Should You Dig Straight Down In Minecraft 1.20?
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2023
- We've always been told to "Never dig straight down", but how helpful and accurate is this advice?
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I've took note of feedback from the previous video, and I've cut down on the jokes for better pacing. They're still there in the video, but I didn't squeeze in a joke at the end of every paragraph, do let me know if this made the video much more enjoyable for you! :)
It was definitely better in this video
You called us shit...................YOU ARE SHIT( bro sorry just a joke)
I think its good your experimenting, love your channel, I always look forward to your videos. Thanks for making me laugh every video since you were at 2k!
yeah def better
YES. I hate jokes in RUclips videos like this
Thank you for digging into such a groundbreaking issue.
Now I wish I made that pun during the video
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Oh no! The Pun-lice is coming for us!
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S-Tier pun
I think a 1/3 chance of getting something bad (a non-fatal fall damage usually also throw you in a ton of mobs) is already bad enough for me to not digging straight down
I did heard a rumor that the 'don't dig straight down' rule was originally due to early terrain generation lacking bedrock, which meant digging straight down could lead to falling into the void. I also discovered that during development, the bottom of the world alternated between bedrock and a lava sea before finally stabilizing into bedrock by alpha. It's interesting to learn about the evolution of Minecraft's terrain generation, and it makes me appreciate the game's current state even more. Also, I have to say, the video was hilarious! The jokes had me laughing out loud. I really enjoyed watching it, and I hope your channel continues to grow at a fast pace!"
Glad you enjoyed the video! And yeah, someone told me that the rumour started off like that and eventually became the 'lava reason' we know today.
We mostly learnt "Don't dig straight down" from screw the nether.
@@_syntaqs yea lmao
The joke about dream stans and statistics had me _dying_ lmfao
If you want to dig straight down, place yourself exactly between two blocks and then dig straight down so in case there's a cave, you won't fall immediately as the edge of the other block will safe you from that. When you reached your desired level, place a magma block under the one and a soul sand block under the other block to create a water elevator. Easy
It’s not like he mentioned that in video or anything like that.
Remember you need kelp!
i'm too lazy to do this + i dont want to waste extra durability on my pick. usually i just offhand a water bucket so if i fall in lava or into a giant cave i can save myself
@@gassug2 With the Caves and cliffs update In my experience the caves are EVERYWHERE so you don’t even need to dig down anymore
@@Bitzor well these caves don’t always have diamonds.
Mining in Minecraft is something very debatable, many prefer tunnels, others dig down and others don't even explore the caves, so I'd say that what's best for you is already good :)
Ngl "Don't even explore the caves" made me laugh not because of how they play but because I just imagine them telling their friends "I'm gonna go play Craft!".
@@XayXayYT bro this made me giggle 💀
@@XayXayYT reminds me of that time I got banned for "xraying" because i was searching for caves and found some with diamonds, like bro if you mine diamonds you go strip mining in 19.1? lmao
It's better you dig a 2 block gap than a 1 block gap, Saving up durability is good 👍
I've miraculously stumbled upon this channel while browsing Minecraft content and I absolutely love it, especially your jokes. The fact that you're a relatively small channel also makes this a little more personal and gosh darn funny. And I like how analytical you are with the content!
Bottom line, gen Z sense of humour + good content = subscription, keep it up
Glad you enjoy the videos my dude, there's more to come!
And yeah, gen Z humour style is perfect, it's either randomly, ironically or actually funny :p
@@XayXayYT bro is the oversimplified of Minecraft
For context oversimplified is a history RUclipsr who is able to make educational and yet very funny videos with modern humor
Gen Z humour is at least not millennial humour
I still find staircase mining beneficial for a reason:
A simple way out to the surface again, without having to put down your mined block to get out, and mining them back again to get down to a potentially discovered cave and waste that durability
Please do a 4 block tall staircase at least :p
Water bucket
you should do this but also for the nether, it’d be cool to see how often you hit lava vs bedrock
I think you will more often than not stumble across lava at y=17
i love the smooth transition at 10:51 to mending video. I really hope youll get more popular, because this content is of really high quality, though it could contain more advanced content (such as usage of debug screen, F3+a etc.
Yeah I always try to give people a reason to click on the previous videos, it makes it more enticing rather than "check out the rest of my stuff" y'know?
And thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I'll definitely keep that in mind for any future tests I do.
“He had one major oversight,he didn't travel in time” (3:14)
Imagine not travelling to the future smh
Honestly one idea that I think could make a really good video is the history of wireless stasis chambers in Minecraft. Wireless stasis chambers used to be a thing that could literally save you from death in ANY scenario, basically making you immortal and being the most OP thing in the game. You used to be able to set one up using item shadowing (which was patched in a recent update) or by using a fishing rod glitch (which was also patched). I believe there are still ways you can make one, but I don’t know how to exactly.
Is it the thing where you drop an ender pearl and use a trapdoor
@@XayXayYT That’s just a regular stasis chamber. The problem with that design is that you need someone to actually be there to flick the trapdoor when you want to escape a dangerous situation and be teleported to safety. With a wireless stasis chamber, you can teleport yourself from any distance or in any dimension, and this works in singleplayer and on Hardcore too. It doesn’t matter if you’re falling into the void or angered a Warden or fell into lava, with a wireless stasis chamber you can escape all of those situations in an instant.
@@paperyape if the chunk is loaded with a chunk loader of course
@@unitedairlanes5500 yeah
@@paperyape well if you’re good at the game you could just escape.
The two block method is the method that I use, the only time I've ever died using that method was when I wasn't paying attention. If you ask me a 34% chance of ending up in a dangerous situation is much to high for me, and something you didn't take into account with your "yellow zone" coordinates is that there could be mobs in there to finish you off, so the number of inescapable fatalities could be higher, so even though there's a high likelihood that you will be fine, just don't.
I agree with everything in this video! Recently I actually have been minning more and more straight down as the time goes on. Im not afraid of death due to 1st getting good boots and the water bucket incase. And when i need to go up to the surface I dont have to take 1h going up but instead i can place a ladder in my hole i mined or just use water to get up
Bro you actually had quite a few funny jokes that made me chuckle and I am incapable of experiencing humor. Also I loved the water temple song from OoT! Also the Phoenix Wight music. Also the mambo no. 5 joke was also pretty good tbh lol
Glad you loved the humour and the music choices my dude :)
I haven't looked deeply into this, but I heard a rumor that the real reason "don't dig straight down" was a rule is because early terrain generation had no bedrock, so digging straight down was a virtual guarantee you'd fall into the void.
After looking at the changelog in the wiki, it seems in the dev process, the bottom of the world flipped between bedrock and a lava sea, and was finally stabilized into bedrock by alpha.
Huh, that's an interesting thing to look into
I know this is so random but I wanna say, I’ve just found your channel and I absolutely love your videos, it’s so rare that a RUclipsr just clicks in my head like you have, keep up the good work my guy!!!
Glad you enjoyed the videos, there's more to come!
Never have I ever seen someone made me entertained and laughed about a simple topic for 22mins str8 😭. This my 6th video I've watched today.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
the programmings socks were one of the most cursed things i saw today
They look comfy though
@@XayXayYT yea
3:53 dude you're a beautiful wordsmith
Hell yeah
your videos are genuinely so good man. I know I don't gotta say this, but keep going!
Will do, I'm glad you enjoy the videos!
Addicted to your content. Keep it up!
There's more to come! Glad you enjoy them so far!
One of my first worlds (back in alpha days), I was digging a 3x3 vertical mineshaft, but hit a vein of gravel directly over a deep pool of lava. The gravel fell and I followed. These days, I craft a bunch of ladders and dig straight down placing ladders as I go and crouching on the ladder to stay in place. Clinging to the ladder may be slower, but it's nearly 100% safe. I hate dropping into a pitch black cave surrounded by creepers, zombies and skeletons almost as much as dropping straight into lava.
0:16 Good choices,as they are all some of,if not the best at their respective skill
When it comes to avoiding lava damage, I always carry a fire resistance potion in the hotbar myself. Only to be used in emergencies.
I always have one if I'm digging below y=20, or am in the Nether.
The doki doki soundtrack used in 2:26 took me back to my past ;-;
also ace attorney
A bit off topic, but I love the jokes you write for this vid (Especially the Mumbo no 5 one). Made me laugh from how unexpected it is.
Ay thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them! I was just thinking of the silliest Mumbo Jumbo insult I could think of and that came up :p
My new favorite minecraft RUclipsr. Bro keep up the great work. Funny, informative, and entertaining
Glad you enjoy the videos!
Last time your usage of Persona music was giving me flashbacks, now DDLC and Ace Attorney music wth man (You have a great taste)
Ay thanks, glad to see you have the same taste :p
I now need some programming socks so i can be smarter
I finished DDLC the other day and you gave me major whiplash when I began to hear the soundtrack from the game again
Heh, the *good* kind of whiplash I hope? :p
Early on I usually don't mind digging straight down just because there's not much to lose but generally I prefer just building up a nice home and so spend the most of my time tree chopping and not really mining. Then once the house is done I start a farm or fishing until I get a God Rod and from there I proceed with the mining. By this point I have some decent exp and a few polices of armor so I travel the mines normally
I have a great time watching the video also thanks for some useful information, now I'm gonna dig straight down in my hardcore Minecraft world
Absolute chad move my dude, it may be the dumbest move to dig straight down in hardcore but it would look cool as hell if you survive through it lmao
Hi, old player from beta. As one who dealt with this rumor and shared it. (Used to play back up til 1.8 beta) I’ll start with the work you did, really cool and having a set of numbers and depth to be able to dig down. But where this comes in important is for exploration of caves from being already within. Not everyone was keeping track of depth or utilizing coordinates I’ve seen too many downward digs in a rush to get as deep as possible leading to lava. But aside from that your info is rock solid but it only takes the one where you fall into lava or fall damage that has mobs (not everyone had “the fastest pick in the west”) so they could and many times have spawned as there were a lot of weaving caves. But then when you dropped and didn’t burn your inventory on death you had to go back down which meant a new hole. And finally when you dig straight down it felt way longer hopping and filling to get to the top vs the staircase after a full haul. It was the definitive way due to consistency at any location and time. Again loved this video and thought I’d be more informative in case you were curious of players experience and reasons (if you were not just going over the why as a full skit)
I definitely considered adding a few points here and there, but ultimately cut them out for fear of drawing out the video longer than it already is. I do appreciate your input though and glad you loved this video!
Your comment made me realise that I should've also mentioned Survivor Bias in the test, in which those that died by digging down were more likely to advise others not to, whereas those that were fine most likely said nothing about it.
I think that the reason mineshafts seem more common is because there is that the caves go way deeper.
From what I can tell, you get about as many mineshafts as before per volume - but as a structure they have very large footprint when viewed from above (being mostly horizontal), and can generate at multiple levels, which makes them easy to find when digging straight down.
That Yae skin caught me off guard
4:05 LMAO I remembered your diamond video and was waiting for this self-aware moment :D well done
Ay, it was unlucky timing but I'd be lying if it wasn't funny lmao
6:45 I have a sudden urge to laugh, I think my humor might have been altered in some sort of significant way some time in the past 3 years.
Don't worry, my humour may be broken too. I just saw like the 1 in 7 and I was like "isn't this kinda sussy.... what if I made that the joke lmao"
Amazing vid man!
Glad you enjoyed it my dude!
I gotta commend you for how expertly you chain all your videos together
Thank you! I try to give people a reason to watch the next video :)
Even if digging straight down wouldn't be dangerous at all, you would still have to work your way back up to the surface, so i suppose it would save at least a bit of time and tool durability to dig a staircase right away rather than doing both, unless i'm overlooking a convenient way to go straight up. Plus a nice custom mine entrance looks way more aesthetically pleasing than a deep 1 block wide hole in the ground.
8:33 npasta😭
As always, good stuff!! Keep it up!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@XayXayYT Yeah as per usual, but the thing is this video didn't change my opinion like usual, since I always have dug straight down, but it definitely cemented my decision to stick to it lol
@@mina_cious Damn what a chad
Much like what I used to do when I started my Minecraft journey. SO nostalgic
i'm very often just digging 1 block gap with sound subtitles(to hear lava) and a water bucket, that's safely enough to me.
Mumbo Jumbo had a great test but then the test got outdated when Minecraft released Caves & Cliffs so the test was run again by Xayllernste
“You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby”
"Mumbo Jumbo? more like Mambo No. 5, because I need a little more truth in my life" bars
Thank you, now I can start a conversation with my Minecraft friend
I wanna be better at the "Building Discipline" of Minecraft, as I love to build bases in Creative mode... Or... Survival with starting resources (Usually with 64 Jungle Tree Logs and 64 Oak Tree Logs).
When I dug straight down, it was usually to try Bedrock Breaking methods
8:25 caves and cliffs update is also the reason why people now think diamonds are just next step of iron
if you have an elytra and fire resistance then you can mine straight down completely safely
*water bucket has left the chat*
But then again that ain’t a perfect fix
@@stargazer-elite you can fail an mlg. It's much harder to mess up gliding down with an elytra
@@Vetrical yeah that’s why I added a second reply it was meant to be joke but then I was like oh shoot and typed the second reply
well with an elytra you could try to save yourself only to fly face first into a wall
The real solution is fire resistance potion and slow falling potion
@@stargazer-elite slowly gliding down and not using fireworks exists
2 blocks wide digging straight down with water bucket is approximately 100% safe and pretty fast
I hope your channel keeps growing, I think you're doing pretty good and think you deserve more views. Just keep going, one day the Algorithm will hit you :)
As a high school student taking AP stats, this video was hilarious.
All the best my dude, I've always called stats the "fun part of maths" especially when compared to Calculus lmao
I usually use ladder method. You crouch on the ladder while digging straight down. If there's nothing underneath, drop down and place ladder. If there's a cave, bring your water bucket to go down. And also continue making ladder if you're scared of mobs.
You'll need at least 2 stacks of ladders (or 45-50 logs at least, as you also need the wood to make torch, tools, barrel/chest and crafting table)
My main issue with that is it sort of defeats the point of digging down, which is efficiency. While you will keep your tool durability, it takes longer to mine while crouched on a ladder, and thus you will end up better off digging the 2-wide tunnel and making a water elevator after as well for more easy ascent and descent than climbing on ladders. I can totally appreciate the simplicity of just making a bunch of something, placing them as you go, and then never having to worry about it again whereas setting up the water can be a bit time consuming in itself, but I guess that's the great thing about this game, we can all do whatever we want
This was comical. Loved it
Glad you did!
4:40 jdjdhjsjdhgsjk *programer socks* uwu
Well done love your video
P.S I hope you get 1 million by the end of the year
1 million by the end is a pretty big goal but let's see how close to it we can get :)
It's just engrained in my spine like I can't bring myself to dig straight down it feels so wrong
"Here is the same pie chart in 3D" made me cackle
Heh I'm glad it did, it made me laugh while editing as well :p
Awesome Video! I wont lie the part where you said HermitCraft more like HermitBluff well cheesy made me laugh so hard lol 😂😂
I was just thinking of the cheesiest, most non-serious insult I could think of, and that came up lmao
Never have I ever dug down and ever died. I usually did a side by side with my character on the edge of both so I always fall on a block. I usually do this after I get close to 20. Even in the cliff and caves, I've never died
Ah, Mumbo Jumbo's big oversight: not being psychic!
Yeah, how dare he no be psychic!
I feel like this kind of test really only works if you do a bunch of coordinates over a series of different worlds and then finding the average. These stats only apply to YOUR specific seed. Idk if mumbo only did one world too, but if he did then he gets the same critique
i dont even know how its possible for Xay to get this many subscribers in such a short span of time
Honestly me neither, I'm surprised at the support I'm getting recently
double dig stand on 2 blocks seam and be safe and fast lol great video love it
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really well made!
Thank you!
omg a new xay video
Omg an early commenter
I like the jokes, keep em comming
Glad you do!
I loved the ddlc music, I love ddlc and it made me very nostalgic
2:08
nice, doki doki music
there are still a few things to consider:
- you might have a totem, strong armor, water bucket or elytra on you, pretty much making lava and fall damage a joke if you can play it smart
- when you hear lava, you can immediately stop and do the 2-wide thing
- you can as well just dig straight down for the first 50 blocks and then slow down
That goes both ways. For example, one of the "survivable" falls _might_ have hostile mobs waiting to knock off whatever health you have left. The video even admits this isn't really an inadequate sample size for anything, so I'm not sure what the point was.
Before the 1.7 update (that changed the world,) Minecraft's underground was like swiss cheese, after 1.7, caves became rarer
9:35 dude your probability skills are GODLIKE
I'd say, so long as you bring a water bucket, you can dig straight down no problem.
You can also be a modded survivalist which divides into 3 more categories
The,"Unfortunately I suck at all three, That's why I'm a commentory youtuber " had me dying of laughter 😂😂
Who needs gameplay skills to excel at MC RUclips when you can have the EDITING skills amirite
Soo true.
Man you sure like ace attorney and doki doki you you use their soundtrack.gotcha!!
I always mine down standing in two blocks. If there is anything under me, I'll see it before I die, and it's also a lot more time efficient than the staircase method. I just set up ladders and some water to jump down fast.
Thank for new video!
I hope you enjoy it!
@@XayXayYT I watched it, really liked it, thanks for the effort
I remember when u had only 2k, good job (im a OG)
Ay, thanks for sticking along with me :p
Even if you were guaranteed to survive, digging straight down can be a pain because itʼs hard to get back *up*. You could pillar up but then you just wasted all the effort to get down. You could bring ladders, if you donʼt land in a big cave. But not as easy as just walking up.
a qestion i asked exactly the day
this came back
I dig down very lot of times, but getting into lava or deep cave is actually rare, especially if you had water bucket in left hand, you can survive both
as a hardcore mode exclusive player even a 0.000001% chance is to damn high
Dig 2 wide and it's actually fairly safe
Before:there is a chance to fall in lava
Now:they're is almost a 100% chance you will fall and die instantly
(atleast that's what I thought)
Nice, we have matching programming socks
Hell yeah
DDLC music? Depression? Nightmares? On a Minecraft commentary video?
Yes!
The main reason digging straight down is not so dangerous anymore is because if you have a water bucket in your inventory, you can quickly save yourself if you fall into lava. If you immediately place the water bucket when falling into lava you only loose a few hearts. And if you have good armor, falling into a crowd of mobs isn't much of a danger either. The only real risk is falling from a big height into a large cave. But even most large caves are not deep enough to kill you completely from fall damage. And if they do, if you are not on hardcore and you are close to your respawn base, finding the hole where you died and going down with flowing water isn't difficult.
1. Water bucket
2. Riptide trident
3. Aqua Affinity/Depth Strider/Respiration enchantments
Water drilling. It's water drilling. I like to water drill. I'm the drill.
Amazing video as always. The one that died to lava technically wouldn’t occur because you land on the block above lava and wouldn’t dig straight down into the lava pool. 0% chance?
I'd keep it in just for fairness, if I test digging straight down, might as well just include everything along the y axis yknow?
@@XayXayYT give them the benefit of the doubt of course of course
It's easier to get random coordinates using the /spreadplayers command
I really wish I knew this beforehand lmao
It would be interesting to have a faction of humans that are anti-imperium but not pro chaos kind of like how the tau have The far sight enclave but for humanity. I also think it would be interesting for this faction to try and beat the imperium without being as immoral as the imperium I think that could do well to make this faction seem different to the imperium even if it's another human faction and the idea could be they hate the imperium so much that they don't want to use it's tactics as much as they can.
I always dig straight down. Is just im not an idiot and only dig one block down. I dig in a 2x2 i never fall into holes plus it makes ot easy to set up the bubble elevator that way cause all i have to do is use the same blocks u went down with to go up (implying that you have the resources for the elevator anyway
love this guy
love you too
I mean, 7% chance of dying is a lot lol. People never said "don't dig straight down you'll most likely die". it's more like "digging straight down exposes you to danger you're normally completely safe from if you're cautious".
There is also the obvious problem of getting back up, turns out a staircase works both ways while a big vertical hole requires some extra planning.
And if you're looking for cave the diagonal direction of a staircase makes it more likely to stumble on one or to hear mobs leading you to one so there is that.
It's never been an unbreakable rule, it's just good practice especially for new players.
It's pretty much the same as "don't take a 1% chance to get crit" when playing fire emblem. There are cases where it's worth it (if you're trying to go fast or if it's even more dangerous to not be proactive), but it's a good general rule because by following it you can take a situation that exposes you to risk to a situation with absolutely zero risk. It's not about the raw number of one attempt but about minimizing the amount of bad occurences over the many times you'll roll the dice while playing.
Gotta love the animal crossing music :3
I never got why people don't use the two block strat when digging straight down. Just stand in the middle of two blocks and dig, you'll get double the resources and guaranteed will not fall into anything before seeing it since you'll have a one block safety net. And it wastes less durability on your tools than staircasing.