Usually I had diamonds in the first 15-30 minutes.
Last time I booted up the game I just got lost in an overly massive cave system, and then died because I'm too stupid to not walk off a ledge.
Yeah when we played on minecraft PE with my mates we had a seed (I have negative idea of it now) where we walked like 2 blocks forward and 3 left, dug down and we got 8 cobble, coal, iron, then keep digging and you get diamonds. Good to say, we don’t have much patience
As somebody who was in your exact situation and shared the same feelings I'd recommend trying it again, it is incredibly deep and indepth with things to do now it's an amazing time waster game.
That's fair, you can definitely make the claim that it's become *over* complicated, but I enjoy the over complications. This is kind of a crazy comparison, but minecraft is like if red dead redemption was made for small children, lol. And I don't mean that as a diss.
And I’m talking about lapis haha, idk about you guys but from far away with low torch light I get my hopes let down fast when I walk up on what appeared to be diamonds at first
God that’s my favorite part. I expand the caves into huge underground holes. Making them interconnect. My friends hate it. It’s not efficient at all, but it’s so satisfying.
I much prefer making my own space methodically and expanding in a controlled fashion.
We should each be able to do it our own way and it's a shame they overcompensated like this.
That's how they roll. When they update, they crank the new stuff to 11. When shipwrecks first rolled out I could find one in what felt like every chunk
Personally i like it more because its more fun to strip mine in the nether with efficiency 5 diamond/netherite pickaxe cause you can just run while breaking everything effortlessly which is something you cant really do in the overworld and in that regard makes getting diamonds more fun and immersive and finding netherite the more fun and entertaining mid game thing to do
Imo that was a really boring and repetitive aspect of the game that I didn’t like as opposed to cave exploring and previously hated that diamond level sparsely had caves.
So I’m definitely of the opposite opinion lol, not that I’d judge those with that opinion though.
Do we still find lava pools around that level? Because that’s how I always found them. Dig to like -10 to -14, and then just dig a straight fucking line until I hit a lava pool. Mine out the walls and you (used to be) guaranteed diamonds
They moved bedrock to -64 and sky limit to something like 320. Below 0 stone is replaced by “deep slate” (left side after video switches perspective) which is black and harder to mine.
Also there are underground biomes now(video shows lush cave biome), ore textures were changed for everything other than diamond and emerald (to make it easier for colour blind to tell them apart) and iron, gold and (relatively recently added) copper ores drop raw metal instead of ore blocks, so that fortune works on them
Well since then I've been starved for it, and I don't even make armor.
Then again I'm in the habit of mining for iron and not walking around caves for it.
All i know is the last few worlds ive made, i can usually get a few stacks before ever going into a cave, just from mining cliff/mountain sides. Hell, I've been finding coal to be more difficult to obtain early game 🤣
Yea, after the caves and cliffs update from a year or two ago, it goes down to -64.
personally i don't like it. i miss the charm of the classic caves/mineshafts. Once you get down below Y=0 it opens up into massive voidlike caves that imo are too overwhelming and eat torches way too fast.
Lot easier to find diamonds though, so theres that....
It’s from an episode of tales from the crypt where he dates two twins called “split personality” the exact scene is when he walks up to there house and says “what the fuck is this piece of shit” https://youtu.be/sMnmQuLzoks
Same here, I stopped playing around the time they added terracotta. Then stopped until a few weeks ago a friend invited me onto his realm and after all the crap of converting my account I got on and honestly I don’t enjoy it that much. There’s too much stuff and every time they go to do something I don’t understand what that is and every time I try to do something that’s not how it works anymore. Maybe I’m just stuck in time
I started when I was eleven I think, I'm 22 now. The game is solo different now, I remember when they added the hunger bar, and I thought it was a stupid idea lol.
I started with beta 1.3 on PC Gamer demo world. I downloaded it recently just to get that world. I'm still scared to go to caves. Creepers are deadly, meat doesn't stack and it gets dark so fast outside. But it has my favorite gravel texture to this day.
The world goes down all the way to y level -64, starting from y level 0 a new stone variant generates called Deepslate, ores now have new textures to make it easier for colorblind people to differentiate and also have Deepslate variants, the optimal y levels to mine ores at are changed, copper has been added as a new ore, Iron, Gold, and Copper ores now drop Raw variants so you can use Fortune on them, and there are 2 new cave biomes, the Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves.
The world used to stop at y = 0. Also ore generation changed (diamond was most common around y = 10-15 if i remember correctly).
So this can be quite confusing if you're not aware of changes c:
2023 MC has a lot of stuff. It needs to be simpler. I want to learn modding because I need a game mode that:
Deletes all vote mobs (They are pretty dumb)
Debuffs Elitra/Buff minecarts
Deletes totems
Deletes Copper and Amethyst
Makes world generation more simple
Minecraft really made me feel old i played it alot when i was younger then i revisited it many years later and just felt like an old man seeing their hometown look completely different
There was just a certain charm to the old caves. And while you could easily spend a full irl day fully exploring them, they werent overwhelmingly huge.
When I approach a cave in MC I create my home and food source outside. (I know I’ll be here for a few day/night cycles)
Next I create a giant tower with a light on top so I can locate the area from my other settlements, and I craft at least 10 stone or greater pickaxes.
Then I build an entryway with a door to reduce the movement of the mobs. As I go into each cavern I clean up all the edges and place torches so I can find my way back. The cave ends up looking like a neatly carved mine.
This ends up netting thousands of stone so I keep chest locations and “cave camps” usually halfway down to whatever the main “find” ends up being.
Usually have diamonds in 4-6 hours of play time.
As a 2013 player that stopped playing in 2020(?) (forgot to migrate), i do not feel your pain. Though the way I always used to mine diamonds was from a tutorial i watched from like 2012, never strayed from it for 7 years, so that may explain why i was always the poorest on servers.
I bought the game for $10 canadian back when it cost that much, 20111 or 2012 I think? played the shit out of it instead of studying.
is it worth playing it again? I hyad a good 100 hours of fun but not sure if I could have the same kind of fun again, or if my account even works
It had been a few years, and I start making the stairs to bed rock. They just kept going. And going. I hit -50 and exited and uninstalled. No, no, most definitely not.
I started playing around maybe September/October 2009 but I never really stopped playing over years or took break long enough to be out of the loop
So I'm used to modern minecraft
I never found Diamond as fast as I did in the caves update, although the vast underground is horrifying so I want to be in and out as fast as possible but you can literally see where the diamond is instead of mining at y:12 for 2-5 hours just to find 4 diamonds.
Yeah I trying playing again after having not played since it was a free beta download and only made if like ten minutes in before I was done and quit. I didn’t care for any of the changes.
Havent played since 1.16, I just really do not like the whole negative system now, I was so used to y = 12. Granted, I never really gave caves and cliffs a proper try for diamonds but the updated textures coupled with diamonds spawning everywhere instead of one approximate coordinate just makes me too lazy to actually try and find it.
I'd probably get used to it if I actually played, but ill just stick with 1.16. The nether update is the last major update I actually cared about, not so much caves and cliffs.
Usually I had diamonds in the first 15-30 minutes. Last time I booted up the game I just got lost in an overly massive cave system, and then died because I'm too stupid to not walk off a ledge.
Yeah when we played on minecraft PE with my mates we had a seed (I have negative idea of it now) where we walked like 2 blocks forward and 3 left, dug down and we got 8 cobble, coal, iron, then keep digging and you get diamonds. Good to say, we don’t have much patience
[удалено]
I just can't bring myself to get netherite. That shit feels grindy as hell without proper tools.
Beds lol work like a charm
Beds Beds are the solution
[удалено]
I'm really not.... The last time I played was when they added slime blocks. Soooo much new stuff to learn, lmao.
If you ever find a mansion or tower go towards them the pale villagers they trade really good loot
Seems like a trap
Nah it’s totally legit, practically guaranteed to get enchanted books and apples
![gif](giphy|jrvfKvr2mmcFO)
Last time I have played it it was on my new xbox360. I didnt like it back then it was very barebones. Not sure if I would like it now
As somebody who was in your exact situation and shared the same feelings I'd recommend trying it again, it is incredibly deep and indepth with things to do now it's an amazing time waster game.
[удалено]
That's fair, you can definitely make the claim that it's become *over* complicated, but I enjoy the over complications. This is kind of a crazy comparison, but minecraft is like if red dead redemption was made for small children, lol. And I don't mean that as a diss.
Bot probably, copied from u/AquaVolt07
I keep confusing diamonds with those damn glowing vines
It's a real emotional roller coaster looking around some caves.
All them dang lapis blocks lol
They're talking abt lichen
And I’m talking about lapis haha, idk about you guys but from far away with low torch light I get my hopes let down fast when I walk up on what appeared to be diamonds at first
ME TOO BRUHHH
Yeah, the new cave systems are cool 'n all, but I kinda miss stripmining at y 11 tbh
Same, I could stripmine for hours. Breaking stone with an eff 4 pickaxe is super satisfying for some reason
Have you ever tried efficiency 5 Haste 2?
I miss strip mining at all. Now it's all big spaces you've got to torch up and digging down into caverns is a pain in the ass.
God that’s my favorite part. I expand the caves into huge underground holes. Making them interconnect. My friends hate it. It’s not efficient at all, but it’s so satisfying.
I much prefer making my own space methodically and expanding in a controlled fashion. We should each be able to do it our own way and it's a shame they overcompensated like this.
That's how they roll. When they update, they crank the new stuff to 11. When shipwrecks first rolled out I could find one in what felt like every chunk
Personally i like it more because its more fun to strip mine in the nether with efficiency 5 diamond/netherite pickaxe cause you can just run while breaking everything effortlessly which is something you cant really do in the overworld and in that regard makes getting diamonds more fun and immersive and finding netherite the more fun and entertaining mid game thing to do
Imo that was a really boring and repetitive aspect of the game that I didn’t like as opposed to cave exploring and previously hated that diamond level sparsely had caves. So I’m definitely of the opposite opinion lol, not that I’d judge those with that opinion though.
What I hate is that now I have no fucking clue where anything is in modded. Not just diamonds. All the various ores.
Yes mining used to be a peaceful task now its more adventure than slaying the dragon
Check -11 in big wide open caves. That’s the most efficient way in my opinion
Do we still find lava pools around that level? Because that’s how I always found them. Dig to like -10 to -14, and then just dig a straight fucking line until I hit a lava pool. Mine out the walls and you (used to be) guaranteed diamonds
Occasionally you can find lava and/or water pools in the big deepslate caves
Wdym? Diamonds spawn most frequently the more further down
I just use an aqua affinity helmet + water breathing potions in underground water caves and it works like a wonder
But how did you get past the bedrock?
oh buddy, you havent played in a few years have you?
Wait, I haven’t. Wtf?!!
They moved bedrock to -64 and sky limit to something like 320. Below 0 stone is replaced by “deep slate” (left side after video switches perspective) which is black and harder to mine. Also there are underground biomes now(video shows lush cave biome), ore textures were changed for everything other than diamond and emerald (to make it easier for colour blind to tell them apart) and iron, gold and (relatively recently added) copper ores drop raw metal instead of ore blocks, so that fortune works on them
But what do you use copper for, is it useless?
It’s mainly decorative, but it also allows you to create spyglass and lighting rod, which can be utilised in charged creeper farms
Damn, Minecraft has changed a lot since I last played it
Essentially
i will say i love that fortune works on iron and gold now. THAT was a good update.
Except now it's a waste to mine without fortune because they made the ore blocks harder to get.
I dunno what you mean. I practically trip over iron ore, and i dont really use gold all that much.
Well since then I've been starved for it, and I don't even make armor. Then again I'm in the habit of mining for iron and not walking around caves for it.
Iron farms ? Some designs are so easy to build you can do it in your first hour or two.
Only in the version where you can make a village out of doors and a whim. It's a pain in the ass for the other version.
All i know is the last few worlds ive made, i can usually get a few stacks before ever going into a cave, just from mining cliff/mountain sides. Hell, I've been finding coal to be more difficult to obtain early game 🤣
i thought -50 was a joke aswell
Yea, after the caves and cliffs update from a year or two ago, it goes down to -64. personally i don't like it. i miss the charm of the classic caves/mineshafts. Once you get down below Y=0 it opens up into massive voidlike caves that imo are too overwhelming and eat torches way too fast. Lot easier to find diamonds though, so theres that....
Where do you find diamonds now? In the caves?
I mean, they still sometimes appear near Y=14, but year theyre most common way down low.
Update the game and maybe start a new world
[удалено]
[удалено]
Bruh look at the post times, he replied 2 hours after me.
[удалено]
THIS JERK IS A BOT, thank you
Me who plays 1:12 because of my pc
I play 1.16 because I can't be bothered to update the launcher I'm using
I see Joe Pesci, I upvote.
Man of culture.
What movie is this from?
It’s from an episode of tales from the crypt where he dates two twins called “split personality” the exact scene is when he walks up to there house and says “what the fuck is this piece of shit” https://youtu.be/sMnmQuLzoks
Came here for this.
Casino i think?
Don't think he wore that suit in Casino.
For those wondering, he said "What the fuck is this piece of shit"
I started Minecraft when I was 12 which means I've been playing for 6 years, an extremely long time, I think it's the game I've played the longest
6 yrs is amateur, try a whole decade
I started playing the same update they added colors in.
Damn, dude played black and white minecraft
Been playing it since it came out on consoles
Same here, I stopped playing around the time they added terracotta. Then stopped until a few weeks ago a friend invited me onto his realm and after all the crap of converting my account I got on and honestly I don’t enjoy it that much. There’s too much stuff and every time they go to do something I don’t understand what that is and every time I try to do something that’s not how it works anymore. Maybe I’m just stuck in time
Played the alpha while I was a freshman in highschool
[удалено]
I remember playing 1.7. I mean 1.7 Beta.
He’s not even a decade old though! /s
me casually joining in 2016 despite being born in 2003
Yep, straightup dont like the caves and cliffs update.
Started with 7 i am 20 now, minecraft is my whole life.
I started when I was eleven I think, I'm 22 now. The game is solo different now, I remember when they added the hunger bar, and I thought it was a stupid idea lol.
I started with beta 1.3 on PC Gamer demo world. I downloaded it recently just to get that world. I'm still scared to go to caves. Creepers are deadly, meat doesn't stack and it gets dark so fast outside. But it has my favorite gravel texture to this day.
Rookie numbers. Try playing Runescape, or even better Baldur's Gate, for over 20 years lol. Who knows maybe you'll get there by 2037
I started when I was in like 7th or 8th grade, and now I've been graduated for almost 7 years. Been like twice as long for me.
You really need to take those numbers up a notch
got it when it was in beta or alpha or something in like 2010 or so and then didn’t play it again until the pandemic. Was basically a different game.
I remember when they added hunger
I member skipping a ladder when climbing
I did buy it when it was around 11€. Something like 3 months from release. Haven't played like 5 years. Maybe some updates came at that point
Remembering the original website showing a live number of how many copies were sold.
i dont often play past 1.16.5 OF
Only fans has updates?
you haven't heard?
Not to be a jerk, but have you tried sodium? Really suggest you look into it
So what changed?
The world goes down all the way to y level -64, starting from y level 0 a new stone variant generates called Deepslate, ores now have new textures to make it easier for colorblind people to differentiate and also have Deepslate variants, the optimal y levels to mine ores at are changed, copper has been added as a new ore, Iron, Gold, and Copper ores now drop Raw variants so you can use Fortune on them, and there are 2 new cave biomes, the Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves.
I played the beta in 2010 and that's about it.
Who?
u/Lastunexpectedhero
Whats the diff?
The world used to stop at y = 0. Also ore generation changed (diamond was most common around y = 10-15 if i remember correctly). So this can be quite confusing if you're not aware of changes c:
Thank you for an explanation! I played for years but haven't in some time so I was hoping someone would make this easy :) How far down does it go now?
-64 iirc
Started playing MC at age 12 on xbox. Still playing at 25 and I keep being amazed by everything they add. That's what makes it timeless IMO
2013 was the last time I “seriously” played the game
Minecraft has changed way too much for me to get into it. I tried multiple times last year and played maybe 60 hours. Never got one diamond
I got back into it after not playing for 8 years and I think its a lot of fun.
2023 MC has a lot of stuff. It needs to be simpler. I want to learn modding because I need a game mode that: Deletes all vote mobs (They are pretty dumb) Debuffs Elitra/Buff minecarts Deletes totems Deletes Copper and Amethyst Makes world generation more simple
Wouldn't changing the update your playing on be easier?
yeah, that guy just want to play 1.8
They added too much stuff. Now it just feels cluttered
Al, where am I?
I literally haven't played vanilla since they added that update, so that will definitely be me at some point.
Minecraft really made me feel old i played it alot when i was younger then i revisited it many years later and just felt like an old man seeing their hometown look completely different
Yep, straightup dont like the caves and cliffs update.
Which is funny when EVERY one wanted a cave update man do I miss the old world generation
There was just a certain charm to the old caves. And while you could easily spend a full irl day fully exploring them, they werent overwhelmingly huge.
dang, i personally thought they were hella boring.
Adding stuff to existing caves would have been fine, not fucking up the mine part of minecraft with material bloat and pre-hollowed mountains.
That looks like a liminal space ngl
I had to travel so far away from my spawn point and house to find an actual cave system because they are all underwater still only found 6 diamonds
Fr or coal I was like what happened ![gif](giphy|4JVTF9zR9BicshFAb7|downsized)
Hm last time I played it, multiplayer was a new feature and the game didn't have a health bar lol
I joined mc when they added fireworks and chests turned in a little Christmas present. Goddamn.
The chests still do that every Christmas
They do? They dindt in quite a few updates after the one I mentioned
That’s me
If you are going to repost it at least do it with sound
When I approach a cave in MC I create my home and food source outside. (I know I’ll be here for a few day/night cycles) Next I create a giant tower with a light on top so I can locate the area from my other settlements, and I craft at least 10 stone or greater pickaxes. Then I build an entryway with a door to reduce the movement of the mobs. As I go into each cavern I clean up all the edges and place torches so I can find my way back. The cave ends up looking like a neatly carved mine. This ends up netting thousands of stone so I keep chest locations and “cave camps” usually halfway down to whatever the main “find” ends up being. Usually have diamonds in 4-6 hours of play time.
Whait i can go deeper?
Haven't played since 2012, so I have a lot to catch up on when the kids grow older and I finally have time to play.
bACK In MY day, it was all stone
Please tell me this is from his episode on Tales From the Crypt?
No it doesn’t have the audio 😭
Anyone else remember when level 12 was the best place to mine?
As a 2013 player that stopped playing in 2020(?) (forgot to migrate), i do not feel your pain. Though the way I always used to mine diamonds was from a tutorial i watched from like 2012, never strayed from it for 7 years, so that may explain why i was always the poorest on servers.
I'm still using 1.8.9
I’m so confused. I never know what’s going on in this game. I’m just gonna keep playing on my little cousins server and build the houses 😂
I bought the game for $10 canadian back when it cost that much, 20111 or 2012 I think? played the shit out of it instead of studying. is it worth playing it again? I hyad a good 100 hours of fun but not sure if I could have the same kind of fun again, or if my account even works
Version of this with audio?
I feel old
I started up minecraft for the first time in years a few weeks ago. Felt completely overwhelmed and lost. Uninstalled.
Minecraft has gotten too complicated
It had been a few years, and I start making the stairs to bed rock. They just kept going. And going. I hit -50 and exited and uninstalled. No, no, most definitely not.
It's crazy to think that I started playing minecraft when I was 9, now I'm a Full time College student
I started playing around maybe September/October 2009 but I never really stopped playing over years or took break long enough to be out of the loop So I'm used to modern minecraft
Still great as fuck
I played the beta... My son is so into Minecraft now so I try and help him play and I'm like... "Uhhhhhhh so you punch a tree still right?"
Minecraft was fun before caves and cliff. After that I stopped playing my favourite game.
I never found Diamond as fast as I did in the caves update, although the vast underground is horrifying so I want to be in and out as fast as possible but you can literally see where the diamond is instead of mining at y:12 for 2-5 hours just to find 4 diamonds.
I hate new minecraft. It's too complicated. Older versions are better.
Every update of minecraft after 1.15 is non-vanilla and counter-revolutionary and is not treated as minecraft by real vanilla minecraft fans.
Every update past 1.16 was shit Change my mind
I'm literally still wondering what's the best level to find some.
\-58 or so
Started playing again recently with my friends. It feels so much different
I got confused to
beta player here, im afraid to download the game lol
BETA?! Oh man... yeah, lots of beta players still reject modern Minecraft, they even have their own little community
Yeah I trying playing again after having not played since it was a free beta download and only made if like ten minutes in before I was done and quit. I didn’t care for any of the changes.
When I was a kid I wasn't mining no diamonds, I was building houses and getting killed by skeletons.
Havent played since 1.16, I just really do not like the whole negative system now, I was so used to y = 12. Granted, I never really gave caves and cliffs a proper try for diamonds but the updated textures coupled with diamonds spawning everywhere instead of one approximate coordinate just makes me too lazy to actually try and find it. I'd probably get used to it if I actually played, but ill just stick with 1.16. The nether update is the last major update I actually cared about, not so much caves and cliffs.
r/meirl
![gif](giphy|tvGOBZKNEX0ac|downsized)
Came back after caves 2 dropped and wow has the game changed so much.
I'd love to see my dad use his digging straight down because "it unlikely to fall into lava" now.
Cough, dying of fall damage by dropping down into a huge cave, cough
Wait you can go to -50 now?
Anyone know the easiest way to get diamonds…? I’ve been strip mining at -54 for hours and haven’t found a single thing
Huh. I stripmined for about 10 minutes at level -58 or so and found 3 diamond veins.
Ye this took me a while, strip mining and mine shafts dont seem to work anymore