Normal mining is finding a cave and gathering its resources or something, whereas strip mining is finding a wall of solid smoothstone and digging into it, essentially stripping it to bare stone/caverns and generating a crapload of cobblestone. Not very efficient and, in my experience, a pretty poor way of finding rare materials like gold and diamond.
Normal mining is finding a cave and gathering its resources or something, whereas strip mining is finding a wall of solid smoothstone and digging into it, essentially stripping it to bare stone/caverns and generating a crapload of cobblestone. Not very efficient and, in my experience, a pretty poor way of finding rare materials like gold and diamond.
Close, but shift the axis. Strip mining is straight down, you pick an area to dig, say 15x15 and dig down.
Edit: Just checked my definition. Doesn't have to be straight down, just a large clearance of materials. My bad.
I used to dig a big shaft like the ones mentioned but unless I need a heap of stone what I do now is
1. dig on an angle to bedrock.
2. Make a room for work table, kiln and storage.
3. Dig a tunel 3 high and 50 long with torch every 10 blocks.
4. go across 3 blocks and dig back to hub (so you can see blocks from either side)
5. repeat till I get bored then go build something.
I have uped my mining quto by 66%. Of course if I need rock I just take all the middle bits out as well.
My first larger mining project started as a vertical strip mine, and ended up horizontal.
Dug down to bedrock in an uneven 15ishX20ish form(uneven as it wasn't a square, but started out as a sand bunker at sea level).
Once at bedrock i started digging horizontally at layer 10-12 in one direction in a 1x2 pattern, with a 2 block gap between each "tunnel".
After this i started off in the other direction, but using TNT every 5th block this time, ending up with 3x3 tunnels(if done right) - still 2 block gap/wall between each 3x3 tunnel.
Have found quite a bit of diamond this way, but it is horribly boring in the long run.
can someone teach me?
Close, but shift the axis. Strip mining is straight down, you pick an area to dig, say 15x15 and dig down.
Edit: Just checked my definition. Doesn't have to be straight down, just a large clearance of materials. My bad.
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but i then bump into caves which i then....normally mine am i correct?
If you so choose, yes.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd31 ... demine.png
This is a natural formation, but what you'd expect if you made a downwards strip mine.
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd31 ... l-Cave.png
that my friend is a strip mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGrG-QSabjo for my 1:1 scale stadium
its not very big at the moment , but I just began this level today.
That is amazing! I love the floating treasures.
2: Find mine.
3: ???
4: Profit!
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without any milk.
1. dig on an angle to bedrock.
2. Make a room for work table, kiln and storage.
3. Dig a tunel 3 high and 50 long with torch every 10 blocks.
4. go across 3 blocks and dig back to hub (so you can see blocks from either side)
5. repeat till I get bored then go build something.
I have uped my mining quto by 66%. Of course if I need rock I just take all the middle bits out as well.
Dug down to bedrock in an uneven 15ishX20ish form(uneven as it wasn't a square, but started out as a sand bunker at sea level).
Once at bedrock i started digging horizontally at layer 10-12 in one direction in a 1x2 pattern, with a 2 block gap between each "tunnel".
After this i started off in the other direction, but using TNT every 5th block this time, ending up with 3x3 tunnels(if done right) - still 2 block gap/wall between each 3x3 tunnel.
Have found quite a bit of diamond this way, but it is horribly boring in the long run.