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edmazur

Dealing with ore veins in sloped tunnel mining

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I'm mining a 3 wide tunnel that slopes down. I hit iron on the rightmost set of tiles though:

 

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I can get to the rock behind the iron to mine it out from the side:

 

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But my assumption is that if I face that rock and mine down (or even forward), it would not do what I want. If/when I get around to clearing out the iron vein, I'd like the 3 wide tunnel to consistently slope down.

 

I haven't done a great deal of mining, so I have to assume I'm overlooking something because it seems like a problem that anyone that's mined a sloped tunnel of any reasonable length will eventually run into.

 

Let me know if I didn't explain this well enough and I can try again.

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mine up on the tile, then when it opens you can just mine the floor itself so that it matches :-)

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Thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I guess it will make the ceiling uneven, but that seems preferable to the ground being uneven. :)

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:P mine up the cieling! i know it can be a pain, ive been there :P

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