[Mrs Diss]

i branch mine, 3 blocks between tunnels, and i take the tunnels onwards as far as they will go. you get more ressources per area if you keep the tunnels closer together, but more ressources per block mined if you spread them out. depending on mood i'll explore caves, lava i might bridge over, but i don't do mineshafts, i get lost and/or killed in those.

torches always on the right, that way i can't get lost, just keep the torches on my left and i'll get back to the stairs.

but i haven't actually gone mining in ages, and the only ressource one gets from mining which i'm running low on is lapis lazuli. i do spend time regularly clearing deserts of sand, or walking the abyssal plains collecting gravel, but that's different

[gocleau]

I dont like to mine, I like to build. But to build I have to have materials, so I have to mine, lol. I always try to make my mines look like dwarven mines, or like the ancient cave cities that keep getting discovered; I suppose I go for the everything has to go route, but it has to be within the design of the mine as a whole... So that I'm being creative about the whole thing. I also really like laying out long 5 x 5 tunnels that stack on top of each other, and then I pull the branches off of said tunnels. This keeps my branch mining organized ish, and I dont get lost until it is massive. Even this method has to follow a design though, or ill get bored and give up pretty quickly. Crazybees (who often inhabits my mines) loves all kinds of mining and will get lost (even though she never is...) For hours.

[topazpants]

Most mining systems are efficient, not thorough. You expose a lot of blocks with few uses of the pickaxe, and increase the chances of finding something, without using large amounts of time and durability. With mending and a beacon, take everything out mines are useful. Lots of hermits on the hermitcraft server do this. It is all up to you. Personally, I like to use a strip mine even with a beacon, because it's good enough, and is really easy for me to navigate in with how I organize it. I even wrote a book in game that goes into a lot of detail about how and why I run my strip mine the way I do.

[apamak]

I branch mine, 3x3 central tunnel. I used to do the branches every 2 blocks. But I read an article on the most efficient mining methods and I now leave 3 blocks between branches. Based on the idea that very few ores come in 1 block wide veins. So you'll discover a vast majority of the ores, it's not 100% recovery rate but it's quick and efficient enough for me.

That all said I don't mine much these days, I usually play with my wife and she enjoys resource gathering/caving/mining. So I concentrate on building these days.