While I've mined even more if you include all tools I pretty much only use a diamond pickaxe when caving (I even save iron pickaxes found in minecarts for mining railways and building secondary bases).
Not only that, a majority of those blocks are valuable resources, not stone - including more than 2.12 million ore, plus 143,000 rails and 66,000 moss stone (respectively representing around 500 mineshafts and 1,377 dungeons); altogether about 77.77% of all blocks mined are resources with stone being only 16.9% of the total:
Also, the last time I returned to my main base I added up everything that I have stored away and came up with the following totals (this does not include what I collected the last time I played, or things like chest loot, which are minor relative to the totals):
*I also have several double chests of wool from before I used Silk Touch to collect cobwebs
Here is a screenshot I recently made of my storage room (I have not expanded it since, though a few more chests have been filled) after using MCEdit (on a copy) to uncover it; it sure doesn't seem that big for storing around half a million items (blocks + rails, etc. Note that I also counted the blocks I placed in the floor to mark the chests):
For perspective, this is what I collected the last time I played; I emptied my Ender chest near the beginning so it doesn't show everything but you can see how how quickly I can accumulate resources:
Also, I've now spent 128.27 days - 3,078 hours - playing on this world:
Even if you assume that I've spent the entire time caving (which is close) I've collected resources at the rate of about 892 per hour - every hour for 3,078 hours - and 3,126 per play session (in another world I recently had I kept track of everything that I did and caving accounted for about 86% of the total time spent in the world, which would increase these numbers to 1,032 and 3,617. Much of the "non-caving" time was before my end-game caving so the percentage for this world, with far more total time played, is likely higher, though I did not establish my playstyle until a month or two after I started playing. I also used Fortune for a while in this world, even using it on coal after 1.6 came out, but aside from diamond and emerald (all the 120 emerald blocks came from Fortune, now I use Silk Touch, which is why ore is included separately above) that doesn't seem to have skewed the results much).
Erm, I know a few lovely ladies who I could potentially set you up with... xD.
In all seriousness though, these statistics are rather impressive. I can't say I've ever played a single player world long enough to even get a double chest full of minerals. Well, a full chest of anything actually. I quickly moved on to modding, which then lead to me primarily playing multiplayer.
A couple of questions though:
Have you killed the dragon?
Do you have any extremely impressive builds in that world, or do you mainly just mine?
How have you not grown bored and given up (I would have)?
Do you have any extremely impressive builds in that world, or do you mainly just mine?
How have you not grown bored and given up (I would have)?
Yes; in fact, I don't start caving until I've "beat" the game - I save it all for the end-game and branch-mine to get the resources that I need. I've never killed the Wither in Survival though since I can't bother myself to get 3 Wither skulls (I've gotten two, in separate worlds; I don't spend more time in the Nether than is necessary to find a fortress, get Blaze rods, and mine quartz to get XP to enchant my gear).
As for builds, my main base is not much more than some cobblestone boxes, and my secondary bases are even simpler (they are just places to store resources and restock on food and wood, and in some cases, farm emeralds so I can buy diamond gear from villagers, which sell everything in 1.6.4; I do not do this because I need to but because I find it to be fun); there is also no redstone or any sort of automated farms in my worlds, though I do have around 16,000 blocks of railways linking all of my bases together in this world:
I have made better main bases in more recent worlds, though they are still more or less the same; I've never bothered upgrading the one in my first world because there is no real need to do so (I'm of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality, which is also partly why I still play in 1.6.4, as I've have to "fix" (mod) newer versions to suit me), aside from adding more storage space every now and then:
Also, you can read my most recent Survival journal to see how I progress in a world: TheMasterCaver's World (version 4) (this is one of around half a dozen other "main" worlds that I've had, which I played on between periods of playing on my first world, the world mentioned in this thread; for this world I played on it until I'd found one of every type of cave added by my mod, which took 121 out of 140 play sessions).
As seen here pretty much every world I've ever had has been played on the same way (the world mentioned in this thread is World1 while my most recent world is TMCWv4); the only exception is a custom map I played shortly after I bought the game, and the first month or two after that:
Yes; in fact, I don't start caving until I've "beat" the game - I save it all for the end-game and branch-mine to get the resources that I need. I've never killed the Wither in Survival though since I can't bother myself to get 3 Wither skulls (I've gotten two, in separate worlds; I don't spend more time in the Nether than is necessary to find a fortress, get Blaze rods, and mine quartz to get XP to enchant my gear).
As for builds, my main base is not much more than some cobblestone boxes, and my secondary bases are even simpler (they are just places to store resources and restock on food and wood, and in some cases, farm emeralds so I can buy diamond gear from villagers, which sell everything in 1.6.4; I do not do this because I need to but because I find it to be fun); there is also no redstone or any sort of automated farms in my worlds, though I do have around 16,000 blocks of railways linking all of my bases together in this world:
Let me say, if there is anyone I'd ever come to for information on this game, it'd be you. You probably know more than the Developers at Mojang.
I'm surely going to have to read through your other posts, because your journey has begun to fascinate me. What you have accomplished is something I'd never be able to do in a million years due to my lack of patience and constantly needing new environments to play in.
The most amazing thing about your content though is that you have taken this game and made it your own.
So? How much ore have you mined? More than 2 million? You've only crafted 24,500 sticks so clearly you have not used anywhere near as any torches as I have - over 600,000:
Check out this map of my world, which is more than 100,000 chunks in size and has been entirely explored by caving underground - all of the caves shown have been explored (MCMap only renders caves if they have torches in them; mineshafts were modified to not generate with torches), totaling some 5,000 kilometers in length (the total distance I've walked well exceeds the distance to the old Far Lands - and to think that Kurt still has not reached them after 6+ years despite it being their goal!) and including around 1,400 each of dungeons and ravines, 500 abandoned mineshafts (which had 140+ km of rails alone, I mined a couple thousand over two days before), and hundreds of cave systems much larger than almost anything in 1.7+ (there is a 1.7+ seed with a cave system which is large even by 1.6.4 standards but I had to write a program that searched millions of seeds to find it, and it is still not as dense as many of the cave systems that I've found):
Here is an animation of what I explored over 10 days:
This is one of the cave systems that I explored during that period, far from the largest that I've found:
And that doesn't even include all of my other worlds, most of which are shown here; in my most recent world (TMCWv4) I mined more than 380,000 ore and placed 118,000 torches over 121 play sessions and 466 hours spent caving, and found 202 dungeons, 182 ravines, and 60 mineshafts, as well as a total of 570 structures or features, most of them underground - in total I've probably mined more than 4 million ore and collected 6 million resources and used more than a million torches (for a time I even used Fortune to mine everything, even coal, which I could easily collect 4,000 of in a single session with Fortune; I've mined as much as 3,792 coal and 5,641 ore in one session, for which I calculate that Fortune would have given me around 7,800 coal after what I used and 12,100 resources overall - plus 900 rails, cobwebs, and moss stone for 13,000 total):
Holy crap man, that's quite an attitude lol, learn to celebrate others success... no one like a one-upper
Lol
Let me see these stats:
Indeed, I can see that you only mined 981 moss stone, compared to my 66,107 - which is 67 times as much and equivalent to about 1,377 dungeons based on an average of 48 per dungeon (I have multiple double chests of diamond horse armor, one of the rarest items you can find in chests in 1.6.4, and an entire chest full of name tags, which can only be found in dungeon chests in 1.6.4; likewise, until 1.8 moss stone was only obtainable through natural generation). How many rails have you mined? Based on the number I've found I've explored around 500 mineshafts, which is a very lot, especially since you are probably on 1.7 or 1.7 or later, which would require exploring 125,000 chunks of underground (likewise, finding 1,377 dungeons in 1.7+ requires exploring around 137,700 chunks - both rather implausibly high numbers unless you literally do nothing but cave for thousands of hours).
Even people who play pretty much like me are amazed at how much caving I've done, and how quickly I can explore them out:
I play over 20 hours per week, sometimes >80. That is a LOT. I ALSO prefer spending days exploring caves...
You do a LOT of caving. Way more than me in terms of world area explored in any case. Maybe we could start an OCD club or something lol !
You did a network consisting of 18 Abandoned Mineshafts (plus all ravines and caves connected to it) in less than a month ? Wow you work fast ! [that was actually a week or less; that's how surprised they were by this]
For another example, a while ago I found an absolutely massive network of caves and explored the entire thing - over 500 individual caves/tunnels - in about a week, with more than 20,000 ores mined from it:
Also, can you use MCMap to make a rendering of your world (at least the underground)? You can download it here (it works for 1.12.2, if not rendering blocks added since 1.9 correctly); I've always wondered if anybody else has done more caving than I have (based on the replies to a post I recently made on Reddit it sure doesn't sound like it). Nobody has ever shown me anything like what I've done (or rather, nothing at all); I also often search online for things like "minecraft mcmap caves" but nearly all the relevant results are images that I posted, and the few that aren't mine only show about what I can explore in a few hours.
Fact is, my claim to fame is not about how many blocks I've mined or how many resources I've collected but the amount of caving that I've done - how many people have spent 200 real-life days (estimated across all of my worlds) doing nothing but running around caves in Minecraft?
No, I don't come close to that amount of caving. I guess your name doesn't lie.
TMC- I suspect the answer is no- I do think you really have this niche covered!
I'm not sure many people have spent as much time playing Minecraft as you, TMC, nevermind spent as much time caving. Your OP question has to be about 90% rhetorical because of course nobody else has done it that much. You clearly have an addiction or maybe OCD.
I can't imagine mining 1000 ore blocks in an hour.
Somebody actually did use MCMap to render their world and while they had done a lot of caving they didn't come close to what I'd done in my first world as of a couple years ago:
These are from the stats file they posted:
Time played: 30.33 days
Sessions: 335
Stone: 337840
Coal ore: 89943
Iron ore: 44829
Redstone ore: 19399
Gold ore: 7372
Lapis ore: 2849
Diamond ore: 2608
Emerald ore: 31
Moss stone: 5
Cobweb: 1620
Rail: 2102
By contrast, these were the stats for my first world at the time:
Time played: 55.53 days
Sessions: 378
Stone: 216806
Coal ore: 601956
Iron ore: 220500
Redstone ore: 35786
Gold ore: 28114
Lapis ore: 11257
Diamond ore: 5455
Emerald ore: 897
Moss stone: 25114
Cobweb: 25554
Rail: 60823
And the stats for my most recent world (modded but the mod ores are insignificant):
Time played: 22.46 days
Sessions: 140
Stone: 95777
Coal ore: 256837
Iron ore: 93786
Redstone ore: 12831
Gold ore: 10857
Lapis ore: 3754
Diamond ore: 1598
Amethyst ore: 223
Ruby ore: 153
Emerald ore: 92
Moss stone: 10173
Cobweb: 8850
Rail: 18053
Somebody actually did use MCMap to render their world and while they had done a lot of caving they didn't come close to what I'd done in my first world as of a couple years ago:
Yay!
That's one of my worlds (the one on the right.)
Note that that dog leg on the right, the northernmost bulge and that separate little square that I must have accessed from the Nether are mainly explored above ground.
TheMasterCaver edits or mods out all the torches in mineshafts and such before starting so unexplored mineshafts show up in my world but not in his.
I switch worlds a lot more than TheMasterCaver so I don't know what my total stats are but I note that while he had spent less than twice as much time in his world he had mined somewhere around 6 times as much ore as me.
(At least I come closeish on diamond ore per day of playtime, 86 vs 98)
These are from the stats file they posted:
Time played: 30.33 days
Sessions: 335
Stone: 337840
Coal ore: 89943
Iron ore: 44829
Redstone ore: 19399
Gold ore: 7372
Lapis ore: 2849
Diamond ore: 2608
Emerald ore: 31
Moss stone: 5
Cobweb: 1620
Rail: 2102
By contrast, these were the stats for my first world at the time:
Time played: 55.53 days
Sessions: 378
Stone: 216806
Coal ore: 601956
Iron ore: 220500
Redstone ore: 35786
Gold ore: 28114
Lapis ore: 11257
Diamond ore: 5455
Emerald ore: 897
Moss stone: 25114
Cobweb: 25554
Rail: 60823
And the stats for my most recent world (modded but the mod ores are insignificant):
Time played: 22.46 days
Sessions: 140
Stone: 95777
Coal ore: 256837
Iron ore: 93786
Redstone ore: 12831
Gold ore: 10857
Lapis ore: 3754
Diamond ore: 1598
Amethyst ore: 223
Ruby ore: 153
Emerald ore: 92
Moss stone: 10173
Cobweb: 8850
Rail: 18053
While I've mined even more if you include all tools I pretty much only use a diamond pickaxe when caving (I even save iron pickaxes found in minecarts for mining railways and building secondary bases).
Not only that, a majority of those blocks are valuable resources, not stone - including more than 2.12 million ore, plus 143,000 rails and 66,000 moss stone (respectively representing around 500 mineshafts and 1,377 dungeons); altogether about 77.77% of all blocks mined are resources with stone being only 16.9% of the total:
Also, the last time I returned to my main base I added up everything that I have stored away and came up with the following totals (this does not include what I collected the last time I played, or things like chest loot, which are minor relative to the totals):
*I also have several double chests of wool from before I used Silk Touch to collect cobwebs
Here is a screenshot I recently made of my storage room (I have not expanded it since, though a few more chests have been filled) after using MCEdit (on a copy) to uncover it; it sure doesn't seem that big for storing around half a million items (blocks + rails, etc. Note that I also counted the blocks I placed in the floor to mark the chests):
For perspective, this is what I collected the last time I played; I emptied my Ender chest near the beginning so it doesn't show everything but you can see how how quickly I can accumulate resources:
Also, I've now spent 128.27 days - 3,078 hours - playing on this world:
Even if you assume that I've spent the entire time caving (which is close) I've collected resources at the rate of about 892 per hour - every hour for 3,078 hours - and 3,126 per play session (in another world I recently had I kept track of everything that I did and caving accounted for about 86% of the total time spent in the world, which would increase these numbers to 1,032 and 3,617. Much of the "non-caving" time was before my end-game caving so the percentage for this world, with far more total time played, is likely higher, though I did not establish my playstyle until a month or two after I started playing. I also used Fortune for a while in this world, even using it on coal after 1.6 came out, but aside from diamond and emerald (all the 120 emerald blocks came from Fortune, now I use Silk Touch, which is why ore is included separately above) that doesn't seem to have skewed the results much).
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?
Interesting.
GENERATION 11: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
Erm, I know a few lovely ladies who I could potentially set you up with... xD.
In all seriousness though, these statistics are rather impressive. I can't say I've ever played a single player world long enough to even get a double chest full of minerals. Well, a full chest of anything actually. I quickly moved on to modding, which then lead to me primarily playing multiplayer.
A couple of questions though:
Anyways, keep up the... uh... great work!
Be the change our world needs.
Project Realism - A Charity Network
Yes; in fact, I don't start caving until I've "beat" the game - I save it all for the end-game and branch-mine to get the resources that I need. I've never killed the Wither in Survival though since I can't bother myself to get 3 Wither skulls (I've gotten two, in separate worlds; I don't spend more time in the Nether than is necessary to find a fortress, get Blaze rods, and mine quartz to get XP to enchant my gear).
As for builds, my main base is not much more than some cobblestone boxes, and my secondary bases are even simpler (they are just places to store resources and restock on food and wood, and in some cases, farm emeralds so I can buy diamond gear from villagers, which sell everything in 1.6.4; I do not do this because I need to but because I find it to be fun); there is also no redstone or any sort of automated farms in my worlds, though I do have around 16,000 blocks of railways linking all of my bases together in this world:
I have made better main bases in more recent worlds, though they are still more or less the same; I've never bothered upgrading the one in my first world because there is no real need to do so (I'm of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality, which is also partly why I still play in 1.6.4, as I've have to "fix" (mod) newer versions to suit me), aside from adding more storage space every now and then:
Also, you can read my most recent Survival journal to see how I progress in a world: TheMasterCaver's World (version 4) (this is one of around half a dozen other "main" worlds that I've had, which I played on between periods of playing on my first world, the world mentioned in this thread; for this world I played on it until I'd found one of every type of cave added by my mod, which took 121 out of 140 play sessions).
As seen here pretty much every world I've ever had has been played on the same way (the world mentioned in this thread is World1 while my most recent world is TMCWv4); the only exception is a custom map I played shortly after I bought the game, and the first month or two after that:
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?
Let me say, if there is anyone I'd ever come to for information on this game, it'd be you. You probably know more than the Developers at Mojang.
I'm surely going to have to read through your other posts, because your journey has begun to fascinate me. What you have accomplished is something I'd never be able to do in a million years due to my lack of patience and constantly needing new environments to play in.
The most amazing thing about your content though is that you have taken this game and made it your own.
Keep up the good work!
Be the change our world needs.
Project Realism - A Charity Network
Get on my level yo
http://www.twitch.tv/barbershop666
So? How much ore have you mined? More than 2 million? You've only crafted 24,500 sticks so clearly you have not used anywhere near as any torches as I have - over 600,000:
Check out this map of my world, which is more than 100,000 chunks in size and has been entirely explored by caving underground - all of the caves shown have been explored (MCMap only renders caves if they have torches in them; mineshafts were modified to not generate with torches), totaling some 5,000 kilometers in length (the total distance I've walked well exceeds the distance to the old Far Lands - and to think that Kurt still has not reached them after 6+ years despite it being their goal!) and including around 1,400 each of dungeons and ravines, 500 abandoned mineshafts (which had 140+ km of rails alone, I mined a couple thousand over two days before), and hundreds of cave systems much larger than almost anything in 1.7+ (there is a 1.7+ seed with a cave system which is large even by 1.6.4 standards but I had to write a program that searched millions of seeds to find it, and it is still not as dense as many of the cave systems that I've found):
Here is an animation of what I explored over 10 days:
This is one of the cave systems that I explored during that period, far from the largest that I've found:
And that doesn't even include all of my other worlds, most of which are shown here; in my most recent world (TMCWv4) I mined more than 380,000 ore and placed 118,000 torches over 121 play sessions and 466 hours spent caving, and found 202 dungeons, 182 ravines, and 60 mineshafts, as well as a total of 570 structures or features, most of them underground - in total I've probably mined more than 4 million ore and collected 6 million resources and used more than a million torches (for a time I even used Fortune to mine everything, even coal, which I could easily collect 4,000 of in a single session with Fortune; I've mined as much as 3,792 coal and 5,641 ore in one session, for which I calculate that Fortune would have given me around 7,800 coal after what I used and 12,100 resources overall - plus 900 rails, cobwebs, and moss stone for 13,000 total):
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?
Holy crap man, that's quite an attitude lol, learn to celebrate others success... no one like a one-upper
Lol
http://www.twitch.tv/barbershop666
Let me see these stats:
Indeed, I can see that you only mined 981 moss stone, compared to my 66,107 - which is 67 times as much and equivalent to about 1,377 dungeons based on an average of 48 per dungeon (I have multiple double chests of diamond horse armor, one of the rarest items you can find in chests in 1.6.4, and an entire chest full of name tags, which can only be found in dungeon chests in 1.6.4; likewise, until 1.8 moss stone was only obtainable through natural generation). How many rails have you mined? Based on the number I've found I've explored around 500 mineshafts, which is a very lot, especially since you are probably on 1.7 or 1.7 or later, which would require exploring 125,000 chunks of underground (likewise, finding 1,377 dungeons in 1.7+ requires exploring around 137,700 chunks - both rather implausibly high numbers unless you literally do nothing but cave for thousands of hours).
Even people who play pretty much like me are amazed at how much caving I've done, and how quickly I can explore them out:
For another example, a while ago I found an absolutely massive network of caves and explored the entire thing - over 500 individual caves/tunnels - in about a week, with more than 20,000 ores mined from it:
Also, can you use MCMap to make a rendering of your world (at least the underground)? You can download it here (it works for 1.12.2, if not rendering blocks added since 1.9 correctly); I've always wondered if anybody else has done more caving than I have (based on the replies to a post I recently made on Reddit it sure doesn't sound like it). Nobody has ever shown me anything like what I've done (or rather, nothing at all); I also often search online for things like "minecraft mcmap caves" but nearly all the relevant results are images that I posted, and the few that aren't mine only show about what I can explore in a few hours.
Fact is, my claim to fame is not about how many blocks I've mined or how many resources I've collected but the amount of caving that I've done - how many people have spent 200 real-life days (estimated across all of my worlds) doing nothing but running around caves in Minecraft?
I've even posted threads asking just this but nobody ever said that they had done more: Does anybody else come close to this level of caving?
Here are some of the replies:
Somebody actually did use MCMap to render their world and while they had done a lot of caving they didn't come close to what I'd done in my first world as of a couple years ago:
These are from the stats file they posted:
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?
Yay!
That's one of my worlds (the one on the right.)
Note that that dog leg on the right, the northernmost bulge and that separate little square that I must have accessed from the Nether are mainly explored above ground.
TheMasterCaver edits or mods out all the torches in mineshafts and such before starting so unexplored mineshafts show up in my world but not in his.
I switch worlds a lot more than TheMasterCaver so I don't know what my total stats are but I note that while he had spent less than twice as much time in his world he had mined somewhere around 6 times as much ore as me.
(At least I come closeish on diamond ore per day of playtime, 86 vs 98)
Just testing.
Some of mine for comparison MC ... mine are incomplete tho as I lost the section from 1.5 to 1.7.x . I'm at MC day 11945 now ...
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Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!