Are there abandoned mines in minecraft xbox edition

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Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed k times. What's the fastest way to find a mineshaft? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. John the Green John the Green So, you don't have to find a mineshaft if you have a village and get lucky. First time I stumbled on a mineshaft Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Kyle Rone 2, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Kevin Yap Kevin Yap Go for the sounds of spiders if you can - cave spider spawners could be nearby!

The interior surface area of ravines is so large that not seeing a AMS is very improbable. Kevin Reid Kevin Reid I have looked through roughly 10 ravines, and never found an abandoned mineshaft. John — I doubt that's easy to calculate.

The advantage to searching ravines is that they are effectively a large plane embedded in the world, which gives them a higher chance of intersecting other structures than, say, caves. Source Check the Exploration section. Ender Ender 21k 44 44 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. My experience supports this. I dug down through a mountain at a 45 degree angle until I was deep under it, then dug horizontally when I heard water and monsters.

I happened to have dug outward under a desert area, and the mineshaft I found was very extensive. It may actually be many shafts crossing each other, and it's taking me forever to search through it. Rory Alsop Rory Alsop 1, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. John the Green QueueHammer QueueHammer 5 5 bronze badges. I've found one in single player in a ravine with floating wood blocks and fences around it.

Oak HAt HAt That is a good idea, but if you are not in create mode, getting the required amount of TNT is very hard. And to do it more than once? These mineshafts will usually connect to other cave systems. Inside the abandoned mineshaft, you will find many tunnels and corridors to explore. Look for a tunnel that contains a minecart with a chest in it. If you open this chest, you might find items like lapis lazuli, iron ingot, bread, rails, melon seeds, and an iron pickaxe.

Sometimes, dungeons can be found in abandoned mineshafts. They appear as a small room with a monster spawner in the center and 1 or 2 chests sometimes a double chest filled with valuable items. Typically, cobwebs and wooden structures are tell-tale signs of an abandoned mineshaft. The badlands versions also have more gold ore in them.

Although abandoned mineshafts are among the easiest structures to deal with, they're still swarming with mobs and potentially lava, so you'll want to go in prepared to avoid dying far away from your spawn point and losing all your items. You don't need enchanted weapons or tools to conquer an abandoned mineshaft. In fact, a stone or iron sword will do perfectly fine. Pair that up with a shield, which will help you against a horde of mobs if you get swarmed.

A bow isn't really suited for the narrow, low-hanging corridors of a mineshaft. You'll want to have at least some type of armor before going in.

Leather, chainmail, and iron are all great options. Leather armor is most likely the easiest to find in shipwrecks or by slaying cows and then crafting it yourself. However, full iron armor will give you the best and cheapest protection early on.

In order to survive hours upon hours of adventuring and caving, make sure to prepare plenty of food. At this point in the game, it's unlikely you'll have other consumables like potions or golden foods. If you do, feel free to take them along. Just having a stack of 20 food items, like steaks or porkchops, is the best approach. Since abandoned mineshafts are deep underground, you'll want to bring along stacks upon stacks of torches to light your path. This will also ensure that mobs will stop spawning.

Bring along your regular tools, such as pickaxes for ores and axes for wood, so you can use the naturally spawned wooden planks to make more sticks for torches.