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Void piping is better because it immediately deletes the entities, while dumping items into lava causes them to catch on fire briefly before disappearing. It's a fairly small difference individually, however if you continue to scale your mining operations upward it can become significant.

Weighted plates have an extremely limited number of uses when you take into account that the hopper/comparator combo is very similar but significantly more flexible. The only special cases that I can think of where you'd want to use a weighted plate would be if for what ever reason you need to...

What he means is that all dense ore ages are unstable and will decay over time, the more dense ore symbols you stack the faster it happens and the more forms of instability it can have. It's merely a way to balance how powerful the symbol is, go in quick and mine what you can by hand and get...

Nocturnal and Flier are also important, although with Mystcraft ages or regular sleeping you won't absolutely need them. Cave-dwelling can be useful but it's far from essential. Edit: Some quick tests show that bees consider the times 12550-23450 to be night. Meaning a standard bee will only...