I'm gonna make this quick- Make a pre-1.7 world, generate land, find cave, bring the world to 1.8. If you didn't generate too much land, you'll still get 1.8 stuff and you get your cave.
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You can also use a mod I made that perfectly replicates pre-1.7 cave generation (the "old caves" mod here; and yes, it works on 1.8; I even have a version that makes double the old cave generation). Note that ravines are somewhat different since 1.7 but they have the same frequency and everything (the change was just in the way they curve around due to changing an array from 128 to 256 elements, changing the sequence of random values used); mineshafts are also 40% as common since 1.7 which IMO is a more sensible rate when you are far from spawn (they become less common, down to none, as you move towards the origin, 0, 0; in 1.6.4 they occur at the rate of one every 100 chunks, one per 250 since 1.7, past 1,280 blocks from 0, 0; of course, they become a bit too rare close to the origin so in my own world mods I have them generate at the 1.7+ rate everywhere).
And yes, I think it is very lame that they don't allow any sort of configuration in the customized settings (aside from making the landscape itself form "caves" through overhangs and such ("Caver's Delight"), but I wouldn't want to play on such a world, I want more or less normal terrain) - especially since Superflat has allowed said configuration of other structures for years - yet they couldn't be bothered to even include that! Particularly for caves it is very easy to change how big/dense they are - the mod I mentioned was made by editing the raw bytecode, no MCP, etc required.
Their amount has been extremely decreased and forget about giant and open underground holes that were enough to build a hotel..
Why and is there a way (with the 1.8 customing settings) to change it to caves that are familiar with the pre 1.7 ones?
And yes, I think it is very lame that they don't allow any sort of configuration in the customized settings (aside from making the landscape itself form "caves" through overhangs and such ("Caver's Delight"), but I wouldn't want to play on such a world, I want more or less normal terrain) - especially since Superflat has allowed said configuration of other structures for years - yet they couldn't be bothered to even include that! Particularly for caves it is very easy to change how big/dense they are - the mod I mentioned was made by editing the raw bytecode, no MCP, etc required.
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?