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
bio major grad here, most Minecraft biology is wack. E.g. Frogs eating a fantastical slime to produce bio-luminescent 1meter^3 blocks. There's a couple things done right... like pandas eating bamboo or spawning conditions of certain mobs
@@gianluigijequinto Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it plausible to have spiders at that size? Let’s say the Minecraft world has the same oxygen density as that of prehistoric earth, will this allow it to be feasible?
@@jadeasereht4638 IIRC, not even the Devonian spiders got that big. Minecraft's oxygen levels are so extreme, it's no wonder that fire spread was so crazy in Alpha.
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.
@gneissname Apologies to Jono. Gne, would you branch out on biometric weather, how climates form of geological formation, clustered biometric confluences, conditions and active patterns and maybe touch on land migration of biometric which are out of place and touch on how those affect weather patterns and speculate the pattern if migration hadn't occurred. Really wanting to learn of Utah, South Dakota.
How realistic are the caves? What is the longest cave network, and stability risks? Are the walls of lava tubes uniquely hardened in some way? Is it the same process at the mantle layer?
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.
@@gneissname I'd even thing further, and maybe "closed" for updating but repository on github, so people may download version of map they want, like your first version where caves weren't covered or something
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!
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.
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?
entry level science videos like (especially about geology) this are actually such a huge inspiration for the workdbuilding of my fantasy stories, thanks!
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.
Its a datapack/mod, not a resource or texture pack. The latter two arent able to change the content of the game world, only how what already exists looks
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
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.
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!
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.
I'd love some glacial caves and lava tubes in Minecraft. Other ones I can think of are mushroom jungles due to how much space some of those newer caves have. Another one is groundwater oceans that could change the cave generation to be more open, maybe with some floating structures to mix up how they are traversed. Another idea is caves with naturally occurring glass to add a splash of colour to the underground with some lava lakes to be a bit more blatant about the volcanic glass reference.
it’s a bit of a odd answer, but there are some minecraft seeds that happen to come out kinda weird where many generated structures (including caves) repeat infinitely along an axis, meaning that there would be caves that definitionally span the length of the world
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 .
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!
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.)
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
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)
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...
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.
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.
Yeah its odd here in the mid west where we have tens of meters of glacial debris and then a bunch of limestone or sandstone. Locals will find a piece of granite in their yard and bring it to the university thinking they found something crazy. (usually a piece of Canada that got pushed down with the glaciers)
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!
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.
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! ✨
15:58 I actually got to go into the lava tube in Flagstaff, AZ while I was on vacation there earlier this month! The funny thing about it is that based on what you said at 15:04, it technically is considered an ice cave since there was straight up a frozen waterfall not too far from the entrance. At the start of summer. In the middle of Arizona. It was pretty cool (literally)! The floor of the cave was relatively flat for most of it, but in a lot of places the floor looked like it was collapsed, with the raised section where it looked like it fractured being in the middle of the tube, going down on either side towards the walls. Much of the floor also had a weird cobblestone-like texture. The only other thing I can think of to compare it too is a field of stromatolites because the floor was really bumpy and the bumps were sort of mushroom shaped. Going through the cave was a really cool experience and I recommend it for anyone traveling to Arizona.
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
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 :)
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!
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 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
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.
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 ♥👍
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!
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.
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
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.
@@gneissname I also sent one of your videos to my best friend from the Marine Corps expecting him to watch a few minutes of it so we could appreciate the value of an educational Minecraft video and though he’s the most responsible person I know he ended up staying up until 1 AM consuming your content. You were his first Minecraft video 😂. Again thank you for making educational content that is easy for children to engage in.
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.
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 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.
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!
For the dripstone cave, the copper generation would make sence if is was aluminum, for exemple in south france, a karst region, a lot of stalagmites and stalagtites are present in caves. And when the calcareous rock decalcifies, they form "terra rossa", and clay in this "terra rossa" can be washed by rain revealing nuggets of bauxite (aluminum mineral). In france, most of the non recycled aluminum come from this region (baux de provence)! This would have been cool to implement into minecraft and could even ineract with others mecanics. For exemple putting calcite on a driptone woud have turned it into terracota, and teh terracotta could have been transformed into aluminum ore by watering it with a water bottle!
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
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!
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.
