Support Beams Also Provide Vertical Wall Support

[Tyceberg]

It would be nice if support beams could also provide vertical support for things like dirt when soil instability is turned on. Being that it is a form of instability after all.
The video attached below shows a wall blocked in with support beams. These beams fail to hold even the blocks that are right up against the wood. Configurations/Builds wouldn't necessarily have to look like the one in the video. It could be one beam per wall column, multiple beams stacked horizontally, etc, etc. (example photos below.)

Technically, this can be done by placing one beam per block space, one at a time. This is because their hit-boxes register as blocking the blocks' falling paths, but you only get one hit-box per beam placed. This is tedious and slow, and even limits making certain designs with the beams (example photo below.) So, it would be nice for the walls to recognize the full length of a singly placed long beam (like stone ceilings do). Then, we wouldn't need all those hit-boxes, loss of creative freedom, or the increased time consumption.

 

Other Designs Examples:
Stacked Beams

 

Ground "embedded" beams, centered per block column.

 

Block-by-Block Curving Issues, 3x10 blocks example:
The beam going from bottom-left to top-right was placed as a single beam. The beams running from bottom-right to top-left were placed block-by-block. This led to crooking and curving in a number of spaces due to the increased number of used anchor points.

 

Edited September 5, 2025 by Tyceberg