Talk:Mining Well/@comment-2.102.215.36-20120908074028

It seems many people underestimate the use of mining wells.

They are a fantastic early tool. you can build one for only 13 iron. the redstone is the most time consuming (if starting from nothing) but once stuck you will likely have plently for some redstone engines. with 4 little engines it can dig to bedrock in a MC day or so (while you get on with whatever else you want, so pretty fast concidering this has no running cost)

im certain you must have found lava by now (if not you will need to) build a vertical column of obsidian with bucket/s of lava and water. Plonk the mining well on top and power it and hey presto obsidian in next to no time.

using this you can cut the number of diamonds needed to be found to setup an energy condenser to as few as 6 (7 if you want to condense diamonds ;p )