FWIW it seems to be far simpler to get iron/gold/diamonds from shipwrecks and other structures after they added deepslate. I still explore caves now but I do far less strip mining.
FWIW it seems to be far simpler to get iron/gold/diamonds from shipwrecks and other structures after they added deepslate. I still explore caves now but I do far less strip mining.
I think that’s intentional from the devs in response to strip mining. The current meta post-Caves and Cliffs seems to be to raid structures in the early game to build up an iron/gold/diamond stash before transitioning to the renewable resource farms in the late game.
Yeah for the mid-game and beyond. It’s difficult getting a full trading setup without at least some renewable farms set up beforehand.