Tutorials/How to find caves

A cave is a place where you can find many resources or it's just a little room. Sometimes you find them on the surface, others are buried underground. These are the easy ways to find them (else than finding them by just digging rock)

Surface Cave Entrance
Usually, when you go exploring the surface, you might find cave entrances. Watch out: Monsters may be at the entrance. This method is known as Cherrypicking, but you can also use a good stategy called strip mining.

Resource veins
As caves have a lot of resources, you can enter a cave by digging resource veins.

Dirt/Gravel veins
Caves have dirt/gravel veins on them depending of how big they are. A big cave has many dirt/gravel veins and a short cave might have only one of these. Even through you find no cave by digging these, you would had created a cave-like room or it may mean that a cave is nearby. Remember: If you find a dirt vein near the surface, don't dig it because you will end up in the surface. It is more suggested to dig a dirt vein if it's 15 blocks below the sea level.

Dungeons
Dungeons are places where monsters generate and there is loot in chests inside of them. Most dungeons are connected with caves. However, dungeons are quite rare and are not an easy way to find caves as most are found in a pre-existing cave and very few are found on the surface.

(More detail on Dungeons can be found here)

Ambience
Another way to find caves is to try and find spots where you hear strange noises that indicate dark places. if you were to hear a zombie, spider, skeleton or slime you should dig to it because you might find a whole new cave system!

(More detail on Ambience can be found here)

F3 Key
Pre 1.8, you could press the F3 key to show a mob's ID. This would show the location of a mob in a cave (when not on Peaceful); if you dug toward the mob, you would of most likely revealed a tunnel system that the mob was in.

X-ray texture packs
All texture packs which edit an opaque block so that a part of it/ all of it is transparent can help find caves. When the block is looked through, it shows every air pocket above and underground. However, this is cheating.

An album of images can be found here :http://imageshack.us/g/62/20110709113322.png/ The example see-through block is white wool. Can someone do all the upload pictures and things because I'm really bad at that sort of stuff? Thanks Creeponyou31 10:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)Creeponyou31

Tutoriels/Comment trouver des cavernes