Mining All Day - Mining Tips & Help

Hey there, are you about to enter a deep cave full of mobs and ores? Perhaps this will help you!

Starting Your Mine

Find a safe place to mine, then start it. Remember, when mining, always bring materials and food. Make sure that if you do mine, bring ladders so if you fall you will be able to get back up. Place random furnaces in the hallways in your mine so you can cook food if you didn't cook it already. With the food, make sure you have plenty. Make sure to bring a crafting table just in case you need to make an extra pickaxe. Lava is dangerous, so remember to bring a water bucket when mining. Of course, remember to bring torches for lighting. Always be prepared, Creepers...

Cave Mining

Also known as Cave Hunting, Caving or Spelunking, Cave Mining is simply the practice of exploring caves and extracting the ores found there. Ore veins are often found exposed along the walls, floors and ceilings of caves; this is especially true after update 1.2, when the incidence of ores in and near caves was increased. Exploring a large cave system almost always results in finding large quantities of ore. Cave mining has a high return on investment, yielding more ore per time spent and requiring fewer tools. On the other hand, cave mining is highly dangerous. Unexplored caves are dark and tend to contain many mobs; a weapon are practical necessities. The player should carry a large supply of torches to light up the cave and prevent extra mob spawns. Large cave systems can become confusing and special attention must be paid to navigation lest one quickly get lost. Moving through a cave too quickly makes it easy to miss unlit passages above or beside you, and carries the danger of stepping into an open shaft or falling into a lava pool. Portions of caves at level 11 and below are generally filled with lava. Because of these factors, players usually explore and light a cave first, then extract ores on the way back out, increasing the total time required and cutting down on mining efficiency.

Ore Colours!

Coal - Black

Iron - Silver/Gray

Redstone - Red

Gold - Gold/Yellow

Diamonds - Teal/Light Blue

Emerald - Green


Nether Quartz - White/Pink