Gaming's Obsession With Miners 

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i love miners

Gaming truly has an obsession towards minors

The children yearn for the mines, so it is only natural that mining games would be popular

That "e" in the title is doing some heavy lifting

Children yearn for the mines

Why I love miners would've been a better title

"atmosphere is important for mining games" terraria mushroom biome: 🍄🍄💃💃🍄🎵💃🎶🍄🎶🎵💃🎶🍄

i know subnautica isn't a game about caves, but the caves that subnautica does have ARE SO DAMN ATMOSPHERIC

I’m so OBSESSED with miners!!!

As a gamer i fucking LOVE MINERS

“LIKE I SAID. KIDS ARE CRUEL, MISSION CONTROL, AND I LOVE MINERS!”

As a miner myself I don't get why people love us so much, all we do is dig holes and bring shiny rocks

That's all because I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGIN' A HOLE

That transition with the “Rock and Stone” interwoven into the script with the Deep Rock Galactic OST is some genius writing

Every time you said "rock and stone" I answered "FOR ROCK AND STONE" out loud in real life. DRG is dwelling deep inside me.

"LIKE I SAID LUCID, KIDS ARE CRUEL, AND I LOVE MINERS" - Game Developers

There's only one thing I can say: ROCK AND STONE!

The reason I clicked on this video is for the comments, I knew something would be up the moment I read the title.

Man, I love miners. They provide a much needed source of power, coal, for our society, while also doing the dangerous job that nobody wants to do but must be done. Miners are truly the best 🥰

"Kids are cruel, Jack, and I love miners!" - Buff Bezos, AKA Susdowner.

3:23 Ruby Dung was its own separate game developed by Notch, but many of its assets were transfered to a new game called Cave Game which was renamed into Minecraft we know today

I at first read 'miners' slightly differently, leading me to assume this was about Minecraft RU-vidrs.

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE!? Great video! Also, for the question at 14:15, definitely keep going. Ditch the gravel, string, bones and flint. Use the wood to build a crafting table, compress the coal. Then either bring the table or leave it there to open one more slot. Now you should have plenty of space to keep going. Once again, great video. Your editing was on point.

4:24 DID I JUST HEAR A ROCK AND STONE ?!

As a gamer, i also do have a obsession with miners.

Came for the title, stayed for the content. You rock, man!

I really like this style of video! I had thought originally you were taking just 3 games to talk about,but I really like how you expanded further on the aspects of various mining parts of many different games!

If there's one thing I'd like to share, it's the point on Atmosphere. Just last night, I was playing a modpack in minecraft, "Create Mekanized," and had achieved space travel to the moon via the Ad Astra mod included in the pack. As per a quest line, I was tasked to obtain Desh, an ore only found on the moon, and exploring in those absolute desolate caves was kind of exhilarating to an extent. Usually, when you explore caves in minecraft, you'd expect it to be littered with mobs here and there, maybe coming across a ravine with glow lichen, small water/lava falls, but not in the moon caves. The moon caves were devoid of any life, save for a corrupted lunarian here and there, but completely barren. It was definitely a weird but cool feeling to hold a lantern in your off-hand lighting your way within the cave looking for Moon Desh Ore. Not to mention, you have lower gravity, alongside the added fact you were on a constant time limit due to your space suit's oxygen depleting over time. As per the rewards point, it was a nice feeling to return back to Earth with the spoils I obtained, enough to last a good while before I head back for another visit.

The first link in the description being Discord increases the humor by an unexplainable amount

this video restored my faith in the videoessay format

absolutly god like editing and miniature is perfect. the video in itself is fricking amazing, great stuff, keep it up.

Great video! I love your editing, it's so clean and fluid.

14:35 Grian: just one more fishing rod cast…one more book.

One amazing thing about minecraft is that even the blocks are a big reward, as cobblestone or deepslate is a good enough reason to go out and mine to use later for building

Can’t wait for the followup video “gaming youtubers’ obsession with miners”

Its funny how one small misread gives the title a whole new meaning.

I feel like another reason terraria's mining/exploring feels so satisfying is because it also adds to the other dopamine booster: Power spikes. With each delve into the mine, you have a very real chance of coming out way stronger than before. You could go into the mine as a scrawny weakling that gets owned by slimes then spawn back in the over world with enough trinkets and ore to boss rush your way through pre-hard mode. Then after you get to hard-mode, you're suddenly given another chance to go mining causing another power spike right after.

This was such a nice video to listen to, I really enjoyed the way you delved into the philosophy of not only mining, but fun in general

I love miners, that's why I'm on Twitter and Discord

5:54 mindustry mentioned!!!!!!! Yippeeeeeeee!!!!!

sometimes when I am in a Solo mission in Deep Rock Galactic and I see an open area of the cave, I sometimes just sit back, turn off my headlamp, and gaze at the silhouette of the environment with the calm soundtrack playing in the background. In biomes with natural light sources, such as the glowing plants of the Azure Weald or the lava geysers and molten rock of the molten rocks of the magma core the view can be breathtaking. Then the bugs are attacking you and you gotta get back to work.

Amazing video this captures all the feelings ive had towards these games as ive been playing them. Great editing too.

I half expected the ending after you said “rocks and stones” to just be filled with the dwarfs saying their salute voice lines and Distant Terror to start playing

I went through a whole rollercoaster of emotions reading the title, seeing the thumbnail, then watching the video.

holy shit that was actually a really well put together video essay

Minecraft RU-vidrs really love miners especially

I would keep going with that inventory. You've got supplies to make more tools. I would toss out some random rocks and all but a stack of those berries , (they grow back) to make room for more goodies. Also great video, I'm very happy to have found your channel.

5:55 HOLY SHIT MINDUSTRY REFERENCED

I love miners FR

Noita is also a great example if you are a masochist. You go in caves. Discover wands, spells, enemies and potions. I love the fact that you have to be careful with how you make your wands and how you use potions since most of the time spells can also dmg you lol. So if you get a good potions which makes you deal more dmg your explosions will also become bigger. Explosions which can also dmg you lol

Your channel name is really accurate to this video. You made something rather complex sound so simple and easy to understand

He said the thing he said ROCK AND STOOOOOONE

Nah fam. The title is devious 💀 Although at some point we all were attracted to miners.

Great video! Surprised you didn’t mention Steamworld Dig though, probably my favorite example of mining done right, the feedback loop is so addictive.

Really amazing video!!! I'm super surprised you only have 20k subs,

I think what makes these kinds of games so damn interesting is how they put level editing mechanics into the core gameplay loop. Part of that loop is modifying the game world itself to fit your needs, and making the process of doing so engaging as you figure out how to do so. You don’t just navigate the level, you create systems to aid it. Trying to leave a normal comment here because the video is actually well made and it seems most comments are instead concerningly obsessed with children.

The real obsession with miners comes from the genshin impact community

Great video and points, also i would keep mining at 14:20, you gotta have a few diamonds

very good video! i love when youtube recommends me channels that i havent heard of before. as much as i love pyro or supereyepatchwolf its very refreshing seeing a new take on the video essay. incredible work, excited to see where you go from here.

Great video man, really well edited

Best video so far! I wouldn't have initially thought of Cave Story when I clicked on the video but the comparisons you give make a lot of sense.

Well for every scary dungeon you needed a miner to dig it out man

Pretty great video! Love the editing of it especially, and the writing was pretty knock on too! One small thing though, please credit your music on screen or in the description. It may not seem like a big thing, but it greatly helps to those looking for the songs you used. Other than that though, it's a spectacular video!

You put 3 of my favorite games in the thumbnail. I had to watch this

As a gamer, I’m not gonna lie. I love miners. Put me in jail I do not care. There’s something about that work ethic, being in the coal mines. It’s just so fascinating

This is a great video, please make more game design stuff.

your vfx are amazing

Amazing vid dude, keep it up

14:39 Mindustry is so incredibly good at keeping you hooked. It always coaxes you with taking down the next core or getting the next technology you can just sinks hours and hours into it.

4:24 My dwarf brothers, HE SAID THE THING! ROCK AND STONE!

6:46 I'm not sure if this is something you wanna hear but the visuals here are gorgeous. Something about the shiny Minecraft blocks, the alluring orange glow of the lava and the wacky little pictures that appear in the center of the screen with the calm, collected and professional voice-over really clicks for me!!! ^u^

14:22 On a general run, i would realize I had a bed, wood, and sweet berries that were taking up inventory, run home, put those away (and all the other items, but that's just a bonus), and go straight back to mining!

Your intro is actually pretty spot on, even if it was kind of a joke. The original Elite from 1984 (40 years ago!) was a space-trader game that is kinda seen as one of the most influential video games of all time. Mining is a big part of it if you choose to do so, and considering the amount of games that either directly or indirectly attribute Elite as their largest inspiration.

I've loved mining in video games ever since I played Lego Rock Raiders when I was a kid.

I'd argue that Stardew Valley's Skull Cavern is honestly a contender amongst some of the greats. The initial mining experience in Stardew only really offers what you must get to craft certain things, upgrade tools etc (like you said), but the Skull Cavern with its randomness and challenging moments can be really fun if you push yourself to get really deep down as you race against the clock until 2am.

14:16 personally, I would've been long gone before I found that diamond. I always head back the moment my inventory is full in both Minecraft and Terraria. While it is quite tedious to return home, offload your stuff then come back to keep exploring over and over again, the satisfaction I get when I've fully looted an entire cave system and get to see the vast resources I've acquired is some of the highest a game can give me.

One thing I think also is good with games with mining is how the path "down" is longer than going back up. With mining (especially minecraft) digging a tunnel takes a lot of time, you get some loot and then you can get back up to your base fairly quickly. It also feeds into the building aspect where making a mine that is efficient for getting up and down from and is easy to navigate later becomes important. So the players will be pushed to engage with the building as well, which is the best part of minecraft imo.

When you said rock and stone at 4:23, I swear I physically heard every drg player say it all at once

3:08 the quad cam is insane

I was confused 3 minutes in, but I quickly understood when Subway Surfers was on screen. Thanks for making it easier to understand!

0:53 I love that you can tell that that setup is actually a retro enthusiast and not a photo from 20 years ago because they've got reddit up on their monitor lol. I'm also not even sure if a genuinely old computer could handle outputting to two screens at once, but I don't know either way.

Excellent video dude. I am surprised you haven't talked about Keplerth. While I'm not a big of the game, I must reckon caves and the mining system are compelling. Because the monsters are a somewhat big threat that players have to overcome to have the minerals the need to build the machines and the achieve the goal of the game. I played like 30 hours but I'm not finished yet, I just took a break. And I reached iron age with some guns and good armor pieces. So I can give some opinions on it. That's why I let this coment to tell you I think it would have been a good example of mining game that is actually good.

i will add its a shame you missed on vintage story, its mining system involves not simply digging out the rocks, but tracing ore veins to their highest density points too, the progression of tools is also incredibly satisfying due to how the game gates its progression

2:53 if you think this is visually complicated, you mind would explode after seeing what it looked like before the steam release

this is a great video homie

i started paying full attention to this 2nd monitor content when i heard "ROCK N' STONE"

Underground games also do a great job of natively using vertical (z-axis) space for more interesting exploration and building mechanics!

Would have been a great oppurtunity to talk about The Longing and Noita! - two of my favourite games ever

The moment i heard the cave story music kick in, i grew the biggest smile on my face and audibly yelled CAVE STORY. Game means a lot to me, despite the fact i forget it's existence every once in awhile. But when I'm reminded, i get the largest flood of childhood memories playing this game on my Wii.

Terraria is one of those games I think everyone should try. It’s simply spectacular

7:00 wow so thats what Minecraft is about. I've been trying to find a satisfying answer to what makes this game so compelling for a long time

thats a wild title to give to a video

I think a phenomenal example would also be Subnautica. The whole game is about going deeper and deeper into this alien underwater planet, vut the surface only really goes down to about 300 meters, then you enter the lost river caves, which quickly descends into the mouth of an underwater volcano, over a kilometer below the surface and with it any form of safety. All while the threats increase and the environment becomes increasingly alien

Honestly a great yt'er, inspired me to get back into tf2 when i was still named "spikeyz" (long time ago)

I actually love how games seem to give a lot of attention and love to professions not typically viewed in a positive light. Or like they're lesser jobs. Mario being a plumber is another one. Miners and plumbers are both extremely essential to our societies across the world, yet most media never even focuses on either. Instead, you'll see more attention put on stuff like journalists. With Peter Parker, Lois Lane, or April O'Neill. Because it's more than likely the professions the people making the products are more used to. So it's nice to see media that showcases harder and more essential jobs in a positive light. Or even as main characters or focal points of the products.

You touched on it with Mindustry, but it could be extrapolated to all factory building games in general. The process of needing more and figuring out how to get it. After all, there's no point in rewards if there's nothing to DO with them. Diamonds are rare and powerful in Minecraft, but even cobblestone can be used for building a new castle. The automated mining in factory building games may lack the depth (literally, most of them being on the surface), but as you build more and more complex items, the necessity for large amounts of the base materials make the search for new veins worthwhile. And even then, Satisfactory and Techtonica especially have a side focus of cave exploring towards new goodies.

Best name for a video

‘Digging for buried treasure’ will always be a fun game mechanic and miners fill that mechanic very well.

The rts games genras had lots of mining, and the clasic dig dug game was also mining arcade. Dungeons and dragons, the grandfather of all modern rpg games was also heavily cave/dungeon based. The caves are the hopes of endless gold and worries of tragedy