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! :)
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!
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!"
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
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 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
@@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.
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 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.
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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I performed my own experiment once in my own minecraft world so with a very large sample size of 1 i can confirm there is a 100% chance of getting diamonds and an abandoned mineshaft.
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
@@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
@@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
earlygame, without feather falling, I just dig down two blocks at a time, while standing on the side of both blocks, so that if there's a big fall that I dig into, I have time to react to it and avoid falling.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
You guys love to go contrary. I usually follow this rule for the immense amount of times I have died not following it. My straight down holes always lead to a lava pit or a great height drop, and no, Im not a pro, so I dont have fire immunity potions and cant do a water drop.
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.
back in like 2013 or so the ONLY thing underground was lava. IF there was something else then I never found it. If there wasn't lava it was just more ground. Kind of why I hated playing the game and refused to play it for about 7-8 years.
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.
I dig straight down all the time. I place a ladder, hold the ladder (sneak mode), and dig up up 3 blocks down. If the coast is clear, I jump down, place ladders, and repeat the process. I dig all the way down to bedrock safely. Actually found red stone this way. Also, found an amethyst cave this way too. It’s slower and uses wood, but it’s Minecraft, so what’s the hurry? There are trees all over the place so making ladders is pretty easy if you’re not in the desert.
I’m watching this soon after watching the limited life smp, in which 2 people dug down into lava. If you don’t know the smp, dying puts you at a disadvantage.
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.
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
Fr 😂
Oh no! The Pun-lice is coming for us!
😐
S-Tier pun
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.
@@somebody_2837 yea lmao
The joke about dream stans and statistics had me _dying_ lmfao
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
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
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.
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 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.
It's better you dig a 2 block gap than a 1 block gap, Saving up durability is good 👍
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 now need some programming socks so i can be smarter
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
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
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.
0:16 Good choices,as they are all some of,if not the best at their respective skill
8:25 caves and cliffs update is also the reason why people now think diamonds are just next step of iron
“He had one major oversight,he didn't travel in time” (3:14)
Imagine not travelling to the future smh
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.
It's just engrained in my spine like I can't bring myself to dig straight down it feels so wrong
Same. Unless I know exactly what's down there already
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"
Yeah but it's Minecraft so you know you'll hit that 7 percent lmao
You're thinking of XCOM, but I suppose that it's also appropriate in Minecraft too.
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
2 blocks wide digging straight down with water bucket is approximately 100% safe and pretty fast
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!
That Yae skin caught me off guard
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
3:53 dude you're a beautiful wordsmith
Hell yeah
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!
the programmings socks were one of the most cursed things i saw today
They look comfy though
@@XayXayYT yea
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dig 2 wide and it's actually fairly safe
I performed my own experiment once in my own minecraft world so with a very large sample size of 1 i can confirm there is a 100% chance of getting diamonds and an abandoned mineshaft.
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 generally don’t dig straight down unless I have keep inventory on because I can never find my way out of I do and end up dying to mobs.
“You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby”
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
Addicted to your content. Keep it up!
There's more to come! Glad you enjoy them so far!
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
My new favorite minecraft RUclipsr. Bro keep up the great work. Funny, informative, and entertaining
Glad you enjoy the videos!
"Mumbo Jumbo? more like Mambo No. 5, because I need a little more truth in my life" bars
"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
5:54 don’t think we didn’t see that
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!
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
earlygame, without feather falling, I just dig down two blocks at a time, while standing on the side of both blocks, so that if there's a big fall that I dig into, I have time to react to it and avoid falling.
Thank you, now I can start a conversation with my Minecraft friend
If you play Russian Roulette with a single bullet, you have an 83.33333% chance of surviving. It's still an incredibly bad idea.
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.
The doki doki soundtrack used in 2:26 took me back to my past ;-;
also ace attorney
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 loved the ddlc music, I love ddlc and it made me very nostalgic
Man you sure like ace attorney and doki doki you you use their soundtrack.gotcha!!
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
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.
2:08
nice, doki doki music
"beat the shi out of you with its biiig strong arms" is crazy 💀
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 :)
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
Before the 1.7 update (that changed the world,) Minecraft's underground was like swiss cheese, after 1.7, caves became rarer
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
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
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
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.
10:20 words of wisdom
Gotta love the animal crossing music :3
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
Shotout for this moment 1:37 where Yae starts burning even though she hasn't touched the lava yet, girl is a dendro user rn ig?
Yeah the hitbox surprised me more than anything
You can also be a modded survivalist which divides into 3 more categories
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
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.
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
You guys love to go contrary. I usually follow this rule for the immense amount of times I have died not following it. My straight down holes always lead to a lava pit or a great height drop, and no, Im not a pro, so I dont have fire immunity potions and cant do a water drop.
it used to be more dangerous, but now the caves are full or water or lava meaning theres no risk
Me nah I am good ….
2sek later shit I am dead
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
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.
Amazing vid man!
Glad you enjoyed it my dude!
Ah, Mumbo Jumbo's big oversight: not being psychic!
Yeah, how dare he no be psychic!
Thank for new video!
I hope you enjoy it!
@@XayXayYT I watched it, really liked it, thanks for the effort
4:40 jdjdhjsjdhgsjk *programer socks* uwu
0:16 And speedrunning
back in like 2013 or so the ONLY thing underground was lava. IF there was something else then I never found it. If there wasn't lava it was just more ground. Kind of why I hated playing the game and refused to play it for about 7-8 years.
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)
omg a new xay video
Omg an early commenter
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.
5:32 why the heck the audio and the video is fighting
I dig straight down all the time. I place a ladder, hold the ladder (sneak mode), and dig up up 3 blocks down. If the coast is clear, I jump down, place ladders, and repeat the process. I dig all the way down to bedrock safely. Actually found red stone this way. Also, found an amethyst cave this way too. It’s slower and uses wood, but it’s Minecraft, so what’s the hurry? There are trees all over the place so making ladders is pretty easy if you’re not in the desert.
why dont u just dog 2 blocks down and stand in the middle
Me who finds the biggest cave or ravine and jumps straight down to the bottom with a water bucket. "My knowledge is beyond your understanding!"
Gravity be damned
the thing is, if ur damaged, u can die from techincally non lethal falls
Hence why I said it's a 66 to 93% for those who'd prefer a bit more caution.
I’m watching this soon after watching the limited life smp, in which 2 people dug down into lava. If you don’t know the smp, dying puts you at a disadvantage.
as a hardcore mode exclusive player even a 0.000001% chance is to damn high
Otherside is the best music disc. Not Cat. Did you really think I would miss that line?
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.
Im glad that another good minecraft channel is growing :D
Me too :D