It may just be because of my home countries large history of gold mining, but I would like to see more ways to mine. They would all drop minerals in rarity order of
Some ideas:
1. A pan:
If you find wet soft ground (stuff you use a shovel for) and use it on it, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. It would have the durability of a
It would be quite simple to make, like:
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2. A sluice:
Simple. Water would flow through it, and if it does, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. This may also have a small (5 block?) storage to hold them in so you can leave it while it's working.
It's also good because it doesn't use iron, but instead would be something of:
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Or possibly
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3. Dredging
Ok, I don't really like the concept of this, but it was done too much not to at least mention it. Basically, it's a boat that you move across a 1 deep water, and it mines it so the water becomes 2 deep (with a small chance of dropping a mineral). Perhaps, to make it fair, it should only work on still water (in a lake, etc...) or something. Maybe even make it have durability...
No clue how it would be made, maybe:
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Where Logs are boats...
4. Pneumatic Mining
Not really a different way to get stuff but a different way to mine. It's basically a kind of stationary turret that you aim, that destroys blocks with the mining power of an iron pick, but at exceedingly high speeds and with no loss of durability. The catch? It needs to be within a certain area of water. Why? Because pneumatic mining is basically using a high powered hose to obliterate rock. Yeah. I was thinking another downside would be that soft blocks would drop nothing if mined with this.
Alternatively, because it would probably have to damage mobs (Ever seen water cutting steel?) you could have to fill it with a bucket of water, where it gets X uses. It uses 1 use per quarter of a second of use, but does high damage. It would also turn lava to obsidian.
I don't really know what it would look like, but it would need a lot of iron, so it would be harder to make than a pick.
So yeah, what do you guys think?
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No. 4 I was expecting some disagreement on, but they are actually quite old. (Not medieval but late 1800's) In the NZ gold strikes of that time period, all of this kind of mining was done. It would be nice to make it into more of a short range stationary cannon (that's what they are after all, albeit with water.) that requires constant refilling to use well. However, I would argue that it does fit the theme. The game is, after all, called MINEcraft, so new ways to mine would be quite fitting.
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I had another mining idea, and spent about 15 mins trying to find this thread, so bear with me...
5. Mine Supports:
Support Gravity effected planer blocks, so if you end up in a mine with a gravel roof, you place a tower of these, and all the directly connected gravel will no longer fall. I think this might be useful for sand too, but I don't like the idea of using it for that. They look like two planks at the top and bottom, with two in an X through the center (You know what I'm talking about, or at least, you should...)
They would be crafted as:
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for 5 supports.
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2. A sluice:
Simple. Water would flow through it, and if it does, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. This may also have a small (5 block?) storage to hold them in so you can leave it while it's working.
It's also good because it doesn't use iron, but instead would be something of:
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This would be the best idle miner. Its decent it does not ruin game play and you don't have to EVER run out of resources at home base.
Thanks! It's nice to know that people like the ideas!
I was thinking that the pan should have a higher drop rate than the sluice, to make it useful (sluice works without you, lasts 'forever' and has no iron, so it needs a downfall).
I keep on wondering about other things I have heard of to do with mining, like mine damp (an orderless toxic gas that is found underground) and speleothems (stalactites, etc). But that's not so connected to the topic of different ways to mine.
I would like to see some kind of mining revolving predominantly around diamonds, though I have no idea what yet. Some redstone laser, perhaps...
Anyways, I wonder why no one else seems to be commenting on this...
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what i plan on doing once i have created a good mob farm, is to make alot of tnt and start tnt mining. so dig down to the bed rock vertically then fill the hole with tnt and BOOM, instant mineshaft. ofcourse i need to come up with a good way to collect anything that survives the blast.
you can also creat open aired mines, I plan on doing this next to a mountain, so i can open mine for rocks/mud for my mob farm then once i have tnt start blasting my way through the mountain. you could create some sort of river system so that anything blasted by the tnt will drop into the stream and be carried to a pick-up area. then i would like to create a sea platform (although it's an ice map) and start mining the ocean floor.
there are lot of ways already to mine things however i do agree it needs more tools to do it :wink.gif:
Umm, I kind of meant, like, without picks and TNT, which is the current mining tools or the trade.
also, some of this stuff doesn't sound very easy, or possible, even...
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I wholly support all the ideas except for 3 and 4. I like the sluice especially, because it is an idle miner but it has a low drop rate. Maybe it could be for every minute, it has a 95% chance of nothing at all, 4% chance of iron, and 1% chance of a piece of redstone.
A good side to it is you could have multiple going at a time. It should also have a chest component like this:
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And then it stores things that it picks up. Then you could right click it to get whatever it had picked up. Then you would be able to leave it for extended periods of time.
I don't like 4 because how would it send out the water at high speed?
1&2 I am wholly in support of! Especially the sluice. I was on a field trip when I was younger to some mining museum that had a sluice they let the kids use with supervision, so this just feels right to me.
3 I could take or leave. I really have no idea how to make it more attractive.
My problems with 4 have pretty much all already been aired out by previous posters.
Dredging boats were horrible, and destroyed landscapes, but they were used. A lot.
As for #4, I'm assuming pipes would be added. Or possibly, since that's how they actually work, they should be propelled with compressed air (Underwater air tank?)
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I was thinking, for the pan, that it has such a small chance of dropping something, that it would be ineffective to use it for a mining replacement, but rather, a backup. Same with the sluice, but perhaps, if it finds coal, it should put it in it's furnace, and that it would stop mining if one of the box's got full.
I find it funny that people push the dredger away so quickly. I can see it's power but it has quite a few catches. It destroys the block under it:
It can only more on still water, as it breaks otherwise, and it must be manned by the player. You'd need a pretty large lake for it to have much use, really.
As for the Pneumatic hydropump mining thing, yeah, I guess it is kind far fetched. However, they were used, and were a bit like firemans hoses, but more powerful. I guess it's one of those things that probably wouldn't make it in, but I'll still dream of mowing down creepers with a jet of water.
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i think it two ways to mine dig or let a creeper go near you
Multiplayer 'creeper mining' has become a past time for me.
[*:1rbewhob]Log into my server
[*:1rbewhob]Go stand in a field
[*:1rbewhob]Alt tab and do something else for say, 20 minutes.
[*:1rbewhob]Come back to find yourself in a nice little ditch, often with some random string, arrows, cobblestone and dirt in your inventory!
This only works on multiplayer alpha obviously, as you don't take damage from the suicidal creepers.
Exhibit a: a creeper dug ditch from about an hour of afk'ing while doing work:
Some ideas:
1. A pan:
If you find wet soft ground (stuff you use a shovel for) and use it on it, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. It would have the durability of a
It would be quite simple to make, like:
[] [] []
[] [] []
2. A sluice:
Simple. Water would flow through it, and if it does, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. This may also have a small (5 block?) storage to hold them in so you can leave it while it's working.
It's also good because it doesn't use iron, but instead would be something of:
[] [] []
[]
Or possibly
[] []
[]
[] []
3. Dredging
Ok, I don't really like the concept of this, but it was done too much not to at least mention it. Basically, it's a boat that you move across a 1 deep water, and it mines it so the water becomes 2 deep (with a small chance of dropping a mineral). Perhaps, to make it fair, it should only work on still water (in a lake, etc...) or something. Maybe even make it have durability...
No clue how it would be made, maybe:
[] [] []
Where Logs are boats...
4. Pneumatic Mining
Not really a different way to get stuff but a different way to mine. It's basically a kind of stationary turret that you aim, that destroys blocks with the mining power of an iron pick, but at exceedingly high speeds and with no loss of durability. The catch? It needs to be within a certain area of water. Why? Because pneumatic mining is basically using a high powered hose to obliterate rock. Yeah. I was thinking another downside would be that soft blocks would drop nothing if mined with this.
Alternatively, because it would probably have to damage mobs (Ever seen water cutting steel?) you could have to fill it with a bucket of water, where it gets X uses. It uses 1 use per quarter of a second of use, but does high damage. It would also turn lava to obsidian.
I don't really know what it would look like, but it would need a lot of iron, so it would be harder to make than a pick.
So yeah, what do you guys think?
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5. Mine Supports:
Support Gravity effected planer blocks, so if you end up in a mine with a gravel roof, you place a tower of these, and all the directly connected gravel will no longer fall. I think this might be useful for sand too, but I don't like the idea of using it for that. They look like two planks at the top and bottom, with two in an X through the center (You know what I'm talking about, or at least, you should...)
They would be crafted as:
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[] []
[]
for 5 supports.
Hamumu.com, the site I should thank for helping me find minecraft.
Simple. Water would flow through it, and if it does, it would have a small chance of dropping a mineral. This may also have a small (5 block?) storage to hold them in so you can leave it while it's working.
It's also good because it doesn't use iron, but instead would be something of:
[] [] []
[]
This would be the best idle miner. Its decent it does not ruin game play and you don't have to EVER run out of resources at home base.
I was thinking that the pan should have a higher drop rate than the sluice, to make it useful (sluice works without you, lasts 'forever' and has no iron, so it needs a downfall).
I keep on wondering about other things I have heard of to do with mining, like mine damp (an orderless toxic gas that is found underground) and speleothems (stalactites, etc). But that's not so connected to the topic of different ways to mine.
I would like to see some kind of mining revolving predominantly around diamonds, though I have no idea what yet. Some redstone laser, perhaps...
Anyways, I wonder why no one else seems to be commenting on this...
Hamumu.com, the site I should thank for helping me find minecraft.
Umm, I kind of meant, like, without picks and TNT, which is the current mining tools or the trade.
also, some of this stuff doesn't sound very easy, or possible, even...
Hamumu.com, the site I should thank for helping me find minecraft.
A good side to it is you could have multiple going at a time. It should also have a chest component like this:
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And then it stores things that it picks up. Then you could right click it to get whatever it had picked up. Then you would be able to leave it for extended periods of time.
I don't like 4 because how would it send out the water at high speed?
3 I could take or leave. I really have no idea how to make it more attractive.
My problems with 4 have pretty much all already been aired out by previous posters.
Dredging boats were horrible, and destroyed landscapes, but they were used. A lot.
As for #4, I'm assuming pipes would be added. Or possibly, since that's how they actually work, they should be propelled with compressed air (Underwater air tank?)
Hamumu.com, the site I should thank for helping me find minecraft.
I like the idea of having to put a chest on the sluice, but maybe it could replace the bottom block, so it becomes:
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Om nom... Nom, nom.
sluice
ever so slowly smelts minerals to there advanced form
left storage box for minerals that cant be smelted
right for minerals that are smelted
still need to heat the furnace,when not heated the minerals will go to the left storage box
this is a good idea.i love them all but four seems like a ? to me
I find it funny that people push the dredger away so quickly. I can see it's power but it has quite a few catches. It destroys the block under it:
It can only more on still water, as it breaks otherwise, and it must be manned by the player. You'd need a pretty large lake for it to have much use, really.
As for the Pneumatic hydropump mining thing, yeah, I guess it is kind far fetched. However, they were used, and were a bit like firemans hoses, but more powerful. I guess it's one of those things that probably wouldn't make it in, but I'll still dream of mowing down creepers with a jet of water.
Hamumu.com, the site I should thank for helping me find minecraft.
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Multiplayer 'creeper mining' has become a past time for me.
[*:1rbewhob]Log into my server
[*:1rbewhob]Go stand in a field
[*:1rbewhob]Alt tab and do something else for say, 20 minutes.
[*:1rbewhob]Come back to find yourself in a nice little ditch, often with some random string, arrows, cobblestone and dirt in your inventory!
This only works on multiplayer alpha obviously, as you don't take damage from the suicidal creepers.
Exhibit a: a creeper dug ditch from about an hour of afk'ing while doing work: