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Cave Structures Generation Idea

With the new world layer of grimstone, many have noticed that strongholds exclusively generate at that level and thats great! Strongholds should intentionally generate deeper in the caves to make it harder to get to. Meanwhile, it should be fair that mineshafts should generate exclusively above the grimstone layer to give player progression. As you go from the comforts of the mineshafts to the terrrors of the strongholds. Also giving variation to these two structures would be amazing. Having mineshafts generate with different woods would be interesting as well as making strongholds out of grimstone bricks and toles would fit the mixture of end dimension and dark underground vibe!
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    Hello,

    I was really excited to hear and see about the new cave systems. Minecraft has improved alot over the years and it is nothing like it used to be. The new cave system generation is going to change minecraft forever and in a good way i find. I have heard there is some commotion about the in game depth and height, but all I want to say is that I was really looking for likewise caves from the snapshot and I think that you guys really did a good job already. Whatever choices you guys may take into the future I will stand behind them. I really love the caves and I dont think Diamonds will be to easy to find, because if we need diamonds we only need to mine 1 time with fortune 3 pick and get 2 stacks of diamond. This way it will be a way more fun way to explore the caves and look around for diamonds!! But either way LOVE IT, have a good day and stay safe. -fellow mc player.

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    I definitely disagree, for two reasons:

    1. Strongholds are very rare. They are designed to be found via eyes of ender, not by caving. Removing mineshafts below y=0 would make the negative y levels seem empty.
    2. Mineshafts are just too cool in contrast to grimstone, it would be so disappointing to see them gone.
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    Hey I have a few things that I think, in my opinion, should be changed. Firstly, When you drink a night vision potion some of the new lighting in caves glitches out slightly. Also, Axolotls are extremely broken when placed in one block high water. They do this messed up bobbing thing and vibrate a little sometimes. And when you summon them from a command block in no water they just float in a direction... Thats all they do. Also I think that there should be a higher chance to have the deep pits of water to be a cave entrance. Don't get me wrong I love minecraft and the new update I just think some cave generation needs fixing

    -BowserSMW

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    I dont think removing mineshafts below 0 is a good idea, but it would be cool if below 0 mineshafts only used spruce wood, because its a little darker then oak so it might fit in better. also it wouldn't be good to use dark oak because mesa mineshafts already use dark oak

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    Yes there definitely needs to be more generated structures, an idea I had was maybe underground pillager villages. Check my post on pillager villages if you want to see more. If not pillager villages, than a normal village underground would also be cool!

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    @PureAwesome334 well i never said anything about how you find strongholds. And another thing is even if mineshafts wouldnt normally generate below 0, they still can just due to how generation works. But there should be a feeling of progress when exploring and give more structure to where things generate.

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    Cave men villagers and cave villages with more Dungeons and mineshafts