The funny part is the griefing would actually help you finish the project. Or to grief this type of project you would have to place blocks
For some reason i can't see your photos, they come up as "posted image" and when i click on them it will just bring a blank square.
Geneos i could see, because it showed the photo without clicking on it...strange.
If you got help, you could finish this a lot faster than it would take for just one person doing it. I've been interested in doing something like this too but considering how long it would take me... I don't think I'd want to try. So keep us updated! Cause this is really cool.
Think about it Nyokou...if you added a player, it would cut the time in half. If you added more, you could keep cuting down the time it would take by large chunks.
You aren't the first one to try an insane project like this. Strip mining is tedious, boring work... full of surprises.
The Bad News is this took me many weeks.
The Good News is you do end up with lots of blocks, lots of ores, and you find all the intersecting (hidden) caves.
I can't understand strip mining, unless the goal is to make a huge hole. Branch mining can show you every single block in the mined volume while only digging through about a third of it. I dig 1-wide trenches every 3rd row.
I am DYING to know a final cobble stone count. When you're done, post how much cobble stone you got
Also, you would have to make a border along the outside of the map to prevent the water from coming in and flooding the whole thing.
I'm thinking you may want to duplicate up a ton of TNT and make a strip mine and fill each hallway full of TNT and light it up and keep doing this layer by layer and then go in with a pickaxe and get the bits that the TNT didn't break. However, you would easily run out of diamonds if you were to do this with diamond tools.
Think about it Nyokou...if you added a player, it would cut the time in half. If you added more, you could keep cuting down the time it would take by large chunks.
Yeah, thing is, I don't have a Gold subscription at the moment for XBL so it'd just be myself. And it's more fun to watch someone else try to attempt something this massive anyway, imo.
On PC, in creative mode, I have a habit of tunneling to bedrock (and beyond) while I rotate, digging out a large-ish shaft, then I move over and do it again. Is that wierd? It gives me something to keep my hands busy (Get your minds out of the gutter) when I can't think of anything to build.
Anyway, I can't wait for creative mode on XBox...what was I talking about again?
1xMobSlayerx1 came up with his figures by calculating the area above the surface (the total height).
864X864X64 (deep) = 47,755,744 blocks. I just counted the blocks below the surface (I didn't count mining any mountains, etc.)
Of course it took a long time, the object was to just dig a big-ass hole to see if it could be done, you don't need any torches, and to be sure I found every ore in the area. Branch mining is quicker, but more risky.
Was it a dumb idea? Oh yea.
But I learned a lot doing it.
Would it not be easier to modify your X-box so that you can use World Edit, then delete it all?
Sure, you'd have to learn how to use computers amazingly, and re-work the framework of the X-box, and then modify World Edit so that it works with the X-Box, then re-program Minecraft for the X-box so that it would have commands for World Edit...but...
1xMobSlayerx1 came up with his figures by calculating the area above the surface (the total height).
864X864X64 (deep) = 47,755,744 blocks. I just counted the blocks below the surface (I didn't count mining any mountains, etc.)
Of course it took a long time, the object was to just dig a big-ass hole to see if it could be done, you don't need any torches, and to be sure I found every ore in the area. Branch mining is quicker, but more risky.
Was it a dumb idea? Oh yea.
But I learned a lot doing it.
Risky? Nah. Just keep cobblestone on your hotbar to plug any water or lava leaks quickly. Lava flows too slowly to be a real risk, once you know what you're doing. (I took my share of plunges into lava pools as a noob.) Water is just an annoyance.
Yeah, as I said, if the goal was to dig up a huge hole, then it makes sense to strip mine.
id reccomend a TNT drill.. actually many of them, but you will need at least 3 huge mob spawners to get all the gunpowder you will need, or you can just dupe the TNT.
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Retired StaffThat or you could use lava and remove the water layer by layer.
For some reason i can't see your photos, they come up as "posted image" and when i click on them it will just bring a blank square.
Geneos i could see, because it showed the photo without clicking on it...strange.
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I can't understand strip mining, unless the goal is to make a huge hole. Branch mining can show you every single block in the mined volume while only digging through about a third of it. I dig 1-wide trenches every 3rd row.
Also, you would have to make a border along the outside of the map to prevent the water from coming in and flooding the whole thing.
I'm thinking you may want to duplicate up a ton of TNT and make a strip mine and fill each hallway full of TNT and light it up and keep doing this layer by layer and then go in with a pickaxe and get the bits that the TNT didn't break. However, you would easily run out of diamonds if you were to do this with diamond tools.
Yeah, thing is, I don't have a Gold subscription at the moment for XBL so it'd just be myself. And it's more fun to watch someone else try to attempt something this massive anyway, imo.
My Song of the Week: Girls' Generation - I Got a Boy
On PC, in creative mode, I have a habit of tunneling to bedrock (and beyond) while I rotate, digging out a large-ish shaft, then I move over and do it again. Is that wierd? It gives me something to keep my hands busy (Get your minds out of the gutter) when I can't think of anything to build.
Anyway, I can't wait for creative mode on XBox...what was I talking about again?
864X864X64 (deep) = 47,755,744 blocks. I just counted the blocks below the surface (I didn't count mining any mountains, etc.)
Of course it took a long time, the object was to just dig a big-ass hole to see if it could be done, you don't need any torches, and to be sure I found every ore in the area. Branch mining is quicker, but more risky.
Was it a dumb idea? Oh yea.
But I learned a lot doing it.
Sure, you'd have to learn how to use computers amazingly, and re-work the framework of the X-box, and then modify World Edit so that it works with the X-Box, then re-program Minecraft for the X-box so that it would have commands for World Edit...but...
I'm pretty sure it would take less time.
Risky? Nah. Just keep cobblestone on your hotbar to plug any water or lava leaks quickly. Lava flows too slowly to be a real risk, once you know what you're doing. (I took my share of plunges into lava pools as a noob.) Water is just an annoyance.
Yeah, as I said, if the goal was to dig up a huge hole, then it makes sense to strip mine.
Well I've got two of them.
and this one