I found a village at the top of a mountain, at the highest point of that mountain there is a fountain. I dig down from it hoping to see a stronghold. But man did I stumble upon a deep dark biome. Confident with my fully enchanted diamond armors and weapons I decided to explore it. When the shriek was heard I immediately encountered the Warden, but upon receiving a hit from it (took more than half of my health, mind you all my armor has protection 4) I immediately run to my hole and build up, but when I thought I escaped the monster it blasted me with a shriek that can pass through walls. And that's the story of how I lost a set of enchanted diamon armors and some precious items in a single moment

I really felt the mountains trick was fake, but when I entered a random seed in chunkbase and checked, it all checks out! Ancient cities aren’t a guarantee but it seems so with the deep dark. My guess is that the deep dark tries to be under as many blocks as possible, with water not counting as seen with oceans. Thank you for this information LastWanderer!

I'm using this information to avoid the deep dark 😂

I can confirm that most of the deep dark cities ive found was under a mountain

I can confirm that the mountain trick works. I loaded up a random seed, and luckily spawned in a big mountain biome. I immediately went into spectator, went underground, and found an ancient city with the deep dark biome extending throughout the whole mountain biome range.

The city should be found via rare maps in buried chests.

So glad I watched this video! I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to find an ancient city because of the apparent rarity. After watching I grabbed my fastest horse to start exploring and dug under the first Stoney Peeks I found; and low-and-behold, an ancient city with a Swift Sneak III in the first chest! Yes… I died to the Warden when I spawned him out of curiosity. A word to the wise, if you spawn the Warden with the plan of running away from him in a tunnel- make sure that it doesn’t double back so that you can die to that sweet sonic shriek. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Finally. After countless hours, I've gotten everything I need. I've upgraded all my gear, and now I have fully enchanted netherite weapons, tools, and armour. It's time to take on the Warden and the Ancient Cities. All I've got left to do is to find the Deep Dark. This will be a quick trip. How hard can it be? Hello everyone. I'm the Last Wanderer. And with 1.19 finally out, we get access to the Deep Dark biome, along with all the new content it brings. From sculk blocks to the Warden to Ancient Cities with all their loot. But there's a slight issue. There's no obvious in-game way to find the Deep Dark. And that's a problem I'm going to fix here by showing a legitimate in-game way to easily find the Deep Dark. Wait, wait, wait. What's going on here? Oh. Yeah, I should probably explain this. The fastest way to find the Deep Dark is technically to just cheat and use an external program like this one. It can also show you the exact location of Ancient Cities. While my method might not be as fast, it's still pretty reliable, non-cheaty, and works even if you don't have the seed. It just requires a little bit more effort. Back to my strategy. As you probably know, the Deep Dark only generates deep underground, hence the deep part of the Deep Dark. Now, you might be inclined to think that that means the best strategy is to go deep underground and keep following cave systems until you find it. But that's actually a pretty slow plan. That's not going to get you to the Deep Dark very fast. It's actually better to try to find the Deep Dark from the surface of the overworld. Now, this might seem counterintuitive, but it's actually not. You see, there are two things that are always true about where the Deep Dark biome generates, no matter where it is in the world, and both of these things can be detected from the surface. The first condition makes sense when you think about it. The Deep Dark will never generate under any ocean biome. If it were to intersect an ocean biome, its generation just abruptly stops. Now, this makes sense because the Deep Dark is supposed to be deep as I mentioned before, and the ocean floor is much lower down than normal landmasses. So it wouldn't really be that deep underground if it were to generate under an ocean, so it doesn't. The same is also true about rivers, though rivers are obviously a lot less impactful because of how much smaller they are. The second condition is a lot less intuitive, and you have to have a decent understanding of the F3 menu to know. And it's that the Deep Dark will only generate at places with a low erosion value. What does this mean? Well, if you open up your F3 menu, erosion is denoted as the E in the noise router line. And in order to increase your chances of finding the Deep Dark, you want this value to be as low as possible. The Deep Dark only really seems to generate at erosion values lower than -0.1, so it's best to get that erosion value as close as you can to -1, or even lower than that. That'll really maximize your chances. Though values that low are pretty rare. So, is that all my advice? Just run or fly around, avoiding oceans and rivers, while checking the F3 menu for spots with low enough erosion for you to dig down and see if there's a Deep Dark? Well, no, actually. You see, there's one other surface feature that tends to generate around the same spots that the Deep Dark generates, and that's mountains. Not the old ones, but the ones added in 1.18. If you see any of the five new mountain biomes (grove, snowy slopes, frozen peaks, jagged peaks, or stony peaks), it's basically guaranteed that there's a Deep Dark biome either directly under it or within just about a hundred blocks or so of that biome. I should note that not every single Deep Dark biome will generate under a mountains biome, though a vast majority of them will, especially the larger ones. And the bigger the mountain biomes are, the bigger the Deep Dark underneath is. You can also see this relationship in an external program, like Chunk Base, which I'll be demonstrating now. Right now, I have all the mountain biomes highlighted out on the screen. If I switch from the surface of the world down to the bottom of it, you'll see that there's a Deep Dark everywhere that there was a mountain range. Plus a few other small ones. But you can also see if I switch on Ancient Cities and then go to the top of the world, the Ancient Cities generate almost exclusively where there's mountain biomes, with just only a few outliers. The last thing I should mention is that finding Ancient Cities is a bit more complicated than just finding the Deep Dark. Yeah, they are big, but they're also pretty rare. In case you want to find one of these, you are going to have to travel through caves. Once you've found your Deep Dark biome, you're just going to have to explore. And that still might take a while because they're a bit rare. It's important to know that Ancient Cities will always generate with their floor at y -51 and their average roof height is around y -33. So that's where you should be looking for them. But unfortunately, once you've found the Deep Dark, there's really no better strategy for finding Ancient Cities. So that's my strategy for finding the Deep Dark. Avoid oceans and rivers, search for low erosion areas, and once you've found a mountains biome, you can be sure that there's a Deep Dark nearby. Happy hunting, everyone. And best of luck finding those Ancient Cities. But with that, that's all I've got for now. So thank you all so much for watching. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to leave them in the comment section below. Once again, thank you all so much for watching, and goodbye.

THANK YOU! I don't have access to the seed so I just did the mountain trick and I ended up in one, probably a "small" one (haven't fully explored). My friend spent hours looking for one and still hasn't and I found it within 15 mins of watching this

The intro was unexpected and very welcome. I enjoyed the creativity! Got me to subscribe and like

thank you so much for the erosion explanation, I couldn't find anyone explaining it other than "deep dark spawns under low erosion"

Thank you so much! Your method seems spot on. I found him under a stony peaks biome on bedrock. Time to farm him now ;)

I like this vid it’s a vibe idk why ahaha cheers man

I was looking for hours in caves for just a skulk sensor for a farm I needed and I couldn't find one, nice to know there was one just under the jagged peaks 1000 blocks away from my house :)

Wow. I sure wasted a lot of time just wandering through caves. Thanks for this tutorial! I have a few mountains around my base so I might get lucky with finding the deep dark!

Oh wow I could've used this for my survival server. My family and I have a survival server here we just play vanilla Minecraft together. I usually use chunkbase to find cool places to live in the new updates, but this would've been a way more fun way of doing it!

the one I found tells a story because there was an abandoned mine shaft above it which either means the miners might have died

thx bruv your an actually a good guide

They should have added a map to the deep dark as a max cartographer trade item. Maybe a rare one, but still.

With your tips I found in like 20 minutes, and then I died and lost all my items :'D

Ill tell my story, pretty long, so, yeah, and its kinda hard to belive but this is it: I started playing minecraft a month ago, ive never ever in my life had played it. So, at the second day, i was searching iron into an already deep below mine, when i found kind of stairs, so i went down, find some gold, diamonds AND... yeah, like that dark greenish grass flor, and when i stept on it, my screen beggan to turn darker, i heard noises, like screams, i couldnt see a sh*t, but i got stuck in a waterfall, and i was drowing. I was very nervous cause i didnt knew what was happening and i thought i was gonna be stuck there forever, till i finally found lava and suicide. I lost everything, but no problemou, then, i went down again, found a block that was sending waves and i decided to break it. After that, i had no other problem, but i asked a friend and told me "bro, when u find those grass bricks and your screen is turning dark, youre doom". He told me everything, etc, etc, and hell yeah, it was the Warden. Crap, and i just shit on his spawn block!!!! I regret it so much cause i wanted to see it. Ever since, im looking for him again, and a Deep Dark City, thats what brings me to this video, that in fact its the most useful, stright to the point ive ever seen and im really greatful, thanks sooo so much!

I never thought I’d see a video like this.🤯 Now I can test that portal looking thingie!

extremly helpful, thank you

Literally found a deep dark after watching, great info

Great info. Thanks lad !

Yep I've found 3 deep darks with cities and they're all under mountains. Now what is that damned portal thing... it ain't decoration, surely.

Ohh, nice. I now know what farm i'll do later today :D

this is really helped thanks

It's finally here!

oh my gosh thank you! this will make it easier to find the deep dark! :D

Thank you so much for the tip

I tried the mountain trick and it worked. I’m on bedrock. Thank you!

The mountain trick is so good I tried it and it worked the first time I tryed thank you

@0:26 I clicked the subscribe button. Great intro!

Holy smokes!😅This was very informing the Deep Dark is so cool🤔I wonder if I can one tap them🤭

nice video thank you

Omg I was literally trying to find the deep dark and I didn't know about the ancient cities until I did better research. But literally I have been trying to find them for days and I decided to see your video. Instantly when I went through a cave system under a huge rocky mountain I found not one, but TWO cities next to each other separated by just a wall of blocks! This video was extremely helpful and I also do recommend this seed if anyone wants to find the cities easily. (Seed: -4293845509475923090) Then go to (Position: 1193, 129, 1313) When you get there go to the left opening of the cave and as you go down you will instantly start to see deep dark and you will find the city. I hope this helps anyone 😁

holy crap it works, tysm!

Thank you!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks and what's that map thing you were on at the start

Thank you very much!

How do you get the erosion level to show on f3? I can’t find anything meaningful online about multi_noise. Is it a button combo like f3+b?

my f3 doesn't show noiserouter/erosion - how do I toggle it on?

Very useful thank you very much

Somehow the erosion counter doesnt show for me can you tell me why is that?

What settings do you use in order to continue to fly with the eleytra and have all the blocks render in at a reasonble speed?

I just found out the ancient city today under the snow mountain..thankyouu🎉

i dont see the noise router on my f3 menu is it a problem with lunar client?

His info is absolutely 100% true I tested the non access website I instead found a mountain covered in ice and snow found a way in the mountain and 20 minutes later I found it

What about mountain like regions in the desert/badlands, or savannah? Would those be decent places to look?

The intro is pretty epic 😂

I can't find out how to pull up the noise router in the F3 menu. I did F3, Shift+F3, Control+F3, and Alt+F3, but none showed the noise router or erosion level.

Looking for mountains with lots of flowers on them tends to lead to deep dark. Shrubs in savannah biomes.

Going to try the mountain trick tonight. Tired of repairing my elytra and burning thru rockets finding nothing.

The E in the row under noise router also tells you what the erosion count is. E4 being the high amount (as far as I know) and E1 being the lowest. I did a little testing and found that deep dark is common under E1 and is rare under E3 and never spawns under E4

Idk how but I went in a cave system and I found a deep dark so fast!

I got a couple questions, near my base there's a lush cave that was explored before the deep dark update, went back and saw sculk vines at bedrock level, (newly generated) does that mean im near one? I looked around but only found bedrock

I don't have Noise Router on my debug screen. Is there a way to turn it on?

How do I make it so that the f3 menu shows erosion? It doesn't for me.

You pointed out "low erosion" and "mountains" as different things, but mountains occur where there's low erosion. They're directly linked.

I find some ancient city, actually pretty interesting because it was next to a mineshaft, but my main problem of this version is the empity of the content, I mean the Warden is good and scary but what is the point to risk you only for get a pointless compass, a disk and one book with very especific utility, I mean the estructure is so good but is pontless to play this version.

Thank you soo much

dude just today my daughter wanted me to find the deep dark on her profile. so I created a new world and go to y -31 then start searching. an hour later still no deep dark. at this point I'm getting frustrated so, since she is in creative, I spawn a command block and set it so I tunnel 3x3 instead of 1x1. an hour later STILL NO DEEP DARK LIKE WTF I even ended up below the bedrock at certain points now I know to start looking under mountains lmao

i play java on a mac. I can't find the erosion on my debug menu. is there something I'm missing

I don't see that "NoiseRouter" row with corosion value in my F3 screen :(

Is there a way to see something like the f3 menu on the switch or series x? I have fumbled around a bit in settings to no avail if anyone knows a definite answer i would be happy to know tyia

Accidentally stumbled upon this biome yesterday😭 it was the first cave i went into after building my house

Gotta love how all these type of videos usually just use the old “F3” thing- like, some people play on consoles though. What about us?

Good video🧐

What is the music playing at 1:10?

Yesterday i watched this video, and i found ancient city in my hardore world. It was underneth small mountain by the big river.

very helpful

There was literally an ancient city right below my house and I didnt even realize until I went down to mine.

So I'm pretty new to minecraft because of my Ole lady and I've been very intrigued by the deep dark since we've found it, but I can't seem to find any videos on the portal structure itself that's in the deep dark itself.

nice vid

Dude how do you do that I’m trying to find a regular one I’m going to a different one

Literally found it while flying around 😂

Sucks Bedrock doesnt have the f3 menu, but the mountains trick makes up for it. Great video!

He returned

Ive made a realm, but there is no seed. What do I do?

is there a way to get the noise router info in a multiplayer game? its just not there

how do i get the erosion thing to show

this is a really good video

it's true, i love you bro

I cant access noise router, it doesn’t appear in my f3 menu

On the game I accidentally summoned three wardens when I was on creative mode so I destroyed the shriekers and the sensors so they won’t get summoned .

❤️

Okay been googling this for a hot minute but the Multi-Noise section doesnt show in my F3. Says on the wiki it's only displayed when using the "multi_noise biome source". Anybody experience this?

They usually spawn around 2000-3000 blocks away from eachother. Edit: Once I found two so close that they were connected.

I used the pie ray to locate chest and assume they are ancient cities, so you can do that too.

Hmm, I noticed an Ancient Cities can appears under badlands too. Even if nearly no mountains

yo why he sound like kermit?

💀I was right about to get off because my only sculk catalyst got blown up by a creeper I flew around the entire Minecraft world and couldn’t find a deep dark biome and finally saw this video dug straight down and not only found a deep dark biome but I found an ancient city this video is 100% accurate for bedrock edition I’m not sure about Java

Its easy go too create new world then tap deep dark then load the world in creative mode then dig down intille you fall down then look left then go forword untill you see a little hole go inside go down keep doing it then you will seesculk vein keep going forward. Go down some more then a effect will be on the sids of your phone then take a right then you will see a lot of sculk

There's indeed erosion in MC. Over a long time, the terrain will change because of this and is based on real erosion.

Is this a mod or a normal thing now in Minecraft

I keep finding skulk but not the deep dark hope this helps

I don’t play Java or on PCs saw the F3 menu is not gonna work for me

Also skulk is a good way to get experience.