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'Deep Underground' Zone (Part One of Two)

Just warning you, this is a bit of a long one, sorry!

My idea would only really be plausible if the underground was made significantly deeper, which is possible, but I imagine it would be pretty difficult to implement. I know that there are mods such as Cubic Chunks that can achieve this but either way, I think it should be done.

My idea is that as you go deeper into the underground, about half way to bedrock, over the course of maybe 15 blocks or so on the y-axis, stone transitions into Hardened Stone, which would have a darker texture than stone, be slower to mine (but not too much slower) and have a higher blast resistance etc. This would represent the earth becoming denser due to pressure and heat. In the 'Transition Zone' There would be no caves or structures, and there would be loads of small lava pockets. This, along with the tougher stone, would make the Deep Underground less accessible early-game. 

On top of this, caves and structures would be significantly less common in the Deep Underground, making fewer spawnable spaces for monsters, (essentially increasing mob spawn rates), and lava pools would be more frequent. Hardened stone would drop nothing if mined with a wooden pickaxe - as well as taking ages to break - but otherwise would drop Hardened Stone (or Hardened Cobblestone, idk)

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    This sounds cool, but I think it would be quite boring mining down there... I think they would have to add something else down there to spice things up... (aka how they have dungeons, strongholds, mineshafts, etc above, have something different below).

    Tho I always wanted what Terraria had - just keep mining down to get to the nether, and a portal was simply a quick way down.

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    This sounds great! I find it slightly sad that when my friend and I were playing on a new survival world, it took us around 30 minutes, or less, to get diamond tools. (Thanks, ravine!)

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    Ah exactly got the same idea but when you get deeper, you would see giant underground lake with ruins, several ores like amber-ruby-amethyst to finally have mithril/orichalcum at the really bottom. I know I would have fun mining deeper, if we also have structures like miners villagers refuges or glow mushrooms.

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    With cubic chunks and practically infinite caves there should also be biomes dotted around the underground in various shapes and sizes that contain unique blocks mobs in structures that affect the way caves generate. Just like the surface now