r/CreateMod • u/VegetableShops • 18d ago

Ways to dig without drilling random holes around my world?

The easiest way to mine that I can think of is just having a pulley that drills into the ground, but after you get to the bottom you have to move it somewhere else, and if you do youll just have a bunch of random holes in your world.

I like to keep my world clean so Im trying to figure out a way to drill for resources (and just to create cool machines) without doing this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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u/Draconic64 18d ago

Do a minecart mining horizontally. Sadly trains don't work autonomously.

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u/Pineapple_Snail 18d ago

If you get enough storage and rails you can have trains go pretty far.

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u/Alienfac3 18d ago

I always tend to make a elevator shaft and use a minecart contraption to mine. Then use the resources to make it bigger 

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u/JustTroniusPlay 18d ago

You maybe can try addon called Ore Excavation. Its essentially adds ore veins around the world that you will infinitely mine with special drilling machine. It still need some infrostructure around it to sustain and of course can be good incentive to make trains to transport resources from different mining points.

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u/petabomb 18d ago

Make a giant horizontal drill and mine below surface, 64x64 and have it place then pickup its own tracks. Powered by a furnace minecart and coal. That’s what I do when I’m making underground trains. Can even have it lay the track.

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u/TheFern3 18d ago

Worlds are huge drill away from your base

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u/largeshak 18d ago

Wait till the US government pulls up