I've been kind of against these topics that tell you to post this, post that, post everything you do... It kind of seems like a way to pump up your post count. I mean, why not have a topic that asks, "When was the last time you took a dump?" etc. But I feel this topic may benefit myself and others, so what the heck.
/Mini rant-ish thing
Okay, guys. Post the last mining trip you did. What did you get? What monsters did you slay? Did you come across any beautiful caves (feel free to share screens of these)? Did you discover a new technique you found particularly useful? Also, did you get lost and what's your thrilling tale of finding a way out?
Share your trips with us!
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I've always been this way. A patched-up, crazy matryoshka.
My last mining trip was awesome. First, the cave took like 2 hours to fully explore. I got 7 diamonds, 2 full stacks of redstone, 37 iron, and like 1000 cobblestone (lol). I also found to 2 dungeons. I got lost so I dug up until. i hit the surface. Thats all lol.
Haha, digging up is the wimp's way out :tongue.gif:
This forum is so active it's scary. I posted this literally minutes ago, and six replies already? I'm too used to TIGsource... -__-
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I've always been this way. A patched-up, crazy matryoshka.
I got lost in a huge cave, found lots of resources and lava+water, almost died, and escaped by digging up then ran into another cave that had my way out then I built a trash compactor :happy.gif:
A creeper blew a hole right beside a base revealing a natural cave I never knew about. This cave went all the way straight down to the lava lake layer. I found tons of gold and 7 diamonds among other things (not always friendly things)
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AT: nOW YOU'RE GETTING IT, wHAT YOU ARE IN FOR,
AT: aRE YOU READY TO BE TROLLLLLED,
AT: wITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR MISERABLE HUMAN CORTEX,
Four or five days ago I investigated a cavern on my snowy map. It was getting dark so I blocked up the entrance with the dirt and other stuff I was carrying. While I was exploring, I found my first lavafall - and naturally I ended up touching it and being burnt to death. Oooops.
Because its a snowy map, and because I hadn't yet started using beacons to find my way around, and because I had blocked up the entrance, I had a LOT of trouble finding the cavern again. I just found it again today. It is a lot bigger, and goes much further down than I had thought. So I'm about to set up a new home in there with a a pair of furnaces.
Oh, and I did build a beacon outside of it. So I will be able to find it again when I die.
it's been about 5 days of exploring this cave and i'm pretty sure it's 95% lit at this point. navigating it is an entirely different issue though since it constantly loops back on itself and it spans from the bedrock (where i first broke into it) to at least four different surface openings.
definitely one zombie dungeon, another one that was either zombies or skeles i haven't found out yet, about 7 stacks of redstone, 4 or 5 stacks of iron, half a large chest of coal, about a stack of gold, and somewhere around 20 diamonds. oh yeah, and i mined about 30 obsidian while i was at it.
more zombies, skeles, and creepies than you can shake a stick at - i've probably died down there 5 times now. this cave has taught me how amazingly useful a bucket of lava can be. it can light up a room without you having to go in it, keep the room lit for several minutes after the source block is removed, and it kills enemies waiting for you inside. i will never go into a large cave like this without one.
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For as long as the grass grows
For as long as the stream flows
And the sun shines down unto us
Only they who walk the clouds know
For how long the winds blow
And the sky is blue above us
Went vertical mining a few times. Got back up every time.
Hit about 6 caves, got about 30 diamonds and gold. About a stack of iron and a few THOUSAND* coal.
Not really a mining trip, but excavation nonetheless...
My current project is a 15-diameter tower that extends from the bedrock to the upper limit (capped with a lava globe, of course). I've laid out the outline of a square centered on the tower, which also netted me a fair amount of iron and coal. As I dug my staircase down to the bedrock, I found 4 or 5 diamonds, around 30 redstone dust, more iron and coal, and a couple lava pools worth around 80 sources (this is saved for later on the surface). As I expanded around the bottom of the tower, I found little of interest, but hollowing the first layer (15-diameter circle, height 5) found six or seven more diamond and about another 20 dust.
Went up two levels (around 20 height) and started clearing out a balcony area and discovered a lava pool with a water stream already running past it. After I collected my ~30 obsidian, I discovered 7 or 8 more diamonds under the old lava pool.
Yes, I've spent hours inefficiently excavating this tower, but I wasn't actively looking for ores so this was quite profitable for me. :smile.gif:
Don't you guys just love it when you find one of those chunks that go straight down, as a sort of pit, followed by several others like it? Sure beats walking down a different way. I really want to find a pit that goes straight from the surface to the lava layer, because that would be awesome.
Also, it really creeps me out when I go into a cave, and after a while of exploring, I find torches.
And then it turns out that the cave just connects to an old mine -.-'
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I've always been this way. A patched-up, crazy matryoshka.
Just yesterday I was trying to dig a museum when I ran into a cave. The opening I made was 1x1 and I saw a creeper walking towards it and sealed it off before it tried to blow me up. I went back up to my base for supplies.
-VISIT 1-
I went back down to what would have been my museum. I opened up what I had sealed again and entered the cave. The creeper apparently despawned. I ventured through a small cave area and ended up in a MASSIVE open-ish area with several hanging areas and slopes which I guess would be the result of several cave paths intersecting. I looked down from where I was and saw many creepers jumping around below, unable to reach me. I built cobblestone along the high walls of the cavern where I was and used it to ascend up to the top of the area where the creepers couldn't reach me. I found a branch-off from the main area I was in. I entered and followed a small path. I found a small gravel opening. I prepared to place a torch and I could hear a skeleton. Suddenly, the skelly fell from the sky and landed right on top of me, shooting arrows in my face. I ran back through the cavern towards the main area. I turned around and rounded the corner and killed the skeleton. After a bit more adventuring in that area, I found that the skeleton had come out from a small alcove above. I walked further through the path and found that the small cave path looped back into the huge main cave area. I could still see creepers and other monsters below. I built a bridge back to the entrance of the cave path I just explored and exited the cave for more supplies.
The next few visits continued in a similar fashion with alcoves on the ceiling of the massive central cave and such.
-VISIT 4-
I found yet another route from the main cave area. I followed it and ended up in another one of the massive caves I've previously explored. I'd suspected them to be connected. I explored this cave and found some iron on the floor. I dug and fell in lava. I died and lost everything I had collected on the visit, as well as my diamond sword and diamond pickaxe.
I haven't returned to those caves since.
Right now I'm excavating an entire mountain down to the bedrock.
/Mini rant-ish thing
Okay, guys. Post the last mining trip you did. What did you get? What monsters did you slay? Did you come across any beautiful caves (feel free to share screens of these)? Did you discover a new technique you found particularly useful? Also, did you get lost and what's your thrilling tale of finding a way out?
will edit with pics, one sec.
EDIT: Here we go :biggrin.gif:
I had gotten a stack or two of redstone, a few diamonds, and some coal and iron. Not much. lol
I escaped, just barely, with most of the diamonds.
Me? LOL
Dude, I had like, 3/4 of a large chest of coal. I hardly get use for it. I made all that so when the torches become something else.... $‿$
Don't worry, I'll always have enough coal... XD
This forum is so active it's scary. I posted this literally minutes ago, and six replies already? I'm too used to TIGsource... -__-
I almost went
AT: aRE YOU READY TO BE TROLLLLLED,
AT: wITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR MISERABLE HUMAN CORTEX,
Because its a snowy map, and because I hadn't yet started using beacons to find my way around, and because I had blocked up the entrance, I had a LOT of trouble finding the cavern again. I just found it again today. It is a lot bigger, and goes much further down than I had thought. So I'm about to set up a new home in there with a a pair of furnaces.
Oh, and I did build a beacon outside of it. So I will be able to find it again when I die.
definitely one zombie dungeon, another one that was either zombies or skeles i haven't found out yet, about 7 stacks of redstone, 4 or 5 stacks of iron, half a large chest of coal, about a stack of gold, and somewhere around 20 diamonds. oh yeah, and i mined about 30 obsidian while i was at it.
more zombies, skeles, and creepies than you can shake a stick at - i've probably died down there 5 times now. this cave has taught me how amazingly useful a bucket of lava can be. it can light up a room without you having to go in it, keep the room lit for several minutes after the source block is removed, and it kills enemies waiting for you inside. i will never go into a large cave like this without one.
For as long as the stream flows
And the sun shines down unto us
Only they who walk the clouds know
For how long the winds blow
And the sky is blue above us
Hit about 6 caves, got about 30 diamonds and gold. About a stack of iron and a few THOUSAND* coal.
*Exaggeration
~Victory is ours~
~Shawnyall~
My current project is a 15-diameter tower that extends from the bedrock to the upper limit (capped with a lava globe, of course). I've laid out the outline of a square centered on the tower, which also netted me a fair amount of iron and coal. As I dug my staircase down to the bedrock, I found 4 or 5 diamonds, around 30 redstone dust, more iron and coal, and a couple lava pools worth around 80 sources (this is saved for later on the surface). As I expanded around the bottom of the tower, I found little of interest, but hollowing the first layer (15-diameter circle, height 5) found six or seven more diamond and about another 20 dust.
Went up two levels (around 20 height) and started clearing out a balcony area and discovered a lava pool with a water stream already running past it. After I collected my ~30 obsidian, I discovered 7 or 8 more diamonds under the old lava pool.
Yes, I've spent hours inefficiently excavating this tower, but I wasn't actively looking for ores so this was quite profitable for me. :smile.gif:
Also, it really creeps me out when I go into a cave, and after a while of exploring, I find torches.
And then it turns out that the cave just connects to an old mine -.-'
-VISIT 1-
I went back down to what would have been my museum. I opened up what I had sealed again and entered the cave. The creeper apparently despawned. I ventured through a small cave area and ended up in a MASSIVE open-ish area with several hanging areas and slopes which I guess would be the result of several cave paths intersecting. I looked down from where I was and saw many creepers jumping around below, unable to reach me. I built cobblestone along the high walls of the cavern where I was and used it to ascend up to the top of the area where the creepers couldn't reach me. I found a branch-off from the main area I was in. I entered and followed a small path. I found a small gravel opening. I prepared to place a torch and I could hear a skeleton. Suddenly, the skelly fell from the sky and landed right on top of me, shooting arrows in my face. I ran back through the cavern towards the main area. I turned around and rounded the corner and killed the skeleton. After a bit more adventuring in that area, I found that the skeleton had come out from a small alcove above. I walked further through the path and found that the small cave path looped back into the huge main cave area. I could still see creepers and other monsters below. I built a bridge back to the entrance of the cave path I just explored and exited the cave for more supplies.
The next few visits continued in a similar fashion with alcoves on the ceiling of the massive central cave and such.
-VISIT 4-
I found yet another route from the main cave area. I followed it and ended up in another one of the massive caves I've previously explored. I'd suspected them to be connected. I explored this cave and found some iron on the floor. I dug and fell in lava. I died and lost everything I had collected on the visit, as well as my diamond sword and diamond pickaxe.
I haven't returned to those caves since.
Right now I'm excavating an entire mountain down to the bedrock.