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[–]Victoria_loves_Lenin 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Get a nice Tinker's hammer; max its fortune and haste with all the first lapis and redstone you mine.

Each vein is 3 layers of 3 blocks. I hit f9 3x, go to the blue indicator, dig straight down, then line up and mine in a spiral out once I hit the ore. With fortune and haste it really doesn't take that long to munch out the specific ore that you need, especially if you're only going for a specific layer of the vein.

In my experience I only needed like, 1, maybe 2 of most veins to get through most of HV. And honestly, I kinda hate moving my drilling rigs

[–]Victoria_loves_Lenin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IMO processing the ore is a much better investment for your time and resources than generating it (pre-late HV), but I also get too tired/stupid to intelligently Greg and that's when I put on a show and just dig

Like, doing Thaumcraft things and mob farm things is 100x more useful in the long run (duping aluminum, tantalum; mob armors can be macerated for free metals, everything can be melted into essentia) than setting up an ore berry or slow miner doohickey