When I visit a new server this is one of the things I always check for now. It's best to know right away how to get down in the mines. It has some helpful attributes such as automatically lowering the player as he digs down, passing light through from the sun if the shaft is so aligned, reasonably easy to make and of course at 450m long enough to handle most caverns that one might encounter.
The rope ladder s handy for a "throwaway" short descent as it is quite easy to make.
If there is a flaw... well I guess it does make life pretty easy and it would not be ideal for a hardcore survival.
When I visit a new server this is one of the things I always check for now. It's best to know right away how to get down in the mines. It has some helpful attributes such as automatically lowering the player as he digs down, passing light through from the sun if the shaft is so aligned, reasonably easy to make and of course at 450m long enough to handle most caverns that one might encounter.
The rope ladder s handy for a "throwaway" short descent as it is quite easy to make.
If there is a flaw... well I guess it does make life pretty easy and it would not be ideal for a hardcore survival.