Anybody still use the IC2 Miner?

[Recon]

Back in my Tekkit days a year ago I used to use the IC2 miner as a preferred cheap auto-mining solution. Its non-destructive to the landscape and sucks out all the goodies in an area below the miner, and to the side a few blocks depending on what scanner you install in it.

In the config of IC2, there's a setting where you can tell it what ore blocks to mine. In case anybody uses it, I've collected a list. I'm hoping its complete. If anybody knows of a block ID I missed, please let me know.

14 Gold
15 Iron
16 Coal
21 Lapis
56 Diamond
73 Redstone
129 Emerald
153 Nether Quartz
247 Uranium
458 Sulfur
458:1 Saltpeter
458:2 Dark Diamond (what is this?)
458:3 Dark Emerald
458:4 Dark Lapis
688 Monazit
1002 Silver
1398 Apatite
1398:1 Copper
1398:2 Tin
1488 Iron Gravel
1488:1 Gold Gravel
1488:2 Copper Gravel
1488:3 Tin Gravel
1488:4 Aluminum Gravel
1488:5 Cobalt Gravel
1942 Amethyst
1942:2 Ruby
1942:4 Peridot
1942:6 Topaz
1942:8 Tanzanite
1942:10 Apatite
1942:12 Sapphire
2001 Copper
2001:1 Tin
2001:2 Silver
2001:3 Lead
2001:4 Ferrous
2402 Cinnabar
4088 Certus Quartz
4091:1 Cobalt Ore
4091:2 Ardite Ore
4091:3 Copper
4091:4 Tin
4091:5 Aluminum
2402:1 Air Crystals
2402:2 Fire Crystals
2402:3 Water Crystals
2402:4 Earth Crystals
2402:5 Vis Crystals
2402:6 Dull Crystals
4000:1 Rock Hive

 

[Blastedsura]

Considering that dark diamond is paired with the dark emerald and lapis, I would guess that is the diamonds you find in those abyssal stone spheres. Just a guess though

 

[Recon]

ooh that must be something I'm not familiar with yet.

Also after testing my config, it seems the miner can't mine bee hives, or that gravel for some reason.

 

[PeggleFrank]

The gravel is meant to be mined with a shovel, and it only spawns aboveground. It's added by Tinker's Construct.

So you can remove that from the list.


And rock hives are meant to be mined with a scoop, not a pickaxe. Remove those too. It's just killing bees, and the miner gets nothing in return.