Hi everyone, Bash here. Just thought I would take 5 minutes to quickly mine out a staircase in which builders (and above!) can use to get down to Y:11. The stairway is located about 30 blocks behind the mining world portal. Hope this helps, - Bash
Hey Bash - this was an awesome thought - it motivated me to start clearing a single tunnel all the way to 2500 each direction at y:11 also. Just started so... there may be no lights or they may not be complete - I will update. Also if you feel I have hijacked your thread, please let me know and I will remove this.
Update - there are tunnels all four directions that run to 2500 at the bottom of the staircase built by Bash. Bring your own torches and enjoy the run. There should be many ore pockets easily found as I did not clear them. No excuses - you can get anywhere pretty fast - now get to work!
Why at level 11 ? Diamonds start at 16. Look at all the Resources that are being untouched. All the Ores can be found from level 16 down. My point is, don't just eat the center of the cake, the rest of it is good also. FYI
I realize your point, but there are more ores in Y: 11. If the tunnel was in Y:14, then its miszing the Y:11. Its too much effort to dig a 5ish block tall tunnel