Easy Iron, Gold, Coal & Glowstone

[wintry rivet]

Requirements:

• Glider (preferably, not required)
• Twilight Forest
• Torches (unless you have other methods of seeing in darkness)
• Any building blocks
• Water Bucket (If you're deaf or not sure)
• Crucible from Thaumcraft (optional)

First in Twilight Forest find one of these mounds (first image). They are semi-rare to find but easy If you have a glider or other means of fast air transport.
Then go to the top and start digging down but be careful, there are going to be mobs and potentially infernals inside, so make sure to listen to sounds, If you hear them, you are close, so stop digging straight down and instead make a 1x2 hole next to you, then dig down and look If Its safe to jump down.
When you finally break through, place water, then make a platform and make sure skeletons don't hit you. Take the water and start slowly bridging towards the ore you want to mine. In some cases when digging down you will see ore, that means you're in and just dig horizontally till you mine through the ore spike.

The ores that are found in these mounds are:

• Coal (coal vein is better, no sense for mining it here)
• Iron
• Gold (very useful, since gold veins don't have much of them)
• Lapis (kinda useless, or you're too lazy to make distilled water for coolant I guess)
• Redstone (also kinda useless, unless you're somehow running low on it)
• Glowstone (not an ore, but still found there)

Now, this is another tip, there is a faster, less time and power consuming method of getting more ore out of your ore than macerator, Crucible. You want to first research in Alchemy tab Metal Purification, then every other one connected to it and optionally cinnabar purification in Witching Gadgets (you can also do purification perfection, but that's taboo, so on your own risk).
To purify one Iron Ore you need: 1 Silverwood log, 1 Cobblestone, 1 Tin Ingot.
To purify one Gold Ore you need: 1 Cobblestone, 2 Silverwood log, 1 Tin Ingot.
After purification, you can either smelt them to get 4 ingots in total, or in smeltery for 6!

[jaunty wasp]

thats a bad, unrewarding and sometimes dangerous way to get just several ores

[wintry rivet]

16 gold ores into 82 gold ingots seems good to me, also it isnt that dangerous as you think, If you bridge and make walls small walls around you, you wont get shot

something like this, in my case, the mound doesnt have many mobs, so I can go without them and they wont notice, I built these walls just now as an example

[rancid viper]

why is your tps like that

[wintry rivet]

playing on eta server

[rancid viper]

that makes sense

[jaunty wasp]

bridging an making walls around you just to mine some ore is the oppisite of easy..

can be good to mine some gold after killing hydra for example, but purposefully mining in those hills is definitly slower than vein

[nova blade]

Yeah magnetite veins aren’t plentiful in gold by any means, but it’s still much faster than this

[jaunty wasp]

Another obscure way to get gold: buying lich spawner eggs and smelting gold armor drop in the smeltery after. can be okay to do in some rare conditions?

[rancid viper]

make a mob farm if you are that desperate

[jaunty wasp]

difficult to make a good mobfarm until like HV, i dont like doing some not perfect one temporarily. But i dont have gold problems either way, so..

[wintry rivet]

on average in a gold vein I found like 15 gold ores after 5 mins, in mound I can have a stack in 5

[jaunty wasp]

If you are in a hill for some reason, loot/exp/peacock fan or something, it can be nice to mine 10 gold ores if you notice them. Purposefully travelling into a different dimension, searching for a hill and mining ores suspended in air with the chance of death and losing an hour retrieving items sounds questionable

same gold ore is in a magnetite vein, which you can mine for as long as you want with your hammer

also, you said "digging down from top". How are you going to see where the gold is? there are a lot of stalagtites and stuff like coal ore, how will you locate gold if you are not standing at the bottom?

[wintry rivet]

literally look at the screenshots

Its easy to find

[wintry rivet]

low chance of death*

[wintry rivet]

hammer can break easily If you get only 1 gold ore per million years

[jaunty wasp]

sigh

[nova blade]

Well idk how you get so little gold there. The longest part is travelling to it but finding a mound also has that problem. Once you’re in there you can most definitely find more than 3/min if you’re not using a pickaxe for some reason.

[clear trail]

I don't think those resources are rare, but it's interesting that you can get vanilla ores here

[mild canopy]

If you really need gold ic2 crops has an easy, no-breed glow stone crop in the biomes o plenty glow flower. Just slap it on a crop stick and you have free glow stone and all the stuff processing that gives you.

[wintry rivet]

with this you're better off actually mining gold vein

[mild canopy]

In what way? Like I said you can automate this, fulfilling your gold needs until like UV

[wintry rivet]

automating is resource, time and power consuming in lv and mv, when you can mine a stack of gold and have easily 384 gold ingots, which will last you for a long time

[mild canopy]

It’s one MV machine and two LV machines it’s really nothing by the time you’re in MV and can actually process this recipe

[wintry rivet]

still power usage, that 78k could go on other more important stuff for progression

[analog maple]

Doesn’t thumcraft accept raw ores tho?

[analog maple]

I do not know how to react to it

Automating glowstone centrifuge is 3 machines

Which if you are making power from oil is less than 1 distillery worth

[jaunty wasp]

I agree with not automating glowstone for gold. Waste of energy

[analog maple]

Processing ores in crucible can be ok bit tou get more gold from normal gold processing in chembath

[jaunty wasp]

Gold will come from mobfarm in hv, no need for glowstone processing

[analog maple]

I mean they meant it as an alternatovr to trying to find gold in mounds

[analog maple]

Wait mobfarm in Hv

I need you to elaborate on that

[jaunty wasp]

Easiest tier and also pretty much musthave mobfarm at hv. You get enough energy to power solidifiers/extractors to smelt armor, you get infinite gold for electrum needed in HV, wither skulls for quantum eyes/stars/nasa table

[analog maple]

Oh you mean from that

Never did it cuz it wasnt necessary

[jaunty wasp]

Its the best investment. Out of all tiers and machine lines. Best for sure

[analog maple]

Would argue if its the best

[rancid viper]

definitely not

[analog maple]

I do not remember the exact numbers from for example EIG

As for wother skulls

Skullfire sword

[jaunty wasp]

Mobfarm in the nether gives: infinite gold, iron, steel, blaze rods, coal, bones, rotten flesh, slime, wither skulls, anger shards, nether shards, hearts, golden apples, glowstone blocks, diamond blocks, emerald blocks, zombie heads, experience

[analog maple]

Iron is literally free

[jaunty wasp]

All passive, no energy cost

[analog maple]

From everything

Coal is not a problem after sifter

Which is Hv

[jaunty wasp]

Sure, but its mining

[analog maple]

Mining?

Place one miner?

[jaunty wasp]

Sifter?

[analog maple]

Like I mean

[jaunty wasp]

Yeah, passive stuff is better

[analog maple]

One miner on coal

With sifter gave us like more than 10k coal?

And before I get answer that you use it a lot in dust form

No you use carbon which tou get from everywhere

Iron stops being a problem at HV

You stop using a lot of it

The only usefull thing there is gold

And blaze rods

[jaunty wasp]

You wont change my mind here either way

[analog maple]

And I don’t care to really