The Big Onion Institute – Minecraft’s Caves get Even Better! (Cave Update: Remastered Guide)

Hey everyone and welcome to my guide to the cave update remastered since the last release i’ve touched up altered or completely overhauled pretty much every aspect of this add-on hence the remastered part of the title this is partially why it’s taken like a year and a half for this to come out

There’s also the fact that every new update mojang has pushed out over the past year or so has added some kind of game breaking bug that i had to fix for those of you that are unfamiliar with this add-on it is a vanilla friendly survival overhaul with a focus on well caves

It adds several new cave biomes sub biomes and unique structures to find while underground additionally there are new ways to traverse caves light up hard to reach places and mine large areas There are a plethora of new mobs as well including many hostile monsters tameable pets and even mindable cave crawlers however perhaps the coolest part of this add-on is a returning spider boss now featuring an updated design fully fleshed out attack patterns a new more fitting boss theme written by yours truly

And several pieces of unique loot to aid you in your adventures plus there’s an easy to use creative mode item that spawns pretty much everything in the add-on allowing you to easily see everything for yourself now if you’d like to get a more in-depth overview of this add-on stick around for

The rest of the video or if you’d like to experience it for yourself the download is available below somewhere maybe by the way there are two versions of this pack the more detailed version which is the one shown in this video and the simplified version shown here the thing is the detailed version

Requires downloading an extra resource pack which is also available in the description but the simplified version doesn’t this extra pack allows the game to render all these cool looking blocks however this quote-unquote fix is apparently still broken on realms and will probably eventually be patched and stopped working in normal worlds too

Which is why the simplified version exists so if you don’t mind potentially re-downloading the pack in the future pick the more detailed version if you don’t want the hassle pick the simplified version or you know you can just download both to be safe they don’t actually conflict

With each other if you have them both installed with that out of the way let’s get to the full overview currently there are three new underground biomes the arid caves found underneath deserts and badlands overgrown caves found underneath jungles and savannas and frigid caves found underneath tundras and inside mountains

Arid caves are comprised of a unique stone called desert stone it can be mined with any pickaxe and features several decorative variants that can be crafted at either a crafting table or a stone cutter you can also find these blocks naturally in the unique variants of dungeons that spawn in this biome

If you go to the deepest parts of the world all deep slate is replaced with a special desert variant called flamestone all ores that generate in arid caves are special desert variety shown here a bit of a disclaimer unfortunately every pickaxe mines these at the same

Rate as far as i know i can’t change this until mojang allows me to but i don’t think it’s too big of a deal right now just maybe bring some tnt or a mining potion if you plan to break a lot of desert stone next up we have overgrown caves these

Are one of the more unique caves and a personal favorite of mine they feature large amounts of compacted soil perfect for growing mushrooms large patches of moss as well as roots grass and bushes can be found growing all throughout these caves additionally a new ore can be found in

The soil called the guano deposit these are great for acquiring large amounts of guano which can be used in a whole manner of things such as making gun powder bone meal and brewing into a miner’s potion guano is also dropped by bats every so often like with chickens and eggs

Additionally these biomes are home to honey slime nests i’m not sure why i originally added honey slimes but i thought they were cool enough to bring back even if they are a really strange idea the last major underground biome we have are the frigid caves their main stone type is gray limestone

It’s frankly one of my favorite looking blocks in this add-on and definitely gives mountains a little more character additionally you can find many icicles decorating the floors and ceilings of these caves let’s cover the spider nest sub-biome next these can generate in pretty much every overworld cave type and offer unique

Rewards and challenges the ground around them is covered in many layers of spider webs and spider eggs these can be broken for easy access to string and other materials but may also release several spiderlings in the process these eggs can also be sheared and then placed by the player wherever you wish

Additionally you can find all kinds of treasures hanging from the webs on the ceiling you just have to be brave and find a way up there just uh maybe bring a diaper the next sub biome is the slime chunk while these are technically in vanilla there normally is no real indication of

Where the slime chunk begins or ends but now the ground is covered in a thin layer of slime wherever they can spawn additionally i made the ceiling drip slime periodically it’s a subtle detail but it’s honestly one of my favorite parts of this add-on another thing you may find on your

Caving adventures are these underground shacks they’re similar to dungeons except without the mob spawner they have similar loot to dungeons but with the added bonus of a unique chest variant that you could take with you you can’t make double chests out of these but they do look pretty stylish

Just be wary as things may not always be as they seem while the new cave generation added in caves and cliffs is amazing it can make things difficult to explore this is where the grappling hook crossbow comes in it’s a craftable tool that allows the player to swing from any

Block to escape danger or reach otherwise inaccessible areas it’s enchantable and is crafted like so if you’d like a more in-depth look at the grappling hook i’ve already made a separate video covering it but moving on sometimes the problems you have while caving require more explosive answers with the previously mentioned

Guano-based recipe gunpowder is more abundant than ever and with all this gunpowder you can now craft individual sticks of tnt they are a throwable item that ignites once it lands on any surface and once ignited it acts just like a smaller version of the block of tnt

If you want to mine something on either a wall or the ceiling you can craft the slimy stick of tnt these will attach to any surface they’re thrown onto not only are both sticks of tnt very good for mining but they also can be used offensively as well

Just be sure to only use them in places you don’t mind blasting craters into while on your adventures underground you may be lucky and stumble upon the occasional glowworm they’re rare tameable mobs found in every overworld cave you can tame them with either red or brown mushrooms and

They can be bred with glowberries they can spawn in five different normal variants and one super rare sixth variant let me know in the comments if you ever find any rare variants and happen to know what it’s a reference to if you feed a tamed glowworm either type

Of mushroom it will burp out some glow goo for you you can use glow goo to throw like a snowball and temporarily light up hard to reach areas in caves any entity hit with a glow goo ball will be splashed with goo and begin glowing for a brief time

You can actually coat yourself with goo by throwing it at the ground or by drinking a potion of gleaming it is brewed by mixing an awkward potion with glow goo this can also be extended with redstone like a normal potion another rare mob you may find while

Spelunking are the new and improved cave crawlers these guys have probably seen the most drastic changes to their design and behaviors since the last update they are essentially walking ore veins that can vary greatly in size they have a huge number of variants including every ore and major stone type as well

At first you may reflexively use your sword to try to take them down but their stone armor resists all attacks and will reduce incoming damage by about 80 percent well all attacks except for pickaxes they will in fact deal bonus damage as well as occasionally knocking out bits of ore with each attack

Each tier of pickaxe will have a higher and higher chance to knock off ore with diamond and netherright pickaxes having a 100 chance to knock off ore with every hit they won’t just sit there and let you hit them though the smallest crawlers will flee from you while the larger ones

Will fight back if you’re lucky enough to find the largest of them don’t underestimate its ability to destroy your life talking about destroying your life let’s get into the hostile mobs of this add-on perhaps the most common monster included with this add-on is the undead miner they’re often found wielding low to

Middle tier pickaxes and can hit pretty hard as a result they have a chance to drop their pickaxe their gold helmet or random ingot as well as commonly dropping a few bones they’re not too difficult to fight by themselves but they can pose a significant threat when it numbers

Next up we have the cave creeper where normal creepers are dangerous because they destroy blocks cave creepers are dangerous because they create blocks when they explode they fill the surrounding area with a unique type of stone block in an attempt to suffocate the player the stone takes much longer to mine than

Normal stone it will break itself within about a minute this means that unlike normal creepers these ones won’t actually grief your world when they explode as a word of warning for those of you with arachnophobia this next section will focus on the spiders of this add-on you’ve been warned

Perhaps the most powerful non-boss monster in this add-on is the brood spider and her spiderlings they’re found in most underground biomes and are most common around the spider nest sub-biome their design has changed slightly with this update now including animated spiderlings on their abdomen additionally with every hit they take

They have a chance to fling spiderlings at you as a distraction not really the best parenting technique but what can you do they also drop all their remaining spiderlings on death as one last attack as for their loot they commonly drop string and spider eyes which is you know

Unusual for spiders as well as several spider eggs and the occasional spider heart spider heart can be eaten to give you both good and bad effects somewhat like a less good golden apple they’re farmable though if you could stand hanging around spider nests that is

If you do get a spider heart if you use that and four spider eggs you can craft the spider queen egg this is used to summon the spider queen boss spider queen has 275 hit points and can deal between 6 and 10 damage per hit depending on whether it’s a light or

Heavy attack the shield is very helpful for melee combat because even though her attacks are slow they do have a lot of reach but with a proper skill and timing you can reliably block them and save yourself from a lot of damage be mindful though and she has a variety

Of other attacks besides her two melee attacks that you have to watch out for she can shimmy and shake and cover the battlefield with spiderlings they have a very low targeting range only about a couple blocks they’ll gang up on you if you try to plow through them

She can also fire projectile web attack towards you it doesn’t do damage directly but it will slow you down tremendously if you get caught in it on the bright side you can break these webs instantly and they despawn over time so you don’t need to clean anything up

Her last move is her digging ability she will periodically hide underground and re-emerge a few seconds later in a different location depending on how the fight is going this can give you some precious time to heal or run away though she has the chance to spawn a

Group of lesser brood spiders to aid her when defeated the spider queen will cause every spider she spawned to flee for the luchi drops the queen spawns several unique boss items for the main items she can drop a special sword called the web weaver which has both a melee and ranged attack

Or a ranged weapon called the spider slinger which launches groups of hostile spider lings that attack everything in sight for a few seconds the spider queen also has a chance to drop two bonus items the spider queen mask and a music disc that plays the boss theme

The spider queen mask is essentially an unbreakable helmet designed to look like her head the music disc acts a little differently to normal music discs for some reason even though mojang gave us the music disc item component for custom items it doesn’t actually work so this music disc can just work

Everywhere like a boombox or something also i think it’s worth reiterating this song is copyright free and was written by me for this add-on so you will have no issues having it play in any of your videos that you make on this add-on with that said you can still choose to

Disable it with this command if you’d prefer there to be no music but anyway that about wraps things up for the features of this add-on be on the lookout for my next few add-on releases i’m working on some pretty cool stuff that i haven’t really seen anyone

Else attempt yet so i’m really excited to show you all but if you made it this far i’d like to thank you so much for watching and i’ll catch you next time