Have good quality pickaxes. There is no use in finding things like diamonds and redstone and then mining them with a wooden pickaxe. You need an iron pickaxe to be able to mine those. Carry at least an iron pickaxe if you plan on mining very deep. If you are low on iron and do not have enough to make a plentiful supply of iron pickaxes, you can use a stone pickaxe to mine through the stone and the iron pickaxe to mine the ores you encounter. Rather than crafting a lot of pickaxes all at once and wasting your precious inventory space, bring just the materials for making them(iron, stone, wood, etc) and a crafting table. This way, you will be able to craft tools easily, whether in a mine or on the go!Be a Good Miner in Minecraft Step 1 Version 3.jpg
Carry a stack of torches. It can get really dark underground, and you need torches to illuminate them. To place torches, right-click the ground or wall. Make sure there isn't any water around or the torch will be washed away. You can increase your gamma if you find it difficult to see in caves. Mac: Go to Finder. Open, go at the top of the screen and Press Go-Press alt/option. Then press Library, Application Support, Minecraft. Put the Minecraft folder in your hotbar. Go to options and open with Text Edit. Go to options find gamma and increase to 1000.0
Never dig straight down. As a Minecrafter, you probably have heard of this rule already—for a good reason. If you dig straight down, you could fall into a pit of lava or a room filled with creepers, so always dig one in front of you, or in a staircase-like pattern downwards. By the same logic, you also shouldn't dig straight up either. You can get crushed by gravel or sand, burned by lava, killed by mobs, or drowned in water.
Don't dig gravel and dirt with pickaxes. This will wear down your pickaxe twice as quickly. Just punch the dirt or gravel, or make shovels.
Carry food and weapons. There are abandoned mine shafts and caves all throughout mining, and you'll most likely you'll find one while digging. You need to be prepared to fight your way out. If you plan to stay underground for a long time, you will need to carry a nice supply of food so that your hearts will stay replenished. Choose food that gives you a high saturation and fills up more hunger bars at once. Bread and cooked meat are the best options, but cookies, apples (excluding golden ones, however golden apples may be way to precious for a regular source of food), or raw meats are not ideal.
Explore the many ways to mine. Exploring caves can be interesting and easy, but some say it's generally ineffective (others say it's great for obtaining ores); "quarrying" (digging a large hole straight down) yields plenty of cobblestone, but very few ores; "Branch Mining," however, is an effective alternative offering maximum ores for minimal pick usage. Simple branch mining is basically a series of parallel tunnels every three blocks (two between each tunnel) branching out of a perpendicular hallway.
Know how to navigate. One of the best methods of navigating a cave or any place dark and winding is to put your torches on the right wall as you go deeper in. Once you finish, retrace your steps by following the torches on the left. You can also place signs directing you to the exit so that you don't get lost. Block off explored branches of a cave system with cobblestone so you know not to go back there. Jot down the coordinates of the start of your mine in case you get lost. Press the “fn” and “f3” keys together and note the X, Y, and Z numbers in the top corner of the screen.
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