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How the default mine limit works
The game’s default limit is 15 mines active at once. In the official Path of Exile 3.8.0 patch notes, Grinding Gear Games stated: “You can now have up to 15 mines active at once by default (from 5).”
If you place another mine after reaching your active limit, the oldest active mine is destroyed, according to the PoE Wiki’s mine mechanics page.
How builds can raise the cap
Passive skills and Minefield Support can increase how many mines you can have active. The total depends on the effects available to a particular build; Minefield’s placement stat is not itself the total active-mine cap.
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What Minefield Support changes
The PoE Wiki’s Minefield Support entry lists the gem as allowing up to three additional remote mines to be placed at a time. That is a placement amount, not a statement that the character’s entire active-mine limit is three or that the default cap is replaced.
Grinding Gear Games’ 3.17.0 patch notes record Minefield Support’s reduction from four additional mines to three. Read the gem’s placement effect separately from the character’s overall active limit.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What the documented 23-mine maximum means
In a 2019 announcement about Blight’s new mine skills, Grinding Gear Games said players could reach up to 23 mines at once by combining passives and Minefield Support. That is a documented build-dependent count, not evidence that every current configuration has the same maximum. The available official material establishes the default cap and that historical example; it does not establish 23 as a universal ceiling for all current builds.
For a specific character, the useful distinction is between the default 15-mine cap, any cap increases from the build, and how many mines a skill use places at once.
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