I just recently returned to Minecraft, and one thing that's been bothering me a little is the endless amount of caves and mineshafts. In the past I'd often live underground and mine a lot, and finding caves was an awesome thing, and mineshafts a big plus. Now I can never start a proper mine anywhere without instantly hitting giant cave systems, and they always seem to include a mineshaft, and it takes forever to explore it all and clear it out. By the time I'm halfway through I have enough of every resource to no longer have any need to make a strip mine. Spelunking like this might be a lot of fun, but it's also dangerous and confusing (it feels like cheating to always have to dig up to find my way out) and I miss the process of mining out the ground and being happy to hit ore veins. It also helped with amassing blocks to build with, while now with the caves I never end up with chestfuls of cobble anymore, and it's less fun to mine purely for the purpose of getting the stone itself.
Does anyone else miss getting to mine out the underground, and do you have any tips on how to still do it? I feel like that half of the Minecraft world has been taken away from me, and it was my favorite. Creating anything down there is difficult when caves constantly get in the way.
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I just recently returned to Minecraft, and one thing that's been bothering me a little is the endless amount of caves and mineshafts. In the past I'd often live underground and mine a lot, and finding caves was an awesome thing, and mineshafts a big plus. Now I can never start a proper mine anywhere without instantly hitting giant cave systems, and they always seem to include a mineshaft, and it takes forever to explore it all and clear it out. By the time I'm halfway through I have enough of every resource to no longer have any need to make a strip mine. Spelunking like this might be a lot of fun, but it's also dangerous and confusing (it feels like cheating to always have to dig up to find my way out) and I miss the process of mining out the ground and being happy to hit ore veins. It also helped with amassing blocks to build with, while now with the caves I never end up with chestfuls of cobble anymore, and it's less fun to mine purely for the purpose of getting the stone itself.
Does anyone else miss getting to mine out the underground, and do you have any tips on how to still do it? I feel like that half of the Minecraft world has been taken away from me, and it was my favorite. Creating anything down there is difficult when caves constantly get in the way.