What is the Best Way to MINE in Minecraft?

What is the best way to mine in minecraft? From strip mining to japanese windmill mining, what is the fastest way to get as many diamonds as possible? And have you been mining wrong? Let's find out the best way to mine and how to get diamonds fast :) This is a Vsauce inspired Minecraft series I have dubbed VVSauce. Yes ik very clever :p

➤➤ Music Used:
Jake Chudnow - Moon Men
Dynablade Overworld - Kirby Super Star

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Discover the fastest way to mine , how to get diamonds in minecraft , how to find diamonds fast and more!

[Wifies]

Just a few things about the video :D
1. This was recorded in november hence the 150k by the end of the year, ty btw we smashed that :p I didn't release it until now because I didn't think it met the quality standards i've set for content.
2. This does not adress bed mining, swim mining or quarrying as the first doesn't apply in the overworld, the other two forgot lol
3. The outro was copyrighted so i removed it in youtube editor which sucks but is ok ig
4. ALSO this is like the most important thing for the actual data. IF you want a higher precentage of diamonds obviously you only have to mine the diamonds, I mined every ore I ran into. I also mined blocks like gravel and dirt with a pickaxe which may have slowed down mines at times.

[delinep]

Speedrunners:
Oh, I need iron... What mining method should I use?
*swings pickaxe at Iron Golem*

[eggjason]

"Japanese Windmill Mining was invented by a Japanese player..."

Yep, the floor is absolutely made out of floor

[ryansergas]

"What if I told you that you're mining wrong"
PROCEEDS TO MINE DIAMONDS WITHOUT FORTUNE

[wirtu]

The best mining method : "Mining off camera"

[GDTGaming]

"never box mine"
just wait until you need 30 double chests full of cobblestone and THEN come tell me how bad box mining is.

[cope]

"What is the best way to mine in Minecraft?"
vsauce music starts

[FireFootballEditz]

The fastest way is to “do it off camera” lol
Edit: OMG tysm!!! For 2k likes

[MMT--Games]

1.17 cave update be like:

"im gonna end this man's whole career"

[desipug]

Would’ve been fine with a 5 second clip of you saying with a pickaxe

[doodlenoodle]

The best way to mine is to turn on a long calm playlist and loose yourself in the game, look at the clock and realize its been 5 hours

[gabrielmalek]

Not enough trials to be statistically meaningful

[username]

I’d like to add a bit to this conversation that I don’t often see when “what’s the most effective method to mine” is discussed: It depends on what you have. The time loss on branch mining (compared to strait/adjacent strip) is much less when you’re only mining with an iron pick. Similarly when you have efficiently 5 diamond or netherite, the time penalty for turning to aim is much higher.

This massively comes into play when looking for netherite. Since you can insta mine nether rack, swinging like a mad man is often faster than any direct line. But it comes at the cost of durability, meaning you have to end sooner to go mending up your pick.

Like any good question, the answer is “It depends.” If you want diamond, most of the methods discussed (barring box mining) are good. The best depends on what tools and enchants you have as well as other factors (is return time counted? What about space efficiency for long running servers like Hermitcraft that have mined out a large amount of nearby diamond level. You don’t want to have to go out 50, 000+ blocks to mine if a less effective method has left some diamonds under you, but not enough to justify mining in the same area again).

If you want netherite, the answer changes. The ore veins are smaller, often just 1 block, and the instamine of netherrwck fundamentally changes the nature of the question (is it most in least time, most per pickaxe, or a combo? Biomes make a huge difference here. Plus the normal “does rerun type count” applies)

[pineconesacramento]

Wifies: The best way to mine is ... I dont know

Me: Alright video over

[Beerfazz]

There is so much wrong with this video, I'm not even sure where to start. You would need to do a whole answer video to address all. Let me keep it short:
Mining all ores but counting only the diamonds at the end distorts your data by way more than you might think (yes you addressed the issue in your pinned comment, but way too briefly). Like when mining adjacently, big chunks of coal/iron/redstone are already missing in your new strip mine, which means you can concentrate more on the diamonds. They come in smaller chunks. Mining adjacently would produce basically the same amount of diamonds when leaving out all other ores (because logically, why wouldn't it? diamond chunks are very rarely wider than 2 blocks).
What's also ridiculous is using the pythagorean theorem to calculate the distance you would want to mine to cover the same distance as before. That is because you do not actually move diagonally in a straight line but turn left and right all the time.
The way better approach to this video would be to think about how many new blocks (potential diamond ore) can be revealed in comparison to the amount of blocks mined. And then, you could underline the theoretical approach by experiments covering _way_ further distance. Over the distance of your 500 blocks, few diamonds are found and therefore statistical fluctuations are high, distorting your results.
Let me add to this that I usually adore your scientific minecraft content and this is not meant as hate but constructive criticism. There is always more to learn, and this time just more than other times.

[skobi]

''but ...what is the best way to mine?''
*starts Vsause music*

[Slurreo]

The best way to mine:
Having fun while mining

[OhFact]

This isn’t a scientific test, as world generation is random so you need like 500 trials for a accurate Monte Carlo test

[beatbiest]

When you realize that X-Ray is the best mining method

[zargle]

The results aren’t different enough from each-other to prove anything with this many trials. There’s just too much bias to make proper conclusions