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Hi !

We spend a lot of times in caves in minecraft but they didn't get any new or exiting features since a long time, that's why I think a cave update is due !

Some ideas :

- Caves biomes of diferent types of caves depending on the biome it's generated into, for example : Ice caves, bats infested caves, lava caves, etc

- Stalagmite and Stalagtite in caves, should be blocky, maybe like cobblestone walls

- More mushroms in thsoe caves?

- Mobs spawning only in caves?

There is a lot that could be done so that just some ideas, also the nether is a big caves, so it could be updated at the same time !

 

 

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    How about unstable caves that cave in with a ton of falling blocks if mine the wrong ores or break the wrong blocks

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    Rusty Golem

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    The Dwarf in me is in need of larger caves. I on average carve out ravines to roughly 30-40 blocks in width, this assuming I don't expand further in the process.

    Ontop of that, i'd quite like to see Crystal deposits in caverns. Something that can boost the light level around it. Maybe even cast light in specific directions so an array of Crystals could light a space or large cavern

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    That’s is a good idea. But what do you mean by “mobs only in caves?”

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    We need stuff to keep a player still in the game

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    I think you can refer to "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne for some good ideas.

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    Have coper for power and difrent ores for difrent items like armor wepend or automatically storing items endless possibly and so meny items

    ;D

     

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    Add crystals and that could be the new rarest and stronger than diamond

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    I love ot and agree... So will they just announce it already!?!?😤

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    Idea List:

    1. Cave Cities, similar to overworld structures like desert temples/villages/woodland mansions

    2. Cave Biomes based on the overworld biome above you

    3. Cave Specific enemies, maybe like a fake ore that transforms into an actual mob

    4. New Ores, we really need more ores. Diamonds are easy to obtain by night 7 for me. I think a new ore or two that were very rare, or maybe even cave--biome specific ores?

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    I have some ideas 1. Queen Spider I fear spiders, and if my idea is next to this update, I will not go back to a cave, but I say it for the fans. This would be a boss of the game, it will appear in a spider web structure, it would have a large spider tail, as if measuring 2x2 blocks high and wide, where normal spiders would come to attack, if you kill it, you will have the crown of spiders, A gold crown with a ruby ​​and spider eyes. Which if you put it, spiders will not attack you, if not, they will attack those who attack you. It will also release, strong rope, a much better rope, to make bows, fishing rods, crossbows, etc. more resistant, and a weapon called, hook, which would be a strong rope with a beak, but, if you crackle it with a crossbow, you will have like a hook gun, but with a crossbow. The queen spiders and their small spiders would be one of these colors. Brown, Blue or Cyan. They would not be black widows 2. Elite skeletons These skeletons will appear in the desert temple, the jungle temple, and two new structures, temple castle and jungle castle. Both castles would be huge, very large, with a boss each, but we are talking about skeletons. These skeletons would have new armor and weapons, of gold or emerald, affected by the biome. Gold and emerald shield. Super resistant and with a new enchantment. Mirror, this enchantment would make the shield that receives an attack, return the attack to which I attack with double the damage. I mean, it would be the skeletons of Minecraft Dungeos, but with a variety of the Desert would be the same as Minecraft Dungeons, and the jungle would have greenish colors instead of yellowish ones. 3. More stones In the Soul Sand Valley basalt will be added. which should also appear in a new biome of volcanoes, better than those of Chisel Mod. But... Basalt should not be the only new stone that was missing, there is also more. Marble, a white stone that is widely used in construction, if added to minecraft, would be used a lot to make houses, statues, etc. Limestone, is another stone like and the same objective as marble, but it is half greenish, it may not be used much in houses, but in other things. Etc Oh, hundreds of these stones. I only said three ideas. I don't ask that all three be added together. but that at least one of these is in the game. I ask the stone variants.

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    My idea is that caves could have ice and also forgotten miners that are zombies and these miners could have picks of all kinds and could also have a new ore that would be a ruby ​​and also emeralds could be more useful to do for example, a quit of armor and also the equipment like pickax and the other miners thing when going through a very large cave maze later when you find an abandoned mine at the beginning would have a boss with many mining zombies as a raid after killing all zombies would appear a giant zombie miner; one thing i'm brazilian

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    I hope we get new ore

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    you should make new ores so we can make new toold and armour

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    New ores, mobs and maybe there could be a new boss found at a underground structure.

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    yes omg the saves have been the same forever. Very old and boring. Please update. We also need more stuff todo, You mine, get iron, diamond, obsidion, go into nether, get blase rods, kill enderman, stroghold, enderdragon, end city, thats it

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    We need new mobs for caves and they will also go deeper maybe 50+ lower block limit where there are way better ores but near impossible mobs to get the loot and also kind of the design of mineshafts you would need support to keep up the walls and if you didnt the walls would cave in. The mob that im thinking of would be called the cave lurker and would be gray and tall like the enderman but but has his arms in the possition of a zombie, AND he has hair like gollum from lord of the rings and have a hunched back would do 4 hearts of damage with full iron armor but is a 2 shot with iron sword. And he doesnt do knockback so you dont get hit into lava. That could be just the start!

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    Hi,

    i thought that a new stone variant would be very good for the game ( not a type of diorite for reasons....).  Also this is the most upvoted suggestion on Minecraft.net and IBXtoycat is going slowly insane. Mojang needs to address this... NOW!

     

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    This update reminds me of a game called terreria and their are different biomes in caves

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    Crystal Golems would be cool to add in. They could glow the color of the corresponding crystal and they could defend crystal caves.

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    I just saw this vote and I was super excited to see it. So I JUST had to vote for it. Hope to see out soon in Minecraft. Never getting bored with mining in the game ever again

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    add a new ore to give players a new form of weapon

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    I just want to add onto this a bit.

    I was talking to someone and they gave the idea of reinforced tools for some addons in the Cave Update that could be difficult to mine or unable to mine with things like iron, gold and possibly even diamonds. They gave the idea of steel tools and I thought it would work well. To make steel a process called "oxygen steelmaking" produces steel, hence the name. In the process both carbon and iron are needed. So, in the Cave Update I think there should be a new ore (and many more) which would be carbon. Steel could be used for reinforced mining and make mining processes go speedier. There could even be a brand new block added for this "oxygen steelmaking", similar to the brewing stand or something. Mixing the carbon and iron together to create steel.

    In my opnion, carbon should be semi-rare so you can't get steel almost right off of the bat. 

     

    Maybe we could even get rubies back or give emeralds more of a purpose. Maybe even some sapphires or something. All things that have been suggested before.

     

    Anyways, that's just my idea. I didn't think it warranted an actual post so I just decided to make it a comment here.

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    I really agree with this idea because caves are getting a little boring to explore. We seen mineshafts, ravines, and diamonds now, it’s time for more ores in game!

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    Maybe add a miners helmet that gives you something similar to night vision in the caves.

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    What about a new Ore mob? Like silverfish but very different. Kinda like a crab thing but stone?

    Opinionssssss?... •3•

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    Something I see being profitable for a Cave Update is moving the world generation, like 32 to 64 blocks upward. Sure, it doesn't seem like a lot, but take into consideration that the height limit is currently 256 blocks. Most biomes only use up to about 30% of that space - by adding a deeper underground, more of that space could be spent by feeding worlds with juicy, newly generated content.

    From a technical standpoint, I understand this being difficult. Temperature and sea level systems need to be tweaked, plus old worlds would be completely nonconvertible. If it could be figured out, that would be amazing! 

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    With the amount of comments everybody's writing, it'd take 4 years to add all the features. 2 if we're lucky, and assuming that they didn't work on the Nether Update at all.

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    This has roughly 20,000 votes, almost 4 times more votes than the highest voted announced thing, Meerkats. In my opinion, something that highly requested, should be instantly approved. I see how it could be challenging, but there is no excuse, as you guys just made a 3D biome tool/AI/McGuffin that made 1.16 possible, and is what caused the cave update uproar in the first place. people are posting genuinely good ideas in the comments, and as separate posts. How about, as 1.17, we have:

     

    1.17: (Insert Cave-Themed Title Here)

    You guys announce a couple of biome, like andesite cave, and spider dens or something, and a few new naturally generated structures, then come up with a vote between 3 highly requested cave biomes, like the regular biome votes. From there, have the regular biome votes at every event, and a cave biome vote alongside it every other event.

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    I feel like a good thing to add would be new materials, such as ruby and copper. Another thing would be ores that could spawn in the end. I've seen this in modpacks, and it would be great to see implemented in vanilla minecraft. Another idea would be mobs that spawn only underground.