Need "Data Miners" (to estimate mining profitability)

Their technique is relevant. As such they should tell us how they mine.


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Username: wolfwoodnyo

Time of trip: 30 minutes

Tools: eff7 pick, and a fortune3, eff5, unbreak 3

Technique: layer 11, digging in really any direction, but after I find ores, I do a spray circle motion around the ore, which often leads to other ores. I do this until I find no ores in my "spray" motion. Then I start to mine randomly again. I almost always stay on layer 11 until I come across a very mined out area. I move to layer 6, 7, or 8 if I find this. I immediately fortune all coal, lapis, diamond, redstone when i come across them.

Donation Features (highlighted the ones I use while mining): Water, fly+, investigator, multihome, tp, excreations, excmds+

List of Materials Earned: ($ money made selling to server)

• Cobblestone: 23
• Stone: 5503 ($550.30)
• Dirt: 0
• Glowstone Dust: 0
• Coal: 127 blocks + 40 coal ($1183)
• Iron: 227 ores ($1,702.50)
• Gold: 60 ores ($600)
• Redstone Dust: 182 blocks + 67 dust ($2,983.75)
• Lapis Lazuli: 180 ($720)
• Diamond: 118 ($2,950)
• Exp gained: 1,761 (added) (NA)

Total money made for 30 minutes of mining and selling to server, not including exp: $10,689.55

Evidence:

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note to idk: Time of mining trip should be stated for each instance. Exp earned could be listed.

 

Interesting @wolfwoodnyo you use pretty much the same technique as me but with an eff7 and make 6k more an hour with ores I assume?

 

Username: doomed_fire
Tools: Eff5Ubr3Fort3 Diamond Pickaxe, Eff5Ubr3 Diamond Shovel
Technique: My normal technique.
Ranks: Mayor, Survivor, $(50... >.<) (This might be worth adding to the form for the sake of showing how dedicated they are to the server and how trustworthy their results would be.)
Donation Features: Multihome, Water, Tp
Donation Features Used: Multihome (We should put which ones were relevant to the mining.)
List of Materials Earned:

• Cobblestone: 2341 ($117.05)
• Stone: 0
• Dirt: 400 ($20)
• Glowstone Dust: 21 (2.10)
• Coal: 818 ($818)
• Iron: 130 ($975)
• Gold: 20 ($200)
• Redstone Dust: 804 ($1407)
• Lapis Lazuli: 72 ($288)
• Diamond: 47 ($1175)
• Experience: 958 ($958)

Total: ($5,960.15)

Hourly Total: ($11,920.30) (This also should be added to the form.)
Evidence: None.

Any other thoughts: (We should add this to the form.)

 

Reposting this here so that it is in one place.

Username: doomed_fire
Tools: Eff5Ubr3 Diamond Shovel, Eff5Ubr3Fort3 Diamond Pickaxe
My technique:
I set up a home in front of some chests with mutihome then went to the mining work and set a home where I was mining. I would reset the mining home before going back to the storage area then dump my stuff and go back. As for the actually mining technique I would mine at 11 and since I have the shovel, instead of avoiding the dirt and gravel I know dig through it and in the case of dirt, I recall reading somewhere to break all the dirt you will almost always reveal more ores, so with the shovel being so good I would instantly break dirt so it took barely any time at all to do. Other then that I would dig straight until I either hit a patch of lave and would choose a new random direction, or if I hit an area already mined out area I would move until I can dig into a wall more then 3 away from a tunnel on both sides of the place where I want to start a tunnel.
Ranks: Mayor, $, Survivor
Donation Features: Multihome, Water, Tp
Donation Features Used: Multihome
List of Materials Earned:

• 1,303 Xp ($1,303)
• 1205 Coal ($1,205)
• 1079 Redstone ($1,888.25)
• 892 Dirt ($44.6)
• 37 Glowstone Dust ($3.70)
• 163 Lapis ($652)
• 53 Diamond ($1,325)
• 21 Gold ($210)
• 113 Iron ($847.5)
• 1878 Cobblestone ($93.9, This was sold to the server and not stored.)

(I am counting dirt in this as I was unsure of the resale value and because it didn't slow me down to just chest it)
Total: ($7,572.94)
Hourly Total: ($15,145.9)
Evidence:
How Long ago was the reset: 13 Day (I believe this to be useful as we can set up data points for each week and judge if there is a decline in the mining world or if people are simply just crying the sky is falling.
Any other thoughts: Blueberries are pretty good.... Oh about this? Nah. Well... I hate lava and gravel... That's about it. We should also list out mining level at the beginning of the trip. (This section should also have a note for anything that you felt skewed the results of the data.)

 

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Username:wolfwoodnyo

Time of trip: 30 minutes

Tools: eff7 pick, and a fortune3, eff5, unbreak 3

Technique: layer 11, digging in really any direction, but after I find ores, I do a spray circle motion around the ore, which often leads to other ores. I do this until I find no ores in my "spray" motion. Then I start to mine randomly again. I almost always stay on layer 11 until I come across a very mined out area. I move to layer 6, 7, or 8 if I find this. I immediately fortune all coal, lapis, diamond, redstone when i come across them.

Donation Features (highlighted the ones I use while mining): Water, fly+, investigator, multihome, tp, excreations,excmds+

List of Materials Earned: ($ money made selling to server)

• Cobblestone: 36
• Stone: 5789 ($578.89)
• Dirt: 0
• Glowstone Dust: 0
• Coal: 152 blocks + 6 coal ($1,374)
• Iron: 201 ores ($1,507.50)
• Gold: 60 ores ($600)
• Redstone Dust: 217 blocks ($3,417.75)
• Lapis Lazuli: 269 ($1,076)
• Diamond: 58 ($1,450)
• Exp gained: 1,854 (added) (NA)

Total money made for 30 minutes of mining and selling to server, not including exp: $10,004.14

 

List of Materials Earned:

• 772Xp ($772)
• 310 Coal ($310)
• 798 Redstone ($1,396.5)
• 892 Dirt ($44.6)
• 23 Glowstone Dust ($2.3)
• 108 Lapis ($432)
• 19 Diamond ($475)
• 36 Gold ($360)
• 90 Iron ($675)
• 1626 Cobblestone ($81.3)

(This trip was only 23 minutes long as my pick was almost dead.)

Total: $4548.7
Hourly Total: Using math, My hourly total this trip would be: $11,866.17
Thoughts: Also worth nothing the last three trips took 1 hour and 23 minutes for the pick to get down to 267/1561 Durability. During this time I managed to make $18,081.79.

Since I now have 3 data points I will start putting my mining trips into an excel spreadsheet and posting the average yield from the pickaxe as I go although I imagine as I enter more data points the averages wont vary much.

• 2113 Cobblestone ($105.65)
• 1089 Xp ($1089)
• 809 Coal ($809)
• 975 Redstone (1706.25)
• 818 Dirt ($40.90)
• 29 Glowstone ($2.90)
• 125 Lapis ($500)
• 42 Diamond ($1050)
• 29 Gold ($290)
• 120 Iron ($900)

The total value for an average mining trip of 30 minutes would be ($6,493.70) for an hourly total of ($12,987.40).

 

I will see on my next run, Are you guys selling your ores an ingots to the server or to players?

 

@Minecraftguy65 I value the ores and will be smelting them later. I know I can sell the ores to shops for the same price as the ingots on the server, everything else is server prices.

If you have anymore questions please feel free to message me or @idkhowtoplay. And happy mining .

@idkhowtoplay I trust this man, so whatever results he gives us as long as he follows the standards we are trying to set up his results will be trustworthy. Hes a friend of mine in-game.

 

kk, will do! I will do a trip tommorw.

 

This is an interseting idea and would like to participate in the study. I will post results after each mining trip in accordance with the format listed above.

 

Username: Minecraftguy65
Tools: Eff V UNB III FORT III diamond pick. Normal diamond shovel.
Technique: 2x2 tunnle Mining in a line on lvl 11
Donation Features: None
List of Materials Earned:

• Cobblestone: $180.48 (3424)
• Stone: None
• Dirt: None
• Glowstone Dust: None
• Coal: $1622 (1622)
• Iron: $1590 (212
• Gold: $360 (63)
• Redstone Dust: $2754.5 (1674)
• Lapis Lazuli: $1300 (325)
• Diamond: $2100 (84)
• EXP: 1,840 exp (40 lvls)

Grand total earned for this hour long trip was $10176.98!
Evidence: Sorry, would if I had /back

 

So initial thoughts is eff7 in combination with fort makes twice that of the eff5ubr3fort3 alone. Other thoughts... dang I want an eff7... lol.

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You an me both friend!

 

Username: NYancats33
Tools: Eff 5 Fort 3 Unb 3 Diamond Pick
Technique: refer to here if unsure (; as much detail as possible please) I use a 2x1 tunnel at y:11
Donation Features: Multihome, Water, Ext.
List of Materials Earned:

• Cobblestone: 1,925 = $96.25
• Stone: None
• Dirt: None
• Glowstone Dust: None
• Coal: 603 = $603
• Iron: 174 = $1305
• Gold: 26 = $260
• Redstone Dust: 612 = $1071
• Lapis Lazuli: 49 = $196
• Diamond: 10 = $250

Evidence: (appreciated, but not necessary)

Total Earning for this 30 minute trip is: 3,781.25
*I hit many already mined patches*