Tunnel Bore

Digging out a long tunnel for any reason is a little bit boring. That's why there is a Tunnen Bore! This marvelous machine let's you sit back and relax (sort of) and does all the work for you. It works with any kind of fuel that would burn in a normal furnace to power itself, uses a Bore Head to drill out the blocks, uses Tracks to work on and uses gravel to even gaps that it finds when drilling.

The Tunnel Bore drills trough anything (*) except Lava and Water. When it encouters Water the machine will stop becuase and rails will be washed away becuase of it. You have to manualy close the water leak and the machine will return to it's work. The machine will stop when it detects heat nearby. This is a precuation which prevents your machine from being destroyed. Keep that it mind when you explore the reason why the machine isn't going any futher!

Bore Heads
There are a few different type of Bore Heads to choose from.

An Iron Bore Head; bores 1500 blocks before breaking, enough for a tunnel more than 160 tiles long. This bore head cannot mine Obsidian!

A Steel Bore Head; bores 3000 blocks before breaking, enough for a tunnel more than 320 tiles long. This bore head cannot mine Obsidian but it is 20% faster than the Iron Bore Head.

A Diamond Bore Head; bores 6000 blocks before breaking, enough for a tunnel more than 700 tiles long. This bore head can mine Obsidian and it's 40% faster than the Iron Bore Head. Also, a full rails supply will run out before this Bore Head would break.

Linking Carts
Using the Crowbar you may link carts to the rear of the Tunnel Bore. If you don't, mined items will be sprayed out behind the Tunnel Bore and will be wasted. Use a Chestcart to collect those items and maybe catch a bit of proffit while your at it. Also, items in the Chestcart the the Tunnel Bore can use will be transfered to the Tunnel Bore itself like fuel (Coal) and Gravel.

If you want to dig out a large tunnel you may notice that it would't work if your not in the same chunk as the machine itself. This can be solved using a Anchor Cart that will allow the Bore to keep operating even when the player is not in the same chunk.

Tekkit 3.0.4 problem
There is a tiny problem in the current installment of Tekkit 3.0.4 server. Blocks like Ruby and Uranium will not get mined and it will even stop the machine from working if it runs in to one. To fix this you have to edit the railcraft.cfg file located in the config folder of your server directory. Search for the following line: tweaks.minecarts.bore.mineableBlocks={} And replace it with the following which will add the extra blocks: tweaks.minecarts.bore.mineableBlocks={140, 140:1, 140:2, 140:3, 140:4, 140:5, 140:6, 140:7, 247}