Hermitcraft 10: No Craft, ONLY Mine! (Ep. 23)

Just don't let grian or scar anywhere near your tunnel bore

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Cub calling lava magma because its not on the surface HYPE accurate science terms are chef’s kiss

Mumbo tried mining in aquafers a while back with underwater gear so he could swim around quickly. I'd be curious how that compares to regular cave mining.

Cub. What you forget in all these equations: ITS FUN TO BLOW UP THINGS!

“People against my mixtape” is really funny. Thx Cub

If I'm understanding right the thing about a break point is once you pass the required time the tunnel bore gets better as time goes on. Doc built his at the start of the season and has been using it all season long, so he's easily passed the break point on this, since you don't (usually) need to rebuild the tunnel bore each time you use it. It's all a matter of short- vs. long-term gains. The thing is most people don't need thousands of diamonds in their world, so the investment in a tunnel bore is unnecessary.

Thats why doc uses a small tunnel bore to make room for the larger tunnes bore.

Cub is so dedicated I feel like if he would've worked in the field of his degree, he would have colonized another planet by now.

New horn alert! Doc’s latest Twitch vod @ 1:37:09 “It sometimes makes me feel like I am a stripper”

“Let’s fly out to an undisclosed location.” Shows coordinates

Some quick tips from someone who has used a 6 chunk wide tunnel bore over the course of 6.5k blocks. 1. If you are building it for diamonds, the bottom block should be at y -54 instead of the about y -50 Cub had his. 2. Diamonds and lapis are the only things you usually look for, since by the time you build a tunnel bore you probably already have an iron farm and a gold farm, making the raw gold and raw iron more or less obsolete (unless you want the raw ore blocks for building purposes). 3. You usually want to hit the note block once then fly with an elytra to the other end while looking at the wall for ores. 4. Using a resource pack that gives borders to the ores significantly helps when flying across to the other side. 5. Have fun while using it! I find it very satisfying to use, and so do all my friends who use it.

The issue with the calculations for the tunnel bore is that the calculations are based on using the bore to collect every ore. If you use the exact same bore over the exact same stretch, but ignore gold/iron, then you can eliminate all the time spent reaching and mining for those. That extra time means more distance on the tunnel bore, and more diamonds and valuable ores as a result. Therefore, your diamond statistic is deflated by the significant amount of time spent pillaring and mining for low value ores, rather than using that same time to expose more rocks with the machine.

The dedication of manually mining a hole for 6 hours for the tunnel bore

I do wonder what the results would be if you ignored the blocks with farms like iron. having to block up to grab gold and iron on the roof must be a much larger slow down than ignoring them in a 1x1

"people against my mixtape" for the fire res shulker lmao

I think the reason the scicraft folks massively prefer tunnel bores is because they're going to fully automate everything else. So their workflow is blow up -> fly across -> only stop for diamonds -> repeat. Which will probably get the 2-3x returns you were expecting at the cost of everything else. But when you already have functionally infinite everything else, that's basically just pure profit. Also cause it's cool.

Some remarks about the tunnelbore: - Ilmango's design is very big, I use a 2 high- 7 deep tunnelbore that works completely the same, and I've seen a 2x5 already. I assume they will be much cheaper and quicker to build. - Usually you use a small tunnel-bore to blast out the space for the big tunnelbore - A mobswitch is most definitly worth the effort (saves you stress, and in the long run (over 30h), you could have a little accident blowing up the whole bore A tunnelbore will always take quite a while to set up, but after building it it will for ever be available (until you blew it up). Very interesting video, I loved the parts where you showed the numbers!

You should 1x1 mine in front of Doc's tunnel bore for like 100 blocks and ask him how the mining's going lol

I think a few key differences that you didn't take advantage of with the bore could've made a big difference. 1. You were a few blocks above ideal height (sitting right above lava level) 2. You were double firing the bore, breaking a lot of diamonds without fortune. 3. You were walking at regular walking speed when you could have flown with an elytra (which is a fundamental advantage of the bore over any of the other methods). 4. Not as big, but you can actually build a two segment tunnel bore to bore out the initial tunnel which saves a long time. Not saying your test wasn't still a great bit of information, but it didn't nearly take as much advantage of the bore's strengths as it could have.