best way to get ores?

[NordicNugz]

what do you guys say? strip mining or branch mining? What's the most efficient way to get ores?

[whoners]

I find strip mining isn't like minecraft, because from what I've seen, ore are only in the premade caves. I strip mined for hours/miles and noticed the ore only spawned near the premade caves. In my opinion strip mining just makes your tools break faster. Make a staircase straight down and just mine the caves on the left and right of your staircase because when you get deeper the beef gets harder and you will want a clear path to kite the mobs or even run to safety.

[VladK02]

How do you make the staircase, out of interest? You mine out natural steps, or is there something craftable that I missed? Like ladders in minecraft?

[whoners]

Originally posted by VladK02:

How do you make the staircase, out of interest? You mine out natural steps, or is there something craftable that I missed? Like ladders in minecraft?

Do something like this

https://i.imgur.com/nHFHIW6.jpg

I craft the stone staircase because when you mine like this you will get TONS of stone. Make about 10 before you start the journey, then just make more as you go down. When you start going down you won't need to strip mine at all because you will hit cave upon cave on the way down. Just try to make the tunnel as stright as possible incase you need to run back up on the fly, you won't jam yourself up with wall torches or wall sticking out. Set down one foundation where you're going to dig because the staircase will need something to connect to. I did it from my work room basement like this giving the stone staircase something to snap to.

https://i.imgur.com/JUZIfsZ.jpg

When the stone turns darker you will be at gold ore/cobalt level, so make a few extra picks/drills. if you have tons of gold, use drills they break the darker stone faster, if not make a few picks extra. The darker stone means better ore, and also harder mobs so be careful. You'll need copper to mine iron, iron to mine gold, gold to mine tungsten and tungsten to mine cobalt.