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Caves Suggestion 2: Poisonous Gas.

This suggestion would make caves much more dangerous at lower levels. It behaves like water, in which you have air bubbles, and take damage if you run out. However, you quite obviously won’t be swimming in this situation. When your air runs out, you take damage and get nauseated. Any potions that have to do with breathing, such as the “Potion of Water Breathing”, would be renamed to the “Potion of Breathing.” My idea is that the poisonous gas isn’t everywhere, but in specific pockets around valuable ore. Another interesting property of the gas is that it’s flammable. Players will not be able to use torches or lanterns in the area. This makes some areas of the caves (and ores) less accessible to people until the late game when they have glowstone, sea lanterns, end rods, or redstone lamps. 

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• August 18, 2019 18:48
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  Jackofallgames0 commented

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  • August 19, 2019 00:38
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  Great Idea! Makes caves more dangerous besides using mobs as a threat in caves. Maybe you could capture this in a bottle and release it by your base to use as protection.

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  Ero McDonald commented

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  • September 01, 2019 01:57
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  It can also happen in mines. You should be able to release a bird or chicken(also a bird) down a tunnel, and if it dies then you know that there's poisonous gas down there.

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  SyntaxError999 commented

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  • March 02, 2020 17:33
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  I had a simular idea and wanted to check if someone else had it too.
  My idea is that gas works like water but spreads 360° until obstructed by a solid block. A gas block has a 'strength' value and as it spreads this value is spent to generate more blocks, equally distributing the value amongst the "cloud" until either the cave walls stop the process or the value drops to a level the triggers the blocks to despawn (venting the cave)

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  KyroSkee commented

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  • March 02, 2020 19:17
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  I don't like the idea of it being around valuable ore. I already get frustrated enough spending hours to find diamonds, to have to deal with that in my search would make me not want to play the game at all anymore

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  PSToxThicc2602 commented

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  • October 08, 2020 04:53
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  Gas should also be able to be removed by carving holes to lift it up, or by blowing it with a fan block.