Making a Quarry

Step 1

Firstly, place down a chest one block above the level at which you want to start mining.

Step 2

Then place a diamond block against each side face of the chest to get a cross.

Step 3

Next, fill the 4 open corners with redstone blocks.

Step 4

Next, you may place iron bars heading staight out in the north, south, west and/or east direction. Starting from the side of each diamond block.

The 2 longest perpendicular bars will be used to determine the area which your quarry will mine.

Step 5

Now shift-left click the chest in the centre.

It will complain that there is no fuel. Place any fuel listed on the below page in this center chest.

Fuel / Energy

Step 6

Next, you will need storage for the mined items.

Simply place chests or double chests anywhere along the iron bars (They must be touching the sides of the iron bars).

Step 7

Start the quarry by hitting (left-clicking) a diamond block next to the center chest.

The quarry will then begin to mine from 1 y-level below its glass platform.