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Best Practice
Tips from playing with the mod. None of this is required; it just saves time and coal.
- Look down while you walk. The cut shows what lies in your view direction. Walking a straight line over a mountain shows you a slice of it.
- Turn slowly in a circle at one spot to scan everything around you. A full turn takes a few seconds and covers a lot of ground.
- Use a Finder Bundle once you know what you want. Put one iron nugget in and only iron flashes; that is much faster to spot than reading colors. See Finder Bundle.
- Zoom in to dig, zoom out to search. On Gold and better CRTs, B switches: 64 or 128 blocks wide to find something, 32 to see exactly how deep it is.
- Find the ore or cave and face it.
- With a Compass module, press K. The cut now stays in that direction, even when you look down at your pickaxe.
- Dig. Whenever the needle turns green and clinks, and the CRT's antennas light up, you are facing the target again.
- A Depth Gauge tells you the Y level of the target, so you know when to stop going down.
Digging diagonally works: the compass locks any angle, not only north, east, south or west.
- Press V to hide the cut when you don't need it. It only burns while shown.
- A Coal Pouch (any bundle) lets the CRT eat things you don't need: sticks, saplings, wooden tools, a lava bucket (worth 12.5 coals, and you get the bucket back). A coal block is 10 coals in one slot.
- Beware: the pouch eats everything that burns, enchanted wooden tools too. Keep them out of it.
Lit portals (nether portal, end portal, end gateway) within about 6 blocks and endermen within 8 blocks put snow in the picture. An angry enderman disturbs twice as much. A Lightning Rod module removes three quarters of it; the Netherite CRT ignores it completely. A sudden burst of snow in a dark cave can be a warning: something tall is near.
- A chest in a Finder Bundle makes every block with an inventory flash: chests in dungeons, mineshafts and ruins, barrels, furnaces in villages under the ground.
- The Spyglass module (J) shows the next picture below the normal one. Good for finding the deep caves and lava lakes near the bottom of the world.
- With the Netherite CRT you see mobs through walls. Red dots pulse; they are hostile.
Stone → Copper → Iron → Gold → Diamond → Netherite, and every upgrade keeps the fuel and the modules. Iron is the big jump (color, twice as far, two slots). If you are short on diamonds, the Gold CRT is a fine place to stay for a while.