Can we have Prospecting?

Prospecting a fun survival way to obtain ores that doesn't involve caving what you get depends on what biome you are in for instance if you prospect in a river biome in the badlands biomes you can get gold, copper, iron, sea grass, and sometimes you can find stuff from mineshafts too and ocean creatures that live in the ground in rivers for gold and copper and iron you can get any version of it so raw versions of the ores and even nuggets you can prospect in any biome with water that is at least 1 block deep of water to wash out your pan and yes this update adds prospecting tools as well kind of like archeology but instead of brushing away the sand or gravel you are panning it and washing it out in water oh and you can dig in dirt too specifically coarse dirt and rooted dirt but you can find not only ores but treasure items too like fossil structures nautilius shells if you prospect on any beach biome that isn't a stony shore biome you can also get decorational stuff like mini coral plants and prismarine shards too! you can get prismarine shards from all river biomes and ocean biomes but you can only get the prismarine pearls from the ocean all you need is a wooden or stone pan to get you started and a shovel to dig up some sand dirt or gravel! and if you are really trying get some good like diamonds you can craft a sieve which can be placed in water that will collect minerals from the flowing river biomes! those can be made from wood copper iron gold diamond or netherite!

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September 14, 2025 17:33
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the better the sieve the better ores and treasure items you get and the netherite one can be placed in lava without burning up it will collect ores that spawn in the nether like gold and quarts it can also pick up redstone glowstone dust and a new ore called Cinnisite it's basically an iron equivalent but it can only be mined in the nether or prospected by digging up gravel or soulsand found in the nether but be careful of digging up soulsand and panning it in lava there is a chance that a spirit will come out of your pan and attack you for disturbing it's rest and they are harder to kill than Vex so good luck. there are different tiers of pans too but you need a netherite one to be able to prospect in the nether because if you have anything worse than diamond it will melt in the lava if you pan near a pool of lava you'll have a chance to dig up a fire opal that you can hold in your off have to give you a fire resistance buff so you don't burn in the lava while you prospect and you can pick up ancient debris from prospecting in the nether as well

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Can we have Prospecting?

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