In my entire time I've played minecraft I've only seen mineshafts go down to Y=2. I'm pretty sure it being at Y=1 is impossible but I'm not completely positive.
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In my entire time I've played minecraft I've only seen mineshafts go down to Y=2. I'm pretty sure it being at Y=1 is impossible but I'm not completely positive.
Well, as long as they don't go down to Y=0, that would be scary!
I wonder what would happen if MC tried to put one at Y=1?
Would it replace the bedrock with planks, or does there have to be actual air under a plank floor?
As far as I can tell it is impossible for them to go deeper than y=2 because the game prevents them from going any deeper; if they could go deeper I'm pretty sure I'd have found one by now since in all of my worlds I've probably explored as many as 500 mineshafts (close to 300 in one world alone).
Also, a mineshaft at y=1 would not replace bedrock at y=0 (the floor) with planks because that only happens when the floor is air, regardless of how thick it is (e.g. it is common to find corridors that have 1 block of space between them, like in two-story intersections, but it is still stone).
Another thing that is impossible is a dungeon that replaces the lowest layer of bedrock, as the Wiki claims is possible ("citation needed"), but since there can never be air at y=1 (the floor would be y=0) this can't happen either; even if you remove the lava from caves they only go down to y=2 and don't remove bedrock.
(in early Alpha or Beta versions water and lava lakes could generate deep enough to cut a hole in bedrock but their minimum height was raised to prevent this).
When I found a mineshaft at level 4 I figured that must be as low as they could go.
But just a bit further along I found a stairway that went down to level 3, deleting 2 layers of bedrock.
So now I'm wondering, is that the limit?
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The world was created in 1.7 or 1.8, this area is almost certainly generated in 1.8
Just testing.
In my entire time I've played minecraft I've only seen mineshafts go down to Y=2. I'm pretty sure it being at Y=1 is impossible but I'm not completely positive.
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I am not to sure
Well, as long as they don't go down to Y=0, that would be scary!
I wonder what would happen if MC tried to put one at Y=1?
Would it replace the bedrock with planks, or does there have to be actual air under a plank floor?
Just testing.
As far as I can tell it is impossible for them to go deeper than y=2 because the game prevents them from going any deeper; if they could go deeper I'm pretty sure I'd have found one by now since in all of my worlds I've probably explored as many as 500 mineshafts (close to 300 in one world alone).
Also, a mineshaft at y=1 would not replace bedrock at y=0 (the floor) with planks because that only happens when the floor is air, regardless of how thick it is (e.g. it is common to find corridors that have 1 block of space between them, like in two-story intersections, but it is still stone).
Another thing that is impossible is a dungeon that replaces the lowest layer of bedrock, as the Wiki claims is possible ("citation needed"), but since there can never be air at y=1 (the floor would be y=0) this can't happen either; even if you remove the lava from caves they only go down to y=2 and don't remove bedrock.
(in early Alpha or Beta versions water and lava lakes could generate deep enough to cut a hole in bedrock but their minimum height was raised to prevent this).
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