Community- Water and mining

I would like to submit some short tutorials in which i or someone else may upload photos later.

How to: Infinite Water
Some people love to build fancy inventions, with or without the InvEdit, or Inventory Editor. Either way, when you get so hyped up on water stuff, or other things, it can become a pain to keep saving and putting more items in and re-entering. Well, If you are one of those people, do i have the thing for you!
Infinite water: First dig a hole 1 block deep with it being 2×2. Next, place two buckets of water in the diagonal corners. Finally, Magic occurs. Have fun!

Quick Mineshaft Travel Part 1: Water Ladder
Ladders may help climbs increase in speed, but in deep deep tunnels they are slow and a bit under-efficient. If you want a faster way to climb out of holes, here is what you need:
Supplies: A Bucket of water, shovel, pickaxe, torches to place on the way down, and as many ladders as needed; Note: for part two of this, other supplies are needed).
1: First, you must know your directions in the game. Here is the easiest way. Look at a block of dirt. One edge will have one gray spot touching it, while the others don’t. That direction is west. Now, this ladder should only work facing west or south, but it may work otherwise(i still wouldnt take my chances).

[Editor's note: An alternative way of finding direction is finding where the sun sets and rises. It rises in the East, and sets in the West]

2: Dig a hole 1 block deep by 1×5. Then, in that hole, go to the North/East end, and build block deeper by 3 blocks of the 5. At the edge where the 2 ledge you created from digging the 3 in the 5 meets the 3 hole, put a ladder on the wall by it.
3:Then, get out of the hole, and place a bucket of water ,facing the ladder, on the 2 ledge. The ladder prevents the water from falling into the rest of the hole.
4: Then, dig down 2 more blocks in the three hole. Place a ladder below the first, skipping one ladder in between. Dig into the wall on the side of the ladder(ONLY next to the ladder not the whole wall) 2 blocks in and above the second block you dug out, 1 block up. Water will fall in the hole, and be stopped by the ladder again.
5: Repeat step 4 until satisfied with depth of hole.
6: Face the ladders on the wall and hit up. You travel very slowly. Now, face the water next to the ladders and hit up. Express lane baby!

Quick Mineshaft Travel Part 2: The Descent
Now that you can travel very quickly up Your Mineshaft, taking the ladder down is a drag. That is why the ladder hole was 3 not 1 in the end. Ingenuity. For this waterbreak fallshaft, you will need:
Supplies: 2 signs per waterbreak(one waterbreak about every 5 blocks about until the end), still water(found in inventory editor; not sure if buckets of water work), and one staircase, some glass(if using invedit go with 64 to be safe)
1: First, go the the wall at the end of the hole. If starting from the bottom, (I highly recommend to start as you build) look up three blocks. There is where you will place your water, but first, MAKE SURE THIS HOLE IS ONLY 1 BLOCK WIDE. Then, place a sign one under the third block up, and one to the side of it. Acting sortof as the ladder, this contains the water to prevent any spillage, or unnecessary flooding.
2: Place the water on the third block. It should be a suspended block(Look from under it is so awesome). This is what we call a waterbreak.
3: Repeat this process; Steps 1 + 2, every five or so blocks above the first one.
Optional:
4: Go to the Surface of your tunnel. Create a staircase a block next to the top of the end of thr hole(where it is convenient)
5: Build a glass box around the staircase, making sure there is a 2 block gap for walking above the staircase and enclosing the hole with the waterbreaks.
6: Add any finishing touches like an enterance sign by the staircase.
7: Walk up the stairs, and walk into the hole with the waterbreaks. After this, don’t press any directional buttons until full descent so you don’t become unaligned with the waterbreaks. You will fall to the bottom, but because of the waterbreaks slowing down a little, you won’t die, or lose any hearts when you hit the bottom.

Submitted by Grady W.

[editor's note: I must commend this person on typing this out on an iPod/iPhone. I have only edited for grammatical errors, and have not added any extra content.]