#Where to find iron survival craft 2 how to#
If you are a bit more experienced, you can give a shot on digging a set of stairs that leads approximately 14-20 blocks deep. Don't get discouraged if you find a lot of dirt, this will quickly shift into stone, coal, iron, etc. Many people use methods of branch mining in natural caverns or cave systems found when digging straight into the ground (that is if you are lucky.) Beginners have a good shot to find several pieces of iron ore when exploring caves (they lie on the side walls.) Since iron is found around sea level it would be a good idea to dig in sandbars that are closer to lakes. TL DR: Go a ways SW of spawn (fixed as of Beta 1.6), find a cave system, go deeper than sea level.
The guide says (I wouldn't trust the math) that I'll get that much in 21 minutes using branch mines. Hit dead end? Go back, seal the cave shaft up with a horizontal line of cobble, so you don't go in again. Found iron? Great: spot check for monsters, then mine it. Strategy? Run like a boss, place torches, look at ceilings, floors, nooks. Coal pretty quick, sticks became a bunch of torches, I hear groaning. To get an estimate, I started a fresh game on normal, punched a couple trees, a couple stone picks, bunch of sticks, a sword. So what about caves? How many "fresh blocks" do you see per second in a cave? Well. If you're going to shaft mine, make it one long shaft at level 14. you already saw when you dug that other branch. Furthermore, when you do find ore in your branch mine, you'll dig towards your other shaft, and this will let you see some blocks that. So don't add turns - which is exactly what a branch mine does every 4 blocks. That means for every 54 blocks of stone we mine, we'll get 1 iron ore.Įxcept, whenever you add a turn to your mineshaft, your digging causes you to see the other faces of the same two blocks you just saw. Halve that to get the value of one block, which is 1.83% iron per block. With every 2 blocks destroyed (or 8 seen), we get 3.7% iron. Let's look at one statement made in the analysis: This means that you need to see as many "fresh blocks" as possible per second. Instead, you want to get as much ore as possible per second. The "mathematical analysis" is seriously flawed, because you're not looking to get every single ore in the block. Since you're looking for iron, I suggest trying caves.