Talk:Collecting Materials/@comment-4583259-20111201034018

This is a really good article. We should probably link to it from Lunacraft Wiki.

I changed the "mining at an angle" part. You had "will allow you to reach blocks that are over 12 blocks away", I changed it to say "will allow you to reach blocks that are further (for example, 9 blocks forward and 9 blocks down)".

If you go "9 blocks forward and 9 blocks down", that's 12.72 blocks (which ought to round up to 13). But it's a lot more than that, because you can go 9 blocks in all three dimensions at the same time: 9 blocks up, 9 blocks to the right and 9 blocks forward. That works out to 15.59 (it's 9 times the square root of 3).

Since the exact number doesn't really matter, and some Minecraft people probably consider "9 blocks forward and 9 blocks down" to be 18 blocks away (because that's how illumination works for example) I thought it was a bit better to leave out the hypotenuse distance.