PC Why is concrete 6x stronger than stone?

[Dimpy]

Get the [bleep] out of here! Are you serious?
Engineering has always been a fascination of mine.

I don't suppose you've got a link to a vid of an example.

I'd love to see that in action.

Perhaps when I'm done my current game I'll give that a shot.

Always wanted to make a castle with an adjacent tower and some really cool medieval arched bridge over to it.

Don't have a vid, but here's an example graphic of building an arch with an SI of 2. The design gets more efficient with better building materials because they allow for you to make the curve smoother. You can make it even more efficient if you use lighter/weaker building materials in the middle.

Unfortunately, the game's SI system's is optimizations do not allow you to place any block farther than sixteen units from something directly supported by bedrock regardless of how stable it actually should be, so the arch method is mostly useful early game. I can get a sixteen-block (max distance 8 blocks unsupported ) bridge out of wood frames, flagstone, and catwalks by day 7 easily.

 

[LuckyStar]

Don't have a vid, but here's an example graphic of building an arch with an SI of 2. The design gets more efficient with better building materials because they allow for you to make the curve smoother. You can make it even more efficient if you use lighter/weaker building materials in the middle. Unfortunately, the game's SI system's is optimizations do not allow you to place any block farther than sixteen units from something directly supported by bedrock regardless of how stable it actually should be, so the arch method is mostly useful early game. I can get a sixteen-block (max distance 8 blocks unsupported ) bridge out of wood frames, flagstone, and catwalks by day 7 easily.

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That's awesome!

I cannot wait to try that.

Right now the largest span you can create that actually holds a decent amount of weight is 9.

That's with Bridge Concrete or Riveted Bridge Metal.

I wonder how much weight an arch actually holds.

I'd love to remake my castle with much larger rooms.

I'll have to try it out on my test server and load it up till it fails.

Thanks for the tip!

I really mean that.

Been playing this game for years and I can't tell you how much I enjoy learning new things.

 

[Euzio]

Don't have a vid, but here's an example graphic of building an arch with an SI of 2. The design gets more efficient with better building materials because they allow for you to make the curve smoother. You can make it even more efficient if you use lighter/weaker building materials in the middle. Unfortunately, the game's SI system's is optimizations do not allow you to place any block farther than sixteen units from something directly supported by bedrock regardless of how stable it actually should be, so the arch method is mostly useful early game. I can get a sixteen-block (max distance 8 blocks unsupported ) bridge out of wood frames, flagstone, and catwalks by day 7 easily.

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That is very interesting indeed. Its starting to give me a few ideas on how I want to build my next drawbridge!