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 Minecraft 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 surprised 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 unsuspecting enemy's from a distance or to keep creepers at a distance. Also get cobblestone and dirt for getting past lava, climbing, and making path ways. Plus you can't forget you lucky, trusty water bucket. Always keep it in your hot bar, and also milk and an empty bucket for lava DONT EVER KEEP LAVA IN YOUR HOT BAR UNLESS YOUR ABOUT TO USE IT.

Optional supplies is up to the player like a axe to take down your under ground wood structures fast. Alongside TnT to clear out a dead end quick. Plus a Iron or Gold block so you can make some more tools but take up less space in your inventory.

Managing your resources can be a big help when mining like if you go into a cave to go get iron but when you come out you have mostly coal in your inventory. Solution watch your inventory limit your self to how much of the ores your going to get so you get the most of the ores you came to get. There is nothing wrong with making two trips to the cave or mine to get recourses the THE ORES YOU FIND ARENT GOING ANYWERE(unless your playing with others).

How to stay safe: number 1 light the way through the caverns so monsters cant spawn. Number 2 mark your way so you don't get lost. Always be aware of your surroundings so Creepers cant creep up on you, fall in lava or fall off a cliff. When you find diamond look around for any possible danger and fix it before getting the diamond. When you fix the problems if there are any get the diamond and GET OUT</nowiki. There is no reason to stay when you find diamond unless you see more. Keep your head when you find diamond don't freak out stay claim till you get to the surface and/or safety. Number 3 put some armor on it will help protect you from monster and more if you enchant them.