This is pretty much all from caving: no strip-mining necessary. I'm ~2,600 in game days in at the moment, and I've spent most of that time underground. I want to continue and try to fill a double chest.
I'd love to discuss: what is your favourite place to mine? What biome(s)? Are you mining at stone level or deep slate?
While I'm obviously around deep slate to find diamonds, I prefer mining at stone level to get coal, copper, and iron. Smelting metal is my favourite part of the game, and I find the cycle of mining and smelting to be very therapeutic.
FUN FACT: On average (and only with Fortune III), copper ore is the highest xp yielding ore in the game, even more so than diamonds. Copper ore gives (again: on average and with Fortune III) 7.7 raw copper. Each raw copper yields 0.7 xp, so 5.39 xp per copper ore. Diamond ore gives an average of 5 xp. Of course, you have to smelt the raw copper to yield its xp.
by ApprenticeCaver
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Enchanted wooden pickaxe of doom and despair
show your world please
Wow that’s awesome
I’ve been using a Fortune lll on Nether Quartz for XP. I’ve been doing that for 30 mins and getting like 10 levels. Just noticed in my gameplay that that seemed to be the best way for me to XP (I don’t really like combat/mob farms) I’ll have to try out the copper, thank you!
It looks like you’re on a skyblock