Before reading this, please understand that I know mineshafts are naturally generated; I'm not that stupid. I'm just speculating backstory.
Ever wonder what was wrong with the miners? I mean, they dig through caves and set up floating support beams. They find a legendary stronghold, and what do they do? They dig right through and set up more support beams. They find ore and just leave them. And what about cave spiders? Did they feel like their loot was so precious they had to set up a defense mechanism? Perhaps the spiders were the ones who killed the miners?
But one big question is: How did they get down there? None of the mineshafts actually have an entrance. They can connect to a cave that has an entrance to the surface but then why set up a mineshaft in the cave?
The entrance might have been covered up over time, and maybe they were looking for diamonds, thus ignoring all the other ores? And the spiders probably just set up in the shafts after the miners left.
They were looking for diamonds thus leaving all the ores behind, but un the end the were all killed by HEROBRINE!
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But one big question is: How did they get down there? None of the mineshafts actually have an entrance. They can connect to a cave that has an entrance to the surface but then why set up a mineshaft in the cave?
I've seen two mineshafts which connected to the surface. Both were this past weekend while I was exploring. I saw lights coming from underwater, and looked down and saw wood and cobwebs at the bottom of a lake. The other was connected to a ravine which was exposed to the surface.
I think they just played on hardcore mode, with a mod that lets them descend into voids.
That is how I do it.
Minus the hard core mode.
Our first mineshaft was connected to a cave system that reached the surface. That mine shaft appears to be connected to EVERY FREEKEN think in our world. It's a freeken nightmare down their. So my assumption is that they finally dug too deep, and found something big, nasty, and it ate them and everyone else.
And according to the End, were all dreaming it anyway, I think. That stuff scrolls by too fast for me.
Well the reason I think there are so many is because they dig and leave. Pretty self explanatory. They probably dug through strongholds at the time because they must not have know what it held. Frightened by it and what could lie in it, they continued to dig a mineshaft. Well this is what I pretty much think.
The abandoned mineshafts were built by all the people who ragequit after 1.8.
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I think they just played on hardcore mode, with a mod that lets them descend into voids.
That is how I do it.
Minus the hard core mode.
Our first mineshaft was connected to a cave system that reached the surface. That mine shaft appears to be connected to EVERY FREEKEN think in our world. It's a freeken nightmare down their. So my assumption is that they finally dug too deep, and found something big, nasty, and it ate them and everyone else.
And according to the End, were all dreaming it anyway, I think. That stuff scrolls by too fast for me.
So it's like Dwarf Fortress's Hidden Fun Stuff? = D
I think it's kind of cheeky to say that these mineshafts had anything to do with strongholds, hidden intentions or that they avoided ores for a particular reason. That's like saying, "I wonder if the Minecraft god who made everything in the game used a cheese grater, because everything is square."
Most of these things are the way they are simply for the sake of gameplay. It was probably the villager's ancestors and they eventually decided that mines were too dangerous?
The mine shafts and strongholds were made by a very ancient civilisation. The portals had to be in just the right place for them to work, so they would sometimes have to build over their mineshafts. These people later discovered the nether, and some decided to live there. However, after these men stayed in this world, the cruelty spilled into their hearts, and they became corrupted and pig-like. They allowed evil to spill into the overworld, and take the form of a terrible dragon. It killed most of the people, burned down their homes, destroyed their civilisation. It shook the world, forming giant crevasses. Only a few on the suface survived, but some men managed to escape through the portal that led to the End of reality. They stored their treasures in dungeons guarded by monsters, in the hope that one day they may return.
Those who survived on the surface rebuilt villages, but most of their technology was gone, their civilisation extinguished in flames. The structures that they once made were slowly buried under the sands of time, passed from the memory of those few survivors.
But the dragon followed those who went through to the end, and stole the return portal. Under it's rule, it made sure that no-one could return. The men spend eons on a piece of rock, suspended in an endless, gloomy void, under the rule of the mighty dragon. The fire in their hearts was extinguished, and the light in their souls died out. They became mere shadows, mournfully walking on the dead surface of an empty world, remembering all that had been lost.
Sometimes these Endermen manage to appear in the overworld. They pick up blocks as an attempt to regain some part of themself, but their humanity has been lost forever. When you look at them, they kill you with a passionate fury, because in you they see all that they once stood for.
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The mine covered with time, if not then I guess they blocked it off.
Not much to say about the spiders, there are spawners everywhere, so I think it was kind of a protection that got out of control.
Ever wonder what was wrong with the miners? I mean, they dig through caves and set up floating support beams. They find a legendary stronghold, and what do they do? They dig right through and set up more support beams. They find ore and just leave them. And what about cave spiders? Did they feel like their loot was so precious they had to set up a defense mechanism? Perhaps the spiders were the ones who killed the miners?
But one big question is: How did they get down there? None of the mineshafts actually have an entrance. They can connect to a cave that has an entrance to the surface but then why set up a mineshaft in the cave?
What do you think?
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I've seen two mineshafts which connected to the surface. Both were this past weekend while I was exploring. I saw lights coming from underwater, and looked down and saw wood and cobwebs at the bottom of a lake. The other was connected to a ravine which was exposed to the surface.
That is how I do it.
Minus the hard core mode.
Our first mineshaft was connected to a cave system that reached the surface. That mine shaft appears to be connected to EVERY FREEKEN think in our world. It's a freeken nightmare down their. So my assumption is that they finally dug too deep, and found something big, nasty, and it ate them and everyone else.
And according to the End, were all dreaming it anyway, I think. That stuff scrolls by too fast for me.
Couldn't resist
Yes you can. I found 2 diamond under a rail, and some down a tunnel from it
Oh wait! There is!
building support beams as they go deeper
skeletons and other zombies are down there constantly
maybe they were looking for a way to stop a ender invasion, they started what you finish in your dream.
So it's like Dwarf Fortress's Hidden Fun Stuff? = D
Most of these things are the way they are simply for the sake of gameplay. It was probably the villager's ancestors and they eventually decided that mines were too dangerous?
Those who survived on the surface rebuilt villages, but most of their technology was gone, their civilisation extinguished in flames. The structures that they once made were slowly buried under the sands of time, passed from the memory of those few survivors.
But the dragon followed those who went through to the end, and stole the return portal. Under it's rule, it made sure that no-one could return. The men spend eons on a piece of rock, suspended in an endless, gloomy void, under the rule of the mighty dragon. The fire in their hearts was extinguished, and the light in their souls died out. They became mere shadows, mournfully walking on the dead surface of an empty world, remembering all that had been lost.
Sometimes these Endermen manage to appear in the overworld. They pick up blocks as an attempt to regain some part of themself, but their humanity has been lost forever. When you look at them, they kill you with a passionate fury, because in you they see all that they once stood for.
History of the Ancients :smile.gif:
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I call this game "Find the post in the pile of whiner's ****"
The mine covered with time, if not then I guess they blocked it off.
Not much to say about the spiders, there are spawners everywhere, so I think it was kind of a protection that got out of control.