User:Junebugbnm/Mining tips

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Mining is the overall base of Minecraft and as you go through all those caverns, pits, and ravines you, as any good Minecarft player knows, will get tripped up. So here are some tips to keep you safe as you look for the elusive pot of diamond, gold or whatever else you're looking for.

First thing's first: the basics. You will need plenty of food and torches, bottom line. It is not recommended going mining with wood or gold tools as they break too easily, which means you will have to have lots of them in your inventory and thus there is less room for the stuff you want in there. Additionally, the only ore wood and gold pickaxes can mine is coal. So stone, iron and diamond tools are recommend. (Diamond picks are not recommended if you cannot afford to craft a new one when they break.) When mining, you should have at all times three pickaxes (or a pickaxe and enough materials to craft more, as they stack but pickaxes don't), a stack of wood or signs to mark your way out, a shovel, swords (but how many is up to player and where they will be mining), plenty of food and torches.

(If you do not wish to bring signs with you, but you need to make sure that you don't get lost, you should always put torches on the right-side walls of caves. Thus, to find your way out, you just need to go wherever you see torches on the left side.)

Advanced supplies: this is if you've been in there for some time and you're fed up with being suprised by caves and ravines. You should first get your pickaxes, swords, whatever you use to mark your way, food, shovel, jack-o-lantern (optional) and torches. Then, you should get a bed so you can make a bunker and sleep in it in case you die and need to get to your stuff fast, along with clock so you can keep track of time and know when to go to bed. Then get a furnace, crafting table, and chests for your bunker. Get a bow and arrows (obtained either by crafting or by killing skeletons), so you can kill unsupecting enemys from a distance or to keep creepers at a distance. Also get cobblestone and dirt for geting past lava, climing, and making path ways. Plus you can't forget you lucky, trusty water bucket. Always keep it in your hot bor, and milk and an empty bucket for lava.

Optional supplies is up to the player.