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?
@@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 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.
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!
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?
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.
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
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!
entry level science videos like (especially about geology) this are actually such a huge inspiration for the workdbuilding of my fantasy stories, thanks!
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
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 .
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
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.
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)
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!
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.
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.)
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...
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)
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
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! ✨
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!
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
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 :)
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.
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 ♥👍
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!
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.
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
@@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.
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!
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
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
As soon as you explained what "karst" was, it reminded me of Karst Farm Park, a recreational complex near Bloomington, Indiana, where I sometimes had lacrosse practices. I had always just assumed the name came from somebody with the last name "Karst" owning a farm that later became the park, so I had to look it up and figure out how that connection was made. Turns out it literally is named that because of the karst topography of the area (and yes, also a farm that was there before the park, but not owned by anyone named Karst). Really enjoy these videos, please keep doing these!
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.
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
You have no idea how surprised I was when you mentioned my hometown Flagstaff lol. Nobody talks about it. And yes, the lava tubes near the base of the San Francisco Peaks are very fun and interesting to explore.
Presenting Geology through Minecraft is great. It makes it a lot more interesting when you make connections to one of my favorite games which also makes it much easier to focus on and digest this information, and it truly is fascinating
I just subscribed, I liked this video a lot. It makes me wonder how much Mojang consulted geologists or other scientists to get their game to be accurate.
sweet lessons, bro, I never knew about karst topography and it really excites the imagination. I looked at some images of landscapes and imagined the cave roof still overhead, partially collapsed so the light reaches in and allows all the valley farming. I realized the cave roof would have done a lot to level the valley inside and that a lot of the hills would have been stalactite/stalagtite (I forgot the name already for that) pillars that got left behind. Pretty nifty.
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.
This was really interesting! And your voice is quite soothing! I have a big interest in geography but i chose coding as my college course 😬these videos provide me with a geologic output
I never knew' hearing a guy talking about the geology of a video game could be so interesting and relaxing. I literally subbed because of that one video about the geology of minecraft stone! I SUBSCRIBED BECAUSE OF A LECTURE ABOUT MINECRAFT STONE! I guess that really shows how good this guy is.
4:09 the official Brazilian Portuguese translation of the game (at least in Bedrock) does call the dripstones "espeleotemas", which means "speleothems".
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
Botany of minecraft maybe?
Yes and Yes, would love to see these too
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.
Thanks, glad to hear I did alright. Always a bit nervous talking about areas that aren’t my specific discipline.
@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?
Quick tip;
Instead of deleting files, you can share a drive folder and update the map inside it, so you won't need to change links with each update
Good idea
@@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 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.
Thanks, there is a lot of overlap with material science and geology. I have had several students go on to work in a materials related job.
It does really feel like a field trip!
Nice! As somebody who knows next to nothing about real geology, I’m loving this series
That's what a teacher who loves both their field and teaching does. They make anything interesting to anyone.
Shia LaBeouf?
? @@kaiuking9736
You should talk about the "sinkhole" formation seeds, don't think they're similar to anything irl but they're very interesting in game
Sinkholes actually exist in real life, as a consequence of karst subsidence and other factors
@@muelesariocontra i know but i don't think they're like the weird ones in minecraft
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!
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?
Another video :)
I had zero interest in geology before seeing this series and now I’m researching geology of where I live. Awesome content man!
i guess you could say
geology rocks
I loved my geology class when I was younger, and I still found geology cool, but this channel reignited me actually looking into it at all.
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.
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.
Thanks, several people have wanted me to look at terrafirmacraft too. Maybe I can do an impressions video or something.
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
@@toatrika2443 Terrafirmacraft is a separate thing from Terralith.
@@EmilySmirleGURPS im aware. I was responding to OP
@@toatrika2443by technicality, all datapacks are resource packs. And the terralith "mod" is just a repacked datapack
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!
Cool, I'll look it up.
entry level science videos like (especially about geology) this are actually such a huge inspiration for the workdbuilding of my fantasy stories, thanks!
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
can real life dripstone actually grow *that* large?
I have seen some pretty big formations, the largest stalagmite found is in Vietnam and its like 70 meters tall.
@@gneissname but about a big stalactite, wouldn’t it break off or collapse?
edit: woah 70 meters is really big
@@gneissname Speleothems are cool 😎
@@biscade sometimes, usually not
@@biscade They can and do get that big in large enough caves, they are soiid mineral rock afterall.
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 .
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 would be cool to have a bioluminescent cave biome, maybe specifically for underwater caves or something.
I'm surprised there isn't a volcanic kinda cave yet
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
@@liamisafireplace I don't think those exist anymore after the world generation changes of Caves & Cliffs.
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.
Seeing those real life examples was amazing! Thank you for taking the extra time and effort you took to record that part for us to see.
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)
correct they will all spawn more densly in a corner without light
yeah so the lush caves are serene and you walk around the corner and run into the horde
ive never had cave formations explained to me like this and ive now learned how good minecraft is as an educational tool
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!
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.
He’s back! So glad you’re bringing back this series it’s what brought me to your channel and as a big geology nerd I’m adoring it.
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.)
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...
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)
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
Most under-appreciated channel ever
The production of these videos is unparalleled, so much work must go into your set design and command block work. Keep it up man!
I've been looking forward to this concept of a video from you!! I'm absolutely loving these videos!
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! ✨
Just yesterday I was binge watching all of your Minecraft geology videos and thinking “I can’t wait for the next part!” And here we go :D
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!
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
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 :)
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.
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 ♥👍
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!
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.
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 just discovered you brother and you are a blessing. Watching your videos with my kids and we both learn a lot
Great to hear, glad you and your kids are enjoying it.
@@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.
Would love to see you cover the way Vintage Story's generation of geological stuff works, these videos are really awesome! Keep it up
I have never been more interested in geology in my life. Rocks!! 🎉❤
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!
Subscribed recently and not disappointed. This is amazing and incredibly interesting on top of being so masterfully put together and demonstrated c:
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
Just discovered this series. Cool stuff! Super innovative to create this amazing minecraft world as an interactive museum.
The showcase at the end was really fascinating. Thank you for that! :D
Love the video! My favorite ‘educational Minecraft’ youtubers tend to over-edit their videos. I like the genuine feel of your content!
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 love your educational approach of teaching geological facts, terms, and geology in general through Minecraft!
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!
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.
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
Getting your Minecraft geology videos in my recommendations was one of the best things to happen to me
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.
I have been expecting this one from the first episode!! :) great stuff
absolutely loving this series, keep up the amazing work!!!
I know for a fact these videos will be used in classrooms soon to get kids interested in geology and earth science. Great video!!
Just got your igneous rocks video recommended, and there is a new geology episode up, less than an hour ago! Praise algorithm
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!
Great video! I am a geology student in Spain and this videos are really interesting for me. Even if they are basic geology I still learn new things!
Is amazing how those geological formations can tell us about what happened in the past! Great work!
woow, I just recently subbed and went through all of your videos and instantly got a new one to watch, how nice :D
Unironically, I was very happy to see the notification that you uploaded a new video! Keep it up man, it's really interesting and cool to watch!
I love the huge amount of effort you put in your videos!
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.
As soon as you explained what "karst" was, it reminded me of Karst Farm Park, a recreational complex near Bloomington, Indiana, where I sometimes had lacrosse practices. I had always just assumed the name came from somebody with the last name "Karst" owning a farm that later became the park, so I had to look it up and figure out how that connection was made. Turns out it literally is named that because of the karst topography of the area (and yes, also a farm that was there before the park, but not owned by anyone named Karst). Really enjoy these videos, please keep doing these!
Great work you're doing there! Glad youtube finaly started popping your videos on people's recommended page
seriously underrated channel. keep up the great work, one day the algorithm will bless you
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.
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
wow! 10k views in just 12 hours!
I would love to see your channel grow. keep it up with the videos, Good luck!
Awesome video! I love your explanations, adding the real-life visuals was so freaking cool.
I wouldn't think a half an hour video on the geology of a 12 year old game would be interesting, but this is extremely fascinating.
You have no idea how surprised I was when you mentioned my hometown Flagstaff lol. Nobody talks about it. And yes, the lava tubes near the base of the San Francisco Peaks are very fun and interesting to explore.
Presenting Geology through Minecraft is great. It makes it a lot more interesting when you make connections to one of my favorite games which also makes it much easier to focus on and digest this information, and it truly is fascinating
I loved the end seeing the actual formations in person.
Wow, this production quality is amazing! Loved the video, even though I am not much of a geo-nerd!
i adore these videos. your voice is really soothing and nice to listen to.
Great video! It was cool hearing mention of the lava tubes near Flagstaff. I visited those a few years ago.
This video style reminds me a lot of ethos lab and I love it. Keep up the good work.
I just subscribed, I liked this video a lot. It makes me wonder how much Mojang consulted geologists or other scientists to get their game to be accurate.
Really interesting content, I appreciate the effort to make all the examples to make it more easy to understand!
You have an excellent presentation of the material, I will sincerely wait for the next geological episode!
your videos are always so interesting and well made, i hope the channel gets the subs it deserves :3
I've always been fascinated by caves. I live in Kentucky which is quite well known for karst, and there is a bunch here.
Dude, your videos are really entertaining!
leaving comment just for an algorithm, cause I'll be able to watch it only tomorrow
Yeah, video is great!
sweet lessons, bro, I never knew about karst topography and it really excites the imagination. I looked at some images of landscapes and imagined the cave roof still overhead, partially collapsed so the light reaches in and allows all the valley farming. I realized the cave roof would have done a lot to level the valley inside and that a lot of the hills would have been stalactite/stalagtite (I forgot the name already for that) pillars that got left behind. Pretty nifty.
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.
This is so cool! Really interesting stuff, love the animations!
This was really interesting! And your voice is quite soothing! I have a big interest in geography but i chose coding as my college course 😬these videos provide me with a geologic output
Thanks, if I chose more coding it would have helped with these episodes!
you def need more subs and support! i love your work man!
I never knew' hearing a guy talking about the geology of a video game could be so interesting and relaxing. I literally subbed because of that one video about the geology of minecraft stone! I SUBSCRIBED BECAUSE OF A LECTURE ABOUT MINECRAFT STONE! I guess that really shows how good this guy is.
I majored in geology, so I really enjoyed this video. I'll have to go back and watch your others!
4:09 the official Brazilian Portuguese translation of the game (at least in Bedrock) does call the dripstones "espeleotemas", which means "speleothems".
cool!
I love hearing people talk about things they are passionate about. Thank the almighty algorithm for recomending you!
With this knowledge you got on Geology you can be really a good teacher using this as a presentation. This is great work my friend!.