Essential Tips on Exploring Minecraft 1.18 Caves! | Minecraft School | Tutorial Let’s Play – 45

Since we’ve updated to 1.18 we’ve looked at the surface but not so much the caves i think it’s time to do that today on minecraft school our objectives are number one find and explore the new caves two learn about the new or distribution and three find an amethyst geode

And we’re going to jump straight into our comment of the video this is from i i’m sorry if i mispronounce it i guess uh it says at 424 there’s a geode at the end of that little tunnel and you’re right so i did check and there was some smooth basalt this is

Such an easy geo to get to we’re going to have an amethyst farm i guess very very simple so i’m just going to head right down there so right through this tuff here just come right down here and look at that what is that that is smooth basalt let’s just

Dig around here a little bit see where it goes so it looks like uh let’s see there’s the calcite all right so we’re gonna dig in here we might even use some calcite look at that it it it goes down okay so we need to uh get down there in a bit

Safer manner let’s see if i can do that here all right looks like we can break in here try not to break any of the budding amethyst blocks and look at this and it opens up into well not not much of anything over there let me just light this up because

We don’t want this to be dark in here it doesn’t go into a cave at all nice so this is totally enclosed and that is going to make it so easy for us to come down here and gather some amethyst as you can see we have a very nicely formed ones pretty big

And these blocks or these blocks right here are the budding amethyst blocks do not break them you cannot recreate them you cannot move them they will just disappear these ones you can take that’s fine and right here this is there we go i got it so take a look that

Is an amethyst shard so you can see i also have block of amethyst here the amethyst blocks you can see just listen a little bit of music i’m not sure if it’s uh too quiet for you but um as you can see these don’t really have anything on them

They will just be used for decoration but these blocks we’re going to use to grow amethyst shards and amethyst shards can be used in a few ways uh and i’m going to demonstrate it as soon as i grab all the full ones here well it turns out we have a lack of

Fully grown amethyst crystals here so what we can do is actually encourage more to grow by digging out the amethyst around these so that they can grow on all sides so as you can see they have this x pattern on all sides and got to be careful

Don’t want to break any of the other blocks i mean the butting blocks definitely don’t so that is one thing you can do but we’re going to leave that project for another time so here’s what we’re going to do we’re going to smelt these two raw copper i really don’t need much

In here so i’m just going to get this okay we got our copper ingots next all we need to do is place two copper ingots here and an amethyst shard here and we’ve got our spyglass for the first time now if you have optifine you’re going to

Be able to zoom anyways but let’s compare them because there is a bit of a difference so with optifine i’m just going to zoom in and i can see that close now with this i’m going to right click and it seems closer doesn’t it it is so the zoom is even better

And it’s easier to control than optifine zoom which is kind of drifty but try this you can double it you can do both optifine zoom and the spyglass at the same time and have ultra long distance zoom we’ve made our way to the area that’s supposed to be our copper farm with this

Weird double portal which i really do need to fix and we’re going to be heading off in that direction now we have not explored in that direction so we should be finding some new chunks or 1.18 terrain generation fairly quickly at least i hope so well i’m back actually i traveled

Around 5000 blocks and i didn’t really find an appropriate cave entrance so i’m gonna do something a little bit different but um take a look at what i did discover some of it’s quite nice this is actually a rather beautiful if a little bit chaotic terrain very nice we’ve got uh flower forest

Here we found ocean and that is definitely new terrain generation if i were to start over i would definitely be building in this area this is amazing now one thing i’ve noticed is that cave openings are a little difficult to find in this world in my other let’s play which recently started

I can find many many cave openings very easily so i made my way out and we’re in this amazing valley wow we found a drip stone cave i think we found something so i’m not sure if this is going to be a very large cave i doesn’t seem to be

Actually it looks almost like a dead end okay then i should have kept going i was just over there we have a much bigger entrance right down here so let’s see what’s down here huh it looks like um it doesn’t open up into a large chamber though um

I’m just wondering how far this goes back and if it does go back pretty far and there’s a way down that is excellent and that is not what i meant to do it’s actually a ravine it looks like i searched and searched until i found this village and you know what

Then i found this insane opening look at down here this is not one of the uh the new biomes not lush caves not drip stone caves but look at that this drops down really far it’s not a giant chamber but it is something that could be explored but it is

Almost suicide to go down there it is dangerous and now it’s time for your pop quiz number one do you find the new caves to be more difficult or easier and number two do you prefer the lush or drip stone caves let me know in the comment section below

So we’re back down here in the amethyst geode and i just decided why not tunnel in that direction we’ll see where we come out i’m curious we’re going to run into a cave and if we do then that is great so let’s go and you know what

We’re going to get a bunch of deep slates while we do this as well as oars which is a bonus absolutely all right i heard a zombie and that must mean there’s a cave nearby i’m gonna keep going just you know just in case it’s actually right in front of me who knows

Whoa oh that was tough that was that’s much much easier to break and i hear them i can hear them that’s for sure hey hey hey hey we got a cave we got a cave but the question is oh it’s big okay we have found our big cave

This is um a time when we want to run quickly and light up as much as we can and be very careful because we got these guys right there hello zombie there’s actually a good number maybe okay anymore i don’t see any all right so let’s get going we have

A whole bunch of stuff here oh lush caves immediately lush cave okay let’s let’s light everything up around here the good thing is we don’t have to use many torches because the area that the light covers is fairly large and you know what that means we’re not gonna run out probably not

I see a few mobs there’s some skeletons in there so we’re gonna take care of them hopefully take care of a few things around here but look at that lush caves and there’s a spore blossom up there too excellent okay i’m just gonna make sure all of

This is uh nicely lit up and it looks like that area is fine because that’s lava and of course i look down in this hole and i see there’s diamonds right there that’s something i’m definitely looking for so let me grab that because i want it since i’ve got fortune

This should get me a good number hopefully no one’s coming i don’t think so all right and it looks like we’ve got just a vein of two maybe looks like it all right nothing else down here nope all right this is lucky start so let’s not fall in any holes hello

What are you doing here goodbye all right there is a path going up there i think so i’m gonna head up there and hopefully survive this that’s deep don’t go down there hello gotcha hey guys come on down got a few of these coming down here huh

Okay let’s just get this all lit up i see oh that’s drip leaf up there nice more diamonds you know what this is going to be a pretty successful trip i think plenty of diamonds around here hello uh no you can go away you can definitely go away hello ah

Really don’t want them that guy exploding hello hello anyone here okay well we should probably try to get through that is quite the view down there and axolotl interesting what are you doing up here ah there is a pool of water so we’ve now made our way into a tunnel

Now i’m going to actually i should probably collect all of the the oars back here that would have been a good idea because there is diamond down there but i am going to be coming back in this direction anyways so i can grab them on my way back i’m gonna

Light up all of these tunnels that i’m going through that way i know where i’ve come from and i know how to get back and it’ll make it so much easier and uh creeper just blew up on me and i wasn’t recording oh well i think he came out of here

Quite possibly but uh you’ll find that there are little crevices all over the place make sure you’re looking around and lighting up these spots very important that you do that but again you don’t have to light up a huge amount because they only spawn at level zero no one no one okay

It looks like we’ve got a big chamber coming up i hope but uh there’s just a few mobs in the way but this is actually quite ideal there’s not much not much space for anyone to be uh spawning in so it’s reasonably safe hello hello how you doing goodbye goodbye there’s someone over

There it looks like we’ve got quite a few over there so this is a good time to just run through and spam oh oh my that was a bit of a surprise there’s uh also an enderman in there which is not a good thing i don’t want to look at him because i’m

I’m surely gonna die that is a lot of mobs and this is a fairly large chamber as well so this is one of those places where you just oh geez okay where did you come from this is one of those places where you really want to pay attention to what’s around you

Come on you know i should be using my uh shield but thankfully i’ve got plenty of protection on me hey you one thing you want to be careful about is the fact that mobs are much more likely to spawn in dark areas so the more you light up

The dark areas are going to be crowded with mobs very unsafe that’s why you want to go around quickly and boy are we going to get a lot of xp let’s uh let’s light it up as much as we can we got so many mobs in here as we get chased by skeletons

You can be quite methodical when you’re lighting up this area i just take it in small chunks at a time and i am actually starting to get low on uh that guy just spooked me i’m starting to get low on torches and let’s get these guys

And light this area up as quickly as we can because we don’t want any more spawning over there oh come on hit him see more just spawned right there okay let’s get this area lit up here hello enderman don’t mind me just just uh coming around here and

Trying not to disturb you okay there we go and this corner two don’t forget to eat oh there’s a there’s a geode right there oh geez hello you scared me goodbye yeah i’m being hunted now by quite a few of these guys for those of you who are afraid of going

Into these caves remember it’s just a game you’re not really going to get hurt in real life but yeah i know for some people this can be a bit scary it’s a huge area and look at how many mobs there are it’s like hunting at night you know but at least in here

You can get this cleared out holy crap hello um where are you guys coming from someone’s coming after me where are you there you are hey you i can’t hit you okay there is some place up here that’s spawnable let me just light this up here i bet it’s up there

And that corner maybe ah maybe over here i think this could be it but yeah you want to make sure that you are lighting up as much as you can so that you don’t have any spawnable areas and i think i am gonna miss a few spots here and there

I think we’re doing a pretty good job of lighting it up now i don’t see too many around here uh there is a creeper over there there’s a bunch up here that’s that’s for sure but uh this is a lot easier when you’ve got fewer spaces for them to spawn oh and um

There’s actually quite a few coming after me right there we’ve got four hey goodbye we’ve got hey you we got another zombie over here i think we’ve got a creeper over here yep and as you can see this ah there’s more stuff way up there we’ve got

Different levels in here and that that can be dangerous be very careful because you can have mobs just drop down from up there as you can see that spider just did and where are you there you are oh oh great um babies we got babies hello i don’t like you guys

You can you can just go away all right oh they are the worst the absolute worst to see especially if you’re being chased by two of them don’t want that so yeah as you can see we’ve got a lot of uh mobs dropping down from above and

That’s that’s going to make this area a little more difficult and uh goodbye bat we are starting to run out of food as well but a lot of this has been lit up and i’m just going to continue lighting up as much as i can going into a bit of dangerous territory

Up here being chased by a very slow zombie villager which is fine okay there’s a lot over there we have creepers over here too that’s not good hello hello goodbye ah this is great this really can get your uh adrenaline going and these caves show why i love the bow so much

If this guy would stop moving that’ll be great there we go got so much more to light up and i’m running out of torches okay that area up there is quite impressively large and i’m unsure if i’m going to be able to get all of that lit up oh whoa okay uh

I did not see that creeper uh jig let me go and heal up here that was um a little careless of me be a little careful huh okay i’m now being chased i’m just placing torches this is an effective way of getting around and uh avoiding being killed

Just run just run you know that should work and then get yourself to a safer spot and turn and fight whoa you you have some kind of potion on you all right i am being chased by a lot of these guys let’s let’s start fighting

Ah time for um a little more food i am running out of food and honestly yeah i’m out of food so what i’m gonna do now i’ve got quite a bit of this area lit up i really don’t need to be carrying all this stuff

What i’m going to do is go all through here and any areas where it’s lit up and there are oars i’m going to pick up the oars and also go through this and figure out what i want to keep i don’t want the flint the flint can just go away um don’t need

The rotten flesh either or the string what i am looking for is not gravel either so i want to find mainly redstone and iron and diamonds so let’s go search and see what we get so we found here is a pretty good vein it’s not too big sometimes you’ll find

These huge veins of oars which is absolutely amazing when you do find them and definitely keep looking some things like diamonds you may have to do a lot of digging because they usually don’t appear in large quantities on the surface and yeah it’s it’s gonna be a little bit harder to find them

Now we’re getting some copper now i’m going to have uh oh i have too much stuff so i’m going to have to figure out what to get rid of and i think the leather sacrificing leather so i’m going to have a graphic up on the screen which will show you where

Ores are normally found i showed it in the last episode so you should have seen that already if you’ve been following the series but uh just oh there’s a dark spot great i missed a spot hey bye-bye i’m gonna have to light that up another good thing about this area is

That uh we’re gonna find a lot of building materials so deep slate tough tough is something i want to start using and it goes along pretty well with uh things like cobblestone and using it in roads is great but using it as an alternative to things like cobblestone is it looks really good

All right so we’re going to take our leave from this cave i didn’t get all the oars i only got some redstone i got some gold but we’re going to return to the surface and count how much we got all right we’re home so let’s take a look at our treasures

We got 18 diamonds not too bad just 19 copper and we didn’t see much of that anyways 22 gold it is iron we’ve got 64 and 33 so one and a half stacks i was kind of running out of space here and we also got more than one and a half

Stacks of redstone so that was actually a very very quick and short caving session uh it you would probably want to explore that whole system a lot more than i did but uh i was actually out of food and i do need to get more food

Now i can really utilize this so let’s get this started i i don’t think i have enough coal but hey so let’s uh drop our copper in here gold in here and all this iron up in there hopefully uh hold on hold on let’s let’s take half

Of this and half of this and just stick it in this one i think that’ll be more evenly distributed ah look at it come in i love a good super smelter it’s time for your homework i’d like you to take a screenshot of the caves you discovered in your world and

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