@Shapedsundew9 Another question on mining out vast areas. What technique do you use? I started off just hacking everything in range of my pick but soon discovered if I made 2 high x 1 wide corridors the length of the area I wanted to clear, then stood at one end looking up, mined the 6 blocks vertically above me and walked forward doing that to the other end of the corridor I would be more efficient. Effectively cutting out 8 block high strips. Once a "floor" was clear I went up above (effectively to stand on the 9th block, the one that the pick would not reach) and repeat. Finally I would come top down removing all the floors. How did you guys do it?

We do it this way too except that we would cut the bottom two blocks out as far as we can reach. Digging strait up is never recommended but in lag you have plenty of time to place a block or run before the lava or gravel can get to you. You can see the cavern floors we keep pushing back in the picture. We dont know how big we will make it, at the moment we are going from one ravine to another.

So Cool!

Being so close to bedrock like it is TNT would destroy all the ore including diamonds so its not a viable option in our case

Tower update:

this is the inside, it was so big i put in a glass floor and made it 2 levels. got to playing with the colors, i think it turned out quite well but now i dont want to fill it up with the library i had planned lol.

Does anyone else think its to much purple? Could just be me cause i been looking at it so long...

I would join but I got my own thing going on, if you ever need stone or cobble to build catch me in game and i'll fill a couple of double chests for you.

8 am or pm?

@Kinkybobo the only drawback is that even a diamond unbreaking 3 pick will be nearly broken after like 10 minutes of digging lol, its a 2 man job clearing out large underground spaces. my buddy icebaal dug out a ravine while I stuck by our zombie spawner mending one of 2 picks we swapped out. by the time I had one fully repaired, the other one would be nearly broken, i almost couldnt repair them fast enough.

yes, I think we have 5 now that we swap... I lost count as I get to be the one repairing them lol

KrumEater and I were just standing close to a random tp pad (about the quartz border) when a player ran up on it and we got tped, thankfully not anywhere around the person that hit the pad.

@edward638 catch me online sometime and i'll pitch in a few diamond blocks and some iron to hold sponsored palaces for last min newbes. there are people joining the server all the time and i would hate to see them left out of the fun.

So cool! let me know if i can help