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| NWR_insanolord:
--- Quote from: KDR_11k on April 24, 2011, 11:04:57 AM ---Mining shafts are vertical with ladders for people and elevators for ore in real life, in Minecraft you have to stick that ore in your pocket to get it up through the shaft. --- End quote --- The most effective way to mine is to go straight down in a 1x3 trench to about level 13-15 (so you're in diamond territory, but too high to hit lava). You then fill in the middle column with dirt or something else cheap, dig 3 more blocks down below one of the empty columns and fill those in with buckets of water, and place ladders up the other empty column. That way, to get to mining level you just jump down the shaft and let the water break your fall, branch out from the initial site in some pattern to mine, and then climb up the ladder to get out. |
| KDR_11k:
Yeah, makes mine carts kinda useless though. |
| NWR_insanolord:
Mine carts were never really meant to be used for mining in this game. |
| KDR_11k:
They're a major part in Clonk which I see as a competitor to Minecraft. |
| Morari:
I've never really used the mine carts for actual mining myself. I have a pretty massive transit system set up above ground though, going from town to town. For mining, I have shafts with cushy pools of water at the bottom at ladders going up the sides. I actually waste a lot of time decorating my mines though, putting in reinforcements and such... I like my Minecraft world to look semi-plausible. |
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