletedtoo steep. The best course of action at this point would probably be to mine out maximum slope is 270. ; You realize you can't open a rock tile next to tunnel here, because the one you get this message onsurface is too flat.: Happens This message appears when mining down trying to create a floor and roof is too high, Can only mine entrance on a perfectly flat rock tile. One corner must be fixed by collapsing all affected tiles and re-lowered with surface miningto continue. (IOW. <br>This can also occur if you want both corners nearest the lowest corner are the tile flat collapse it and re-minesame height.<br>Has also been reported underground, if you want to lower it collapse all surrounding tiles and re-mine.)probably when mining that tile would create a flat mine entrance. Mining downwards may work in this case. ; You hear falling rocks from notice dirt flowing in, so you stop mining. Breaking through the other side of the wall. A deep shaft will probably emergeceiling here would bury you alive. : Occurs inside a mine. Caused This message appears when there mining the ceiling too close to the surface and it is already another mine nearby, but there is too much of a height difference not dug to connect rock on the two minessurface. ; You cannot keep mining here. The rock water is unusually hardtoo deep to mine here. : The This message displayed appears when trying to mine too far under the water table.: Also occurs when one attempts trying to open a tunnel directly onto a veinin which the northwest corner of the tile being mined is at or more than 12 dirts below the water table. ; The roof sounds strangely hollow dangerously weak and you notice dirt flowing in, so you stop mining. : You get this when mining a ceiling stop mining. It must be too close to the rock surface and it is not to continue.: This message indicates the rocklayer above is very close to the ceiling, so there is no more room to mine further. ; The water is too deep rock sounds hollow, and you would breach a cave ceiling. You need to tunnel to mine hereproceed. : You get this when you are This message appears when trying to [[surface mining|surface mine too far under ]] above an open tile underground, and you are already at the water tableceiling height of the mine. ; The roof sounds strangely hollow. You must mine the other corners if you want are not allowed to create an openingremove that reinforcement.: You get this This message appears when you are mining have tried to mine into a cave ceiling and mined to outside corners heightreinforced tile that you do not have permission to remove. ; The roof sounds dangerously weak and cave wall is already destroyed, so you must abandon this attemptstop mining. : Indicates the rock layer above is very close to to your mining of the ceiling, so there is no more room This message appears after a wall breaks and you still have mining actions left in your action queue (trying to mine furtherthin air). ; You cannot reach This tile is protected by the ceilinggods. : You can't not mine here. : This message appears when a GM protected highway tile above the ceiling any highertile that is being mined. ; You are not allowed There is no space to mine here. : Deed permissions have disabled mining, and at least 1 spirit templar exists to uphold Clear the lawarea first.; The rock sounds hollow, you will need to tunnel to continue : When trying to Surface Mine above an open : This message appears when the tile underground, and you are already at occupied by the player contains 100 items. Clear the ceiling height of area or move the mine.; The rock is too hard to minecharacter onto another tile and make a new pile of shards. :  ; You cannot have tried to mine into a reinforced tile or more rarely, happens with stacked action when the wall breaks before you run out of actions (ie trying to mine thin air)cave entrances meeting diagonally.; You are too unskilled to mine here: This message appears when there is another cave entrance diagonally. : You have tried to surface mine higher than your skill allowsIt can be two tiles away from the tile giving the message. Freedom Formula: 3 x Mining Skill. Epic Formula: 1 x Mining Skill (Not-curved)Mine out the adjacent tiles, so you can connect the two entrances by a tunnel. ; An altar of (deity) You fail to produce anything here. The rock is stone hard. : This message appears when tunneling on the surface disturbs your operation. : You get this warning when an altar is directly above . This means the tile you are trying attempting to mine (possibly near the entrance?)excavate is actually an ore vein. Push the altar There's nothing to do about it, you simply have to make your entrance on another tile.; This tile is protected by ''Note that if you make the gods. You can not mine here. : GM protected highway entrance one tile above below the tile that vein, the tunnel will open right into the vein and cannot be extended until the vein is being mineddepleted.; A felled tree on the surface disturbs your operation. : A felled tree is laying over the surface The best course of the action at this point would probably be to mine out a rock tile where next to the tunnel will be created. Occurs when mining from the inside outone you get this message on.'' ; Current tile needs a flat border to correspond to lower part You hear falling rocks from the other side of adjacent cave entrancethe wall. : Need to surface A deep shaft will probably emerge. : This message appears when there is already another mine the bottom slope nearby, but there is too much of the adjacent tile a height difference to match connect the slope of the mine entrance. Only when creating a multi-tile entrancetwo mines. ; Lowering You cannot create a tunnel here. The stone under the floor further would make the cavern unstablesurface is something harder than normal rock. : Occurs This message appears when ceiling is too high above the floorattempting to open a tunnel directly onto a vein, a reinforced tile or a rock tile with salt. ; You are not allowed to mine here. : Deed permissions have disabled mining. (PvP deeds may require at least one [[spirit templar]] to uphold the law.) ; You are not skilled enough to mine on such steep slopes.: This message appears when trying to surface mine higher than your skill allows. Freedom Formula: 3 x Mining Skill. Epic Formula: 1 x Mining Skill (Not-curved). ;You cannot reach the ceiling.:Occurs when trying to mine the cave ceiling that is more than 61 height away from the floor.  ;You need at least 21 Mining skill to install a stone or metal mine door.:Occurs when attempting to install a metal or stone mine door without 21 Mining skill