User:Lexmechanic

Greetings. I am but a humble tech-priest, engaged always in the Quest for Knowledge. I seek primarily to uncover forgotten knowledge, but have great interest in original research, as well. Praise be to the Machine God!

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Guide:Mining techniques
Note: I'm going to test this out before I post it. Theorycrafting is all well and good, but if it doesn't work well (or at all), it's not really worth sharing. Additionally, the testing process will give me the perfect opportuinity to take pictures.

Advanced Water Method
In addition to the basic equipment above, you will neeed:
 * A Bucket
 * A Switch or Lever
 * A Timer (optional)
 * An Inlet Pump and 2 Outlet Pumps
 * Some Wire

This method works exactly the same as the water method, except instead of flooding the tunnel from underground lakes, you will use a water generator to create water at the site of mining. Build the water generator shown to the right. You will need one outlet pump in your tunnel to produce the water you will use, so it's best to have the generator nearby, so that fewer wires are needed. Once the generator gets started, you'll have all the water you need to tunnel through any amount of lava. Conversely, players can add an Obsidian Skin Potion and lava instead, allowing them to tunnel though water.

The strength of this method is that players don't need to keep track of and redirect underground lakes; they only need a single Bucket of Water (or Lava) to start the generator. The downfall is that they need to carry around all of the materials for a generator. As with the basic water method, this is useless in the Underworld.

G = Glass (or other block) I = Inlet Pump O = Outlet Pump T = Timer + or red = Wire