Finding Diamond, Gold, and Iron? and more?
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Sep 13, 2010 6:30 pm GMT
How do you find this? Is it just randomly finding it or is there some technique? And what's the purpose of having lava or water or milk in a bowl?
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GT: TheWorldisDead
Sep 13, 2010 7:08 pm GMT
The deeper you mine, the better chance you have at finding the rarer ores like gold and diamonds, especially around lava pits. Gold is largely useless aside from making golden apples, however, considering all gold armor, weapons, and tools have the same durability as wood.
By bowls I assume you mean buckets. Currently milk has no purpose. Water and lava can serve multiple purposes, such as creating natural lighted walkways/towers with lava or waterfalls with water. More serious practices are using lava as an incinerator and water being the only way you can douse yourself if you're on fire. They both can be used to great effect as traps against enemies.
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Sep 13, 2010 7:23 pm GMT
Alright thanks. I just recently decided to dig and found some Iron ore. I was only able to obtain 8 since I was running out my torches and my tools weren't in the best shape. Any suggestions on what to use my first bit of Iron on?
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GT: TheWorldisDead
Sep 13, 2010 7:41 pm GMT
Pickaxe should definitely be the first things you start making with iron. You can't mine diamond and gold ore unless you have an iron or better pickaxe.
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Sep 13, 2010 8:56 pm GMT
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From: Agamemnon485bc
Pickaxe should definitely be the first things you start making with iron. You can't mine diamond and gold ore unless you have an iron or better pickaxe.
Also redstone.
Finish up all your stone pickaxes before you use your steel of course
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Sep 13, 2010 9:12 pm GMT
Right, forgot the Redstone. Still haven't figured out the entire concept behind it so I've largely stayed away from it until I find the time to sit down and learn it.
And don't make steel or better tools for a shovel, hoe, or an axe. The mining time for such tools has such a small difference compared with steel or better tools. Stick to stone for those tools as much as you can until you have a clear surplus of steel. Personally a shovel would be the only tool I would suggest to go for in steel even when you have a surplus. You'll never be needing to mine tons of trees in a short amount of time or tilling grass to the point where you'd need the durability of a steel tool.
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Sep 13, 2010 9:57 pm GMT
And do not, do not use your iron pickaxe to mine stone. Ever. Bring a workbench and some stone and wood into the cave with you to make oodles of stone picks. Save your iron pick for the good stuff, and use your unending supply of stone tools to cut out stone, coal, and iron.
You should only ever make one iron pickaxe. Once you break it, use the diamonds you should have saved it for to make a new one. Don't stop with the stone ones just because you have a shiny diamond one. There is orders of magnitude more stone on the map, technically infinite if you set up a cobblestone factory, than diamond.
Save your diamond pick for gold, redstone, more diamond, and obsidian. It will last months longer and score you much more goods than if you whack worthless rock with it.
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Sep 14, 2010 4:56 am GMT
Thanks for all this help. I would have made tons of mistakes if it weren't for you all.
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GT: TheWorldisDead
Sep 14, 2010 6:15 am GMT
I would like to add that one bucket of water is tremendously useful while mining deep underground (in areas with lava). Whenever you come across a lava pit, dump the block of water on safe land near the lava pit and the water will spread across the lava pit, turning the surface layer of lava into obsidian. Then scoop the block of water back up in your bucket, and you can safely walk across the obsidian. You might want to place a torch or two near the lava pit before you use water on it, because the cave will get much darker with the lava gone.
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