Mining: Best way to do Mining

[[OTG] NetBlaise]

SO how do you guys do mining in your worlds? Do you mine out everything underground. mine 1 block high through your whole world, or maybe mine 2 blocks high?

Well the way I do mining is to build a ladder next to my stock pile and take it all the way down to lava (great place to farm Dragons for weapon XP). I then start mining 2 blocks high (one block in front of the dwarf and one above the dwarf) and do that left and right through the whole map. I do this all the way down to lava.. So 2 blocks high leave a row of blocks so your dwarfs can walk on then mine 2 blocks high under that... Strip mining

I use to do just 1 block from left to right but I never got a lot of gold from doing this. Make sure that every dwarf has mining. This makes mining a lot faster... Will post pics soon

[mikeydsc]

I leave 4 or 5 layers at the top and remove everything else underground a couple layers at a time - going for the mining expert achievement - whatever the name was.

[HappyDays]

Originally posted by OTG NetBlaise:

SO how do you guys do mining in your worlds? Do you mine out everything underground. mine 1 block high through your whole world, or maybe mine 2 blocks high?

Well the way I do mining is to builder a ladder next to my stock pile and take it all the way down to lava (great place to farm Dragons for weapon XP). I then start mining 2 blocks high (one block in front of the dwarf and one above the dwarf) and do that left and right through the whole map. I do this all the way down to lava.. So 2 blocks high leave a row of blocks so your dwarfs can walk on then mine 22 blocks high under that...

I use to do just 1 block from left to right but I never got a lot of gold from doing this. Make sure that every dwarf has mining. This makes mining a lot faster... Will post pics soon

Nice style! It reminds me of strip mining in Minecraft. I will have to try it! I tend to just look for resources selectively but it is time consuming...

Yes next time I am going to just plow through the world...muahahahaHAHAHA!

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[[OTG] NetBlaise]

lol... heres some pics.. first time posting pics: Basic setup

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=343006450

[ReneMiner]

Never ever build long ladders directly next to your stockpile. That mistake i made in the beginning too. I experienced my dwarves then most of the time climbing up and down that ladder to collect the stuff they dropped.

[HappyDays]

Originally posted by ReneMiner:

Never ever build long ladders directly next to your stockpile. That mistake i made in the beginning too. I experienced my dwarves then most of the time climbing up and down that ladder to collect the stuff they dropped.

That's actually a really good tip, resources dropping down a hole is annoying! :o

[[OTG] NetBlaise]

yeah that does happen sometimes... hardly happens in Forrest/plains/Snow Biomes.. I just got to Desert biome and those damn tornado's suck... Always dropping ♥♥♥♥....

[PatDay]

I put my main ladder next to the stockpile, but I put a little one block offset a few blocks down so if anything drops in the hole, it doesn't fall to the bottom of the map. Something like this (D for Dirt and L for Ladder):

D L D D
D L L D
D D L D
D L L D
D L D D

[[OTG] NetBlaise]

Originally posted by PatDay:

I put my main ladder next to the stockpile, but I put a little one block offset a few blocks down so if anything drops in the hole, it doesn't fall to the bottom of the map. Something like this (D for Dirt and L for Ladder):

D L D D
D L L D
D D L D
D L L D
D L D D

That looks good.. Think i'll try that ...

[ehyder]

I usually run a ladder all the way down from the starting warehouse to the bottom of my shelter (4ish levels). And then have ladders/elevators on the sides of the shelter that run all the way down to the lower levels. Reduces the retrieval time for dropped items and provides convenient paths past food and beds to get to the most efficient downward runs.

[iNol]

I usually prefer 1 miner, give him the best tool, open portal and have him mine something. Then control him and manually mine stuff so all mining exp goes to him. Very useful when mining silver, gold, and mithril. My mining skill usually pass 100 when other skills (smith etc) not yet reach 30 lol.

The sad part is that the AI glitch much when I manual mine. One block of coal mined, 3-4 dwarfs came to pick the loot, leaving 3 spare dwarfs deep down. Usually my heart gets broken seeing that and then alt+f4 xD

[HappyDays]

Originally posted by iNol iGunggung:

I usually prefer 1 miner, give him the best tool, open portal and have him mine something. Then control him and manually mine stuff so all mining exp goes to him. Very useful when mining silver, gold, and mithril. My mining skill usually pass 100 when other skills (smith etc) not yet reach 30 lol.

The sad part is that the AI glitch much when I manual mine. One block of coal mined, 3-4 dwarfs came to pick the loot, leaving 3 spare dwarfs deep down. Usually my heart gets broken seeing that and then alt+f4 xD

I agree that dwarves tend to prioritize picking up resources so I find it's usually best to get all your dwarves on the same task as much as possible (all cutting wood in same area, all mining same area). Downside is they share exp but upside is efficiency!

[mikeydsc]

I use the one miner method to make temp dirt blocks to span an open cave so they dont fall in. I use dirt because later in the world you can 1 hit dirt to remove it and usually you have 999 dirt blocks so there is no pick up. But then I use all my dwarves to mine in one area like posted above when the area has no giant potholes..

[[OTG] NetBlaise]

DO you guys mine the background? Thinking that you may be able to get gold from the backlayer... Would be cool but double the mining time... Gonna try and mine everything underground on the Desert map... gonna take forever.... Everyones a damn miner :)

[mikeydsc]

The lower red blocks give random nuggets of something sometimes plus dirt.

[HappyDays]

Originally posted by OTG NetBlaise:

DO you guys mine the background? Thinking that you may be able to get gold from the backlayer... Would be cool but double the mining time... Gonna try and mine everything underground on the Desert map... gonna take forever.... Everyones a damn miner :)

Yes you can totally mine the back layer! I'm fairly sure I've seen gold in the back which means you're getting 2 gold ore from 1 block technically! What a deal! :D

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