What should you bring mining?

  Stone pick, iron pick, stone sword, torches, some blocks, and maybe iron armor
  One stone pick, one iron pick, one stone sword, torches, and some blocks
  Diamond tools and armor, torches, and some blocks
  Any kind of pick and a sword

What is the best type of pick to have?

  Stone
  Iron
  Diamond
  Any kind of pick

Should you bring a sword? If so, what kind?

  No sword
  Diamond
  Iron
  Stone

What do you do around lava if you have no water bucket?

  I just stay away from it.
  Seal it up and come back later
  Build a path down to it and through wherever you want to go, with walls
  Cover it all up and then spam torches

What level should you mine at for getting everything?

  Around a little over level 10
  Around level 30
  Any level, I don't care
  Around bedrock

What is your strategy for mining?

  Follow whatever trail I feel like and see what I find.
  Go for iron, I will end up finding coal, gold, lapis, and maybe redstone or diamond.
  Go for diamonds! I want diamonds, I don't care about anything else!
  Gold and redstone will light the way.

What are the ores?

  Coal, iron, gold, sapphire, and ruby
  Coal, iron, gold, ruby, emerald, diamond, and redstone
  Coal, iron, gold, lapis lazuli, emerald, and diamond
  Coal, gold, lapis lazuli, iron, diamond, ruby, and iron

Are you the miner for your group on a multiplayer server?

Does not effect score

  No
  Yes

What is a good, reasonable trip?

  A stack of iron, and loads of coal
  A few stacks of iron, I don't care for coal, about 20 gold, maybe some of the other stuff.
  Stacks and stacks of coal
  30 diamonds, 5 stacks of iron, stacks of redstone, stacks of gold, and stacks of lapis