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For all you Heavy miners, How much money do you make after each mining trip? I usually make anywhere between $3,000 - $10,000 Mostly in iron, Gold, Redstone. These mining trips take like 2 hours Thats what I do when Im not Doing my mod job

I make 100 dollars up to 5000 dollars especially with my long and random and confusing block 6 2x2 mine shafts. I find coal and iron rarely, lots of lava, and lots of redstone. I also get diamonds. I waste a lot of torches too. Gold as well.

I can easily rack up between $5k to $10k on a pretty quick 60 minute mining trip out in the boondocks.  Most of it is done in caves and would be off Coal, Iron, Redstone, and a little Gold.  I'm sure if I stuck around for hours, did nothing but mining, and sold all the materials instead of restocking my chests I could net $50-60k a night.

The trick is to mine caves in an area that has been either untouched or "skip mined".  A lot of miners look for only high-level stuff and leave iron/coal behind, which I call skip mining because they skip over stuff.  Big mistake in my opinion.  I make a fortune off that stuff and can collect it FAST.  I've gone through skip mines before and have come out with two to three stacks of iron.  Do the math people, that's 14 to 21 blocks of Iron that will sell for around 6-10k on the market... and some fool just left it there.  Not to mention the stacks of coal and redstone that they also leave behind.

You can also do strip mining between layers 10 and 16, but I find that doesn't net you material as quickly.  You DO have a better chance of finding good materials though.  Since diamonds can't be sold on the market anymore, this type of mining isn't as useful as it used to be and I pretty much avoid it when possible.

I never sell directly what I find. The most of the times, I keep the material. The things I sell are items that I have huge quantities, or useless to me items.
I cant characterize in balance change, a mining trip.

I stash all my minerals, so far I collected over 2 double chests of redstone and used over 1 double of it on auto farms. I should sell the gold I collected got 3 stacks of it. I keep coal to use on cobblestone and sand and iron. So I make negative money because I reinvest everything into my work and buy from the market selling pumpkins.

I dont make farms like that, but everyone makes money in their own way

Well, however much 4-6 stacks of iron it and around 2 stacks of gold...

I dont go mining often, but when i do, i go as baller as possible.

I usually look for caves, or just start digging in a stairway and you'll eventually find a cave. Once there, I head over to layer 12 to hunt for diamonds, and gather all the gold and iron on the way. I would calculate around 2 or 3 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of lapis, 2 or 3 of gold (for some reason I always find more gold than iron), and maybe 18 diamonds (with fortune 3 maybe more) . Can't wait to suck dry the new map when it comes out.

With a good 2 to 3 hours, I have often come back with 4-5 stacks of iron, 20ish diamonds (If its a good day), and coal and redstone (However much I can be bothered to mine). Idk what that = in cost, I mostly use all.
This is without a fortune pick, I guess if I took my fortune 3, you could double that

With a group of friends I can bring in as much as 50k per 3 hour trips...

your picture of squidward creeps me out

Quote from: Yomo on May 08, 2012, 02:10:37 AM
your picture of squidward creeps me out

Slightly off-topic much?

Quote from: SpikeyThorn on May 08, 2012, 03:55:25 PM

Quote from: Yomo on May 08, 2012, 02:10:37 AM
your picture of squidward creeps me out

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I found 9 stacks of iron, 1 stack of gold and 8 diamonds in 3-3.5 hours. Go to the border there are millions of ores there.

Quote from: Newbrict on May 08, 2012, 07:03:45 PM

Quote from: SpikeyThorn on May 08, 2012, 03:55:25 PM

Quote from: Yomo on May 08, 2012, 02:10:37 AM
your picture of squidward creeps me out

Slightly off-topic much?

Threads in Opticraft forums have no topic


ever.

You obviously need to re-think your way of thinking.