Crafting table - Requires four wood planks (one wood log). A crafting table in your base will allow you to build more tools and structural items as you dig. Doors - Requires six wood planks. A door will keep monsters out of your home base while you sleep. Wood logs - Wood is one of the two resources you likely won’t find in your mine. It will allow you to create handles for your tools and other structural replacements. Aim for at least 64 wood logs. Map (console and PE only) - Requires eight pieces of paper and a compass. The map will track your coordinates and update as you dig downward. Raw meat - The other resource you won’t find in your mine. Having meat you can cook while you’re in your mine will help keep your hunger and health bars full.
You may want to do this in a zig-zag fashion, since digging straight down might lead to falling through the top of a cavern roof, a mob room (Room with 2 small chest a torch and a mob spawner) or even lava. If you can’t make a map or your map isn’t working, dig down to the bedrock (unbreakable) layer; this layer marks a height of 4, which means your character is standing at 5 and 6 whilst standing on bedrock.
You’ll be digging perpendicular to this main tunnel, so make sure the first branch off of the tunnel won’t go through your base. Place torches every few blocks so that you don’t get lost.
Make sure you dig this branch a few blocks back from the end of your tunnel.
You’ll repeat this process until your whole main tunnel has been expanded, then dig further and repeat as necessary. Make sure to dig around the ores in case there’s lava. Sometime ores will have lava behind it. If you find lava behind the ore, use non-flammable blocks to stop the flow of lava.
