9 CAVING HACKS That Will Make You Better at Minecraft!

On today’s episode we are going to go underground and talk about some caving tips for you guys everybody goes caving in minecraft so why not show you guys a few options to make your experience a lot smoother so here we are inside of a minecraft and the number one tip

Is to not do this don’t dig straight down okay obviously you don’t do that why do you not do this because eventually there will be lava and you do not know if this block that you break is going to be the last block before a big fall before a lava pool

So many issues so many issues can happen from digging straight down you just do not know what is directly below you so an option for you to do if you are impatient and want to just get straight down to the bottom of things is to do

What i’m doing where you stand on the edge of a block like this and that way you’ll always be able to tell what is below you before you fall that block and it looks like i’ve gotten pretty lucky here so we didn’t have to worry at all but

Never dig straight down look at me look at this i found it i found something on a cool uh part of digging straight down although you shouldn’t you know dig straight down without knowing what is below you a cool thing about doing this is that you have sunlight as a light source so

You don’t actually have to use torches on your way down but you will need to use ladders on your way back up once you find a cave that is worth exploring or possibly you’re going to go strip mining which is to just mine in a specific direction

Always place your torches on a wall at eye level why is this because every once in a while you’ll probably mine into either some water now that we have mine shafts that are filled with water or you could actually drop some water but that water will flow past the torch

There and it will not break the torch so you won’t be in a situation where you don’t have any light if you put it on the ground there’s a chance that that torch will get broken another thing that i like to do is to always put your torch

On the same side and what i mean by that is on even if you eventually turn around so if i were to go back in the other direction i put my torch on my left hand side while i was aiming in this direction but on the other direction i

Would want to put it on my right hand side that way you always have an idea of what direction out of the mine is especially if you have a one central entrance just like i have that way you’ll always be able to get back towards the entrance whenever you are

Trying to leave and you won’t get lost nearly as easily now don’t think i didn’t forget what the name of this episode is top caving tips so you actually need to be in a cave to go caving so here we are in a cave and one

Of the tips that i would give you is to rush through whoa hello rush through the cave because if you rush through a cave lighting it up behind you you won’t give mobs nearly as much time to spawn as if you were to lazily make your way through a cave so a

Lot of times whenever i find a large cave especially if i’m in a oop oh hello if i’m in a uhc type situation or something like that the first thing i’ll do before i go mining is to place torches like crazy and then sort of find

My way oh hello uh back to whatever my entrance was and i think it was over here so that i can make sure to light everything up without having a whole bunch of bad guys and then okay yep i’m back to where i began also put my shield in my appropriate

Slot and then deal with the mobs that are left and that way mobs will not spawn as quickly and also of course get that sweet sweet loot as i am caving another tip that i have for you guys is let’s say you have been caving for a

While and a few resources are really really piling up like specifically all of this coal that i happen to be finding it’s super useful to me i know that i’m going to be smelting up a whole bunch of stuff so i know that i need a lot also

If you happen to have redstone or lapis then you can also use this tip as well so i’ve been collecting coal for a little while let’s make sure that nothing bad is gonna attack me as i go around are there even more coal okay we’ll ignore the coal we have enough

Coal if i head back to a safe area look at my inventory oh my gosh i have almost two stacks of coal if i can put down well that’s not how you put down a crafting table you put down your crafting table and then change that coal

Into coal blocks that will take up a whole lot less room like i said this will work with redstone or lapis specifically redstone that takes up a ton of room but if you switch all of that into redstone blocks then it will take up a lot less room you can take

Nine stacks of redstone and turn it into just a single stack of blocks because things can get dangerous while you’re caving worst case is that you fall into lava and lose everything i like to bring with me an inner chest and this inner chest can have a lot of valuables

Specifically my shulker boxes because my shulker boxes are one of the more valuable things that i can have in order to store just a ton of stuff i will keep these in my inner chest that way i never have the chance that i will die with them especially in lava and never get

Them back so if you bring your inner chest you can keep a lot of your most valuable things safe though you do need to remember that if you put down your inner chest you do need silk touch in order to pick it up without breaking it so another

Suggestion would be to have silk touch because that will also compact all your coal so now instead of getting coal diamonds redstone and lapis as items you get them as their oars and that means that things will be a lot more tidy in your inventory especially with those

Ores that break apart into more than just one unfortunate cold just breaks into a single piece of ore or piece of item so that’s not as needed with coal but when you get into things that break into multiple items like redstone and lapis then a silk touch pick is really

Really useful after you have been caving for a while or perhaps after you’ve just started your sort of stair step down and you’re looking for more cave then you can use this trick because i can tell that there’s a cave around here i can hear bats i can hear lava popping

But i really just do not know in which direction it is so we are going to use a little x-ray technique so we’re going to put down a composter if you put blocks next to the composter just like this then you’ll be able to see through them a little bit better

Step into the composter and above you you will need three blocks so you’ll need one two and then three on that top block place down a lever and turn it on and then place while holding shift so you don’t actually just turn back on that lever a piston facing into

You and it’ll push you into the composter and you’ll be able to see through the world so now i can actually see the uh cave that i was looking for it’s right below me with a lava pool looks like it heads off in that direction and there’s also some of the

Area that i’ve already experienced and i can also now see a spider spawner that i will uh want to avoid so it looks like if i just uh keep going straight here for a little while then i will be able to bump into this cave eventually and if we do

There we go now i have found that cave oh hey there’s some lapis and we knew that there was going to be these bad guys here because we saw that through the walls get out of here spiders next make sure to always bring extra wood with you logs are basically wood

Planks uh that are in a stack of four so if you bring logs then you’ll be very efficient with what wood you bring but also you’ll be needing this wood in order to make torches chests uh and crafting tables so you’ll want to use that wood that you have but also you

Don’t need to bring a ton of torches as long as your pick is not a silk touch pick and won’t will actually pick up coal but if you’re not using a silk touch pick then you can just bring that straight wood and you will be able to

Use the coal that you find while caving to make more torches later on next know what biome you are in because certain biomes will generate certain types of ore or they will generate certain types of ore more often so if you’re in extreme hills biomes then you know that

You’re going to be able to get emeralds if you’re in the mesa biome you’re going to be able to get gold spawning at every level instead of just deep down in the bottom also extreme hills biomes will have a little bit more silver fish inside of them and now solar fish are

Instantly breaking so that’s kind of annoying to have to deal with also know what level you are currently at because way up here looks like i’m at level 27 which that is too high to spawn any type of diamonds so if i want to find

Diamonds i need to make sure to get down to at least level 14 and below and there you have it those are my caving tips for you i feel like a lot of these are very very useful to know if you didn’t already know them yourself thanks so

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