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Mining is so important and yet it took 11 years for a cave update. Not complaining btw

The old mining iron ore with your fist to get yourself few blocks of iron looks so cursed nowadays

2009: bare hands 2020: *carpet bombing*

ami the only one who noticed how big the gold vein was

I wish I could erase my Minecraft experience from my memories and feel the experience all over from the start. Man I miss being a kid

Remember how, on pocket edition, the void used to give off light and there were no caves, so everyone dug beside the void.

This might be a less significant documentary than your other ones, but for me, this is my most favourite. (And not because I was mining in my world when this video uploaded haha)

"mining is required to progress" Speedrunners who can beat the game without mining

6:27 top right I like how some humor has stayed over the years

Who else remembers when they bought and read the guide books to mining, pvp, Redstone, and building?

I remember when enchantments got added I thought fortune was cheaty and refused to use it for like 2 years good memories

It always annoyed me that people call branch mining "strip mining" when TNT mining is much more like real strip mining. I started with a network of 2x2 tunnels until I learned about pinwheel mining and see no reason to abandon it when it comes to just getting diamonds -- though caving for iron worth it for the fun and gets plenty of iron and coal.

I remember being scared of caves because of the mobs ,specifically creepers ,but I lost the fear and actually i can mine without problems lol But now with the upcoming caves and cliffs maybe the caves will be more dangerous or idk

Ah yes, 2020 in the thumbnail, it happens to all of us

The old mining and blocks dropping is SO weird what do you think about it?

I love how everyone had a mine that was just a huge hole with ladders in one corner

This is such a weird topic, never expected this video to be so enjoyable to watch

"without mining, you would never be able to progress" *laughs in toycat*

Technically you could beat the game without mining by hitting up like 600 villages.

Remember, everyone is first until they refresh

"mining is required to progress" IBXtoycat: no.

6:25 "you can make it as long as you want. (thats what she said)" *ahhhh yes. a true man of culture.*

Mojang sure did took the cave update way too seriously, now lets wait for another 9years to get another cave update

1:37 I was more focused on how BIG that gold vein was

10:13 "An increase by *roughly* 25%"

Minecraft players: *use effective mining strats* Me: *literally just mines in a straight line until i find diamonds*

Legends say that he is still mining that gold ore

Underrated channel, combining both Minecraft, contemporary history, and video essays, three things I love

I love how this man explains things it’s just calming and you can easily understand it

"So important it makes half of the game's name" Craft which is 6.6666% more in the name: 👁👄👁

The Redstone update is the Minecraft equivalent of the Industrial Revolution, we no longer depend of manual mining but rather we use complex contraptions to mine massive chunks in a matter of minutes as oppose to hours by hand.

Omg I still remember the day that Cobblestone changed appearance, it felt so weird but now I feel as if it’s always been that way

4:09 the creeper that came out of nowhere: *"IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT"*

This video took me way back, lol. I started playing in the last days of Alpha after some college buddies introduced me to Minecraft. It may have been due to us not having any exposure to what few LPs were around back then, but our early mines typically were 1x1 vertical shafts with a ladder, that would then branch off at more or less random Y-levels in search of ore.

Should’ve added mining in the nether for ancient debris and beds being used as a mining technique for that.

Mining then: just punch ground. Mining now: CaRpEt BoMbInG tHe LaNdScApE.

I forgot how weird steve’s hand used to look

It's crazy how such a random topic can be done so well! Keep up the great work!

I just wanna note that I was playing Minecraft in beta 1.5 and strip mining was very much standard before I started playing, my buddies immediately gave me several designs for it when I started

It's nice we're becoming more and more efficient but the only thing that matters is that we don't do it at night. Period.

Caves should definitely be a much faster way to get ores, since it's more interesting and less grindy than strip mining. To compensate, caves should be harder, with more mobs and harder mobs (as we have seen will be added), plus the drip stones if they pose any threat. But I also think there should be something faster that can actually catch up to you easily but doesn't deal a lot of damage. Imo Bats are a perfect mob to improve, give them double the speed and attack players, even if only dealing very little damage. But to keep it interesting and balanced, make armour less useful against them. (so with full dia they still deal half a damage maybe, while only 2-3 hearts with no armour)

watching these videos makes me almost cry, i have been plating this game for almost as long as the game has been around. watching how it's progressed with the minecraft music in the background is one of the most nostalgic and melancholic feelings i have ever experienced with a video game, it's up there with listening to the donkey kong country soundtrack or playing mario kart wii alone, i feel nostalgic because i remember playing with friends when i was young in the early 2010s, as i was poor my family could not afford the newer video games, in fact for most of my childhood we only had my mothers nintendo 64 system from when she was in high school, it was not until we got money from remodeling a house (my father had been fired from his regular job and my parents were good at fixing and building stuff) that my brother was able to buy a run down xbox360 and a copy of minecraft that we got a "new" system, and in mid 2012 the game was almost primitive compared to now, still it was like a kids first trip to disney land, full of wonder and splendor but playing locally with my friends is likely my most fond memory from that time spending hours having fun and building, and seeing how minecraft has grown over the years, with the old youtube channels going away and the new ones coming and going, it's been almost like watching a child mature and grow into a successful adult, i never want to see minecraft go away, and it really could stay forever, minecraft is an ever evolving game, it could realistically stay for 30 years with kids growing up surrounded by the game. minecraft is one of many games i value above all others, i have an actual list of games that shaped my taste and view of things, sure many of these were old or not even good but they shaped my childhood mario kart wii halo combat evolved minecraft star wars episode 1 racer donkey kong country the leagend of zelda ocarina of time the legend of zelda the skyward sword the legend of zelda majora's mask skyrim left 4 dead killer instinct gold cruisin usa there are more, but i will always be grateful for my mother owning these old systems for my friends letting me play their wii when i had no wii of my own my family for letting me help remodel houses so i could buy my own games, i hope you can realize how much i value minecraft above all other games i listed, because i watched it grow as i grew, i watched it evolve, i remember being excited for the first minecraft merch being added to stores, i remember sticking by minecraft even when other games seemed to overshadow the game, gta5 fortnite among us overwatch league of legends, whatever games came and went minecraft is still here with us

3:44 That footage gave me a flashback holy shit i remember watching that YEARS ago as it came out, i can't remember who made it but i know it was a series

"You can destroy every single block" Bedrock: i am about to destroy this mans whole carear Bedrock breaking glitches: let me introduce myself

"Without Mining You cannot progress" Speedrunners be like"Hold up, wait a minute"

11:30 I don't think the change to TNT is what made carpet bombing more prevalent so much as the community becoming more familiar with slimestone and flying machines thanks to the attention brought to them by big youtube channels. More importantly, TNT still destroys dropped items, so carpet bombing can only used to expose diamond ore, at which point the machines must be stopped so a player can mine them by hand.

I build a lot of quarry mines. I know they're inefficient to find diamond and similar, but I mainly do it to dig up a lot of stone fast (during the early game, when you don't have more stone than you can store yet.)

You forgot to link Notch's original post in the description!

"this is the best mining technique" *cries in bedrock*

It's amazing watching old minecraft and seeing how different. Yet so... similar its core is as today. They're have been a plethora of updates and additions, but just punching and watching a block break is just... it's core

There was this mod that yogscast used for their early moonquest series. It had pipes and engines and sorters and auto smelters and crafters and stuff. I forget what it’s called, but you could make quarries and so long as they were powered it’d automine that quarry and send the materials back through a pipe to storage

"You have to mine to progress" -themisterepic 2021

The last one will literally kill my computer.

This hits different at midnight great Video 💯 so many good memories playing the alpha on my after school care computers when I got the chance haha

That's so insane because I remember I used to watch TheShadowCaves whole series about how to do stuff in minecraft and once I saw that first clip at 0:41 I was instantly thrown back in time to the good days when life was simple

This is your year your getting 1 mil this year i can tell. And probably even more.

Your channel is so underrated

Neat overview! Thanks for uploading!

I’ve been enjoying Minecraft again on my PS5. I can’t help but notice how similar it is now to how it was 11 years ago! It blows my mind that so much has been added.

Me who dig straight down : oh why people didnt think dig straight mine Edit : Why u ask just hoping to find a cave abd when i found it i make a base in the cave

Wow I’m really early also misterepic you are my favorite Minecraft youtuber! Keep up the good work ❤️

Heck yeah! love to see the clips from X's adventures in minecraft, that series introduced me to minecraft way back when

Y-12: (Minecraft Xbox 360 edition late 2012 -2013) I get a nostalgic feeling from those words and I still use the same technique of strip mining other than making my gaps have 2 blocks in between

Never been this early Love the content coming form a fellow Aussie

Why is all of his replies hahaha or hahaha true? TheMisterEpic is robot confirmed? Mark Zuckerburg and TheMisterEpic collab?!😳

Bro seeing those clips from X's adventures made me so nostalgic!! That was the series that got me into Minecraft back in the day.

I really enjoy mining large ore veins due to how relaxing it is. As for mining in general, I've accumulated over a stack and a half of diamond ore since 1.18 and haven't used Fortune 3 on them yet.

Me who just Strip mine: *Confused Oonga Boonga*

“Fastest way to get diamonds” Laughs in xray

thats so cool, thank you for this awesome video TheMisterEpic

That TNT mining is downright scary. It's litterally an ingame industrial revolution, imagine what _that_ could bring...

🤓👆actually "mine" takes up 4/9ths of minecraft's name.

Don't get confused a strip mine is a hole from the top of the world to the bottom the skinny mines underground are called branch mines.

your channel seems to have exploded out of nowhere, holy cow. keep up the good work!

One quick note: The addition of swift sneak has made crawl-mining a lot better than it already was.

Here’s what I do, found a cave that goes to bedrock and just start mining coal, there are a lot of good ores hidden by coal. I didn’t know that till I mined coal and found emeralds.

Not going to say first

WOW! I didnt even know dive mines were a thing! Great video

@3:44 that’s one of my favorite Minecraft play throughs. DavidAngel64 is the KZfaqd. It’s old school KZfaq now so under edited and really really early Minecraft

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Minecraft is a game that literally never will get old.

You just covered mining in overworld, but discovery od bed bombing to find netherite was very important. This made finding netherite way easier, especially on Bedrock, where You can turn cobweb to 9 strings and those strings to wool.

And now cave venturing is the best way to find ores and THANK GOD I hate normal strip-esque mining methods, ive genuinely rarely ever actually found diamonds through it and mainly just do it to find more caves to explore lol

I still remember the old Minecraft "OUGH!" fall damage noise echoing in my head. After not playing it for a while, booting it back up, and not hearing it, I was very confused. In my head it was a major stamp for me. And I still miss it.

4:30 Man, what a throwback. I loved X's Adventures so much

Great vid as always!! However in my 9+ years of playing our beautiful game - have never ever strip / trench / tnt mined - just cave crawling :) Best wishes for 2021 everyone!

I just miss how exciting it is to discover a new recipe from randomly putting stuff into the crafting bench and just dig a hole and evolve it overtime into ur own base🙁 time flies waaaay too fast

Very in depth research for the video thank you for the quality content

The 1.18 cave system will likely not make caving for diamonds efficient. Many people don't seem to realize this, but ancient debris was specifically coded to never be exposed to air (yes there is the occasional fluke but 99.99% of ancient debris is hidden). From what I remember, they're planning on doing the same with diamonds, and some ores like lapis will have a "reduced exposure".

what graphics/textures are your using? Your game looks amazing.

I’ve been trying to find what let’s play series that was I watched back during the alpha days before I had my own computer. It was DavidAngel64, thank you so much, I’ve been trying to figure out who it was for years now!

3:43 one of the most Iconic base builds for me. If I remember correctly that was X's base and I watched his whole playthrough just to lean how to play minecraft

I still use huge quarries, largely as I build tons of things in my worlds. It makes to most sense from a resource collection standpoint. It ensures I have enough to build with, as I prefer to explore, while setting up little houses that allow me to make safe stops on journeys.

Wow. that video has the quality. You definetly need more than 100k subs man. Subscribing now. i want to see you rise. Good job!

Nice scicraft toss. Good vid, man.

In my first world I built a 10x10 shaft and then a 20x20 shaft. Insane to think how inefficient that was but back then we legit thought it was the best way to mine. Now the wiki tells you how common ores are and at what level making it obvious to focus mining at lower levels.

Aww man, I used to feel so scared when I was mining back in the day. Cave noises and stuff ;)

Really great video! It really caught me, the time just flew by

I remember it well. The earliest I ever saw strip mining was 1.15_1 beta. I remember it so well because it was a world I had downloaded that had an entire railroad station done from scratch. I can't say that was the earliest it was discovered, but I know that was the first time I had seen anything like it. I haven't been able to find the KZfaq video ever since--it contained a MediaFire link to a world where he had set up a minecart station using the famous old Minecart boost glitch. Utterly stunning how much he strip mined, and it was the proto-strip-mining with only one block between each wall.