How to Mine in Minecraft

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Whether you're a homeless newbie or a famous adventurer, there are bound to be mining tips you aren't aware of. Learn how to mine more efficiently, keep yourself safe, and find better loot.

Introduction to Mining

  1. Start here if you're new to Minecraft. This section gives a basic overview of mining. If you've been playing for a while, skip ahead to the intermediate or advanced instructions.
  2. Craft a pickaxe. If you've never been mining before, you'll need to make your first pickaxe. Here's how to make one that can mine through stone and less valuable ores:
    • Craft a wooden pickaxe (a column of two sticks below a row of wood planks).
    • Use the wooden pickaxe to break through a few stone blocks.
    • Craft a stone pickaxe (two sticks below three blocks of stone).
  3. Prepare your inventory. Mining ends in two ways: a proud return with bags of loot, or death. To prepare for both scenarios, empty your valuables into a chest, leaving plenty of inventory space. Pack the following for your first short expeditions, besides the pickaxe:
    • Food
    • Wood
    • Sword (unless playing on Peaceful difficulty)
  4. Learn the rules of safe mining. Almost every player has died from a bad decision while mining, even with no enemies around. Prevent this by following these simple rules:
    • Never dig through the block you're standing on, to avoid falling.
    • Never dig through the block right above you, to avoid falling gravel or lava.
    • Do not descend too deep or enter special areas (such as abandoned mineshafts) until you have better armor and weapons.
  5. Mine some coal. Coal is the easiest ore to find, and looks just like stone studded in black flecks. The safest place to mine it is from hillsides, cliff faces, or shallow caves. Collect it with a pickaxe until you've mined at least two or three groups of coal ore.
    • Ore almost always spawns in groups larger than one block. Look carefully at surrounding blocks whenever you mine something.
    • Don't wander too far! Many players get lost for the first time when they start mining. Try pressing F3 to view your x-, y-, and z-coordinates, and write down the coordinates you'd like to return to.
  6. Craft torches. Place the coal above a stick in the crafting area, and make as many torches as you can. You can place these torches on any solid surface to make a permanent light source. Don't leave home without them.
  7. Find a natural cave. Because of wandering monsters, caves are more dangerous than digging an artificial mine. That said, they're also much faster and much more fun. Wander around until you see an opening in the ground or the side of a mountain.
    • Only coal will appear above sea level, so don't wander too high into the hills. You want a cave that extends down, although it doesn't have to be steep,
  8. Light the cave. You've probably seen monsters burn up in daylight, but the same will not happen underground. Away from the sun, monsters can wander all day and all night. Torches won't stop them, but they will reveal those zombies approaching.
    • If the cave has many branches, keep the torches along the right wall. If you get lost, you'll know to keep the torches on your right to go deeper, or on your left to get to the surface.
  9. Mine your first iron. Just like all ore, iron ore looks like a stone block with colored flecks. In this case, the flecks or beige or yellow-brown. Iron shouldn't be too hard to find, as long as you're looking a few blocks below sea level or lower.
    • Do not use a wooden pickaxe to mine iron. It will break the block and fail to drop ore.
    • Press F3 to view coordinates. Iron only shows up at a y-coordinate below 60, and is much more common below layer 50.
  10. Craft better equipment. Back up to the surface, collecting the torches you placed earlier. You've survived your first mining expedition, and the fruits of your labor will help you do even better on the second one. Before you jump down the next cave, make some iron tools:
    • Craft a furnace and place it on the ground.
    • Interact with the furnace and place the iron ore in the top slot.
    • Place wood, coal, or other flammable items in the bottom slot. Over time, the fuel will burn away and the ore will become iron ingots.
    • Use the iron ingots to make a better pickaxe, better sword, and (eventually) armor.

Longer Expeditions

  1. Stock your inventory. Let's say you've done a fair amount of mining, but you'd like to make the process more efficient and profitable. At this point you should stock your inventory with plenty of basic equipment:
    • Food, iron pickaxe, shovel, & your best combat equipment
    • Torches (several full stacks)
    • Coal
    • Crafting table and several chests
    • Two buckets of water
    • Ladders
    • Bed (if you're in a multiplayer game that skips night)
  2. Set up base camp. Place a crafting table, chest, and furnace on the surface, either at a cave entrance or anywhere you plan to mine. Stash your valuables (besides mining and combat equipment) in the chest, so you can retrieve them if you die.
  3. Know where to find valuable ore. Each ore has a different distribution across the vertical layers of the world. Press F3 to view your coordinates and use the y-coordinate to guide you to the right area for the ore you seek (coordinates are given for PC edition):
    • Diamond: Only layer 15 and below
    • Gold: Only layer 31 and below
    • Lapis lazuli: Mostly between layers 11 and 17
    • Redstone: Only layer 15 and below
    • Emerald: Only between layers 4 and 32 under Extreme Hills biomes
    • Iron: Mostly between layers 2 and 58
    • No specific purpose: Focus on layers 10–15.
  4. Get started. There are three basic approaches to starting a mine:
    • A large natural cave gives you a headstart with exposed ore on the walls. Be prepared to fight plenty of mobs and take special care to mark the paths you take with torches or signposts.
    • Dig your own vertical shaft to go straight to the best mining layers. Dig this in a 1 x 2 space so you never dig underneath your feet. When complete, build a way up with ladders, or pour water from the top to make a waterfall elevator that you can swim up and down.
    • Dig an angled shaft at a 45º angle, clearing enough room above you to jump back up. Optionally, place stairs along the shaft for faster movement up and down.
  5. Spread out on the desired layers. Once you're at the right layer, clear out an area three to five blocks tall, and extend it horizontally to search for ore. Since all ore besides emeralds come in groups of two or more, you do not have to reveal every single block to find the vast majority of them. Try digging tunnels one block wide, with three solid blocks between them.
    • Remember, never dig straight up or straight down.
  6. Take precautions against lava. Lava usually spawns below layer 30, but it can show up higher than that. Keep an eye out for embers, popping noises, and red ceiling drips that hint at nearby lava. If you do unleash a lava river, quickly emptying a bucket of water can cool it into cobblestone or obsidian.
    • There's not much worse than mining diamond ore on the floor and watching it fall into lava. Dig around valuable ores first to check for this possibility.
  7. Leave a trail of torches and chests. Even the most prepared miner can die in a freak accident. Place chests in well-lit, easy to find locations along your route back. Store your valuable ores in these chests to retrieve them on the way back, or to recover after you die.
    • If you have trouble keeping your sense of Minecraft direction, leave a trail of redstone dust to follow on your way back.
    • When exploring a cave, consider lighting each chamber first, then mining on your way back. This reduces the chance of an accident destroying your loot.
  8. Identify special feature. There are two structures that appear fairly often underground. Identify them by the change of scenery, and know what to expect:
    • If you see mossy stone, you're near a dungeon. These are small rooms with a monster spawner and zero to two chests of loot. You can destroy the spawner or leave it there as a way to gain XP.
    • If you see wooden structures or rails, you've found an abandoned mineshaft. Look for chests inside of minecarts, and clip cobwebs with shears to get string. Be wary of spider spawners lurking beneath the webs.
  9. Look for nearby caves. Minecraft cave systems can be quite expansive. If one branch ends in a dead end, especially one ending in dirt or gravel, there's often another cavern on the other side. Taking advantage of this sideways "drifting" can add major shortcuts to your mining.

Advanced Mining Strategy

  1. Enchant your pickaxe. So you have a diamond pickaxe, a fortress the size of New York, and enough ore to make Scrooge McDuck envious. Now's the time to get serious. Enchant your pickaxes to improve their mining ability. Here are all enchantments available for tools:
    • Fortune (max level III) increases the amount of ore you get per block. If you are lucky enough to get this one, save it for the extra-valuable ore only. Note that you cannot get Fortune and Silk Touch on the same item.
    • Silk Touch (max level I) mines entire blocks instead of ore. You'll need to mine the ore with a different pick to get the ore, but this does save on inventory space. It can be more valuable than Fortune if you're on a large multiplayer server and plan to sell the blocks.
    • Efficiency (max V) speeds up mining and Unbreaking (max III) increases durability.
  2. Mine in the Nether. Once you have diamond armor and a diamond sword, you may be ready to build a Nether portal. The area on the other side has several new blocks to mine, notably Nether quartz. There's nothing unusual about the mining itself, but be prepared to face very difficult enemies.
  3. Transport your loot with an automatic subway. If you don't mind laying tracks and tinkering with redstone, you can make your own subway system to transport goods. By digging branches off of the main subway tunnel, you can stay near your tracks and never run out of inventory space. See the linked article for details.
  4. Attack strongholds. Strongholds are the rarest and most valuable structures that show up underground. Look for mossy or cracked stone, which could potentially lead to a system of libraries, prisons, and chests. Each stronghold has an End portal which can be activated to reach a special endgame zone.
    • You can find the strongholds using eyes of ender, gathered from the Nether.
  5. Make silverfish mine for you. This technique is complex, dangerous, and requires a great deal of preparation. Most players will never even consider attempting this, but if you pull it off, you can mine incredibly quickly. Here's the gist:
    • Enchant armor with at least Protection I. Brew splash potions of poison and regeneration.
    • Attract silverfish from the spawner found next to End portals. Construct a tunnel of glass so they can follow you without burrowing to you.
    • Prepare a high glass walkway in the next area you plan to mine. Build two Nether portals here, one for you on the walkway and one for the silverfish below you.
    • Lure the silverfish through a Nether walkway to the portal you just built, so they reach the area you plan to mine.
    • Throw splash potions of poison and regeneration on the crowd of insects. They will get hurt constantly but heal before they die, summoning more silverfish from the stone around them. In just a minute or two, the silverfish will mine through a massive area of stone, leaving the ore behind.

Tips

  • If you want to mine for days on end, build a shelter underground. Grow crops and trees by torchlight to replenish your food, tools, and torches.
  • If you don't want to use the coordinate system, dig down to bedrock instead. Bedrock is on layer zero, so just count upward again to find the desired layer for mining.

Warnings

  • Be careful when using wood or other flammable blocks to create underground structures. Make sure there is no lava nearby first.
  • If a multiplayer server has a second world that refreshes every week, use that for main mining; mining in the permanent world is frowned upon because minerals are limited.

Things You'll Need

  • A stack of planks at first
  • A sword
  • Many pickaxes
  • Many torches
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