What's your favorite method of mining.

[Dr_Appleman]

Do you like going deep into caverns and fend of monsters for the most treasure you can get without spending lot of resources as long as you don't die or do you go deep into shafts and work through your collection of pickaxes or do you just let your quarry do all the work?

For me it's shaftmining since I like to take my time, enjoy some music and get some time to plan my next move plus it doesn't leave a giant mark on the landscape like quarries.

[freakachu]

I tend to branch mine around level 10 or 11 to start out. gets me diamonds all that good stuff. once I can, I will automate all that though because mining is boring.

[progrendon]

striping right above bedrock then when i get one a quarry then i turn them quarry holes in to the foundations of crazy buildings.

[JademusSreg]

Mine straight down until I fall into lava and die.

[Dr_Appleman]

Mine straight down until I fall into lava and die.

That one is a favorite the best way to do it thought is to have all your important and expensive items in your inventory.

[ErusPrime]

RP2 tunnel bore with enderchests.

[jonjon1234]

I make a world, made for mining (1 or two dense ores) Then set up a quarry, high in the air. Then as soon as it is done, get the heck out the world, through the book into lava and delete the world folder.

Works every time, so long as you bring a few linking books.

[Munaus]

Quarry

Except without the quarry. I'm the quarry, basically.

I choose a chunk of 10*10 or 20*20 a bit underground and start stripmining down 'til I hit lava or bedrock. I like mining

I hate when my mind goes wandering to a " ooh! iron over there!.... ohh! I saw a ruby in that hole! Gotta reach it... Ooh! More coal!"

I always go spelunking and eventually get lost in a maze...

[SPGold]

RP2 tunnel bore with enderchests.

What he said

[racingpro]

I usually just go into the caves and collect what I can, until I hit around level 10, and then I sometimes go mining off in straight lines from there. But once I can, automation.

[Barobutte]

I like to hit blocks with a pick. Doesn't matter if it's a iron pick or a stone pick any pick. I'll even hit gravel and dirt and sand with a pick because switching to a shovel takes too long. I like it when the block finishes mining it makes a sound that I picked it up. DId you ever have a full inventory and didn't got the pickup noise and you don't notice and then you go to leave and you realize ooops I didn't pick up them ores? I think this is a mining anecdote we can all relate to.

[Cheap Shot]

I staircase mine cautiously until I burst into a cave and shit the bed. I always intend to spiral staircase mine with a shaft down the middle to send daylight down to the bottom but I always just regular staircase because it's early game and I don't want to put in the effort.

[ErusPrime]

I staircase mine cautiously until I burst into a cave and shit the bed. I always intend to spiral staircase mine with a shaft down the middle to send daylight down to the bottom but I always just regular staircase because it's early game and I don't want to put in the effort.

Early game, I spiral a 5x5 area down. At the bottom of each flight, you can dig out and around the shaft and create rooms. Good for early game survival and super easy to expand into something awesome late game if you don't mind the Umbrella Corporation-esque digs.

[The_DarthMoogle]

Spelunking.

I only mine stuff that's on the walls, floors and ceilings of caves.

Once I'm at the stage of automating, it's RP2 all the way, with a tunnel bore at one above bedrock level.

Actually, if I'm feeling like a bag of dicks, I'll build an airship that uses BuildCraft miners.

IC2 Solar Arrays into Power Converters make the miners dig and an incredible speed; much faster than a quarry.

But the mess is enormous. Like, painfully bad for the environment.

[vitorsly]

I generally dig a staircase into level 11 or 12 and then dig in one direction until my pickaxe breaks or my Inventory gets full.

Later in the game when I have over 15 diamonds I make a mining turtle and use the "excavate 20" command and it works like a MUCH cheaper quarry.

[vitorsly]

Sorry, Lag made double post.

Can anyone delete this?

[Dr_Coffee]

I Like Mining in cave and using a quarry

[Michael101]

I generally dig a staircase into level 11 or 12 and then dig in one direction until my pickaxe breaks or my Inventory gets full.

Later in the game when I have over 15 diamonds I make a mining turtle and use the "excavate 20" command and it works like a MUCH cheaper quarry.

Do you have the MiscPeripherals mod installed? With it you can install chunkloaders into your turtles so they continue working while you're not around.

[ErusPrime]

once you have the gear, a redstone energy cell + filler will absolutely dominate the landscape. it is ridiculously fast. You have to collect your stuff manually but it is how I make room and gather resources for my large underground builds.

[warpspeed10]

You mean for fun? Definitely old fashion caving. For resources though, it'd have to be nukes followed by redpower.

[Viktor_Berg]

once you have the gear, a redstone energy cell + filler will absolutely dominate the landscape. it is ridiculously fast. You have to collect your stuff manually but it is how I make room and gather resources for my large underground builds.

I used this a few times, but it is both ridiculously bothersome to collect all that shit, and very, VERY annoying if you hit lava. Say goodbye to your ores unless you stop the filler, and flood all the lava that is now hanging in midair.

[vitorsly]

Do you have the MiscPeripherals mod installed? With it you can install chunkloaders into your turtles so they continue working while you're not around.

No, I don't have it but I don't need it since it is 2 chunks aways from my home wich has a chunkloader in it.

[Dr_Appleman]

You mean for fun? Definitely old fashion caving. For resources though, it'd have to be nukes followed by redpower.

I hate caves they're good for quick ores but I hate having to deal with the mobs in there.

[Kylemaster002]

i like going into the caves and the casems because i like to push mobs over the edge btw whats the name of the mod in yogbox that allows you to turn a wooden sword into a new one like a dagger a standard sword or a great sword

[V00doocat]

I normally staircase mine down to level 11 and clear out a large area.

Then on all the walls in this area (normaly an expanding rectangle) I have entrances to mines with x2 block spaces between each mine.

All these mines leading off from this area are just straight lines of 2x1 tunnels extending as far as I can be arsed.

Alltough that is how I mine on a server or any normal world. When trying a "the new mod pack" I had to re'think all that as the ores are spread out.

No more hitting level 11 and sending of a bore in a straight line. A step in the right direction IMO. Unless you hate mining, in which case it's prob' best to find a different game without mining in the title.