Best tool for mining nether ores?

[WTFFFS]

Enough heatsinking and lava is a nice warm bath.......

And if you have the addon for MPS it's also a fair way to recharge

 

[PhilHibbs]

I have a turtle that has this in its startup:

turtle.dig()
turtle.digDown()
turtle.digUp()

I just place it next to the ore, it mines it, and then I break it and get the ores. I have another simple "room digging" program that excavates a small area around where it started off. Occasionally I place it on something that I didn't mean to, but I haven't placed it on anything really unfortunate yet like a chest or an IC2 machine.

 

[Lohengrin]

Only problem with that is that lava pockets have a disturbing tendency to float right above the ore veins. :/

Yup, hence the original suggestion to use blocks (cobble, dirt, or the obvious netherrack) was made tempered with experience. I burned, so you didn't have too. Though stacks of things you can pick up again like flowers or saplings work well in other more eviromentally friendly places.

 

[Siro]

I just got used to treating every pigman as a hostile mob and mining at arms length in iron or better armor.

 

[KingTriaxx]

If you have Xeno's Reliquary, the Coin of Fortune makes re-collecting things easier.

 

[zorn]

The only time I've lost a turtle was in the nether after dozens of runs with no issues in the over world. Would pigmen attack it? I know creepers have blown up on a turtle with no issues so I don't think exploding ores are a problem. Turtles would be superior to a quarry though as they just fly right through lava

 

[TangentialThreat]

The matter cannon from AE works. It doesn't ever completely destroy blocks like a mining laser and it is Gregproof.

I usually load it with gold nuggets because once I get a pigman farm going I'm drowning in gold, and gold bullets are cool.

 

[Bigpak]

Lets say you had to choose between a powertool from modular powersuits or a mining laser to mine in the nether, what one would you choose? Is the mining lasers speed worth the chance of it destroying a couple ores here and there?

 

[netmc]

If the MPS can recharge the mining laser as you use it, I would say go with the mining laser. Otherwise use the MPS tool. The MPS armor is too useful.

 

[PeggleFrank]

Wand of Equal Exchange and a stack of <insert material you don't care about here>. Swaps out the nether ore, no fuss, no mess. No lava spillage and no pissed off pigmen.

I'm on 1.1.2 and pretty sure both the silky and the auto smelt picks piss off pigmen. Perhaps later versions don't, but unless I'm mistaken, pretty sure I got jumped when I tried with both. That and I've narrowly avoided lava spills in both cases. Wand of Equal Exchange for the win. Maybe a cheesy win, but *shrug*. I prefer to think of it as creative application of cross mod utilization.

This works until you accidentally right click the netherrack and start taking out a huge 16x16x16 block of netherrack. (That is, with the maximum amount of power you can get on a wand)

You can get dumped into lava and your inventory gets filled up all the way.

 

[TangentialThreat]

This works until you accidentally right click the netherrack and start taking out a huge 16x16x16 block of netherrack. (That is, with the maximum amount of power you can get on a wand)

You can get dumped into lava and your inventory gets filled up all the way.

You probably have flight and some form of fire resistance at this point so being dumped in lava is less exciting than it once was, but either you made a lot of wands or you put repair on it.

The aura in the nether is very fragile because there is no infused stone to recharge it and no extra pure nodes from silverwoods to help handle flux. This means the nether will rapidly become flooded with wisps and stop recharging thaumic gear.

 

[Adonis0]

You probably have flight and some form of fire resistance at this point so being dumped in lava is less exciting than it once was, but either you made a lot of wands or you put repair on it.

The aura in the nether is very fragile because there is no infused stone to recharge it and no extra pure nodes from silverwoods to help handle flux. This means the nether will rapidly become flooded with wisps and stop recharging thaumic gear.

BEES TO THE RESCUE!