Minecraft Cave Update: Epic Creation by Mumbo

The cave update i think it’s safe to say has been a fairly a fairly popular topic of discussion recently in the minecraft community because of course caves have existed since minecraft began but haven’t really received any major updates over the years so i thought i

Would try my best to pop in here and make some improvements and of course i feel like it’s worth mentioning i’m going to try my best to make this feel as vanilla as possible whilst also adding some amazing redstone features does that sound good i think that sounds

Good now the first thing that i’ve done is i’ve removed all of what i would consider to be the ugly box things like dirt granite diorite and andesite from all the walls so now they’re looking a little bit smoother oh my word that’s made such an improvement but i think we

Can improve on it further by doing a little bit of ruining so i’m going to start adding in some cobblestone stairs slabs cobblestone blocks and also start throwing around things like this now don’t ask me why there would be coral down at the bottom of a cat it

Doesn’t it kind of doesn’t make too much sense but it looks really cool in the context it’s like cave bushes and actually on the topic of bushes these look good too i really like the overgrown effect i mean if you look here there’s not actually too much going on it’s just a

Few slabs dotted around and already i would say it’s about 200 improvement i mean if mojang did this as the cave upgrade i wouldn’t be mad now the reason i’ve left this space empty is because i’m going to do something big with it but the rest of the cave has had the

Full treatment and it looks it looks pretty cool it really does look quite cool especially without my night vision potion this is genuinely a little bit scary oh it’s a totally different feel anyway that’s enough of the pretty stuff let’s crack on with some redstone now the

First thing i want to create is what i’m calling a skeleton dungeon so the idea behind this is that obviously there’s some good loot in there so you’re going to want to go in there if you’re exploring caves but there’s going to be some traps and some things that you’re

Going to have to watch out for and those things you’re going to have to watch out for of course are going to be skeletons now how am i going to wire this up i actually think it should be quite simple so i’ve got a bunch of pistons

Going round like this as we walk into the room the room is going to detect that we’ve entered and all of these skeletons are going to pop out from behind these doors and walk towards you they’re going to have beefy bows it’s going to be i mean that’s going to be

Really tough how many that’s nine [Laughter] i don’t know if i would be able to take this on personally but with that being said i am of course useless at anything where there’s combat involved what do we think of this this looks pretty vanilla doesn’t it like this looks like if you

Peep through there that actually looks like something that could be in vanilla minecraft so we’ve got the leaves it’s kind of following the same kv theme but we’ve got a lot more cobblestone some stone bricks and things and then this chest right here is where all of the items are going to be

Now i’m wondering in terms of the activation of this should we either have pressure plates in this sort of area here so you walk over them or should it be triggered by the person removing things from the chest hmm i actually think the chest yeah this works perfectly so when the diamonds are

On the inside of the chest everything is all closed up the player walks in removes all of the diamonds and all of the components open and all hell breaks loose and here are the guys that are going to be giving us grief i really like this idea i think

This is super cool i’d love it if we went into caves and just saw this sort of thing lying around anyway next up the all room so now that we have sneaking in minecraft i really like the idea of having to almost sneak through an area to get into somewhere with tons upon

Tons of resources now i know about this place right here it’s a lava lake it’s a big open space so i’m going to have to do some work on it making it look pretty once again but then in the ceiling i think i’m going to fill it with diamonds

And gold but you know there’s no such thing as a free lunch in my cave systems so there’s going to be another challenge involved but before we get on to that how cool is this so look we go through here we have to go through we have to

Make our way over to this little trapdoor right here that will allow us to drop down into crawl mode and then we can just kind of push ourselves through this little gap that is like a true caving experience right there and then in here this is where it’s all going to

Be happening so i guess i should probably make it a little bit prettier once again removing all of these ugly blocks and they’re horrible they’re absolutely horrible so here’s my idea we’re going to put big old veins of lava up in the ceiling but then underneath

Them we’re also going to have veins of ores this is actually getting quite difficult to place all right i think i’ve covered up everything and yeah those are going to come down like this so when the player is mining out the blocks they have to be

Very wary of the fact that they have lava underneath them but also lava above them too but i gotta say it’s worth finding one of these rooms just for how cool it looks alone i love the way this looks i love the oars dangling from the

Ceiling i love all of the lava and all of the walls and kind of coming down like that i just think it looks mega now obviously it couldn’t generate very frequently this would have to be a fairly rare find but imagine how cool it would be if you’re exploring the caves

And then you saw one of these tiny little gaps and you knew that this was going to be on the other side so now that that room’s all completed there’s actually a small little detail that i want to work on that is almost a reference to a lot of horror films

Because you know whenever there’s like a cave involved in a horror film the person will walk up they’ll be walking through it and then they’ll walk past the hole and loads of bats will just blast out of it i like this idea now i’m hoping that it will be just as

Dramatic as i imagine so we’ve got we’ve got a pulse extender which is going to retract the piston out the way so that will open up the hole then we also have this dispenser which is going to blast a bunch of bats into the cave and i think for extra effect it

Might also be worth adding in a command block that plays sounds maybe ghast noises that is perfect so i thought for extra dramatic effect i would turn off my night vision potion we’re walking through where did all the bats go and they they’re all just sat there what

What let’s go back to the drawing board then how well does this work oh that’s not too bad well that’s not too bad the explosion out at the end is actually quite good so i used to slime block to punch them out ah i mean it it’s not quite perfect but

I like it i think i’m just going to leave it as is as a kind of proof of concept anyway next up big one this has been this has been the area that i’ve really cared about for this entire video so you can see i didn’t do any

Decorating to it because i knew i was going to be making some pretty substantial changes a little bit like how we did the skeleton dungeon i was thinking we could build up some form of creeper temple here and it’s going to be bigger than a lot

Of the other places i’m talking a big creep ahead there maybe some pillars all that full indiana jones and actually on the pillar front i think this looks quite cool once we start decorating this place properly with some actual kind of temple structures going around a few of these pillars

Will make all the difference so i would say probably one about here and maybe even one there in this space here yeah yeah that will look quite cool and i think we can all agree it does awesome awesome awesome awesome uh now for the walls i’m just thinking iron

Bars and just things like that just small remnants of structure also looks pretty good the cave update i’m i’m now rooting for a cave update i can probably see that just as a bit of minecraft trivia here when i first started out on my youtube channel one of my favorites to watch

Absolute favorites was etho just just i i watched every single let’s play episode so this is kind of it’s almost like a homage to his survival let’s play world right let’s put some lava behind the eyes nice all right okay so we have got the actual look of our creeper temple all down

Uh next up we need to actually add all of the redstone components in and there’s some interesting things that i want to do i am i’m very curious to see if i can actually pull this off what i’m thinking is we have a cave-in system as i say

Full indiana jones when you get the treasure the cave begins to fall down on you which could be a massive chat yeah that’s gonna be tricky that is going to be tricky to pull off in a good way but with that being said i have come up with

An idea of how to do it so if i place in some sticky pistons here and then we pop through to the ceiling you can see i’ve actually cleared out a big old space up here where i’ve started mapping out areas where the roof is going to start

Caving in and we’re going to have repeaters connecting all of these things up we’re going to have gravel up at the top here that’s primed and ready to fall it’s going to end up looking really really dramatic and then hopefully hopefully hopefully i can find a good

Sound to play while it’s happening this is the one that i had in mind i mean it it definitely sounds like it’s crumbling there what the i mean i think that would work would that work anyway sounds aside all of these holes represent areas where gravel is going to

Fall from the ceiling so you can see that actually it’s gonna look it’s gonna look pretty cool and now i just have to hook all of these up with a redstone line that kind of snakes through i don’t want it all to happen at once i want it to be quite

Gradual so maybe it will work its way around with a decent delay between each one of the modules let’s do a quick play test so okay oh wow i think this needs to be it needs to be a lot faster all right yeah yeah i’m way off i’m glad i did

That test but now after a bunch of fiddling i managed to get it working the gravel is in so let’s do a full full play test of this thing here goes so very much like the skeleton temple we have got chest with items on the inside if we take those items out

That is when this stuff starts to happen this is awesome check this out oh that is so cool because that is still kind of vanilla minecrafty i’m a fan obviously you know you wouldn’t have used blue wool i don’t imagine mojang would be using blue and yellow wool for the redstone that just

Allows me to see what the circuits are but that has worked absolute wonders i’m so impressed so that combined with all of the other things that we have inside this area here that’s pretty cool as well and of course our all room through here which looks absolutely nuts i think it’s

Safe to say we’ve got some really interesting features that could serve as potential ideas if mojang were to do any form of cave updates because all of them feel fairly vanilla minecrafty like none of them feel particularly out of place i even quite like the bat hole

It all looks quite cool anyway i do hope that you’ve enjoyed this little redstone video let me know down in the comment section what sort of thing you would like to see if mojang were to update the caves but anyway i really do hope that you enjoyed and i’ll catch you in the

Next one see ya i’m seriously not joking when i say this was one of the most fun videos i’ve worked on in a long time i i really really enjoyed doing this one and you know what when everyone started asking for cave updates and everything i

Was like yeah i mean i don’t know if they need to do it but now that i’ve played around with it for a bit god it would make the game just totally different it’d be nuts