User talk:DarkHaunter18175

The Powers That Be have decreed that I am Unworthy of creating new pages in other namespaces, so this will have to do for my research notes.

Diamond mining research
Some research of the most optimal (diamond ore found / blocks mined) ways to mine diamonds.

Please elaborate on what is meant by "Slope"; maybe add a picture. Zmcminer 14:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Conclusion
As the tunnels become more distant from each other, they reach the maximum efficiency. Two configurations stand out that have a minimum work/diamond and a maximum % of diamonds seen: Galleries[v3,h10,s5] and Galleries[v5,h6,s3]. Here is a graphical representation of them:

Galleries[v3,h10,s5]
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Galleries[v5,h6,s3]
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More strategies can be investigated, for example creating "windows" on the sides of tunnels.

Ore expansion tactics research
The following research attempts to answer the question: "How much should I dig around precious ore in hopes to find more of it".

The above table is to be read as follows:
 * When a block of diamond ore is found, in 90.57% of cases you will find more diamond ore in one of the 6 cartesian directions (visible sides of a cube). This means that roughly 10% of all diamond ore are in single blocks.
 * Expanding your dig to include the 12 edge directions (from any diamond ore block) gives you 28% of finding more ore.
 * Expanding your dig to include all 26 blocks neighboring any ore block gives you 2.6% of finding more ore.

Distribution
The following table illustrates the distribution of the number of ore found with each tactic.

I'm not sure what's with the peak around 17 ore found, it might be a fluke of the dataset.

Conclusion
You should definitely dig a bit around precious ore, as diamond blocks often (about 28% of cases) border only on block edges in a vein. Going further is usually not worth it, as the distribution of ore at higher distances looks like the regular probability of proximity of ore veins.