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{{Main|Mining}}
; Lowering the floor further with such a high ceiling would make the cavern unstable.
: This message appears when the ceiling is too high above the floor.
; The cave walls echo strangely. There must be an open tunnel diagonal from the wall you are mining, and you would need to approach it from a different direction.
: This message appears when the tile being mined shares a single corner with an existing tunnel. To continue, adjacent tiles must be mined out before mining can continue on this tile. See example on the right.
; The cave walls look very unstable. You cannot keep Mining here would open a cave exit, but there aren't enough solid walls to support it, so you stop mining here. : This message appears when mining close to the top of the rock layer. The ceiling of the newly mined tile would break the rock layerin a way that would try to form an impossible entrance. Can This can sometimes be avoided by mining downwards or by lowering the mine floor and opening the new tile a bit lower.
; The cave walls look very unstable and dirt flows in. Mining here would open a cave exit, but the dirt above would bury you alive, so you stop mining.
: This message appears when the tile being mined will break out to the surface, but the surface is not exposed rock. To open the entrance, the rock on the surface must be fully exposed. To continue mining forward this can sometimes be avoided by mining downwards or by lowering the mine floor and opening the new tile a bit lower.
;The ceiling is too close.
; There is no space to mine here. Clear the area first.
: This message appears when the tile occupied by the player has contains 100 a pile of items. Clear the area or move the character onto another tile and make a new pile of shards.
; You cannot have cave entrances meeting diagonally.
; You cannot create a tunnel here. The stone under the surface is something harder than normal rock.
: This message appears when attempting to open a tunnel directly onto a vein, a reinforced tile or a rock tile with salt.
; You cannot reach the ceiling.
: This message appears when you can't mine the ceiling any higher.
; You are not allowed to mine here.
: Deed permissions have disabled mining, and . (PvP deeds may require at least one [[spirit templar]] exists to uphold the law.)
; You are not skilled enough to mine on such steep slopes.
;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
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