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[Celestial Oblivion]

So I'm digging a bunch of tunnels to connect all the bases on our server, and I'm not sure if mining turtles or a tunnel more would be more efficient. I realize there are some other differences like the mining turtle tunnels not being big enough for minecarts or the fact the tunnel bore can have a world anchor attached to it, but just for the amount of fuel you give it (in this case charcoal), which one will dig a longer tunnel? I couldn't really find any information on how much fuel a tunnel bore consumes to go a given difference.

[ZER0-0]

So I'm digging a bunch of tunnels to connect all the bases on our server, and I'm not sure if mining turtles or a tunnel more would be more efficient. I realize there are some other differences like the mining turtle tunnels not being big enough for minecarts or the fact the tunnel bore can have a world anchor attached to it, but just for the amount of fuel you give it (in this case charcoal), which one will dig a longer tunnel? I couldn't really find any information on how much fuel a tunnel bore consumes to go a given difference.

Tunnel Bores DO need bore heads, which are kind f expensive. Turtles don't, but they can't have world anchors attached to them and dig smaller tunnels. One idea would be to have a nether hub ad travel throughout the nether, cause there will be 1/8 the distance traveled.

[Celestial Oblivion]

Tunnel Bores DO need bore heads, which are kind f expensive. Turtles don't, but they can't have world anchors attached to them and dig smaller tunnels. One idea would be to have a nether hub ad travel throughout the nether, cause there will be 1/8 the distance traveled.

 

Yeah, I've tried that a few times on vanilla worlds, way more pain that it is worth, unless the distances involved are huge. And yes mining turtles themselves are definitely cheaper, but what I really want to know is if I build a tunnel bore is it more fuel efficient than a mining turtle (or really 2 if I want to run mine carts in this tunnel).

[ZL123]

Tunnel bores are really slow, although they do dig out a 3x3 area. Mining turtles can dig out a configurable area. You said mining turtles would not be big enough for Minecarts, but actually if it just does...

 

while true do
   turtle.dig()
   turtle.forward()
   turtle.digUp()
   turtle.digDown()
end

 

it should dig forward, up and down, certainly enough for Minecarts.

If you really wanted it to be less claustrophobic and make it so you could run multiple minecarts (and maybe make it a bit quicker), you could have 3 mining turtles. Bore heads also run out of durabiliy, so you have that problem. Also if your bases cannot be connected by straight lines, Tunnel Bores are way less maneuverable. You could also try Anchor Sentinels if you wanted those.

 

I would go with Mining Turtles.

 

Also, can Tunnel Bores place torches for you?

 

local x = 1
for x=1,4 do
   turtle.dig()
   turtle.forward()
   turtle.digUp()
   turtle.digDown()
   if x==4 then
      turtle.placeUp()
      x=1
   end
end

 

I'm not completely sure about the above piece of code, but I think it should work. Just use it on the right turtle or the left turtle. Or if you want the torches on the ground for some reason, just use it on the middle turtle, and instead of "turtle.placeUp()", use "turtle.placeDown()".

 

Iron Bore Heads can tunnel for a 160 block-long tunnel each.

Steel Bore Heads can mine a 320 block-long tunnel in total.

A Diamond Bore Head can mine approximately a 700 block-long passageway.

A Turtle can mine just about 32,000,000 blocks in a straight line, as long as their chunk is loaded.

 

So turtles are definitely more flexible because they can be programmed, configured and are about 63 times smaller than a tunnel bore.

One of the only downsides is, as mentioned above, you can't really have World Anchors, though this exists (though I find it buggy)!