Talk:Mineshaft

it looks like these shaft's are very common maby too much so they seam to run through the world like crzy cuting evey thing underground it to bit sized snacks even each other-Doom87er erm what happened to these i mean pepole wo maked these shafts died? npc? i really dont get these things [mewtwoy]
 * First things first, please improve your grammer so that you are easier to understand, and second, Mojang is already working on making these less common --HexZyle 05:48, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Another worldgen glitch that should be mentioned is that Ravines can cut through mine shafts. This would be totally epic, Mines of Moria-style, except that ravine generation appears to only take into account stone blocks and nothing else (alternately, mine shaft generation is called after ravine generation). So instead of seeing a complete ravine with mine shaft blocks on either side, you get hilariously floating wood planks. --WackoMcGoose 20:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Does anyone have any conformation of Mine Shafts having a surface entrance? Because even though they are abandoned, real life mine shafts have an entrance somewhere. Maybe they do somewhere, but I have yet to find the 'entrance' to one yet, or even hear about them.

Anybody come across a large square room with a dirt floor in/near their mineshaft? I've seen this in two of two shafts I've explored so far and confirmed they exist with another player. Digging up the floor produces nothing. Any idea what these are?