Comfortable way of mining dust/gems ores

[lordtorus]

Hello, everyone knows that there is always good to have huge supply of diamonds, emeralds, redstone etc. So couple days ago I start using Ender Quarry with silk touch upgrade, but my problem is with mining these ore manually. Making a 100 block tall tower of diamond and redstone ores, and mining dowards isn't very comfortable. I came up with little setup:
1. Separating dust/gems ores from the metals and miscellaneous.
2. 9 Block Placers (3x3) on the floor, supplying with ores by EnderIO, and making sure that the middle one have top priority. Also enabled Round Robin.
3. Redstone Conduits with Project Red Timer to trigger block placers.
4. Ender Hopper (or something like that) to gather all items and put them directly into my sorting system, and also catching XP points and store them in drum.
5. Not to fast Tinkers Construct Hammer with Fortune III aiming in the middle block of 3x3 - highest priority guarantees that even if we have less then 9 block, this one will be the last empty.
6. AFKing while holding the left mouse button. I'm always search for easier way, and something heavy on my mouse is not a good option, so I use AutoHotkey script (Press Z to start mining, press again to stop)

z::Send % "{Click " . ( GetKeyState("LButton") ? "Up}" : "Down}" )

But still it's manually and requires some effort. Any ideas of better solution for lazy man ? (I use all mods from the DireWolf20 1.7.10 modpack)

 

[MarkesOrelies]

can't you just use an autonomous activator form TE with your tool, top left and there you go, takes longer but no person needed.

 

[lordtorus]

Awesome I knew there must be item that acts like fake player. Thanks for help!

 

[Celestialphoenix]

RotaryCraft's Extractor is always a good option if you want to get lot extra out of everything.

Also try the tool dynamism tablet [Thaumcraft family]- it has a cool mining animation; thus making it better than the autonomous activator.

 

[darkeshrine]

I just run things through a TE pulverizer or Ender IO sag mill. The sag mill with darksteel balls allows for more redstone, coal, lapis, and a few extras, but doesn't do well with diamonds or emeralds. TE Pulverizer gets 2 emerald, 2 diamond, ~6 redstone, ~6 lapis, or 2 coal per their respective ores. Pretty easy to get double diamonds and emeralds per ore without fortune.

I run Emerald, Diamond, and Redstone ore through TE Pulverizers and everything else through the Sag mill.