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Last time, we survived our first night, acquired stone tools and carved a small base into the side of a mountain (We also got some food and a bed). This time we’re going to learn the basics of mining and get some Iron (And maybe diamond) tools and armor. So open up Minecraft, enter your world, and hit the resume button
So we’ve already survived our first night, Now it’s time to survive a few million more. The first thing to do now is go mining. Iron is an essential material for weapons, armor, tools and other stuff. Here are the basics of mining:
Step four: mining
Note: when you are going mining, make sure you have enough torches. This is the crafting recipe:
1. Staircase mining.
This step requires you to go to the back of your hill base, face the wall at the back and start digging out a staircase that descends down into the ground, just like this:
While digging, be on the look out for ores. That’s the whole point of this. At the end of this step there will be an index of all the pickaxes and the blocks/ores you can mine with them. So if you see a ore you don’t recognize, be sure to look at the index before mining it. When you reach bedrock (which is the bottom end of the world), either go another location and start another staircase mine or go to a random location on your staircase and start strip mining as shown down below:
2. Strip mining
The best way to strip mine is to pick a spot in your staircase mine, and then dig straight into one of the walls. After digging for a while, pick a random spot in that tunnel and dig straight into the side again. repeat this over and over again while making sure you have enough torches and don’t get lost.
There are also other methods of mining like cave mining, quarry mining, etc but this is the safest and one of the most effective methods. Once you have Iron or diamond armor and tools, you can go cave mining, which has a better chance of getting ores but also has lots of monsters. Now onto the next step!
Step five: Crafting iron stuff
Once you have around 3 or more iron from mining, You need to smelt it in order to craft items with it. To do this, smelt it in a furnace using coal/charcoal.
After smelting the iron, craft an iron pick like so:
An iron pick(axe) is used to mine different ores like diamond, redstone, lapis lazuli, and other ores that can’t be mined with stone tools. To know more,scroll down to the mining index. After that, you can keep mining until you have enough iron to craft the following tools: A pickaxe (if you don’t already have one), an axe, a sword, a helmet, a chestplate and some leggings. The other tools shown are optional.
If you find diamond, do the same as you did with iron, except you need to mine it with an Iron pick and you also don’t need to smelt it. The crafting recipes are the same as iron tools but instead of iron, use diamond.
So now you have some iron (and potentially diamond) stuff. Here’s the mining index so that you don’t spend the rest of eternity mining obsidian with a wooden pick.
- Wooden pick: Mining level 1
- Gold pick: Mining level 1
- Stone pick: Mining level 2
- Iron pick: Mining level 3
- Diamond pick: Mining level 4
- Stone:Mining level 1
- Coal:Mining level 1
- Iron: Mining level 2
- Redstone: Mining level 3
- Emerald: Mining level 3
- Lapis lazuli: Mining level 3
- Diamond: Mining level 3
- Gold: Mining level 3
- Obsidian: Mining level 4
And that’s that! It was a rather short post, sorry about that, but I am trying to keep my posts as short as possible so that I can publish them at a faster rate! My next post won’t be a minecraft one, but something a bit different, And it’s coming out on the 1st of February, so stay tuned for that!
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