You can fix the filling your inventory with cobble bit by using a /dev/null. Handy little item from OpenBlocks- craft one (it's cheap), shift-right-click it, drop some cobble in its interface, and any more cobble you pick up will go into the /dev/null instead of your inventory. Once its stack fills up, it'll just delete any more cobble that you pick up. You can also right-click with it to place one of the stored blocks.
Branch mining is faster? How do you figure? You're breaking and revealing the same number of blocks, aren't you? Technically slightly less blocks are revealed with branch mining. I'm fairly sure branch mining is only done to completely clear out a specific area.
That low cavern terrain is amazing for finding dimensional shard ore. It shines in the dark, so you just need to walk around where the terrain goes deep enough. Shame about all the water, but you can't get everything I suppose... Or is there a way to make one without water?
If you only ever mine in one long tunnel, you have to run back and forth along the whole length of the tunnel every time your inventory/bags/whatever fills up. However, when my inventory fills up while branch mining, I just start on a new branch. Much less running back and forth through tunnels.
I'm not that far into it yet, but from what I've read, the Temporal Multitool is pretty cool. You can put a few different tools in it (a pick, a shovel, and an axe, say) and it'll automatically swap them out depending on what type of block you're trying to break.
Well, if it had a good mining level on it and you could put either silk touch or fortune on it, that'd be a viable tool. If not, it would just wind up being a shovel, wouldn't it?
You could see it as a shovel that doesn't take up an extra inventory slot. I'm not yet far enough into the pack yet to know if the Multitool is unlocked before the majority of your inventory, but early- to mid-game, at least, inventory space is at a premium. That one slot is the reason why I don't typically have a good way to deal with dirt or gravel in my way while I'm mining.
I'd agree. I didn't because I thought the missing sun would crush early solar but PathFinder does that all on its own. I still don't like to go there because the missing sun creeps me out but adding a Sun is available earlier than solar. I live in a swamp so the AgriCraft tank gets filled up way too often. Water saving is easy: you can add a torch, a lever and three buttons and a switching channel; tap a button to grow crops once and toggle lever to improve crops.
I've made a temporal core but never gotten the tools or the disassembler to work.
