Prospecting and Mineholes

[RamboMesser]

So i prospected some malachite in a lvl 1 cave and want to reach it now on lvl 2. Can you now count the tiles from the minehole to the vein and dig accordingly? The thing that is confusing me is that when you enter a house the camera seems to rotate, is that true and does that happen with mineholes aswell? Does it always rotate the same way and if so.. how does it rotate?

[Granger]

You can check your direction by moving around bit and watch the minimap...

[evilboy666]

Yes the layer are exactly(might not be "exact" cuz jorb) in sync with the other layers. So if you mine a corner tile of a minimap tile lets say on layer 2. If you go the the same corner of the same minimap tile on layer 1, it should prospect no minerals underneath or so.

[NeoBasilisk]

One thing to keep in mind is that you don't want to build the minehole directly on top of the ore you are prospecting, because a large number of tiles are automatically removed on the level below to make room for the minehole, so you don't want to remove a ton of ore by accident.