Talk:Tutorials/Quarry


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I dont think the math is right on this page. 20X20 = 400 blocks. Asuming a sea level quarry at 61 blocks on average to bedrock, it would yeild 24400 blocks, thats only 381.25 stacks of block in total. no were near the "1500 stacks of cobblestone", not to mention that the ore provided starts reaching the 60-70% efficency range. seems like this could get someone new to waste alot of time over this false info.

math

20x20=400

400x61= volume of 24400 blocks

24400 blocks / 64 = 381.25 stacks of blocks total in the example given in the page.


 * I see the number's changed now, but I think the stacks of coal, iron, diamond etc. are still to big.

150+50+20+5+1 = 226. That would mean more than half the blocks are coal or 'better'. I don't think this is right. Mysticyx
 * It's not at all. The numbers are absolutely ludicrous. So I created a 20x30 quarry myself to get actual numbers. It yielded about 6 stacks of coal, 1-2 stacks of iron, a dozen or so gold ores, 17 diamonds, 1 stack of obsidian, and 5-6 stacks of redstone. My numbers don't even come up to a 1/20th for the stated coal, iron and gold, and my quarry was 1.5 times bigger. Quarry's are extremely inefficient and are really only good for gathering large quantities of cobblestone. --SkyKoli 23:32, 9 December 2010 (CST)

In my experience with a 32x28 quarry 1/2 of the way to bedrock and I had only collected around 14000 blocks which comes out about 216 stacks. that includes dirt and cobble stone, there was about 2 stacks of coal and 1 stack of iron. --ReubenHung 23:19, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I mined a 20x20 quarry and stopped at elevation 5. It yielded 18442 cobblestone, 1575 sand, 1375 dirt, 742 gravel, 204 redstone dust, 124 coal, 94 iron ore, 86 flint, 20 gold ore, 13 diamonds, for a total of 22675 blocks or 354.296875 stacks. --Mqj 15:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I made a 20x20 quarry because of the information on this page, and I came up with (approximately): 8 stacks of coal, 4 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of redstone, 9 gold ore, and 8 diamonds. That said, I also came out with about 300-400 buckets of lava that I used for another project, and 2 stacks of obsidian. I'm going to go ahead and change the numbers on the page so no one else is fooled into doing this. --Greggor 22:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

While the information is complete seeming, it really needs a cost to benefit analysis. I gave this a shot myself yesterday, and you mow through far more "resource" (time, most of all, but also iron/diamond pickaxes) than you'll ever realistically get back. Even by throwing TNT around liberally to mow through the useless strata to get down to where more gold and diamond are, it still took forever. Frankly, unless you have a fancy for digging big square pits, this is not at all an effective way to generate useful amounts of material. --Biflspud 12:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)