Here on Modsauce we also do Friday Night Miners (FNM), we basically just sit next to our digiminer and wait.. #ModSauce
Digiminer only has 32 blocks range so had to move it around quite a bit. Heres the loot for a little hrs of waiting.
When I watched HermitCraft Modsauce it seemed much better than 32 radius... Either way, I wish my PC could run mods.. modded minecraft is so fun...
playing on a server is better than single player since the server handles most of the load. We have a player running on just 2 gb of ram, takes him like 15mins to load but once it loaded it works fine. Also lower render distance helps
Sounds about right for me. My computer feels and sounds like it will set on fire just from regular minecraft, but if the server handles it all I might have to try that out in the future.