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Not sure if there's a topic on this, but I want to know how you guys enter a GIGANTIC cave without getting lost. You know, the ones that seem to go on forever. Heres my strategy:
Once I find one of these mines, I lay down a torch on the ground for every step I take. This could work with anything, but I like to multitask by making a path while brightening it up at the same time. When ever I come to a fork, I lay a piece of sand down, so I know which path takes me to the surface.
Your turn.
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so cave are back men its ben a while i didnt went on infdev i think it might be the time well i heard water and cart where there now but not cave
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Get two-three stacks of trunk (not wood), make sure I have provisionaries as such as cooked meat, pickaxes and torches then head down.
If I manage to get 6 iron, make two buckets, one for lava and one for water. More iron after that becomes armor. Also, I tend to carry just 1 crafting table and furnace for simplicity.
For large caves, path my way with torches, for areas with forks/more than one route, I put a torch on both sides of the cave on the path I took to get there to make sure I know that's the way out.
Generally, keeping mobile for me means no monsters get the chance to spawn in any problematic places.
Max things for me are:
2-3 stacks of tree trunk
1 stack of wood
2 stacks of coal
2 stacks of torches, 10 pickaxes (in bag, not on action bar)
3 lots of cooked meat (+1 on action bar)
1 sword (as a spare, + 1 on action bar)
1 stack of stone
2 buckets (water/lava)
a work bench and a furnace.
and sometimes an axe just to make cutting down the workbench a little faster.
After I get my first/second stack of iron ore I'll camp for a little to smelt it all and make some solid iron blocks just for space.
Also, after getting fully kitted out with iron armor and have enough iron for other crafting purposes, I'll generally stop mining iron and just hunt for gold/diamond.
The reason I keep lava with me is before I get armor, where the monsters can do some big damage to you if you're not careful, to simply instakill them.
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Again nothing thrills me more than finding a large cavern; but its easy to get overwhelmed when a fork becomes ANOTHER fork and so on;
So ill carry 128's worth of torches and the likes; but what ill do to mark my way around is sapling trees.
when i enter a cavern i will mark the original entrance with a soil/sapling...
And again at the entrance of a fork/way up or down i will mark it with another; this way it makes it easier to trace my way back to my original path.
:)
Or, if all else fails... seal off a room, dig up.
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I always set my spawn point outside of the cave just incase I get lost. Also, I mark the walls and floors occasionally with cyan blocks so I can follow the trail (deleting cyan along the way) to the exit.
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We're talking about /infdef/ (now /game/ :p)
Afaik, you can't change your spawn point there yet.
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Using NBTEdit or Mineedit you are able to set your spawn, its kinda cheating... Personally i don't do it.
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Hmm, my strategy is a little unorthodox but here it is:
I like to prepare by having a good deal of wood enough for a crafting table and a lot of sticks, maybe some armor, and a sword. Also, some food always helps. I then wander blindly into the cave and get helpless lost and confused until I find diamonds. Then I dig up to the surface in a gentle staircase, mindful to avoid sand/gravel/water/lava.
The end.