Originally posted by kurp:

how do you spend the least amount of time mining for silver? silver is really heavy, even with the belt that makes you stronger and requires me to go up and down the mountain before my pickaxe breaks. going up the mountain is extremely tedious and slow and wanted to know if there is some better way of doing this

Download the mod that allows ores through portals. Wow now the game is actually fun and not unnecessarily tedious.