I have a Dynamite producing factory that is relatively easy to set up, I even made proper plans and blueprints for it, and I always set it up first thing when i start a game. So I don't use quarries. I throw dynamite and TNT at stuff.
Quarry vs. hand digging
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If you *only* hand dig in FTB you may have OCD
If nuke bombs didnt destroy blocks thats how Id mine. I wonder if anyone has made a tossable dynamite that doesn't destroy blocks?
If nuke bombs didnt destroy blocks thats how Id mine. I wonder if anyone has made a tossable dynamite that doesn't destroy blocks?
Yep! Pretty sure there is, just called "dynamite" and crafted with iTNT and string. Also a sticky variation by adding sticky resin. Blows up perfectly square 3x3 holes too.
I want a TNT quarry now. I'd just manually grab the stuff in the end.
On second thought, no. It's too much entity lag with that much junk.
I hand dig a lot. There's a kind of zen relaxation to it. I also do it to maximize returns when I am looking for something specific, like silk touching crucial ores for the grinder and the like.
However, I run a quarry at the same time. While hand-mining targets something specific with maximized output, the quarry does "everything under the sun". It gets the high altitude resources like copper and apatite that you usually don't manually look for. It excels at the hard to find things like ferrous ore (a prime platinum source, and platinum means iridium) because it doesn't need to search, it just consumes everything. It also means that when I'm busy with something other than mining, I don't run out of resources after a while.
However, I run a quarry at the same time. While hand-mining targets something specific with maximized output, the quarry does "everything under the sun". It gets the high altitude resources like copper and apatite that you usually don't manually look for. It excels at the hard to find things like ferrous ore (a prime platinum source, and platinum means iridium) because it doesn't need to search, it just consumes everything. It also means that when I'm busy with something other than mining, I don't run out of resources after a while.
To be really honest the favorate way mine at the moment is with a overly enchanted Pickax of the core and just a thaum pickax with silk touch.
It does have a vary relaxing effect. And caving has a little risk which keeps it from ever getting to boring. Between silk touch and the Core the returns are insane. Sure a quarry might get more while your sleep. But pound for pound I'll take my super tools and go caving any day over any of the automated mining methods.
It does have a vary relaxing effect. And caving has a little risk which keeps it from ever getting to boring. Between silk touch and the Core the returns are insane. Sure a quarry might get more while your sleep. But pound for pound I'll take my super tools and go caving any day over any of the automated mining methods.
I find myself digging a lot at the start, then I have a quarry running while I do some construction work, with hand mining if I'm running short on something. I tend to build my quarries over areas I've already explored, just to grab those hidden treasures that I've missed.
You can do both at the same time you know. Having a quarry running doesn't exclude you from digging yourself.
True but it is one of those things. It comes down to play style. Those that don't use quarries are not opt'ing out just because they like mining by hand many of them I would bet just don't like quarries.
Generally, I'm quite lazy, so tend to make the move to auto-mining as soon as possible. Mainly because it means that the materials can be gathered and processed while I'm doing something else. I'm not a huge fan of branch mining because I always end up arriving at a cave or lava lake, and have to make the decision to either carry on with the branch or explore the new area.
I'd only automine if I could get ore blocks (like coal ore and diamond ore and stuff). Greg gives me extra shinies when I do that.
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Manual mining is a relaxation thing for me. A quarry getting the massive amount of resources for the more complicated machines/builds is essential. Quartz is a bitch to find in large quantities for an AE system.
There is nothing worse than balls-deep in a project only to realise you have no copper or something.
Also, when the quarry set up consists of just an energy tesseract, an item tesseract and a quarry, it's not hard. Plus I always quarry over water to save the landscape.
There is nothing worse than balls-deep in a project only to realise you have no copper or something.
Also, when the quarry set up consists of just an energy tesseract, an item tesseract and a quarry, it's not hard. Plus I always quarry over water to save the landscape.
What I would really like to see is a turtle quarry program that only mines stuff that drops as a block (like iron ore) and leaves torches around veins of stuff like quartz or lapis. All you would need to do then is make a vertical shaft through where it quarried and when you see a torch mine towards it so you could get the best of both worlds.
Sadly I'm an LUA noob so if someone wants to kindly come up with such a program :X
Sadly I'm an LUA noob so if someone wants to kindly come up with such a program :X
I like non-automated mining but I get lost very easily. Once I even managed to get lost with a fully upgraded modular powersuit then died in a lava lake when my power ran out while trying to find the way back out.
Torches on the right. When you want to go home, just turn around and follow the path that keeps the torches on your left. It's nearly impossible to get lost that way.
I was about to suggest exactly the same thing.
Sometimes I still get lost with that method, because of loops and stuff. Not often, though.
Thanks, I know of that method but I have the attention span of a particularly curious cat and I can't keep up with following rules like that. I just jump down into pits and ravines. I'm hopeless, but thanks again for trying to help.