While mining in Minecraft, I always seek the most efficient way to find valuable resources. Forming a strip mine is, by far, the most popular option due to its efficiency, and I will show you how to do it in this guide.
Strip Mining in Minecraft, explained
When starting a strip mining operation in Minecraft, you first need toset up the underground basefor your mine. This is where you will return to drop your materials and the entrances to each mining strip. When you start off, dig down until you’re standing on a block aty 5(where Bedrock starts to form) and dig a hole 3 blocks wide by 9 blocks long by four blocks high.
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Repeat this process for the next layer up the wall. However, instead of making the doorways on the next layer directly above the previous layer, ensure they fall directly between the doorways underneath them.
This hive-like structure will serve as the bottom layer of your mine. Dig as far as you’d like through these doorways. Because of the way these doorways are aligned, you will not miss a single Ore Block in this section of your mine. At least one mine strip will touch every block between them. As you can see in the image above, it didn’t take us long at all to find a Diamond vein.
From this point, you can expand your mine by expanding the ceiling of your mine’s base or by branching the walls outward.Diamond Oregenerates up toy 16, so I recommend expanding your mine upward to ensure you find all Diamond Ores near your mining base.
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Those are the basics for getting started with strip mining in Minecraft! Don’t forget to comment below if this technique improves your mining productivity!
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