Mining Techniques

[Rotten Babe]

Do you peeps have any good mining techniques to share? Personally I've been using the one I used to use in Minecraft:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1306212276

i.e. you dig a horizontal tunnel every 2 blocks so you see what's on each side. However, this doesn't seem to be as effective as I remember it being on Minecraft. I've been able to find more diamonds this way than iron. What's up with that? Are there different techniques for different layers/ores?

Please share any mining techniques you use to find coal, obsidian, iron and diamonds!

[entuland]

Aphroidite lähetti viestin:

actually i just dig down from the surface following the beacon light

So you pierce the ground here and there just to reach extractors?

[RSoM LuckySheep]

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Well, the issue is that I don't have Pro, so I need to use coal torches as light source rather than trail markers.

In this case it's best to use lamps of some kind as a light source. Torches are still best for leaving a trail anywhere you need to find again.

Lamps typically give better coverage than torches, and gas lamps have the widest range in the game. You don't get the animation from them, so spamming an area with dozens of lamps will lag you less than with torches. Also, lamps can be turned off. There will come a time when the mobs won't be hunting you, you'll be hunting them. Having your caves lit up like Christmas won't be useful anymore, but it will severely impact the number of chests which spawn. Being able to quickly turn off lamps behind you as you go can be very useful.

Once you're in corruption mining lumite, beacons are incredibly useful for marking your extractors. Occasionally you run into a corrupted wall/mountain/cave thing, but most of corruption gives you very good visibility. You can see those beacons a long way off.

[Thryden]

Advanced TNT is what I use for iron. It's super easy to make, so I make about a 100 or so, and make sure I have plenty of super extracters. I then go down to the stalactite layer, and start blasting in a straight line. Whenever I see an iron node I place an extracter on it and dig around it to make sure I don't miss any. After setting off about 20 or so tnt, I leave the tunnel and start making another right next to it. This makes it easier to find the extracters I placed. When I'm done, instead of trying to find my way back up to the surface, I just teleport back to my spawn point. I find tons this way.

Turning tar into coal and diamond is an easy way to get those. Another way to get coal is to destroy mountains. I'm in the process of making a train tunnel through a mountain, and my brother on the same world is making a mine in a mountain. Together, we've found a couple thousand of coal through that process.

As for obsidian, I don't use it much, so whenever I come across it I usually harvest it, and that keeps me going. I hardly ever use lumite, so I don't have any tips for that.