I graduated from High School back in 2008, and I distinctly remember that Chuck Norris jokes got stale when I was still in 11th grade. So yeah, six or seven years would be about right.Chuck Norris jokes were pretty stale before I was in High School which was... well, somewhere on the order of 6-7 years ago.
Chuck Norris jokes didn't even EXIST nine years ago.They were stale here... before I was in high school which was more like 9 years ago ._.
Though the jokes were re-hashed and used with teachers with epic beards. Oh and one teacher who was a santa sized time traveler who put out a chemical fire on a mans arm by blowing on it. Once.
Dude what year do you think this is.Chuck Norris jokes didn't even EXIST nine years ago.
...I miss those days.
Well, to be honest, I undershot it slightly. Chuck Norris jokes more or less began between 8 and 9 years ago.Dude what year do you think this is.
E: Wait I overshot that. Maybe it was 7-8.
"Stale" as in no longer funny. Also, welcome to the FTB Forums. We discuss a lot of pointless/stale/whatever things here whenever a thread gets derailed.Chuck Norris isn't stale. You guys are spending a hell of a lot of time discussing something stale, aren't you?
Wait, what is it this generation likes.... Oh yeah, let's talk about Bieber and Miley and Gaga then if you guys don't like Chuck Norris.
I'll go ahead and assume that you are exactly as young as I think you are, and if I wish to stereotype someone as being a Belieber, then I certainly will."Stale" as in no longer funny. Also, welcome to the FTB Forums. We discuss a lot of pointless/stale/whatever things here whenever a thread gets derailed.
Don't assume things about me. I am nowhere near as young as you think I am.
Nor am I all that interested in arguing about popular culture with you.
And we're back on topic! Let's keep this going.Manual. Arcane Bore from time to time.
And we're back on topic! Let's keep this going.
Blue, duh.Ah, but we're not really back on topic as you quoted what someone's mining preference was, not what is the best mining method, which is what the thread asks. And all these pages later the answer is still impossible to answer as best is totally subjective, it is like asking what the best colour is
Another in-built turtle command, which is probably much better for resource gathering, is "excavate".
Create the turtle, put it back in the grid with a diamond pickaxe to create the mining variant (other gemmed tools may work too), then place it. Open it like a chest to view its inventory and give it commands. Escape closes it.
Start out with the command "label set turtlename", where turtlename is whatever you want to call it. Naming your turtle ensures that it'll remember certain things if you pickaxe it and later place it somewhere else (like its fuel level, for starters).
Put a stack of coal/charcoal in its inventory and type in the command "refuel all". Alternatively, if you've got EU to spare (it doesn't need all that much, 10k is fine) build a charge station and place the turtle next to that a while.
Put the turtle somewhere you want to mine from and place a chest directly behind it. Give it the command "excavate x", where x is width/length of the hole you want it to dig.
It'll go to bedrock or until it runs out of fuel, whatever happens first. Whenever it fills its inventory it'll return to the chest and dump off its load before going back down to continue digging. It doesn't care about silly things like mobs, lava, or gravity, but you'll have to manually collect and restart it if its chunk happens to unload - keep this in mind before telling it to dig out a 32x32 area or something larger then you've got time to wait for in a sitting. Either that or set up a chunk loader.
You'll probably want to spend some resources on upgrading its storage chest. Wood is easy enough to acquire but it'll fill it very quickly. For larger digs, even a diamond chest will require some watching to prevent overflow.
Again, turtles are slow, but you can have more then one digging at once (gathered around the same chest if you like) and they really do cost very little for what they do. The space they clear for you is almost as valuable as the resources they bring up.
Thank you SO MUCH for this great information! Quick question.. if a turtle is setup to excavate like this, will it automatically refuel using any Coal that it has dug up? Or will it just 'stop' where it runs out of fuel?
It stops when it runs out of fuel, and to my knowledge you can't stop it until it either completes its job, or runs out of fuel.
I don't run a turtle unless I know that it has several times more fuel than it needs to complete a job, as I really don't like restarting them.