Tutorials How to find caves


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Surface Cave Entrance

Common entrance for a cavern.

When explore the surface, you may find cave entrances. Many cave entrances can be found on the sides of mountains. Watch out though, mobs can be lurking at the entrance.

Ravine Entrance

Ravines commonly intersect caves and abandoned mineshafts. Resources are common, but beware of flowing lava. Don`t worry too much about mobs unless you find a spawner or an underground ravine.

Sand and gravel

Gravel sometimes falls into caves, leaving air above. If you see gravel that looks like it has fallen, there may be a cave or mineshaft underneath. Sometimes it is possible to find a cave when wandering through the desert. To do this, walk around until you find an odd 2 or 3 block drop in a small location that looks out of place. This is sand that has fallen. Dig stairs into it and you might find a cave. Sometimes there will be sand that fell down in the ocean, too.

Dungeons

Dungeons Dungeon Biome Any Consists of Cobblestone Moss Stone Monster Spawner Chest Can generate post-generation No First appearances See history Dungeons are naturally generated structures that appear in the Overworld. Contents 1 Generation 2 Structure 2.1 minecraft are places where monsters generate, and loot can be found within chests inside of them. Most dungeons are connected with caves. Be that as it may, dungeons are quite rare, and are not an easy way to find caves as most are found in a pre-existing cave and very few are found on the surface. When you find a dungeon, there will be a monster spawner. You can disable the spawner by placing torches on and around it. Alternatively, you can turn it into a mob farm. You can find out more about these in the mob farming See farms which spawn mobs in natural conditions. For single-species farms built around a Monster Spawner, see Tutorials/Monster Spawner Traps. Mob Farms are structures built to acquire mob drops more easily and minecraft section.

Sounds

Another way to find caves is to follow sounds from under the ground. Practically, any sound you hear indicates an open area in the direction of the sound. This includes:

Determining the exact direction of the sound is tricky:

  • If the sound does repeat time to time, try turning around while listening. First make it sound in one of your ears (in headphones/speakers) louder than in other, that would give you general direction. Second, try finding the exact direction by turning so that its volume is as even as possible.
  • It is usually unclear if the sound comes from below, or from above. Try digging two blocks down, and climbing two blocks up. Compare the volume. The closer you are to the source of the sound, the louder it gets. If it is still the same, then the source is probably on your original level.
  • If the sound does not repeat, note that you can hear sounds generated from no further than 16 blocks away (for most of the sound sources). That means you can dig no further than 16 blocks away to find another cave.

Also, a sound like the howling wind can be heard when the player is in close proximity to a cave or other opening. If you seal up your basement you`ll hear this sound as well. The sound is created by any cavern in which you are within 3 blocks of, and it is incredibly hard to pinpoint. The easiest way to find the caverns is to simply smash through walls.

Pistons

This is a simple and effective technique. Simply place down pistons facing the wall(s) you are looking for caves behind and power it with a redstone torch. If there is an empty space within 12 blocks the piston will push. Simply dig in that direction and you should find a cave!