I'd love to see a biologist make a sort of "biology of minecraft"... of course most minecraft mobs don't make any sense in real life, but it'd be interesting to see

As a hydrogeologist I love that you went and covered the caves, pretty perfect all round. Its great to see that you're out there raising awareness that we exist! Excellent use of the command blocks and the presentation is top notch.

Quick tip; Instead of deleting files, you can share a drive folder and update the map inside it, so you won't need to change links with each update

I have a materials science background, so the only thing I know about geology are the minerals and crystals. It's great being exposed to this field in such an approachable way. These videos absolutely feel like a field trip, with you walking along the different 'exhibits' and the being able to pick which blocks to show in the cave visualization. My favorite part is the cave formation process, which is something I can totally imagine in a museum.

Nice! As somebody who knows next to nothing about real geology, I’m loving this series

You should talk about the "sinkhole" formation seeds, don't think they're similar to anything irl but they're very interesting in game

I've always thought of ravines as exposed seismic faults, but that's just my take on it. And we all know how sinkholes can form in Minecraft, especially deserts. Also, no mention of aquifers?

I love when grown adults who know a lot about a certain complex topic delve into some of these more silly areas of their profession. Seeing how they treat these seemingly childish areas with respect and really put the time into their work to explain stuff in a way that is easy to understand is always fun. I'm not a person who would normally find interest in geology, but you presented it in a very entertaining way!

I had zero interest in geology before seeing this series and now I’m researching geology of where I live. Awesome content man!

Recently, when watching Daskalos (the archeologist who did "bronze age minecraft" and "trail ruins excavation"), I thought to myself that it would be great if other scientist started using minecraft to educate people. The first thing I thought of was geology. And a few days later youtube recommended me this channel.

you mentioning yellowstone when talking about caves makes me wish that you gave your geological insight into a texture pack called Terralith. it is a resource pack that overhauls the biome generation of the overworld. it changes the shape and feel of most biomes, as well as adding a bunch of new (mostly realistic) ones by remixing vanilla blocks.

What cave biomes would you add to Minecraft? I've been endlessly exploring the big cave next to my base and I can travel extremely far underground. Dozens of hours of exploring and it never stops. I'm wondering if these caves are so numerous and large, then it must be technically possible to travel from one end of the world (the "Farlands") to the other end without coming up to the surface. I don't know how you would find that out though.

can real life dripstone actually grow *that* large?

Interesting seeing the cave formation bit about water interacting with limestone, and seeing the water level change. In Terraria's caves, when you fing water and dig away, the water level changes accordingly with the direction you're digging

entry level science videos like (especially about geology) this are actually such a huge inspiration for the workdbuilding of my fantasy stories, thanks!

Hello! I’d love to see you talk about oceans next! I read a paper called “Not a bathtub: A consideration of sea-level physics for archaeological models of human migration” that talks about the weird ways oceans behave in the real world. Do check it out!

there is also another rare / lesser known type of limestone karst where the limestone is corroded from the bottom by the ascention of sulfur based chemicals , turned into sulfuric acid by some bacterias , these caves have a lot of gypsum inside them (in a "normal" limestone karst , gypsum is very rare beceause of its high solvability ) . this type of karst is very rare and often present in very dry areas , or areas with a very limited "bassin versant" ( idk how to translate this one ) , in europe we have around two cave systems like this ,in america lechugilla cave if i recall the name correcly is one of the biggest example of this kind of karst . also i think it would be very nice (even if almost impossible to put in the game ) to add in minecraft a more "alpine" and young type of karst , with lots of meanders , fossile and active conduits and an important vertical layer feeding its water into a more horizontal interconnection of collectors before entering a submerged area and resurging somewhere .

I study Mining and Metallurgical engineering and I had a fair amount of geology, mineralogy and petrology classes. During all those classes we would be provided with crappy pictures of how "things" happened (formation of volcanoes etc) while in fact minecraft is a perfect tool to demonstrate things like these. Especially the 2D (17:38) explanation of caves formation could work with so many examples like explaining faults, rifts, the movements of tectonic plates and so on. Your videos are a great entry level to your field that I can show my younger brother and still find it entertaining but also informative. You seem to have created the "Minecraft Education Edition" that Mojang should have made. Excelent work! Can't wait for more videos! ps. In many videos you mention real life examples of locations and formations, it would be great if you added some pictures during the videos as a showcase of these exaples.

Seeing those real life examples was amazing! Thank you for taking the extra time and effort you took to record that part for us to see.

0:50 the amount of mobs that spawn specifically in these caves is actually noticably denser though, since the light sources act to restrict the area they can spawn in, not the total amount of mobs that can spawn (verify this)

Really slick visualization with the cross section advancing through time! Really liked the details comparing the in-game and IRL cave types, super interesting stuff communicated very well. Thanks for sharing your expertise!

ive never had cave formations explained to me like this and ive now learned how good minecraft is as an educational tool

The lighting of the lush caves somewhat brings to mind the Glowworm Caves in New Zealand. With the obvious caveat that glowworms are animals and not plants which are present in the lush caves.

As someone who LOVES Geology and absolutely loves playing Minecraft, I really enjoy your geology Minecraft videos! (I'm not officially a geologist or anything but it is one of my main special interests.)

He’s back! So glad you’re bringing back this series it’s what brought me to your channel and as a big geology nerd I’m adoring it.

Potential explanations for glowberries: 1. Fantasy rock, maybe redstone, can be harvested from roots and concentrated to form a glowing orb, that the leaves grow to photosynthesize from. 2. Thermo/chemotropic bacteria or other microorganisms, since one explanation of the water formation involves that kind of thing, the microbes that collect energy from it have a strain that evolved into endosymbiotic organisms within the glowberry vines that create light for photosynthesis. 3. Magic, maybe they see light from a parallel plane or whatever. It's hard to make a plant that grows in complete darkness realistic...

The basement rock topic interests me a lot. Living in an area that has basement rock exposed on the surface but always thought it was normal. Thanks for the great video.

when you talk about things outside of minecraft, like the collapsing caves in china, or the lava tubes, it would be a great addition to show images of what you mean

Most under-appreciated channel ever

I just discovered you brother and you are a blessing. Watching your videos with my kids and we both learn a lot

in one of my survival worlds i built my house on top of an elevated area. behind it happened to be a hole with a small cave connecting to a giant underground cheese cave that went further down in typical minecraft fashion. i put a sign that labelled "what happened" and i put a fake date just for fun lol. i called it a sinkhole due to its proximity to the cave

The production of these videos is unparalleled, so much work must go into your set design and command block work. Keep it up man!

I've been looking forward to this concept of a video from you!! I'm absolutely loving these videos!

As someone who finds insane amount of enjoyment in world building and geology itself, these videos are amazing and makes me want to actually world build more than i already do! Keep up the amazing work!

you did this exactly like a mammoth cave tour guide, it was so good, i loved how informative and funny your little bits (which obviously took effort! like the lights turning on and the bridges) are! ✨

I always remember Stalac"T"ites as at the "Top". "T" for top. The "hold tight" strategy didn't help me much because something could just as easily hold "tight to the floor", but "T" is always TOP! Just another fun pneumonics trick I've used over the years.

Just yesterday I was binge watching all of your Minecraft geology videos and thinking “I can’t wait for the next part!” And here we go :D

The way I was taught stalacTites and stalagMites is that if you draw lines connecting all three lines of the T, it forms a downward facing spike, and the M is easy, it already has 2 upwards facing spikes

These videos are great! I know almost nothing about geology, so it's awesome to hear how it all applies to Minecraft. I think a video on the different ores in the game would be really interesting too!

I've been watching a few of your geology videos recently and in this one I was just thinking, when you started discussing the real types of caves, _man, I'd love to see a timelapse of the process of some of these caves forming_ and then BOOM delivered! Masterful work Gneiss :)

This channel/videos are incredibly underrated. I wish I would've found these videos sooner they're incredibly fun and entertaining to watch. Keep it up!

Very, very under rated. This is one of the only things that I would donate to on something like patreon because I love to see educational stuff through the format of games. You can really tell how much effort are put into these and as a Geography student and Minecraft player this is really nice to watch. Keep up the good work ♥👍

Loved seeing the samples at the end of the video. Up in northern Wisconsin here we have the Ice Caves In Cornucopia, but due to increased temps in winter tourists haven’t been able to visit since 2015

I really love the way you explain things in an understandable way and especially the way you do the visuals in Minecraft. It's a great way to explain things and keeps everything visually interesting, while fitting in with the game. It's also interesting to see some real life examples of speleothems, especially the calcite crystal covered stalactite. I'm so happy to have discovered this series.

I vividly remember the underwater viewing area for sea lions at my local zoo clearly had a spot in the concrete ceiling that dripped so bad it caused the smallest of bumps on the ground. It was just a small mound no more than a mile quarter inch high if that.

The method i learned as a kid to remeber stalacites and stalagmites was that, stalaCites grow on the Ceiling, while stalaGmites grow on the Ground. Im sure if you get down to the nitty gritty details that trick isnt 100% accurate, but at least for an ordinary person who isnt deep into geology, its served me quite well.

W vid man youre a really cool geologist😎

Subscribed recently and not disappointed. This is amazing and incredibly interesting on top of being so masterfully put together and demonstrated c:

Just discovered this series. Cool stuff! Super innovative to create this amazing minecraft world as an interactive museum.

awesome video. thank you so much for the world download as well. i'm inspired to incorporate some geology related builds/features in my survival world :-) plus, being able to dive deep in each of your world sections will supplement my current geology course

I love your educational approach of teaching geological facts, terms, and geology in general through Minecraft!

Would love to see you cover the way Vintage Story's generation of geological stuff works, these videos are really awesome! Keep it up

I love how you posted this the same day my geology professor was teaching us about caves and after I just wrote a review paper about Onondaga Cave State Park!

I have been expecting this one from the first episode!! :) great stuff

I have never been more interested in geology in my life. Rocks!! 🎉❤

Hi, I think that your videos are really interesting! I am currently studying forest engineering, and part of that is also learning about geology, so your videos are quite interesting to see in comparison to what we learn in class about geology and soil science!

I wouldn't think a half an hour video on the geology of a 12 year old game would be interesting, but this is extremely fascinating.

The showcase at the end was really fascinating. Thank you for that! :D

I know for a fact these videos will be used in classrooms soon to get kids interested in geology and earth science. Great video!!

Love the video! My favorite ‘educational Minecraft’ youtubers tend to over-edit their videos. I like the genuine feel of your content!

Good work! A new video in the series, a few notes I guess, for me the most enjoyable parts were the 2d real life cross section and the real life rocks, with you using Minecraft as a reference to show how the real world works I guess, also when you talk near the start about the Minecraft caves, I would possibly showcase some images from Google or something to show examples at the time, anyways nice work! And the camera shots with replay mod have been neat, and the lights were cool how you rigged them up!

absolutely loving this series, keep up the amazing work!!!

Great video! I am a geology student in Spain and this videos are really interesting for me. Even if they are basic geology I still learn new things!

That's really cool, I wish I would have learned more about cave formation in my geology classes, but the professor just briefly touched on it in my hydrogeology class. Also I learned something new this video, I didn't know that's how karts topography formed, that's very cool and it makes a lot of sense.

Just got your igneous rocks video recommended, and there is a new geology episode up, less than an hour ago! Praise algorithm

I've always been fascinated by caves. I live in Kentucky which is quite well known for karst, and there is a bunch here.

Damn that was a good video. I recently had some discussion what and how geology can be represented in video games and of course Minecraft came to mind. Has been years since I played it so it'S amazing to see that they included yet more geologic features. And your cave builiding timelapse is an amazing tool!

I work in a cave in real life and usually don’t understand anything that you say in these videos but this one finally made sense 😂😂

Google drive lets you upload a file as a "new version", so you can update the world without needing to change the download link ^^ It happens if you just upload the file again with the same name. It replaces the old one

im really loving these videos i think you are doing a great job educating a layperson on these geology topics. if i could leave a suggestion it would be awesome if you could edit in a real picture of some of the IRL references such as the karst topography or the shelf stones / stepped travertine! otherwise keep it up, i loved the example cave generation you showed as the time advance.

You have no idea how surprised I was when you mentioned my hometown Flagstaff lol. Nobody talks about it. And yes, the lava tubes near the base of the San Francisco Peaks are very fun and interesting to explore.

Getting your Minecraft geology videos in my recommendations was one of the best things to happen to me

Is amazing how those geological formations can tell us about what happened in the past! Great work!

This was peobably one of the most interesting Minecraft adjacemt videos ive ever seen. The ending with the real life samples so great! Please post more

I love the huge amount of effort you put in your videos!

Really interesting content, I appreciate the effort to make all the examples to make it more easy to understand!

holy mackerel. just hit 1k subs a week ago and now within the hour he has 1k views on a video about geology. (I'm a geologist too so I'm allowed to call us boring) this one has so much production value as well. good work.

Presenting Geology through Minecraft is great. It makes it a lot more interesting when you make connections to one of my favorite games which also makes it much easier to focus on and digest this information, and it truly is fascinating

woow, I just recently subbed and went through all of your videos and instantly got a new one to watch, how nice :D

As soon as you explained what "karst" was, it reminded me of Karst Farm Park, a recreational complex near Bloomington, Indiana, where I sometimes had lacrosse practices. I had always just assumed the name came from somebody with the last name "Karst" owning a farm that later became the park, so I had to look it up and figure out how that connection was made. Turns out it literally is named that because of the karst topography of the area (and yes, also a farm that was there before the park, but not owned by anyone named Karst). Really enjoy these videos, please keep doing these!

Awesome video! I love your explanations, adding the real-life visuals was so freaking cool.

I loved the end seeing the actual formations in person.

This video style reminds me a lot of ethos lab and I love it. Keep up the good work.

4:09 the official Brazilian Portuguese translation of the game (at least in Bedrock) does call the dripstones "espeleotemas", which means "speleothems".

This is so cool! Really interesting stuff, love the animations!

sweet lessons, bro, I never knew about karst topography and it really excites the imagination. I looked at some images of landscapes and imagined the cave roof still overhead, partially collapsed so the light reaches in and allows all the valley farming. I realized the cave roof would have done a lot to level the valley inside and that a lot of the hills would have been stalactite/stalagtite (I forgot the name already for that) pillars that got left behind. Pretty nifty.

Unironically, I was very happy to see the notification that you uploaded a new video! Keep it up man, it's really interesting and cool to watch!

Great video! It was cool hearing mention of the lava tubes near Flagstaff. I visited those a few years ago.

Great work you're doing there! Glad youtube finaly started popping your videos on people's recommended page

i adore these videos. your voice is really soothing and nice to listen to.

Wow, this production quality is amazing! Loved the video, even though I am not much of a geo-nerd!

With this knowledge you got on Geology you can be really a good teacher using this as a presentation. This is great work my friend!.

Love this videos, I think you are bringing something quite unique to the Minecraft community

You have an excellent presentation of the material, I will sincerely wait for the next geological episode!

I really like the rock samples. Those are some neat rocks!

seriously underrated channel. keep up the great work, one day the algorithm will bless you

This video was very lovely, it shows how much care and effort you put into it.

wow! 10k views in just 12 hours! I would love to see your channel grow. keep it up with the videos, Good luck!

Came for the igneous rocks, stayed for the caves. I hope to see more of your amazing content soon!

I love hearing people talk about things they are passionate about. Thank the almighty algorithm for recomending you!