Best Automated mining methods?
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There is no objectively best
MFR is a set and forget resource gatherer, so that's why I like it
The sonic bore can get very VERY powerful, but it's a pain to make the power to run it
Ender quarry is convenient, low power use, but slowish, same with digital miner and a regular quarry
power generation, a big reactors reactor is very good for power
MFR is a set and forget resource gatherer, so that's why I like it
The sonic bore can get very VERY powerful, but it's a pain to make the power to run it
Ender quarry is convenient, low power use, but slowish, same with digital miner and a regular quarry
power generation, a big reactors reactor is very good for power
ReactorCraft feeding into an ElectriCraft battery, or direct conversion with a Rotational Dynamo.
As for mining, several boring machines will do what you need (RotaryCraft), or several backpacks and right click with a Bound Pickaxe with some sort of item magnet like the Sigil of Magnetism (Blood Magic). Last one isn't automatic, but it gets enough resources it doesn't need to be.
Thanks, i'll look more into those reactors but a few quesitons on your other suggestions.
How/why is the bore that great? It seems slow, has problems with needing fuel, and it has very limited range, meaning it won't collect a varity of ores, just the ones at the level you place it at.
As for the bound pickaxe, I don't know too much about the mod so perhaps a more indepth explanation?
if time is not a huge issue, get a quarryplus enchanted with silk touch, efficiency and unbreaking, mark out a 256x256 plot with MarkerPlus-es and just set it working.
The boring machine, when given enough power, can bring in a ton of resources. AFAIK, it will continue mining for as long as it has enough torque to break through whatever it hits. Reika runs 36 of these, and needs about 14 extractors running at full speed to keep up with the total ore income. Pair a few of these with a reactor and you'll be set on resources for a while.
The Bound Pickaxe, when right clicked, clears a 20x20x20 area (or close to that) at the cost of some LP. So while not automatic, it clears a large enough area to fill your inventory, and still have drops left over.
Give me a few minutes to dig around my news feed here, I'll edit this post with some links to pictures of setups.
Edit: 36 boring machines, powered by ElectriCraft
Link to part 1 of Reika's second world tour. I suggest watching all three parts, you'll learn quite a bit about RotaryCraft and ReactorCraft this way.
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Thanks. Also, I heard about this other mining machine that uses mining wells and the MFFS? I was curious if it was any good or if you knew anything about it.
I've heard of ME Transition planes being used with MFFS to create some interesting mining setups, which appeared to be quite successful. Bevo did this in his last RR play through, and it was a very cool setup. I personally haven't messed with MFFS enough to comment on it, but I know there are several people here that have. I've also edited by previous post with two links to some of Reika's content, since the best way to learn about a mod is from it's creator.
Yeah, given enough power, these things are nuts. Couple other bonuses:
1) You can leave them forever: they mine sideways, so you're not forever shifting them to a new location.
2) You can enchant them. Silk Touch and Efficiency for instance ensures you can Extract what you mine, and do it faster.
Bevo's tunnel bore.
Also, if you need information on ReactorCraft, look at some of @Pyure's posts around here. I've learned quite a bit from him. Other than that, there's very little information outside of the in-game handbook.
Will have pics later, but mffs miner at highest level in the deep dark with transition planes in front and 256 mining wells. I made it way to tall and ended up needing like 2048 transition planes. With 4 tesseracts for the mining wells moving a total of 240000rf/t and another tesseracts with 1krf/t for the AE system there.
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Hire a team of newbs with pickaxes. Attach them to a minecart with a lead.
If you want to make them work faster, an autonomous activator with a bullwhip works wonderfully.
If you want to make them work faster, an autonomous activator with a bullwhip works wonderfully.