Yeah, the “Mine” part of Minecraft was always rather lame. Because the worlds are so insanely flat, caves have no real verticality, so it’s hardly worth descending them to get to deeper levels. As such, you also don’t need to secure a path through them with ladders, minecarts or intermediate bases.
The monsters are the only interesting part, but if nothing interesting happens while fighting those, then it’s going to be “off-camera”.
Well, or you could save yourself the trouble and just dig a staircase to diamond level.
Or you could save yourself the trouble and just cheat the resources.Maybe you have not played for a while but in the latest versions of minecraft, the caves are pretty insane specifically when talking about how varied they are in both size and depth.
You can also realistically get a lot of diamonds by just caving now.
I often times end up with a stack of diamonds just from exploring a cave without the intention of finding diamond at all.
That being said...
I’m a degenerate and start new worlds building farms and trading villagers for full diamond.
I’m an adult Minecraft noob that’s trying to beat the game in hardcore. And I’ve learned I make way fewer dumb mistakes with this approach.
Or you could save yourself the trouble and just cheat the resources.
or you could role play each new creation. Oooh a chest from whomever! thanks, that’ll help me get started!
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