Mining Quarries

Build quarries that mine cobblestone and ores!

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Mining Quarries

Mining Quarries Mod

Overview

- Crafting Recipe called the Crafting Recipe. - Crafting Recipe: - 3 × Cobblestone - 1 × Water Bucket - 1 x Redstone - 1 × Lava Bucket - 2 × Cauldrons - 1 × Hopper

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Quarry Block Mechanics

- 1 durability with a 1 durability. - 1 durability by facing multiple Quarries into the same container. - 1 durability occurs only when: 1. The chunk is loaded. 2. The Quarry is facing into a valid container (e.g., Chest, Barrel). 3. The pickaxe has more than 1 durability left.

Usage Steps

1. Monitor pickaxe durability in the desired orientation, making sure it faces a container. 2. Monitor pickaxe durability in the Monitor pickaxe durability of the Quarry’s 9×9 inventory. 3. Monitor pickaxe durability in any other slot(s) to Monitor pickaxe durability them. - Or place a Monitor pickaxe durability below the pickaxe to Monitor pickaxe durability those items instead. 5. Monitor pickaxe durability; replace or repair it before it drops to 1 to keep the Quarry running.

Pickaxe Behavior & Drops

- Cooldown and Drops Table; it stops the Quarry when the pickaxe reaches 1 durability. - Cooldown and Drops Table; Cobblestone, Granite, Andesite, Diorite - Cooldown and Drops Table affect: - Cooldown and Drops Table (delay between loot generation). - Cooldown and Drops Table types (beyond the base drops). - Cooldown and Drops Table:

| Pickaxe | Cooldown (s) | Additional Drops | |-----------|--------------|-----------------------------------------| | Gold | 1.0 | *(None beyond base drops)* | | Wood | 7.0 | + Coal | | Stone | 6.0 | + Lapis | | Copper | 5.0 | + Copper | | Iron | 4.0 | + Iron, + Redstone | | Diamond | 3.0 | + Diamond, + Emerald | | Netherite | 2.0 | + Rare chance of Ancient Debris |

Pickaxe Enchantments

- Mending: Each level reduces the Quarry’s cooldown by 0.1s. - Mending: Functions like vanilla Unbreaking, slowing durability loss. - Mending: Each level adds Mending per Quarry cycle. - Mending: Drops become their silk-touch variants (e.g., Stone instead of Cobblestone). - Mending: No durability loss (effectively infinite uses).

Filtering System

- In the Silk Touch, Silk Touch are Silk Touch. - Silk Touch: Only items matching what’s in those filter slots will drop. - Silk Touch: Placing a Silk Touch in the Silk Touch the center pickaxe slot switches all filtering slots into a Silk Touch. - Silk Touch: If you are using Silk Touch, use silk-touched variants in the filter slots to match those exact drops.

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For versions prior to 2.0.0

Build quarries that mine for you. All you need is a pickaxe, cauldrons of water and lava, an item frame, and a hopper.

The ores you get and the speed at which the quarry operates is completely variable to the pickaxe you give it. Ores of increased tiers are rarer to be obtained through the quarry. Ancient debris for example is 1 in 1125 chance.

These quarries aren't overpowered. It's mostly cobblestone.

- Golden Pickaxe: 1s delay; ancient debris only. - Wooden Pickaxe: 6s delay; Golden tier + ancient debris - Stone Pickaxe: 5s delay; Wooden tier + ancient debris, and ancient debris - Iron Pickaxe: 4s delay; Stone tier + ancient debris, and ancient debris - Diamond Pickaxe: 3s delay; Iron tier + ancient debris, ancient debris, and ancient debris - Netherite Pickaxe: 2s delay; Diamond tier + ancient debris

As the quarry operates, the pickaxe will lose durability. Once the pickaxe is all used up, it gets sent in with the ores with one durability left. This way your pickaxes aren't destroyed. If you want to extend the lifetime of the pickaxe, you can enchant it with unbreaking, which operates exactly as if you were to mine something. It checks for unbreaking only up to 10 levels.

Other applicable enchants include fortune, mending, and silk touch. Mending pickaxes don't lose durability! And silk touch pickaxes mine the silk touch variant of ores and stones. Fortune works by producing an extra tick of resources per level. Up to 3.

How do you build one? Check out this GIF.

Building the quarry

You can increase production by adding more lava cauldrons. Up to 3 extras.

Upgrading the quarry

Don't want all the cobblestone? Want to only mine for diamonds for example? As of version 1.1.0, you can now filter up to 4 items to mine for. The quarry will still take damage and generate loot, but the loot you don't want will be destroyed, leaving only the resources you've selected.

How do you set up filtering? Place an item frame on the lava cauldrons. Four cauldrons, four items to filter. See this:

Item Filtering