Best mining method?

[Hydra]

Of course, everybody disregards the arcane bore as a serious mining tool. Even though it has silk touch automining cabilities. Something that no other miner can do.

Typical experience of an arcane bore user:
"Ooooh, cool las0rs!"
"Oh my, that thing is FAST!"
"Oh what's that cute floating thingy?"
"Oh, nice, you have a little brother!"
"Oh, there's a whole family of you! How cu...ouch!"
"Hey! Stop that!"
"HEY..STO..AARGHH"
"MY FACE...IT'S MELTING.......AAAAARGH"

 

[ApSciLiara]

Typical experience of an arcane bore user:
"Ooooh, cool las0rs!"
"Oh my, that thing is FAST!"
"Oh what's that cute floating thingy?"
"Oh, nice, you have a little brother!"
"Oh, there's a whole family of you! How cu...ouch!"
"Hey! Stop that!"
"HEY..STO..AARGHH"
"MY FACE...IT'S MELTING.......AAAAARGH"

Or alternatively:
"Oooooh lasers!"
"Dayumn that's fast."
"OH SHIT WISP. EAT RAILGUN, BITCH -pew pew-"

Sent from my phone using black magic

 

[StreetKing]

Unless there's a way to stabilize the flux level while the arcane bore is running, it will stay as the worst automated mining machine (at least for me).

 

[Brewster1972]

I just grab my backpacks (miner, builder, digger, thaumcraft) and a few picks and hit the caves. With a builders backpack full of torches and set to resupply, you can light up caves for days without fumbling around with your inventory.

 

[Heliomance]

People judging turtles by their default scripts 100% miss the damn point of turtles.

http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/7675-advanced-mining-turtle-ore-quarry/ x 1 turtle faster fully powered BC quarry at getting low level mats than anything else.
http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/7675-advanced-mining-turtle-ore-quarry/ x 4 turtles faster fully powered BC quarry. Period.

Turtles are only as good as you make them.

When that script was written, that was certainly true. Quarries have had the speed limit lifted now though - I seriously doubt that it's faster than a quarry being given 100MJ/t.

 

[Hoff]

When that script was written, that was certainly true. Quarries have had the speed limit lifted now though - I seriously doubt that it's faster than a quarry being given 100MJ/t.

4 turtles are extremely likely to be faster than a quarry especially with an optimized program and swarming as well. IIRC a 100MJ/t quarry mines 6 blocks a second. but it has to mine every block. 4 turtles should average out to be about 3 blocks a second if not more but they could mine ores + every second or third layer.

 

[Peppe]

In 1.5 without frames I have gone back to manual mining. Usually just cave now to get AE quartz. My kit is down to just the 9 items in my bar:
power glove - sword/bow/shovel
cobblestone - never know when you need to blocks
fortune 3 + repair 2 thaumium pick
torches
water bucket
silk touch + repair thaumium pick
enderpouch back to AE import chest
enderpouch back to supply chest at base (AE network supplies food, torches, blocks, and village tradables to this pouch)
Steak

Anytime i get full i can just open up the pouch and shift + space click my whole upper inventory back to base. Then i open my other pouch to pull out steak + torches as needed. AE ressupies and i continue on.



I saw an interesting post on a reddit that might be fun to try:
Wand of equal trade + flowers/saplings anything that won't plant on most things underground. Trade on a vein and you get the whole vein and the flowers fall as item entities. Trade on stone and you can reveal a lot of space quickly.

I have a fortune + charging wand, so I might give this a try

 

[Dare2Win]

My favorite way of mining is going outside and picking my Oreberry Bushes from Natura. Great thing.

hm, how exactly do you plant them? In the version i have, they don't plant

 

[Whovian]

I grab my spacesuit and fly to mine asteroids with my Master Pick. (The Master Sword in pickaxe form!)

 

[dlord]

I give you…the Chunkinator.

256 block breakers. Can mine an entire chunk in 20 mins.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[ApSciLiara]

I give you…the Chunkinator.

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256 block breakers. Can mine an entire chunk in 20 mins.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I still don't see any automated silk touch mining.

Also your username makes me giggle immaturely.

 

[dlord]

I still don't see any automated silk touch mining.

Also your username makes me giggle immaturely.

Who needs silk touch if you can just have this thing run overnight.

Also, dlord is my standard alias for dragonlord. The username was taken when I registered.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Who needs silk touch if you can just have this thing run overnight.

People who want the Extra Things (TM) that GregTech gives you when you process your stuff using the Industrial Grinder.

Also, dlord is my standard alias for dragonlord. The username was taken when I registered.

dlord. D-lord. Lord of D. The Lord of D. You are the Lord of the D.
-snickers-

 

[dlord]

People who want the Extra Things (TM) that GregTech gives you when you process your stuff using the Industrial Grinder.

dlord. D-lord. Lord of D. The Lord of D. You are the Lord of the D.
-snickers-

Like…him?

LOL

 

[ApSciLiara]

Like…him?

-image snip-

LOL

Noooo. Not the Lord of D.(ragons). The Lord of THE D.

 

[Jess887cp]

Play nice, you two.

I was a dragonlord once. Then I took a minecraft to the gaming experience.

No seriously, there was a game that make you a dragonlord.

Lord of D.

-eye twitches-



SO HOW ABOUT THAT CHUNKINATOR!
I like if because it makes stuff look like chunk errors.
I hate it for the same reason.
Uh...scatter mining laser straight down?

 

[Peppe]

Silk touch without actually needing to mine: The 1.5.1 Minefactory Reloaded Mining laser outputs ore blocks for a few hundred MJ a tick.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Silk touch without actually needing to mine: The 1.5.1 Minefactory Reloaded Mining laser outputs ore blocks for a few hundred MJ a tick.

Ohhh yeah. I've seen that mentioned around the forums before. If I had the powergen to sustain something like that for a large period of time...
Liara would be one happy girl. Let's put it like that.

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

People who want the Extra Things (TM) that GregTech gives you when you process your stuff using the Industrial Grinder.

alt-0153 is the best thing on the internet™

 

[wolfsilver00]

Get arcane bore, it has silktouch man.. All that blue shit ore from RP can be transformed in diamonds if silk touched.. Yeah.. I know, it's awesome.

(AAAAAND, silk touch is awesome because you can get even more from coal, lapis, gems.. etc.. with a macerator / pulverizer.

Of course, do this in a mystcraft age, STABLE PLEASE, you don't want to lose your arcane bore in the hands of meteorites, random explosions and other nasty stuff.

If you can't get a bore, just get a miner turtle, feed it with blaze rods and you're good to go. But start at 40 height.. Slow but awesome, (and even configurable if you tell it to drop such things as cobble and gravel you will be thankfull )