If you're playing a more recent version, you can turn on subtitles, they will give you a general direction of where a sound is coming from. Stand in one spot and watch where it indicates a sound is coming from, then dig a little that direction, 20 blocks or so, and stand and wait for the sounds to repeat. Eventually you'll get to where they are, then dig up or down.
Or just cheat and use spectator mode.
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Just started playing, in a cave system and I can hear spiders and a minecart but the cave is fairly small and there are no mobs or anything.
Does this mean there is an unconnected cave somewhere close and iff so how do I dig to find it?
If you hear a minecart once, it may be a cave sound. If you hear it many times, that's a broken-off/buried part of a mineshaft you found there and a spider den as well as a treasure cart in it. Lucky you (well, maybe unlucky - better get some shears or lava).
If you're playing a more recent version, you can turn on subtitles, they will give you a general direction of where a sound is coming from. Stand in one spot and watch where it indicates a sound is coming from, then dig a little that direction, 20 blocks or so, and stand and wait for the sounds to repeat. Eventually you'll get to where they are, then dig up or down.
Just started playing, in a cave system and I can hear spiders and a minecart but the cave is fairly small and there are no mobs or anything.
Does this mean there is an unconnected cave somewhere close and iff so how do I dig to find it?
If you're playing a more recent version, you can turn on subtitles, they will give you a general direction of where a sound is coming from. Stand in one spot and watch where it indicates a sound is coming from, then dig a little that direction, 20 blocks or so, and stand and wait for the sounds to repeat. Eventually you'll get to where they are, then dig up or down.
Or just cheat and use spectator mode.
D_B
To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
If you hear a minecart once, it may be a cave sound. If you hear it many times, that's a broken-off/buried part of a mineshaft you found there and a spider den as well as a treasure cart in it. Lucky you (well, maybe unlucky - better get some shears or lava).
Good idea, never thought of subtitles as a tool.