This time, Yun Yi didn't use the previous straight up and down mining method, instead, he used the staircase mining method.
After all, he needed to go deep underground this time.
If he accidentally dug into magma, going straight up and down wouldn't allow him to react in time, and he would be sent straight to the magma.
It's fine to be reckless in the game, but being reckless in reality could cost you your life.
The staircase mining method is also simple.
Digging diagonally downwards at forty-five degrees, each level extending downwards like a staircase, stopping to mine around if you encounter any desired minerals along the way.
As the saying goes, "Time flies when you're having fun in the mountains."
It's the same with mining, you look up and it's just a dark, narrow, long mine shaft, the only light coming from the torch, you can't feel time passing by at all.
If it weren't for the fact that he had used up all five stone picks in his backpack while digging, Yun Yi would still be lost in the world of mining.
He looked at the ore in his backpack.
He felt a bit helpless.
Cobblestone, granite, basalt, andesite, diorite...
Except for cobblestone which was somewhat useful, the rest were just useless rock ore, they were taking up space in his backpack.
He hadn't seen any coal or iron ore.
He didn't know if he hadn't dug to the right ore layer, or if there was simply no coal or iron ore here.
But Yun Yi wasn't the kind of person who would give up easily.
Since he's already here.
He had to fill his thirty-six slot backpack before leaving.
If he still hadn't found coal or iron ore by then.
He'll change locations.
A tree dies if it doesn't move, a person lives if they move, you can't hang on to one tree.
Of course, before continuing to mine, he needed to craft a few more picks.
Without a pick, the speed of mining by hand would be much slower, and even if you mined the ore, you wouldn't get any blocks.
This is MC, each tool has its own unique role.
For example, a regular stone pickaxe can mine most ores, but obsidian can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe to get blocks.
Because he had prepared enough logs before.
This time Yun Yi directly crafted dozens of stone picks and put them in his backpack.
He wanted to craft more stone picks and keep them in his backpack as backup.
After all, before he could mine a lot of iron ore, stone picks would always be useful.
But he looked.
Hey, there wasn't enough space in his backpack.
Without a backpack expansion mod or using a shadow box, Steve's backpack only has thirty-six slots.
Although chests and barrels also have the effect of "a mustard seed containing a universe,"
They can't be carried around.
Once they are broken into blocks, the items in the chests and barrels will also explode.
But don't underestimate those thirty-six slots.
Each slot in Steve's backpack can hold more than one item, except for special items, each slot can hold up to 64 of the same blocks.
Assuming they were all cobblestone.
Then it could hold up to 2304 cobblestones, enough to build a small castle.
Putting away the crafting table, Yun Yi continued to dig, every three levels down, he would place a nuclear torch on the wall to illuminate the surroundings.
In the middle of the dig, the torch ran out.
He even took out the furnace and burned a dozen charcoal, crafting a set of 64 torches before putting it back.
Ding.
Suddenly, a pleasant, crisp sound came from ahead.
"This is...experience?"
Yun Yi's eyes lit up.
He's been playing MC for over a decade, he's too familiar with this crisp sound, it must be the experience drop sound.
There are many ways to gain experience in MC.
For example, killing creatures, mining, smelting, breeding creatures, etc.
But in this situation.
The only thing that could trigger experience is mining, and there are not many ores that can drop experience, only coal ore, diamond ore, emerald ore, lapis lazuli ore, nether quartz ore, and redstone ore.
But no matter which one it was, he was in desperate need of it right now.
Taking a step forward, Yun Yi immediately saw five fist-sized pieces of coal floating in the air, sparkling, in the excavated mine pit.
"Coal! And there are five of them?"
Normally, unless you use a pickaxe with the Fortune enchantment, you'll only get one piece of coal from one block of coal ore in MC.
Yun Yi was sure his stone pickaxe didn't have the Fortune enchantment.
Eliminate all the impossibilities, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
It seems that the coal ore drop rate is also affected by reality.
So what exactly is the influencing factor?
Coal content per unit volume?
If that's the case.
Then doesn't that mean there's probably a coal vein nearby?
Yun Yi's eyes became even brighter.
Just mine it!
He went up to pick up the newly dropped coal and experience orbs, then began to dig outward from this location as the center.
As he had guessed.
There really was a coal vein here, and it was a rich vein.
One swing of the pickaxe.
Black coal exploded all over the place, sometimes one or two, sometimes six or seven, the darker the color of the coal ore, the higher the drop rate.
It seems.
The drop rate of coal ore is indeed affected by the coal content per unit volume.
While digging, Yun Yi also discovered a special technique.
Double-handed mining!
That's right.
Unlike the game where you're forced to mine with only one pickaxe, in reality, as long as you have the right strength and frequency, even if you use both hands, feet, and mouth together, it's no problem.
Yun Yi wasn't crazy enough to go that far, double-handed mining was his limit, and it was still pretty efficient.
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