Minecraft - Tunnelling Tuesday (evening)!!
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Have you Ever checked out the Minecraft Wiki, Tunneling or mining is an extremely complex topic!
For us, however, it's going to be fun!!!
If you want a quick review of preparing to mine check this:
t is helpful to bring food, log, coal, torches, swords and a water bucket. The player may want to bring a bed if they are spending several days underground so they do not have to go back to their house to sleep. Also, if the player has spare iron, it's recommended to bring iron pickaxes instead of stone pickaxes as they mine faster and have higher durability. If the player is looking for obsidian, then they need to have a diamond pickaxe.
Getting lost in a cave without food may result in starvation. Without a sword, the player will be defenceless from a large number of mobs that spawn in the darkness underground.
If players are prone to losing the way back or simply want to be safer, try marking their path with torches or another unique entity, such as signs, birch planks or coloured wool. This also helps them to recover their items should they die. Carving out a safe room containing furnaces, a crafting table, a bed and a chest might be well worth their time. If they spend lots of time underground, they may want to bring resources for a more sophisticated base with.
Lava is highly dangerous and becomes quite common on lower levels, so remember to bring two water buckets when mining. Two buckets allow the player to create an infinite water source to replenish their water supply. Dig a 2×2 hole and place water in two opposing corners and now they have infinite water. This can also be done by placing water at both ends of a 3×1 hole. This can help the player get to ores above the lava. Just place the water next to the lava source, and the water will convert the lava blocks on top of the pool to obsidian.
Armour is essential for reducing the damage taken by hostile mobs and lava.
There are three basic ways to start off the mine, though they can be combined:
Find one of the many caves that open to the surface, and start exploring that, generally working the way downwards. Even shallow caves offer plenty of coal and iron, and later gold and other ores. Caves offer the advantage that a great deal of stone has already been excavated for the player, exposing many ore veins. On the flip side, they often contain a large number of hostile mobs, and both water and lava can be troublesome.
If, rather than a proper cave entrance, having a shaft or ravine, players can start with that. Use a water bucket to create a waterfall that they can swim down (and back up), then continue as above with the caves that open off the ravine. Watch out for monsters falling off high ledges. The player may want to pillar jump to light those ledges and look for high tunnels.
Alternatively, players can make their own entrance to the underworld: dig a vertical or diagonal mineshaft, wherever is convenient such as a back room in the base, and start digging horizontal shafts at suitable depths. This takes more tools (since the player are digging everything out themselves), but with proper lighting, they will hardly ever see monsters. Their mineshaft probably will also open into caves, which they can explore as above. There's a good deal of discussion about which methods are best for mining ores, but for the initial mineshaft, the safest method is probably a 1×3 shaft equipped with a ladder down the middle, and occasional ledges in case the player fall off the ladder. Regardless of how the player arranges things, they need to light the shafts properly to avoid monsters being spawned. The player can also turn to mineshafts when the cave is mined out. It is a good idea to mine everything out including coal as the player never know when they might be lost and need more torches.
There is much more in the Minecraft wiki at https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Mining
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