If you want large amounts of resources in Minecraft, you'll have to mine in a smart and boring fashion (called resource mining) near the bedrock. Mine in a con

If you want large amounts of resources in Minecraft, you'll have to mine in a smart and boring fashion (called resource mining) near the bedrock. Mine in a consistent pattern (in three dimensions!) trying to minimize the amount of rock to mine w.r.t. the blocks you reveal. Mining for resources is quite a boring grind and I don't like to do it a whole lot. Thankfully you don't have to do a whole lot of it to survive if you don't do crazy builds with a lot of iron (like minecarts).