I'm pretty sure there are many threads about the same topic; but do any of you have any tips to conquer a fear of caves? I recently found diamonds (YAY) and all of a sudden, I get this sense of overprotection that makes me no longer want to go caving! I mean, I have Full Armor and gear, yet I fear simple pixel creatures in the dark!? Someone who has experience of caving?
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First of all I don't really know how you get to fear caves in mincraft. But anyways, back to your question, maybe you could play in peaceful mode when you want to go caving.
It's ok to feel overprotective of your stuff at times. Just try to keep a safe environment or play on peaceful if needed. Good Luck on resolving this!!!
The best way to counter the hostile mobs is to use a bucket of water to push them away. You will have a huge advantage over zombies, spiders, endermen and creepers. Skeletons can still get you though.
Step 1: Enter Cave
Step 2: Find Vader
Step 3: Cut his head off with your lightsaber and watch your face appear.
Step 4: Enjoy cave diving cause you just figured out that your freaking Darth Vader and its them who should be scared!
Lol, I'm sorry I just had to type that. Seriously though, I would just turn it to peaceful when spelunking.
I get that once in a while. This is what i do:
1. put away anything and everything of value. Only keep pickaxes, food, torches,and two water buckets. Maybe some wood if you run out of torches/pickaxes and want to craft some more. I like to take a map so I know I'll always find my way back to my house.
2. Switch to peaceful. I always play on hard or normal, but once in a while when I get a dread of going into the unknown darkness of caves I switch to peaceful, this way I'm sure there is absolutely nothing to fear, and my water buckets will take care of any lava.
3. Just take a break from mining for a little while, focus on a build.
Hey i used to feel the same way, infact i used to always play on peaceful. the way i got rid of my fear was by playing multiplayer. if you cave with someone its not as creeper best of luck
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"I used to be a N00B like you, then i got blown up by a creeper"
Step 1: Enter Cave
Step 2: Find Vader
Step 3: Cut his head off with your lightsaber and watch your face appear.
Step 4: Enjoy cave diving cause you just figured out that your freaking Darth Vader and its them who should be scared!
Lol, I'm sorry I just had to type that. Seriously though, I would just turn it to peaceful when spelunking.
I get that once in a while. This is what i do:
1. put away anything and everything of value. Only keep pickaxes, food, torches,and two water buckets. Maybe some wood if you run out of torches/pickaxes and want to craft some more. I like to take a map so I know I'll always find my way back to my house.
2. Switch to peaceful. I always play on hard or normal, but once in a while when I get a dread of going into the unknown darkness of caves I switch to peaceful, this way I'm sure there is absolutely nothing to fear, and my water buckets will take care of any lava.
3. Just take a break from mining for a little while, focus on a build.
I think I'll try that....
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"To abandon what you stand for is what makes a man a greater fool"
I also had this problem. But this is my little sneaky trick:
Play on hard, go to a superflat area, use a Sharpness lvl 137 diamond sword. Have fun. You will no longer fear the caves, my friend.
You can use TMI or NEI to save your items and if you die you keep them (using the save option) or, you can use one of them to give you the items you lost. Hope it helps
Last July was the last time I feared them now I kinda trained myself to win from my fears ( not only in minecraft) now I just run in once to the ore place a torch and kill any mob that approaches with my bow.
These aren't so much of tips for overcoming your fears as they are for overcoming the caves as safely and with as minimal of losses as possible, but knowledge is power and having power over caves should help eliminate your fears.
Always carry a bunch of torches, a water bucket, some cheap food (carrots, bread), a stone pick, a stone sword, and if you wish a bow and 5-10 arrows. Skip the bucket if you don't plan on going below Y=~30, and having some chests to stash your torches in so you don't have to carry more than 64 at a time is helpful.
If you can (and want to), it's helpful to put Lv. 1 enchantments on your sword and bow, as you will almost always get Power I and Sharpness I.
Turn on the debug menu with f3. It can show you the light level where you're standing, if it ever drops to 7 or lower mobs can spawn, so place a torch.
Play with stereo headphones, and preferrably music off. Sound is your best and sometimes only way to sense ambushes, and you need it to work well to hear creepers.
Use a bed to set your spawnpoint outside the cave entrance. If you die now, you'll have a greater chance of getting your stuff back.
Resist the urge to mine ore! It's safe in the walls, and you can come back for it after the area is secure. Nothing bites more than losing a stack of iron ore and coal.
Now, start by going in, and completely spamming torches until you see a bad guy. If he's a zombie, melee him with jump attacks. Try to force him into a corner so he doesn't bounce away frm you. If he's a creeper, make sure you've got room behind you, then either sprint attack him or critical hit him if you've got enough room. Trying to force him off a cliff is advantageous as he'll take fall damage, and has a much harder time getting close enough to you to 'splode if he's climbing. But if it's a skeleton, retreat around a corner in the wall, make sure your hunger's full, and try to step out in close intervals to smack him, then retreat again.
Endermen are a slightly different case. If you find one, it's best to leave him alone and come back that way later, but if you should happen to anger one simply log out to the title screen and log back in again, and he'll be cool again.
It's a useful tactic to do the critical hit/sprint attack on a zombie while holding a torch, then placing it and switching to your sword while he recovers. This helps prevent more bad guys from sneaking up on you while you duel.
Getting into fights with multiple mobs is more tricky. If there's just zombies, rapidly sprint attacking and retreating is effective. If there's a skeleton and zombies, sprint attack the skeleton, and then retreat and try to use the zombies as meat shields. If there's a creeper present, try to light him with your sword and then retreat just far enough away so he explodes, but does minimal damage to you, hopefully wiping out some other mobs. Blocking can be helpful to reduce explosion damage as well. However, if there's a creeper, a skeleton, and more than 3 mobs total, this is where you want that bow, try to pick off the skeleton, or at least get it down to one creeper and one skeleton (critical hitting the skeleton is very hard without getting blown up).
Now on to actual exploration. Tunnels are pretty straightforward, just pepper them with torches and try to remember which way you've gone. If possible, you can put all your torches on the left side of the tunnel, so you know that following the torches on your right takes you back to the surface.
Whenever you see a big room, the first thing to do is look to see if there are any mobs inside. If there's a skeleton, snipe it with the bow, and otherwise just do the attacking with torches strat and get the floor lit up. The second thing to do, which you should do immediately after, is look up. Very frequently, the roof of this room will intersect with lots of tunnels, and bad guys could come pouring out of them without warning. Make your way up to such tunnels using your pick and light them up. Only then should you continue deeper into the tunnels coming off of the main cave.
Now, things to watch out for: #1 is cobble. If you see any cobble that wasn't placed by you, it can only mean two things: lava and dungeons. Both of which are dangerous. Should you find yourself staring out over a lava pit, looking at all the treasure in the ceiling, stop, for a skeleton will most certainly knock you in. Always face away from lava at a 90 degree angle, and strafe to get away, this helps prevent things from sneaking up on you and knocking you in, and it also helps prevent yourself from accidentally backwalking into the lava.
Next are ravines. Ravines are huge and offer a lot of ore, but the layered effect on the walls acts as a scaffolding for skeleton archers who make the place extremely dangerous. They can often have lava at the bottom as well. If you wish to conquer a ravine, it will likely involve a lot of dieing. I've only fully conquered a lava ravine once, and in the process I came across a rather terrifying sight (a creeper, all the way on the other end of the ravine, was navigating my multi-level walkways perfectly and taking the shortest path right to me...) so I don't recommend going for it.
After that, abandoned mineshafts. To put it frankley, your equipment would get you slaughtered inside, so it's best to wait until you can come back with proper mineshaft equipment (armor, milk, shears, axe, possibly flint).
Finally are strongholds, which are super-rare but yet something you should be prepared for. The best thing to do when you find one is write down where it is and then leave, coming back much later. You can tell them by their stone bricks.
Once you have a sizable portion of caves lit up (or are out of torches), go in, grab as much loot as possible, and get out without going near dark areas. If you have armor, this could be a good time to use it.
I'm surprised at how many people here are advocating peaceful mode. Peaceful is for hippies and creative. This isn't a creative world, so are you all pretending to be hippies or something?
Ah yes, one last thing I forgot to mention. If you can somehow find a sizable Mycelium Biome, no mobs will spawn there- even in caves. Well, aside from dungeons/other spawners. This allows you to cave to your heart's content without the fear of ambust, the only things you must watch out for are lava, fall damage, and hunger. And breaking all your picks, of course.
You can use TMI or NEI to save your items and if you die you keep them (using the save option) or, you can use one of them to give you the items you lost. Hope it helps
Says someone who is afraid of caves... If you find Minecraft too scary, maybe you should log off and play a different game. Maybe Club Penguin, or Neopets..?
Hahaha! I fear none of them, I go head on against ender-men somtimes. I just fear what popups in the dark that's all. P.S. I USED to play those games when I was a 6-9 y/o.
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"To abandon what you stand for is what makes a man a greater fool"
It's just a game... are there people out there who are scared of Minecraft? I can understand getting startled by a creeper jump scare or something like that but how can you be genuinely afraid of this game? Lol my suggestion is to go play something else if you are too scared to play this haha
It's just a game... are there people out there who are scared of Minecraft? I can understand getting startled by a creeper jump scare or something like that but how can you be genuinely afraid of this game? Lol my suggestion is to go play something else if you are too scared to play this haha
JUST A GAME? Yes it is, but just like movies, GAMES can impact people's feelings, behavior, personality and desires. However, If you are so experienced in horror games, then you might not fear these kinds of conditions in minecraft at ALL!
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"To abandon what you stand for is what makes a man a greater fool"
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Step 2: Find Vader
Step 3: Cut his head off with your lightsaber and watch your face appear.
Step 4: Enjoy cave diving cause you just figured out that your freaking Darth Vader and its them who should be scared!
Lol, I'm sorry I just had to type that. Seriously though, I would just turn it to peaceful when spelunking.
1. put away anything and everything of value. Only keep pickaxes, food, torches,and two water buckets. Maybe some wood if you run out of torches/pickaxes and want to craft some more. I like to take a map so I know I'll always find my way back to my house.
2. Switch to peaceful. I always play on hard or normal, but once in a while when I get a dread of going into the unknown darkness of caves I switch to peaceful, this way I'm sure there is absolutely nothing to fear, and my water buckets will take care of any lava.
3. Just take a break from mining for a little while, focus on a build.
"I used to be a N00B like you, then i got blown up by a creeper"
LOL I appreciate it...
Cuz Peacfull is for PUSSIES!!!
Someone who lacks courage....
I think I'll try that....
Play on hard, go to a superflat area, use a Sharpness lvl 137 diamond sword. Have fun. You will no longer fear the caves, my friend.
Anyway, try playing on peaceful mode or getting your lost stuff when you die in creative, if you enabled cheats.
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I never play Minecraft anymore without that turned on. c: You wont drop your stuff after you die.
I also have Rei's Minimap mod so that I can set waypoints and not get lost when I go out to explore.
Always carry a bunch of torches, a water bucket, some cheap food (carrots, bread), a stone pick, a stone sword, and if you wish a bow and 5-10 arrows. Skip the bucket if you don't plan on going below Y=~30, and having some chests to stash your torches in so you don't have to carry more than 64 at a time is helpful.
If you can (and want to), it's helpful to put Lv. 1 enchantments on your sword and bow, as you will almost always get Power I and Sharpness I.
Turn on the debug menu with f3. It can show you the light level where you're standing, if it ever drops to 7 or lower mobs can spawn, so place a torch.
Play with stereo headphones, and preferrably music off. Sound is your best and sometimes only way to sense ambushes, and you need it to work well to hear creepers.
Use a bed to set your spawnpoint outside the cave entrance. If you die now, you'll have a greater chance of getting your stuff back.
Resist the urge to mine ore! It's safe in the walls, and you can come back for it after the area is secure. Nothing bites more than losing a stack of iron ore and coal.
Now, start by going in, and completely spamming torches until you see a bad guy. If he's a zombie, melee him with jump attacks. Try to force him into a corner so he doesn't bounce away frm you. If he's a creeper, make sure you've got room behind you, then either sprint attack him or critical hit him if you've got enough room. Trying to force him off a cliff is advantageous as he'll take fall damage, and has a much harder time getting close enough to you to 'splode if he's climbing. But if it's a skeleton, retreat around a corner in the wall, make sure your hunger's full, and try to step out in close intervals to smack him, then retreat again.
Endermen are a slightly different case. If you find one, it's best to leave him alone and come back that way later, but if you should happen to anger one simply log out to the title screen and log back in again, and he'll be cool again.
It's a useful tactic to do the critical hit/sprint attack on a zombie while holding a torch, then placing it and switching to your sword while he recovers. This helps prevent more bad guys from sneaking up on you while you duel.
Getting into fights with multiple mobs is more tricky. If there's just zombies, rapidly sprint attacking and retreating is effective. If there's a skeleton and zombies, sprint attack the skeleton, and then retreat and try to use the zombies as meat shields. If there's a creeper present, try to light him with your sword and then retreat just far enough away so he explodes, but does minimal damage to you, hopefully wiping out some other mobs. Blocking can be helpful to reduce explosion damage as well. However, if there's a creeper, a skeleton, and more than 3 mobs total, this is where you want that bow, try to pick off the skeleton, or at least get it down to one creeper and one skeleton (critical hitting the skeleton is very hard without getting blown up).
Now on to actual exploration. Tunnels are pretty straightforward, just pepper them with torches and try to remember which way you've gone. If possible, you can put all your torches on the left side of the tunnel, so you know that following the torches on your right takes you back to the surface.
Whenever you see a big room, the first thing to do is look to see if there are any mobs inside. If there's a skeleton, snipe it with the bow, and otherwise just do the attacking with torches strat and get the floor lit up. The second thing to do, which you should do immediately after, is look up. Very frequently, the roof of this room will intersect with lots of tunnels, and bad guys could come pouring out of them without warning. Make your way up to such tunnels using your pick and light them up. Only then should you continue deeper into the tunnels coming off of the main cave.
Now, things to watch out for: #1 is cobble. If you see any cobble that wasn't placed by you, it can only mean two things: lava and dungeons. Both of which are dangerous. Should you find yourself staring out over a lava pit, looking at all the treasure in the ceiling, stop, for a skeleton will most certainly knock you in. Always face away from lava at a 90 degree angle, and strafe to get away, this helps prevent things from sneaking up on you and knocking you in, and it also helps prevent yourself from accidentally backwalking into the lava.
Next are ravines. Ravines are huge and offer a lot of ore, but the layered effect on the walls acts as a scaffolding for skeleton archers who make the place extremely dangerous. They can often have lava at the bottom as well. If you wish to conquer a ravine, it will likely involve a lot of dieing. I've only fully conquered a lava ravine once, and in the process I came across a rather terrifying sight (a creeper, all the way on the other end of the ravine, was navigating my multi-level walkways perfectly and taking the shortest path right to me...) so I don't recommend going for it.
After that, abandoned mineshafts. To put it frankley, your equipment would get you slaughtered inside, so it's best to wait until you can come back with proper mineshaft equipment (armor, milk, shears, axe, possibly flint).
Finally are strongholds, which are super-rare but yet something you should be prepared for. The best thing to do when you find one is write down where it is and then leave, coming back much later. You can tell them by their stone bricks.
Once you have a sizable portion of caves lit up (or are out of torches), go in, grab as much loot as possible, and get out without going near dark areas. If you have armor, this could be a good time to use it.
I'm surprised at how many people here are advocating peaceful mode. Peaceful is for hippies and creative. This isn't a creative world, so are you all pretending to be hippies or something?
Ah yes, one last thing I forgot to mention. If you can somehow find a sizable Mycelium Biome, no mobs will spawn there- even in caves. Well, aside from dungeons/other spawners. This allows you to cave to your heart's content without the fear of ambust, the only things you must watch out for are lava, fall damage, and hunger. And breaking all your picks, of course.
I wish to play legitimately. I have TMI installed, my siblings use it on their worlds, whereas, me and my brother play legit survival.
Hahaha! I fear none of them, I go head on against ender-men somtimes. I just fear what popups in the dark that's all. P.S. I USED to play those games when I was a 6-9 y/o.
JUST A GAME? Yes it is, but just like movies, GAMES can impact people's feelings, behavior, personality and desires. However, If you are so experienced in horror games, then you might not fear these kinds of conditions in minecraft at ALL!