In the two plus years I have been mining at this mine I have never seen this many people actively mining. Its absolutely freaking awesome. I have yet to go one day without seeing someone else in the mines in about a week. I am probably going to work on expanding the mine next week. I have enjoyed "racing" for the monthly spot for sure though! I have posted a video of a mining method and about a year ago I had offered to show people one on one what it is that I do in the mine to achieve the capability of hitting those 12k averages for a day. I have gotten as high as an 18k hour. If anyone sees me on today and wants me to spend some time coaching them, standing over their shoulder and giving pointers and showing them exactly what it is that I do, please just @gawadrolt (enter) and get my attention. I had a 3,500r per run AVERAGE before yesterday. Now its sitting just above 3,300r per run thanks to yesterdays super dismal numbers. As far as quick tips:---------------------------- #1 finding diamonds should be your number one priority if you are trying to get the most out of your time-----#2 leave no ore unturned. Every ore that you mine is more than stone/per hour and it opens up more possible spots to find diamonds.-----#3 bring an enderchest and keep your shulker boxes INSIDE the ender chest. If you die in lava or get jumped by a mob and die you really don't want to lose your expensive and useful shulker boxes.-----#4 Have a silk and a fortune pick. Running out of torches is quickly fixed with a fortune pick and one vein of coal. Diamond and emeralds aren't worth near as much as the diamond and emerald ores are, always silk touch them. -----#5 don't follow a cave for a mile. When you find a cave, light up within about 30-40 blocks of where it runs into your tunnel and grab all the easily accessible ores. Don't waste time towering up a ravine to get a vein of iron or coal that is 20 blocks above your head, thats time better spent looking for diamonds, there are no diamonds above y15 and very few above y13, in your tunnel and chasing caves for 5-10 minutes will destroy your rupees/hr. -----#6 spend as little time as possible at the stations. I have been combining all the carts and chests so that when I get back to the station I can just pick up a minecart chest, fill it and get back into the tunnels. If there are no minecarts and two stacks of iron, grab half the stack of iron and make 6 minecart chests at once instead of making one every time you get back to the station. Do this on both halls that you are going back and forth between.-----#7 try to stay in between two halls so that you are going back and forth between just two stations. Go west one run, then back east to the same hallway the next run. Even if you have to go 20 blocks north or south of your last run. this will also help keep from having areas in the mine where there is only one or two tunnels left to be mined in between two hallways. ----#8 Last but certainly not least!!! Have a shulker box with a spare set of armor/weapons and picks/shovels if possible. When, not if, you end up losing all your stuff to lava you will want to be able to go right back to mining without having to run all the way to town and gathering up supplies. Yesterday was a bad day for me. I averaged about 5k all day. the day before though I was hitting it big and through the whole day averaged about 12k. Diamonds were everywhere in those runs.
240k... we missed the weekly record by 46k. Oh well, here april is and its time to make another run at that record. I am planning on getting over 300k for this whole month, who wants to help me break the mine? This week I will be spending a lot of time expanding halls. I won't be putting in any stations or expanding the minerails but I will be digging all the halls out to -11925 station coords in the halls that aren't dug that far. Azoundria was talking about making a west wing so if I get all that done(not likely) I will start working on adding in another hall west of 14000. get a shulker box and do something like this as soon as you can afford to, all the picks are silk except the one at the end since it will never go bad if i only use it on ores:
Miner Application Username: DDuck1D Days On EMC: 1178 Days (I joined soon after my other quacky friend CDuck1D) Primary SMP: SMP2 I have the following Picks: x2 Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, and Mending x3 Efficiency III, Unbreaking III, and Silk Touch I have the following armor: A diamond helmet with Blast Protection IV and Unbreaking III A diamond chestplate with Protection II, Thorns III, Unbreaking II Diamond leggings with Projectile Protection IV and Unbreaking III Diamond boots with Protection IV, Depth Strider III, and Unbreaking III (I have about 6 backup chestplates that aren't as good, but are diamond) What mod do we use to speed up mining? AutoSwitch. What are the 3 Ls for passages above? Level, Lit, and Lava-free. What is the deposit to start mining and what does it cover? The 14k deposit is used to pay for any supplies or materials needed. How many blocks between each hall with chests? 250 blocks What do you do with mined goods? You put your goods in a minecart, submit a report about the goods, and move on to the next tunnel. What do you have to worry about when filling in holes after mining ores? When filling holes there needs to be no holes that a miner can fall in and you need to make sure the ground is level. What ores can you expect to find in a mine? Coal, iron, lapis, gold, and redstone are more common whereas diamonds and emralds are more rare. How can you quickly neutralize a pool of lava? Pour water on it. What can you do to quickly mine through the top layer of obsidian? Make sure that there is water over the lava to neutralize the next layer before you become a crispy duck. What should you do if you fall into a pool of lava? GET OUT OF THE LAVA! After escaping the lava you can use water to make the fire die out. What should you do in a situation where you are swarmed with mobs and almost dead? If I were surrounded I would leave the server. What should be done before mining diamonds? Before mining diamonds you need to make sure there is no lava around and then make sure you are either silk touching or fortuning the diamond. Should you ever mine the block above/below you? NEVER MINE DOWN. If you are in a really open area where you could easily escape it is ok to mine up for say the ore that is at the top of the ceiling 6 blocks above you, this is ok because lava falls slowly, but if you are in a confined space it's best not to mine up. --Availability-- What is the nearest major city to you? San Francisco When are you available for training (Give a few possible times.) 3-4 Monday 4/2/18 11-3 Tuesday 4/3/18 11-3 Wednesday 4/3/18 (I'm pretty free this week, these are just a few of the times, so if these don't work message me a time and it'll probably work.) How often do you expect to be mining each week? (For planning purposes, there's no required level of activity.) This week I'll probably be on for a couple hours a day, but when I go back to school I'll only be able to play on Saturday, but I'll play for at least 3 hours. Do you any specific financial goal? I hope to get at least 50k rupees and this will greatly help me on my way. Is there anything you hope to get out of using the mine specifically? From using the mine I hope to be able to earn money faster, I believe having money will help me be able to do more of the stuff on EMC. P.S. I am friends with CDuck1D one of your workers.
alright, didn't get a whole lot done today but all halls run all the way to -11925 now until you get to hall 15750 which is going to be a LONG hallway to mine out. I think it is currently the shortest hallway so expanding it will open up LOTS of space to mine. tomorrow I plan on being in the mines from about 1pm until 8:30pm emc time. If I get lucky tomorrow morning begging for money to eat then I will be on earlier
DDuck1D and CDuck1D are two completely different people that know eachother IRL. GDuck1D and Duck1D are both owned by CDuck1D. SDuck1D is my alt.
sooo, my husband and I saw the cool city and thought we'd explore...then got stuck in the mine. we followed the path of the carts all the way to the end (thinking this would get us out) and discovered that the system is stuck; there were a ton of carts all stuck in one spot and not emptying properly. Might want to go in there and sort though everything. Everything was left exactly as we found it, but we did 'borrow' some sugarcane as our rockets were getting low. -jor
the carts are left in that large storage area and are checked at the end of each week so that azoundria can pay everyone for what they mine.
Miner Application --Basics-- Username: Kryarias Days On EMC: 48 Primary SMP: SMP8 --Equipment-- What pickaxes do you have already? Silk and Fortune What armour do you have already? A full set of diamond enchanted --Comprehension-- What mod do we use to speed up mining? Auto switch What are the 3 Ls for passages above? Lighted, level, and lava free What is the deposit to start mining and what does it cover? 12K covers tools and armors. How many blocks between each hall with chests? 250 What do you do with mined goods? Put them in a chest a report it What do you have to worry about when filling in holes after mining ores? Mobs spawning, pits that slow you down --Experience-- What ores can you expect to find in a mine? coal, iron, gold, diamond, emerald, Redstone How can you quickly neutralize a pool of lava? Pour water over it What can you do to quickly mine through the top layer of obsidian? Have water on the block your mining What should you do if you fall into a pool of lava? drink a fire resistant potion. What should you do in a situation where you are swarmed with mobs and almost dead? Put blocks all around you until you regen, also place a torch What should be done before mining diamonds? Mine around it to check for lava, then use a fortune pick Should you ever mine the block above/below you? No --Availability-- What is the nearest major city to you? (Or what is your IANA timezone from this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones.) NYC When are you available for training? (Give a few possible times.) Today preferably, Thursday or Friday How often do you expect to be mining each week? (For planning purposes, there's no required level of activity.) 4-5days a week for 3-4 hours a day Do you any specific financial goal? 1 million rupees Is there anything you hope to get out of using the mine specifically? Rupees xD
the 15750 hall and the 16000 hall are both mined out completely now. there are portals but no stations. the portals are at -11575 and -11925 and if the hall didn't have a portal at -11325 before, it does now. 16250 will be my project for tomorrow, might be able to get that and 16500 done. It is not looking like i am going to get to start on a "west wing" of the mine.
Well I am glad for any expansion you can help with! It's really awesome to see so much mining happening.
I plan on putting in stations and stocking and everything but I want to get all the hallways finished first instead of going one station at a time or one hallway at a time. If I get all the hallways mined out and ready then I can go back and make all the torches with the 1x2 ports to start the tunnels and put in the stations and I brought a whole dc of shulker boxes so I can stock as I put the stations in. I brought two stacks of iron blocks but any extra you can round up for me would be great and keep me from having to run back to town again. I have plenty of wood, about 3 stacks of obsidian(which will go quickly when making the stations, help with that would be awesome) I have less than a half a stack of wool for beds. So, if I can get help with iron, wool and obsidian then once I get all the hallways stocking the stations should be a pretty quick process. I know some people like to take stacks of dirt with them to fill in holes and make everything level but I usually just use my cobble/stone. if you want me to put dirt in the stations too then I will need that. I'm not going out of my way to save someone 7-9r -ish on a run lol. Edit: I have access to a gold farm but would have to go to town for that for the powered rails with making the minerail in the new hallway areas. I will try to hang onto any gold and iron I get while mining out the hallways.
Assembly line is definitely a faster approach. For example: (1) Mine out 3x5 full length hallways. (2) Mine out and place the stone for under the rail line. (3) Build the rail line. (4) Rail line walls. (5) Ground of mines. (6) Place any missing roofs and walls. (7) Tunnel walls. etc... I should build a guide with screenshots but haven't had time. If you happen to want to help contribute to that guide, I definitely would appreciate it! There is tons of iron blocks I brought for you in the ceiling chest by the portal. Let me know if you can't find it via PM. There are also beds in one of the ceiling chests. It sucks that now we need to use red wool to make matching beds, but wool is cheap and I can bring more next time I train a miner. I can definitely put aside some more obsidian before I leave the mines. There's tons of dirt in chests in the main station. They're to the left as you enter the main station portal. I usually do 2 stacks per station. There's also lots of rails and powered rails in the same ceiling chest as the iron blocks. Please help yourself to anything in the main station that you need.
hey guys. i joined the mining crew last weekend and it really is fun. the mines are well structured and Azoundria explained everything really well. and You can get cash real fast. i got an average of over 10k an hour while fooling around some. thanks for letting me join.
Chogan!!! you are going to make kong and I have to work for our spots this month huh? Glad to have you and all of the new miners! over 40k this week is pretty good. This coming up week I will be able to mine more, lets say we make it a race? That said, I will probably have all of the hallways mined out completely by wednesday. That is the projected time. After that I have to lay all of the "new" rail lines and should be working on putting in stations and portals by the end of the week(saturday or sunday). After I get all of the stations put in I plan on working on the new "West Wing" of the mines. That addition will take some time and any help I can get with mining it out, laying rails or building stations would be absolutely appreciated. I probably won't be able to show anyone how to help until after Wednesday but if someone wants to help me mine out the halls I can definitely show you how we are doing that any time I am on. Tomorrow I will be playing around 10AM EMC time to 12pm. then be back from 1pm to 4:30pm and then again from 5:30pm to 9pm. These times are tentative but should be a good template for times to get ahold of me through the week. tuesday to Saturday I will probably be on closer to 9am in the morning and Friday and saturday I will not be on in the evening after 4:30pm... just in case you are trying to catch me Edit: congratulations to Sydney for making the Top 10 all time high scores list!
