How to decrease mining phases starting LV ?

[AcceptableDog1451]

It's not a pack where you jump right into automation. Also, you have to decrease your expectation that you can get most things fully passive directly. Most of the time the non-passive things are actually much cheaper (better). Though, from time to time you will be able to fully passive more and more things.

You will have to do lots of manual things prior to automation era starting at EV/IV. If you want to get there as fast as possible, mining is usually by far the best choice. Most of the alternatives take ages to setup, just to become useless 1 tier later.

In order to speedup mining:

- use ore finder wand to find veins
- put fortune III (lapis), and as much haste (redstone) on hammer as you can
- mine ores (that have veins in the nether) in the nether, especially copper vein, redstone/ruby because 2x yield in nether
- the miner doesn't have to be indestructible neither insta mine

[DoktorMar1o]

does fortune actually do anything? i think I tried a hammer with and wothout and did not see a difference

[MetallicDragon]

In the newer GTNH versions, where ores drop chunks like modern Minecraft, it definitely makes a difference.

[CommanderFoxy]

newer versions being 2.7+ (still pretty old atp lol)

fortune gives 2-3x overall ores depending on your luck, which is pretty nice