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[Bryanz]

That's right, this is the second time i'm opening this kind of thread.
Giving the fact that i have Gregtech installed, what's the best way EVER to collect minerals and materials for building the massive resource-demanding objects that Greggy adds?
Since the demise of RP2, tunnel bores or elevator-bores are long forgotten.
What's the deal now?
Do quarries still work nicely, EVEN with QuarryPlus?
I need ores.
Angry RED ores.

 

[PierceSG]

IDK about GT's effect on MFR but if you have the power infrastructure to support a pair or two MFR's Laser Drill with 4 Prechargers each, maybe you can look into that?

 

[tedyhere]

Tunnel bores are not gone...you just need to use MFFS it adds a version of a frame machine use force fields and such

 

[Siro]

Tunnel bores are not gone...you just need to use MFFS it adds a version of a frame machine use force fields and such

There's also Steve's Carts and computer craft for doing tunnel mining. Of note, manual mining with Tinkers Construct hammers can be quite rapid.

MFR laser Drills are a good choice if you don't want to obliterate landscape with quarries or build swiss cheese tunnels everywhere. A lot of red laser foci will increase the amount of redstone ore it mines up.

 

[Bryanz]

Sorry for the wild bump, but after a week i still can't figure out how to actually gather these goddamn materials.
I don't know actually which mod increases the spawn rates for Iron and Gold, but they're quite common now.
This, however, doesn't help me much.
I can't even afford a goddamn Macerator without mining the shit out of the Twilight Forest.
Halp. ;_;

 

[Hoff]

Get a tree farm making charcoal or a tier 5 blaze spawner.

Make about 10 chunkloading turtles and 22 ender chests.

Load the turtles with this program: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/just-another-turtle-mining-program.16062/

And follow the instructions on that thread for the turtles.

Make them dig 50000 blocks forward.

Find some way to deal with the insane amount of material you're about to get.

 

[Bryanz]

Get a tree farm making charcoal or a tier 5 blaze spawner.

Make about 10 chunkloading turtles and 22 ender chests.

Load the turtles with this program: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/just-another-turtle-mining-program.16062/

And follow the instructions on that thread for the turtles.

Make them dig 50000 blocks forward.

Find some way to deal with the insane amount of material you're about to get.

This is... insane.
Thank you sir.

 

[angelnc]

With Redstone in Motion you can build Tunnel Bores as well.
Works great with AE Transition Planes or Buildcraft Mining Wells.