Saw Ethos New mining technique, Which is basically Getting a beacon with haste 2 down at y:12 with a eff 5 pickaxe And go crazy By digging a 50X50X2 hole. You will get a LOAD of Redstone, Coal, Iron, Lapis And Diamond. So I gave it a go, got amazing results, there were a lot of caves, So I didn't bother digging a huge area out, but still amazing results! Recommend you guys trying it. What I dug: Results: For the size of the area I dug Those results are crazy with a fortune 2 pick (I didn't mine coal or iron) Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Qq...ew&list=UUFKDEp9si4RmHFWJW1vYsMA&noredirect=1
This is the results from a proper 50x50 mine - every block within a 50X50 area mined took about 2 hours to mine all this.
I tried this the other day and now have a full portable setup. I ended up with about a stack and a half of diamond ore, stack and a half of iron blocks, and tons of gold.
I watched the Etho video too and gotta say this method of mining is incredible! Tried it earlier tonight and with 2 people in just over an hour we got about 14 diamond blocks, 14 gold blocks, 40 iron blocks, 6 stacks of redstone blocks, 4 stacks of coal blocks, and over a stack of lapis blocks doing 2 levels at Y:12 and Y:6, and when your done you basically have a dual level mob spawn pad that you could turn into a grinder if you wanted
I remember a much better technique for mining that was around before the voting rewards came in. It was basically to hire a bunch of new players for 100r each and make 'em dig it out for you.
Todays Gold dig Overfilled my ender chest, Even in block form. (including 2.5 stacks of iron blocks and a beacon, a full set of diamond amour, sword and bow, Arrows, wood spare picks And a anvil) The huge hole (mined every ore)