Hardcore Minecraft 1.18: Exploring an Insanely Huge New Lush Cave and Finding Diamonds – Ep 5

We have this amazing amazing cave just an insane example of what is possible in minecraft 1.18 and we’re gonna explore it today hey everyone and welcome back to gemma lakas and my 1.18 experimental snapshot hardcore series uh in survival of course in this episode we’re going to be exploring some amazing 1.18 generated

Caves should be super awesome to see what they look like now but before we do that we’re going to quickly bid our house newly decorated house and build house goodbye so we kind of have all of our awesome stuff in here if you didn’t see this in the last

Episode really is looking awesome i have my room in here uh and i have what we have over here gemma’s room and she wanted everyone to know that her sheep are called snowball and stormy and i’m guessing that snowball is the white one and stormy is

The light gray one it looks like she has a good looking room in here too which is awesome anyway we both have some mining supplies on us and i located an amazing cave that you would only see in uh in 1.18 so we’re going to go to it it’s

Just kind of over here in that tiger biome but it’s really not that far of a walk and really we can kind of explore some 1.18 train as we walk anyway we have some beds and stuff with us like there’s some cool caves like this and this is definitely an amazing cave but

Up here there are some insanely good caves actually here’s some pillagers we should really get going here because if there are indeed pillagers uh we want to get going uh but uh yeah because we don’t want those to trigger a raid if we by accidentally kill them so if we just

Run over here we can basically go through this forest biome here and at the end of this forest biome really is a amazing amazing cave system now of course it is a little bit dangerous but it shouldn’t be too much of an issue so i will basically head

Through here right through here it looks like a song started that’s pretty awesome anyway so if we basically go right through this kind of cool uh traditional minecraft forest i think it’s actually just called forest and the biomes let’s see yep just forest anyway into this tiger

Bomb here there is an amazing amazing caves here uh that goes into lush caves it’s kind of like an aquifer and just all kinds of cool stuff so uh it’s kind of down here it’s extremely uh hard to miss here’s part of it here you can kind of see there’s this aquifer

Here now we’re not going to be kind of going to be kind of careful here we do not want to fall in uh but it is just water down there if we kind of keep following it in fact we could yeah we’re going to be very careful there so if we

Kind of go up here and through here we have down here basically the entrance to this so we kind of actually have a ruined portal that’s pretty awesome that’s actually super cool okay we’ll take a look at the ruined portal there maybe we can find a loot

Chest there i’m not sure actually i don’t know if there’s one there or not uh do you want to swear by the other shoes trying to leave her behind there but anyway that’s actually kind of cool if we wanted some nether blocks to get those early i might just do a little bit

Of quick mining around here because uh sometimes there are some chests in here and there really should be one here i’m not sure why there’s not uh so let me just do a little bit of quick digging around here uh 10 seconds of course we’re trying to get ourselves

This yeah i don’t actually know if there’s a chest here or not it doesn’t really look like there is ah that was ouch on the magma there anyway okay we’ll just get through here basically here’s the actual thing we were looking at uh other than this room portal

Although again i’m not sure why there’s not a chest there could be a generation bug but anyway is get ready for this this we have this amazing amazing cave just an insane example of what is possible in minecraft 1.18 and we’re going to explore it today so

This is a lush caves biome of course there’s going to be major fall damage things here but again i’m just going to get you guys a really good panoramic view of this just what in the world we’re looking at here just insane because this cave is just a huge

Crack in the ground of epic proportions something that is super awesome and i’m sure something gem will be very happy about is the fact that the lush cave is absolutely full of clay as flower pots are one of gemma’s favorite items but anyway we can just hear just the insane

Cave carver that went through here there’s actually some iron here which is awesome and of course that is the reason why we’re here it’s not really to admire although i mean mostly it is to admire but is uh more so just to kind of do

This and i am going to probably put up the occasional torch even though we don’t have to uh just because it kind of will tell me where i am and it does prevent some mob spawning now here’s a spider there’s actually a lot of stuff

In here uh all i have is an iron chest plate and all gemma has an iron helmet i’m pretty careful here now a zombie like this is not an issue at all but a skeleton that’s a pretty big issue so we might just be careful there maybe we’ll head down

Here i don’t see anything this is just an insane cave network uh an amazing area to explore minecraft’s new cave generation in and of course we have some beds so we can sleep and not get even more mob spawns but this is insane like of course

Again like if i jumped off here i could probably drop multiple hundreds of blocks so once we’re down there we’re basically down there for good at least for quite a while his skeleton trying to hit us which is genius so we might we might just start over here let’s see

I just yeah i don’t have a lot of stuff and i can’t really set my spawn point in fact i can’t at all because we’re in hardcore um i might just go for it yeah i mean why not really we don’t make a risk we can never really

Do anything again i’m not really lighting it up for the mobs i’m lighting it up more so oh ouch okay that chest plate is helping uh there’s two zombies i got two skeletons let’s get right out of here gemma let’s uh let’s go up here

I like this that’s good yeah i’m not not dealing with two skeletons we actually have a bit of a mega tiger i guess here that’s pretty cool okay well if we’re not going to go in here we just do something to kind of make that first leap

To getting into good stuff and of course we get very careful around this edge here but uh i see some water there actually that could be a really good way of getting down to the bottom i also see some skeletons but again without a risk there’s no reward and basically that’s kind of

Where we are right now is having to make that big jump there’s always kind of that first big jump in minecraft which i found one of the biggest ones is literally exploring caves now i hear a zombie coming down oh gold armor of course poor skull bomber thankfully zombies are literally uh

Very easy to attack i think i’m getting lag which is just absolutely genius hopefully this uh doesn’t end up killing me no i’m just very odd lag i will drop an iron that’s actually really cool okay well anyway i hear another zombie coming great looks like a zombie reinforcements maybe not

Sure uh zombie reinforcements are a weird feature where when fighting zombies sometimes it’ll make another zombie spawn no i don’t think that’s what this is actually should be hard to say all right we’ll get rid of this um yeah so if we basically go gemma maybe down here kind of follow along

Here and here the clay is we could grab some clay if we wanted over here i mean there’s oh my goodness there’s so much clay here compared to let’s say how much you would get in literally any other biome like we could even craft it right

Back into clay blocks and uh that’s if you want to just grab some clay there that’s pretty safe let me just quickly see what else we can do here of course we have some iron and all kinds of other good stuff uh that’s kind of want to see we can do

With what we have so far so if we’re going to go all the way down here huh it’s quite the drop so we’re gonna want to be very very careful with what we’re doing but uh yeah okay so the water there could be a good way of

Getting down that could be good so i think we can probably do here let me just see here so we have some lush train already and it doesn’t look like it’s actually left lush caves all the way down this is lush caves here that’s kind of cool

I mean it’s really just about finding iron at this point not really i mean we could find diamonds i suppose if we’re extremely lucky but we’re not really looking for that i’ve got some copper there as well i hear something i’m not sure what it is

Uh anyway here’s some iron here too uh it seems like very very small deposits of iron are this high up i’m not sure why huh that’s definitely gonna be a bit dangerous going down here oh yeah very dangerous okay well maybe what we can do

Is we can maybe just slowly make our way down on the slope here so gemma if you want to kind of come over here let me see what i can do see if i can get up here because i’m kind of ruin it with placing the netherrack down but whatever

Uh so there’s got some clay there which is good so we’ll kind of just sneak our way along here and basically oh there’s actually some of those uh hanging flowers there which is super cool but again i don’t really think this biome is uh perfect and amazing looking and kind

Of a slope like this i think it’s really meant to kind of generate in a less of a steep incline so jim if you want to kind of come down here like this yeah just kind of two block jumps are fine of course so it’s going to go like this

And kind of looks like there’s a bit of an edge here not too bad not really it looks like it’s almost bedtime fuel yeah this should be safe just going two blocks down here kind of get to the edge here it looks like there’s some iron over there that

Could be good some copper i mean it’s just what’s crazy to think this is number one this is vanilla this is that’s just insane to think really and number two the fact that uh this will be the uh kind of the standard really for minecraft pretty soon here there’s some

Drip leaves which is good uh there’s gemma over there looks like it’s almost bedtime so probably want to kind of do that uh real quick uh looks like there’s a small drip leaf here which is kind of a cool thing to have but i don’t actually think we can

Break those once they’re placed down uh so well hopefully gem is okay over there we can get ourselves a bed down and sleep uh because i think it is night time it is nighttime so we’ll sleep there and this massive cave just insane really

What you could do out of this i mean if you place down a bunch of floors out of wood you could just make like it’s just insane it’s like a like um not sure really but just something crazy and yeah really just like a massive uh massive area so

We can basically want to do i guess is gotta find ourselves kind of areas to get ourselves cool uh gemma’s found herself some copper we also need iron of course coal isn’t super important i hear a zombie so he could drop right down the water is gonna be somewhat of a

Protecting feature and i don’t actually see a lot of mobs down there i see some skeletons i wonder if we were going to craft ourselves some iron armor first if that would be a good way of kind of like a first step so maybe what i if what i do

Is i kind of create a small smelting station here uh like this and then kind of like uh that that could kind of smelt that up i don’t have smelled it with rotten flesh as the fuel that’s kind of funny that i tried um there’s some copper there so if kind of

Just work at this layer kind of slowly working our way down i’m sure you’re probably kind of met meant to uh you know work your way down from maybe other areas wow that’s insane crazy i think dude that one’s uh skeleton error would be the end of the series but uh try not

To think about that one too much but anyway get ourselves some iron here uh because again if we can both get full iron armor it’s not going to help us from fall damage but if we go down on that water flow there that’s not going

To be the big issue the big issue is going to basically be surviving long enough to get back up so if we get all this and then go over here we can basically do so we can kind of keep smelting the iron away uh maybe i’ll set up a second smell

Through there for you as well there gemma if you want to just throw everything you found in there then we can kind of just um get ourselves a nice safe enough area not very safe but just safe enough area to kind of smell what we have i have copper in one of

Those uh so we’ll just get some iron there melt uh smelting and at least if we at least get maybe three pieces of iron each that could be good i mean this is even crazy how far we’ve gone down already it just looks just insane really like i mean what why

Lovely that we’re at 20. so in normal minecraft it would be like 10 blocks lower well 20 blocks lower than this technically but more like 15 blocks lower than this is when bedrock starts and uh just crazy so i don’t have pants and gemma doesn’t

Either so if we get uh two pairs i’ll get one pair uh one pair of pants and then we can do that will improve us a lot that’s a lot of copper there which is good i got some more iron there uh i don’t have a helmet so let me see

Gemma doesn’t have two things yet so we’ll get those for her uh let’s see if there’s any more iron we can grab on the side here because again i don’t of course want to die this is hardcore which is pretty dangerous so hmm if we go down there we’re gonna have to

Deal with a lot of stuff i don’t go all the way down just yet but it is kind of hard not to just fall down so we’re gonna want to be very careful well let’s see we have around here um nothing crazy but again just some of the views you’re insane there’s

Some gold i guess interesting hmm yeah it kind of makes the whole um you know what’s the word like kind of step-by-step approach not work very well because there’s a lot of uh absolutely crazy jumps having to be taken i mean literally and figuratively but you know literally in the sense of

Having to go right from uh the you know kind of top of the world down here just for iron which is not a very good material anyway it’s okay but it’s not that good uh here’s gemma’s pants there uh there you go gemma there’s some argus and leggings technically so there are

Some leggings for you uh and we can get ourselves iron swords that could probably be that that probably is what we’ll do because that’s gonna be uh very important so we don’t need these here anymore so we’ll break these we’ll get ourselves a iron sword uh

I think we can do an iron sword that’s not really showing there it is it is showing up just didn’t see it all right that’s good um that’s what else we can do around here and there’s just clay galore and we can always you know come back here just

For that but of course i do want to actually get ourselves some iron uh but i’m not sure i don’t really need to do any crazy jump so that’s a glow squid up there that’s actually really cool it’s kind of just peeking through there that’s awesome but i don’t just

Kind of spend the whole time on the edge sure i also just want to jump down and die so i wonder it would be too dangerous here but um i mean there could even be diamonds down there there could be anything in fact i think i see some diamonds

Yep i see diamonds there’s diamonds right there that is insane well so we could get diamonds uh right off that’s insane well i wonder i see some coal up there or cla copper uh gemma if you want to maybe if you want to come over here we have

Some a lot of copper and other things around here if you want to kind of i’ll get i’ll leave you some coal and if you want to kind of work on this area here just for a bit if i can just do a really risky move and basically run down grab

The diamonds come back up i know it’s dangerous but at this point really what else can we do i just i don’t see a better option really i only i don’t really have anything else i can make armor out of so really what can i do

So i think the best thing to do is gonna have a lot of blocks ready uh torches aren’t really gonna help in this we’re gonna keep our best tools ready uh as much iron as we have and basically what we’re gonna do is this we’re going to

Jump down we’re going to grab the diamonds and we’re going to run for our lives now what we could do and i just had this as an idea i wonder if we have any wood on us do we have any wood on us i doubt it you’ve any wood on you gemma

I give any wood no wood no hmm i would think a shield would have actually made this much easier i wonder if there’s a way i could quickly run up grab a shield and come back let me see if that’s actually at all possible here because we are down

Quite low because of just the crazy way this stuff generates let me if you want to stay down there gemma because if i can just grab a little bit of wood i could actually go with a shield and a shield could basically be all we’d

Really need to uh to do this because if i have the shield there i can totally dodge the skeleton arrows temporarily at least in fact right up here i get ourselves a bit of that i don’t really ruin this with a netherrack but honestly at this point what does it really matter

So we’ll just grab this uh and we can use this for just this amazing cave here that’s looking at every time it’s just insane i think this is where minecraft is going but that is cool in a way i mean you know there’s parts of it that are unfortunate but i

Do think it’s crazy to think that uh the minecraft’s uh yeah it’s gonna be looking like this in normal uh versions which is crazy but anyway we’ll go like this and of course this is like a rare structure you wouldn’t be finding this you know around every

Corner at least i hope you wouldn’t uh so there’s that i think we’re basically as good as we’re gonna get we don’t have enough iron for a water bucket even but whatever that’s not too bad if we kind of just jump down here kind of not really jump

But kind of go down down what we can do actually for food is we need these glow berries which is a very nice little thing i can just right click on the vines for glowberry so let me just ouch uh throw gemma glow berry because why not i don’t know i guess she’s

Finding some clay here there you go gemma there’s a glowberry but anyway i think i’m basically ready so i’m just going to be super uh super quick and super careful so again i don’t see anything like uh the skeleton actually do spawns i think just it’s going it’s the best chance so

Here we go three two one so we’re gonna basically do so we’re gonna head down here now gum can always run that’s basically our best defense and this is of course a bit of a bit of a scary deal but uh basically just want to get right down here again there’s a creeper

Okay here we are right down at the bottom and there’s a a bunch of dangerous things here as you would expect i mean we’re down here that’s a good thing uh that’s uh always something good to think about i see those skeletons over there i’m gonna get nowhere near them

Oh boy lots of zombies uh definitely crazy like um just this kind of stuff that we’re of course also a display skaters as creeper okay here we go this is just crazy but uh i have to keep calm on this of course because if i don’t i won’t be able to survive so

If we kind of run up here uh and come up like this we can kind of make ourselves a bit of a defensive area oh and there’s a creeper like that that actually surprisingly did not kill me uh let’s see if we can get this creeper to explode like this like

That that worked very well that’s a bit of a dangerous technique let’s see if there’s anything around that’s going to kind of drop on us doesn’t really look like it there’s just a spider here that’s nothing uh ridiculously dangerous if we can just get rid of that spider like this and

Kind of just ward off the zombies here as long as nothing gets us from behind we should be fine if we just get all of these like this and uh basically just wear them off like this and get ourselves a torch down like this we’re doing pretty good so this is

Actually looking a lot safer already as if safe is ever going to be used in any sense in a cave like this which probably it really isn’t but but anyway you can actually see how sparsely i’m putting torches and even then that’s actually a

Few too many so let me in fact just let this creeper explode again that’s exactly why i want to make a shield and let’s not delay this any longer before we die in this world which i don’t want to do of course but i might

If i keep being slow as i mind those deep slight diamonds there so let’s see how big the are we seriously out of space okay we’re out of space let’s just throw the string now another string actually let’s throw away the moss carpet that’s much better to throw away

And again looking around for where we are let’s see if there’s anything here uh and uh yeah basically uh because i think it’s just better if just one of us go down at once of course gemma could go down uh but i think it’s good if we kind

Of go uh one by one so we’ll go like this kind of just better because then there’s less chance of us dying i think so basically i don’t actually see a lot of more dangerous things around here other than you know the occasional zombie like this uh which still hit somewhat hard

But iron armor is certainly going to be a good defense there now you know two diamonds isn’t of course some kind of amazing thing but it is awesome to have uh and basically what we have here it’s telling me chad’s disabled i’m not sure why but anyway uh basically what we can

Do is we can kind of like oh four skeletons okay now let’s actually maybe just get right out of here it’s probably just the best idea uh we can just go up this water here so as long as the skeleton doesn’t shoot us down which it

Looks like it’s gonna try but as long as it doesn’t shoot us down again if it does we’re gonna try and fall this way into the water we can basically just use this as a really quick elevator to get right back up to where gemma is

I’m not sure if it’s just me but it seems like it’s actually going faster up the water than i usually do but it’s probably just me imagining it and we’re gonna head up here uh back to where gemma was and looks like she’s oh that’s actually really

Smart to build the way up that’s really good because in fact if we can get ourselves a really quick way to get all the way down there we can probably use it to further explore this but anyway we have diamonds uh we have lapis we have

All kinds of good stuff and of course we’re nowhere near done exploring this but we’re not going to leave this area and of course we’ll explore this more in the next episode i hope you guys enjoyed this episode of gemini exploring this cave uh slowly albeit uh but we want to

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