Anyway, TNT is in no way effective for mining, it is too much effort to gather the Gunpowder (other than AFK looting using monster traps) for it to even out.
If you have spare TNT, sure, feel free to add it to your mining efforts, BUT do not completly rely on the stuff.
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I'm building an enormous wall that stretches across my map and towers/castles so yeah I'm mainly mining for cobblestone. I've tried the creature trap's but they don't work very good for me (Mainly zombies spawn on my map.)
In the past 1 hr and 30 min I doubled my mine size with 2 diamond picks, and managed to find a large cave system which I mined out. I also found a few stacks of iron, coal, skipped the redstone for now.
I'm just gonna stick with my trusty pickaxe to mine.
Edit: Also I play on hard mode so spaming TnT will probably get me murdered by tons of monster spawns...
Edit2: Added a second part for when you hit lava and added my progress today.
Creepers drop between zero and two gunpowder, so an average of one gunpowder per creeper.
TNT requires five gunpowder to craft.
Therefore, you will need to kill an average of five creepers per block of TNT.
Therefore, 30 blocks of TNT will require you to kill an average of 150 creepers.
it takes 5 gunpowder per TNT, not 1.
and the average amount of gunpowder per creeper i have gotten is 1.
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Well, either way.
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Anyway, TNT is in no way effective for mining, it is too much effort to gather the Gunpowder (other than AFK looting using monster traps) for it to even out.
If you have spare TNT, sure, feel free to add it to your mining efforts, BUT do not completly rely on the stuff.
I am here for you, Don't be afraid to send me a message.
Thats the only downside of caving, it is hard to control the monsters.
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tell me about that lol
In the past 1 hr and 30 min I doubled my mine size with 2 diamond picks, and managed to find a large cave system which I mined out. I also found a few stacks of iron, coal, skipped the redstone for now.
I'm just gonna stick with my trusty pickaxe to mine.
Edit: Also I play on hard mode so spaming TnT will probably get me murdered by tons of monster spawns...
Edit2: Added a second part for when you hit lava and added my progress today.