Late-Game Minecraft 231 :: Finding Copper in Unlit Caves
2In the cave system across the river, we notice an unlit tunnel criss-crossing above us! The tunnel brings us towards the surface where we find a twin water and lava fall, as well as an opening to the sky. While exploring, we find quite a lot of copper ore!
We gather a little honeycomb and birch before picking up some spruce saplings floating in the water! Next, we make our way across the river where we plan to explore the caves further. We spend a bit of time trying to find the cave that we had previously not explored fully!
Past the trapped zombie villager, we encounter an unexpected skeleton! I guess there are still some caves near the surface that we had forgotten to light up! After we do so, we head deeper into the caves to the area where we had got lost in before!
We place down some grass blocks as markers for ourselves before digging away some gravel! We are certain that we have explored most of the caves here so we are just looking around for any copper ore that we had missed. We hear a zombie near some dripstone though!
Further ahead, we find a baby zombie in an unlit cave! We had failed to see this cave the first time we were here as it was above our heads. We make our way to a cave with a high ceiling which we initially mistook to be a ravine!
Mining more copper and coal, we jump when a creeper falls down beside us! Thanks to our quick reflexes, we manage to escape certain death. We turn around and head back to the other unexplored section of the cave, and we find that it leads off in two directions! Both of them come to a dead end, however.
Here, we find two big veins of copper though! After verifying that there is no more copper left, we head back to the cave with the high ceiling! We put our bed down and sleep beside the waterfall and the lava fall. In the morning, we see sunlight streaming in from above!
As we climb up the rocks, a skeleton drops down beside us! We are so frightened that we throw away our sword, oops! We light up the dark spots in the caves for our safety. After some careful mining to carve out a staircase, we emerge onto the surface!
We head back into the caves to light up the rest of the area. From the other branch, we climb up to the surface again, this time finding ourselves on a beach beside the sea! As we head back in again, we hear many zombies, bats, and even a witch!
It is quite strange, as we had already lit up the entire cave! We mine out a small tunnel in an attempt to find the source of the noises. However, we find that the noises are fading, so we return to the main caves to start another tunnel in a different direction!
Our second tunnel also fails to find the unlit cave! We try walking around to hear where the noise is really coming from. It seems like the source is quite close to the surface, as we no longer hear the sounds when we go to the base of the lava fall!
We try mining a little higher and manage to find the cave by chance! We also discover some hidden copper ore behind the stone as we break into the unlit cave. We see an exit to the surface in the cave system that we have just discovered!
I guess we should have been looking on the surface for the caves instead of looking underground. Oh well! We continue to light up the caves, and investigate what is behind a pointed dripstone stalactite when we see water dripping from it! Turns out it was nothing at all!
Noticing another unlit cave hiding behind the lava fall, we make a small ledge to get to it! We find a few mobs, bats and copper ore! Is it just me, or does copper seem to be more frequent when you are closer to the surface? We place down our bed to skip the night again!
Actually, caving at night is safer as mobs will be able to spawn above ground as well, lowering the number of enemies that you will find in the caves! We hear some zombie noises and realise that we had not finished lighting up the cave that we had found by listening for mob noises!
On the surface, we get rid of a spider before heading back down. We notice some copper ore on the ceiling and build a pillar of scaffolding up to it! We still hear zombies in the caves so we look around and find some mobs standing on a ledge above the waterfall!
This is probably where the creeper that startled us had fallen from! We light up the place, then wander around to find the last few dark spots in the caves. Following the water downstream, we find another unlit cave extending deep into the ground!
We end up beside some lava lakes where we find deepslate and tuff! Some creepers are also waiting for us down here. Seems like another good place to explore! We pack our items in the Shulker box before ending the episode. In total, we gathered more than a stack of copper ore blocks today!
Version: Minecraft Java, 1.17 Survival (Vanilla)
Difficulty: Normal
Textures: Default + Creative Music
Music (listed in order of first appearance):
Clark - C418
Wet Hands - C418
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