Robilar wrote:You know, BOD is actually pretty neat. (I figure posting here is better than making a new thread)
I didn't really get it at first, since I didn't see how a vein would cause you to make a new base there, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I also didn't really know how a person could locate these veins by anything other than traditional branch mining.
My first excursion with a new world and two stone picks yielded nothing but cobble.
My second, mining down at level 13 as normal in a straight line, yielded 20 coal in a small vein.
I was kind of wondering what was up at this point, since that coal vein seemed really small compared to what I kept hearing about. I was halfway expecting a 40 block line tunnel of Iron, just very rarely occurring.
My third trip involved four stone picks, continuing down that straight line.
Holy crap.
I found a vein of gold I couldn't touch yet, given no iron, but I walked out with a stack of coal, a stack of torches even after lining the halls, and *584* lapis.
I think I understand why people like this mod now.
Edit: I poked out two more blocks in my tunnel and hit a cavern with an enormous Lapis vein in it (1,330 Lapis). I will never need the blue gemstone again.
I tried it last night, I haven't gotten to bedrock yet, was just trying my chances with cave crawling. It's actually quite disconcerting travelling through so many caves and looking into ravines and seeing no ores at all. The only ores I've seen near ground level so far have been lapis. I did find a cave that lead to a blended coal/iron deposit though, so I'll be set for a while for those. Up to my 3rd spawner as well, although all zombies.
I too am wondering how to locate veins for other ores though, I need to check the default settings then just try branch mining at an appropriate level I guess, I'll need diamonds to try out enchanting. I'm still wondering about setting up the mining camps though as suggested, as I'm not sure how to decide where to look to know where to build them.