Stacking one branch mine on top of another in order to obtain a much greater degree of thoroughness without sacrificing too much efficiency.
Minecraft branch mining. Dig any way you want just do not dig straight down. Efficiency in minecraft mining is defined as how many ore blocks the player mines relative to the time spent reaching them. Branch mining in minecraft by jesse stay thomas stay jacob cordeiro if you re new to minecraft and you don t yet have the weaponry necessary to brave a cavern branch mining is an effective way to obtain lots of stone and minerals. Minecraft community on reddit.
You might fall into a pit or into lava. Harder branch mining gives you tools to make branch mining more difficult in various ways and to encourage caving. You can control the horizontal setting how hard it is to mine at a given depth. Follow these steps to dig a branch mine.
Efficiency vs thoroughness. I don t really know when to stop and make a new layer when branch mining so i just mine a level 12 which is above the lava lakes and every ore still. Dig your way underground. Thoroughness is the percentage of the.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 3 8m members in the minecraft community. You can control the depth mining starts becoming slower and more tiring. You can control the vertical setting how hard it is to mine downwards.