I just watched a 20 minute video of a geologist theorising about the realism of digital rock composition in a game where you can milk mushroom soup out of red cows, this is amazing! Great work, this was fascinating to watch.
Ive seen a pink cow in real life once, while my parents were driving I got a good long look at it, when I was much younger. Whose to say mushrooms aren't real too?
The most interesting videos (akin to Game Theory as he alluded to at the very end) and the very real way scientists figure stuff out in the real world is going through declaring what are assumptions and comparing things to what we know so far. Ironically, being able to determine the accuracy of this stuff in a video game world or fantasy world helps people IRL understand the real world a lot better. There was some case where there was a problem that was only solved because some game developer put a puzzle in the game and it turned out the method to solving the puzzle coincidently lead to some breakthrough, but I don't remember exactly. But regardless, the most important thing he does before he begins his analysis is declares ALL assumptions up front. That's something many "Science videos" tend to fall apart before they start speaking. So if you ever hear things like "Gravity is 9.8 m/s" and don't hear the assumptions "at sea level, on earth, assuming uniform density and ignoring other elements in the calculation to determine that value conclusively" you're liable to make exponentially expanding error in your calculation and come to a conclusion that is WAY off...and then worse present that conclusion to people who will preach the conclusion as absolute fact. (e.g. people saying "we know the EXACT size of the universe based on the distance light travels and such" No...we don't, we have made several assumptions and the word "Observable" is missing in the declaration. We have managed to map what we believe to be the universe as we know it so far, but it's still based on assumptions. But when you declare the assumptions up front BEFORE starting the analysis, it shows that you considered every counterpoint that could be brought up and are coming to a very conclusive point based on irrefutable logic. EVEN if the conclusion is "there just isn't enough info because we don't know M or Q" which is a valid conclusion. and with all that said... who's to say "Mooshroom Stew" isn't literally just milk with edible fungal properties caused by the fungus growing in the cow's udder akin to tea? Sounds gross to think about, but... your guy picks a poison mushroom and a button mushroom and turns them into a meal. XD It's in the realm of possibility.
@@gneissname I interpret the granite and diorite as intrusive igneous that formed dikes in fractures in the limestone and deepslate, and then cooled slowly.
I've always liked the idea that the reason why obsidian takes so long to mine is because it has to be mined out carefully - sure, one could easily mine out a 1 cubic meter area of obsidian with the same time or effort it would take to mine out a 1 cubic meter area of sandstone. However, it would be very difficult to re-form the shattered obsidian fragments into a useable, placable block if it had just been wildly hacked at.
In that case, it should be possible to break it faster with a pickaxe, in a way that just destroys it. Maybe make it so that iron, stone, and gold picks can break it apart faster, but at the cost of totally destroying the block and leaving no collectable item.
10:53 The high iron content in the soul soil could very well be the blood from the people/life trapped within. Y'know, iron in blood and all that. Could explain the deep red seen all over the nether, which also lines up with netherrack almost being called bloodstone. The brown color of the soul soil/sand could be from the red color of the blood being counteracted by the bright cyan of the souls, creating a muddled brown color. Just a theory though.
I live in the South Island of New Zealand, so my head canon has always been that stone=greywacke. Greywacke is basically a boring grey sandstone that is everywhere where I live.
14:08 Alternatively, you could take into consideration that the pressure and temperature in the minecraft world might increase significantly faster as you go deeper. Caves that spawn low enough are often filled with lava, and this is far earlier than you'd expect in real life, especially considering that they are everywhere; not in concentrated volcanic hotspots. Secondly, if you take the canon size of a block as 1 meter, the gravitational force in minecraft is substantially stronger than in real life! (Roughly 2.9x stronger), which would make pressure increase 2.9x faster as you go deeper. Another oddity of minecraft geology, it does not have plate tectonics. The way the world generates, there aren't mountain ridges or ocean trenches, and although some mountains may look like volcanos, if you dig down, there isn't any extra lava underneath them, or any obsidian or any odd abundance of volcanic rocks. It's the exact same composition as the rest of the crust. This means that minecraft also doesn't have volcanoes. This would substantially change the way different rocks might have to form, but more terrifyingly might explain why lava is so high up. A planet with no tectonic plates has a stagnant lid instead (basically a single global plate), which is the same type of crust that Venus has. What happens to planets with stagnant lids? Core radioactive decay generates heat, but without plate tectonics, that heat has no way out. As a result, the mantle temperature just keeps going up and up until the crust cannot hold it anymore and literally the entire surface gets melted in an apocalyptic global resurfacing event. Considering that life has had time to evolve, it's been a long time since the last one, and looking at how high up the lava is, its safe to say that the Minecraft world is on the brink of such a resurfacing event. Scary stuff. Considering your conclusion on what stone is, something that cools from volcanic lava, that also supports the hypothesis that the Minecraft world has undergone global resurfacing events in the past. Which makes the very high lava level even more concerning. Also, I'd love to see a video on what exactly End Stone or Netherrack are (or at least their closest real world analogues)
That makes sense Apocalyptic flood carbonatite deposits If I can remember correctly the gravitational force is about 30 m/s^2 That would explain how the deep slate formed An alternative theory for the deep slate forming so close to the surface is that the stone has weathered a lot, and eroded down to its current layer The alternative theory does provide a way for the mountains to form with similar composition to the rest of Minecraft, as the mountains have been left un eroded Magma starting to intrude into the cave systems is scary. As it shows how soon a new eruption could happen.
So the terrain implies a layer of caverns that was eroded to form the cliffs and valleys present in the minecraft world now, and the stagnant lid means that the entire world will be covered by lava in a resurfacing event. Is the nether just time travel?
I always assumed stone was just shale in game. The textures between clay and stone are similar. When stone is broken it turns into cobblestone which is very similar to shale when it breaks apart.
Well… it still could be. This is all retroactive. If we look at the first versions of the game rather than only tunnel vision on the latest version, the conclusion could be different
I do like the idea he floated at the end that it's a carbonate shale. "This whole world is made of a rock that only exists in one place on Earth" doesn't sit well with me.
I think videos like this are super cool and honestly what I really like seeing from the Minecraft community. I don't care for the drama or acted let's plays, which seem to be what most people like. When I play Minecraft I think about things like this too. I appreciate your videos a lot, they're very refreshing and I look forward to them ! Thank you for making them ♡
Also I appreciate how you present the information. It's all paced very nicely and easy to watch but still entertaining. I was so engrossed the whole video
As a non-geologist the realization that there isn’t just one major type of stone. and all the others is just “extra special stone(is the best way for me to describe it)” is weirdly surprising even though I kinda always knew it had to be true on some level.
The first time I learned that was when I played Dwarf Fortress. For a game about trying to keep a civilization of angry drunk idiots alive, the geology is surprisingly realistic.
Had a similar realization when i first learned about chemistry and that every atom is a isotope, and that they aren't just special radioactive versions of elements.
There is a strange implication that if soul soil deposits iron into the lava to produce basalt, then the soul soil very possibly has blood in it. Would not be uncharacteristic of the nether, but a bit of a reach.
If minecraft ever redid world generation or did a stone addition/revamp, I would love to see them have a geologist apart of the team. I surprisingly loved this video, I think its because I love the idea of understand a world/game I've spent so much time in.
I think one factor to consider is that Stone was made quite early in MC's development by Notch himself. Notch being a Swede, it might be useful to consider the type of rocks that appear in Sweden. Being a Swede myself, the appearance of Stone does remind me a lot of stones I would find on the rocky surfaces of the hills and small mountains in the Stockholm area. Perhaps working backwards with what grey rocks appear in Sweden/near Stockholm and then reevaluating what can be observed about MC Stone might give some clues?
That seemingly brings us back to granite. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about geology and have spent more time writing this disclaimer than searching google for answers)
I copied my reply from another comment: Notch was born in Stockholm. The bedrock under Stockholm is mainly granite and sedimentary gneiss. If we look at tje original stone texture we can see that it has higher contrast light and dark horisontal lines, just like sedimentary gneiss. Therefore I think that is the most likely option.
Very fascinating, and well presented. I love your use of command blocks to illustrate your process. I had been on the Limestone side until this... but you make a good case.
Yeah, I may still be on team limestone but I was surprised at how many things lined up for carbonatite. Really if it wasn't for the "coming from lava" I think it would work out to be a dirty limestone.
I know it is rare but I like when videos like these can get a twist like Tom Scott did, something like "we could just ask him but he would be 106 if still alive", cut to a 106 year old man still sharp saying "you're the first person to actually ask me that". One can dream an alternate reality where this is capped at the end by just asking Notch.
Notch was born in Stockholm. The bedrock under Stockholm is mainly granite and sedimentary gneiss. If we look at tje original stone texture we can see that it has higher contrast light and dark horisontal lines, just like sedimentary gneiss. Therefore I think that is the most likely option.
I was really surprised how interesting this was to me. I never really took the time to think “what is minecraft stone?” and I also really enjoyed your reasoning (comparing it to other blocks and real life) and the way you all had it laid out plain and simple in a series of showcases or exhibits.
(My thoughts before I watched the video) I think stone encompasses several different types of stone. It's mostly a sedimentary rock because it has fossils that can generate in it and it breaks down into cobblestone when you break it. It can be something else though, because it can be produced with lava & water or by smelting cobblestone (which can be formed as an igneous rock with lava & water) so it could also be igneous or metamorphic. We also know that stone is VERY soft. Slate is a soft rock in real life and stone is even softer than deepslate so it must be extremely soft.
tbf, idk if the comparison to slate works since Minecraft calls it deepslate, implying that there might also be a shallow (real) slate that just never generates
well it's extremely hard which makes it brittle(but also sharp) So maybe minecraft mining is possibly scaled to hardness over strength? Which actually would be in line with diamonds making good tools
This video is so cool! I really appreciate how you acknowledge (I think, at least, in the description) that the devs probably only intended it to be a generic grey stone with no real counterpart, like most generic stone in media, but still tried to find a good real-life example. And from what I can see your example is really solid, maybe even.. rock solid.. heh..
i would say that the 'dithering' could be more loosely interpreted as a gradual transition, as is the point of dithering when you dont have the 'in between' blocks. not that this nullifies the argument of them being intertwined, but it is another angle to look at. although since not many other such things in minecraft are dithered, and some do have natural transitions (grass and biome changes) it may be that the dithering would represent the materials being intertwined as you used it. very interesting edit:that little 'but thats just a theory' brought back warm memories of the early good days of game theory, amazing
It's an artifact of deepslate replacing bedrock in the 1.18 update. I can't remember the exact way it works in 1.18+ but it either dithers in much larger clumps or doesn't dither at all
I can't believe it. You made me watch a 20 minutes video of you talking about virtual rocks. And the worst part is that you actually made me enjoy every second. Nice work man 😅
Stone is likely a placeholder for multiple types of rock that is not yet in Minecraft, or would otherwise serve little to no purpose aside from making early-game tools and as building materials in Minecraft. I had a radical Minecraft idea to remove stone and fill in the gap with various different rock types, including existing Minecraft rocks like sandstone, which was ultimately rejected. Similarly, deepslate is a placeholder for various different metamorphic rocks that have yet to come into the game, as the Caves and Cliffs update was relatively recent. In addition, if you consider Minecraft stone as multiple types of rocks and their relative abundance, I guess it could either be some or all of your guesses, most likely shale, limestone, and rhyolite.
These video are so soothing to me. Minecraft and learning go so well together. Please don’t stop making these videos this is a really good niche you have found.
I like the idea that it is carbonatite because while the volcano that makes it is rare on earth maybe nether lava is similar and the overworld used to look like the nether but with water too
I love these videos, I grew up with minecraft and I have always enjoyed informative content so this channel is perfect. Something that would be really nice to see would be a regular survival series but with your usual commentary. This format wouldn't work for your bigger projects like the colour spaces video, but for smaller ideas and general facts I think it could boost watch-time and maybe engagement.
Binging all the Geology Videos about Minecraft which borders fantasy and real life is amazing, this really shows that the Devs did some research before adding stuff into the game.
@@gneissname lol xD to be fair, I'm also not looking forward to finding out where to find the nether in the real world :P Tbh tho - since it was originally called bloodstone, and since 1.16 it sounds almost sticky/squelchy so I've always thought of it as more of an organic soil than a rock, or at least some kind of oily midpoint between between "decaying remains" and "petroleum" if that makes sense lol xD Whatever it is, the presence of lava in a stable state suggests the first step in your approach might be to take a temperature/pressure reading of the nether, and the second step might be to consult Igneous Rex :P
I think "itemization" is just part of the magic of the Minecraft world. When something is destroyed it drops as an item which is a very fragile state with very little density, it loses many of it's properties such as heat resistance, and can be destroyed very easily by being punctured...
LETSGOOOO, I love this series! _edit post watch:_ This is probably my favorite video of the series so far! The real life examples are GREAT and you breaking down the aspects of the stone is really interesting. I'm very excited for the future of the series!
In minecraft education addition, there is a item that shows the elements in blocks, and stone is made of SiO2, along with every other type of stone such as diorite, andesite, etc.
Hey! I hope you’re alright! Just wanted to share that in old versions of the game, items used to sink slowly instead of floating, meaning that everything was more dense than water back in the day.
I really love how you prepare these videos The pathways to walk with the setup of the different stones and comparisons you want to talk about It's so fun to watch Like such an interactive way to make a presentation In Minecraft! I'm gonna watch all the videos in this series!! Right now!!
i dont know anything about minerals, gems, whatever, but i loved watching this video and seeng all the work behind it, the world u used as example wasnt simple and ur clearly talking about something u researched a lot. extremelly well made, hope you get even more visibilty
I've thought about this before and I've always considered stone to be sedimentary, despite its relation to lava. It really was a catch-all before other types of stone were added. Vintage Story has quite detailed geology, have you considered looking at it?
Everything floats in Minecraft, except Steve. I never thought that I will take a class of Minecraft geology on TH-cam, and here I am. Your videos are so interesting, entertaining and informative! In my country basic geology is usually a part of a standard school geography course, and I had an awful geography teacher. I lost so much! Good thing you popped up in my recommendations. It's never late to learn something fascinating.
I like thinking it's dolomite since that's more commonly found than carbonotite, but then again, working with a game that lets tree float speaks for itself like you said
You couldve appreciated the fact that boney fossils generate in Minecraft, which is a proponent of the idea of pervasive carbonate minerals within the stone itself.
It's so fun every time you find out about a channel like this one, you just get to indulge for a bit and binge all their amazing videos about some obscure topic, and usually end up interested in it: I'm sure that after I'm done watching all your geology videos I'll end up reading some more on geology, and since I'm already very interested in the history of earth then I'm sure I'll find tons of fascinating insight.
Just discovered your channel from your recent Education Edition video. Love your content, this is a really interesting way to learn more geology. I probably have collected a few hundred different mineral samples at this point, including two spheres of selenite and obsidian on my desk. But other than being able to say that obsidian is volcanic glass and selenite will dissolve in water I regretfully don't know very much. I'm excited to see all the other videos you have now. Also, the black lava video is absolutely terrifying. It doesn't exactly scream "safe to touch", but it's still deceptively toasty.
One thing that probably only I find interesting about the hardness of Minecraft stone is that in Infiniminer (the game that inspired Minecraft) the world is basically broken up into just dirt and stone (Infiniminer tried to get away with very few block types) and the distinguishing feature of stone is that, unlike dirt, you couldn't dig through it using a pickaxe and instead could only get rid of it by detonating TNT. Nothing really like that in Minecraft.
Absolutely outstanding video. Watched it through and was engaging enough to not need to skip any. Looking forward to future content as this video reaches six digits!
really intresting video but i looked up some rocks common here in sweden and my uneducated guess is either gneiss or granodiorite was what notch was going for, still a very intresting video
im loving these videos so much. as an aspiring geologist and big rock fan, these are incredible!!! if you had to pick one precious and one non-precious stone to add to minecraft, which ones would you pick? (if any)
also at 14:10 i disagree i think that kilometers of space down would be functional, the cubic chunks mod does something simular up and i think it has another mod built on it that works the same but down, if your talking less hardware and more game design i still think it would work perfectly well, maybe have an oxygen or heat or preasure bar appear if you get too far down but with propper blocks around you and setup those can be mitigated to go deeper
Ever since they added three other stones, I was annoyed by having generic "stone" among them, and I lacked geological knowledge to research it. Thank you very much, this video really scratched my itch!
I would've never expected to click on a video about stone in Minecraft and find it actually interesting while browsing TH-cam today. Guess you can sometimes find some cool stuff through the recommendations.
Wow, you made my perspective in geology change a lot! Going out of Minecraft and thinking about it in a fantasical aspect, like D&D, Avatar:TLA, etc. If a "mage" or "bender" can change or create "rocks" and "stones" how far could you strech how the rocks metamorphoses and changes? Really interesting to think about it. Also, what could define the hardness, brittleness, and other characteristics of a materiel as you transform it?
6:50 the granite chunk broke easily because it's low grade granite with smaller crystals and was probably subjected to weathering. high grade granite is extremely hard with larger crystals and is used as a building material. Though of high grade granite is subjected to weathering it will become more fragile. Fun fact, granite at the surface is also very slowly expanding since it's not under so much pressure anymore, but that's over a very long period of time
Interesting! I've always been torn on whether it's an igneous or metamorphic rock (if you ignore the lava+water thing) but the fact that it's basically everywhere always made me lean towards regional metamorphism, so before deepslate was introduced I thought of it as slate. I guess that interpretation could still stand if you assume deepslate is a form of slate with slightly higher grade metamorphism, especially since it sort of looks more like schist or gneiss than slate imo, maybe a phyllite. I didn't really think the generation felt either plutonic or volcanic which is why I initially dismissed it being igneous, but your point about it being slightly layered pointing towards being volcanic is good. Carbonatite and Rhyolite both feel like compelling options for an extrusive igneous rock!
I did something similar to this, and my conclusion was Rhyolite. It has similar hardness and composition to Granite like in the game, and it's almost a perfect color match! Rhyolite isn't that common, but much more common than Carbonatite!
14:12 Regarding this- it's interesting to point out that going down 2000 blocks isn't necessarily *impossible* or even *impractical,* it's just that Minecraft's existing framework wouldn't really support it. This is something that would basically mandate cubic chunks (probably 32x32x32 rather than the current 16x16x384 chunks that we currently have), but having a theoretically-infinite worldheight IS entirely possible, just not within the current implementation.
This is my first watch of any video of yours and I know this isn't like an ASMR video or anything but I want to relax tonight and this video is so good for that. And I get to learn something as well
i genuinely love this channel. it’s small creators like you that aren’t shills (yet…?) and seem passionate about doing this for THEIR enjoyment that makes me enjoy this even more :)
The piece I broke in the video took more hits than i thought it would. I have broken boulders the size of a basketball with a light hit before. There is a difference between "hardness" and "brittleness" too.
Hardness is resistance to local deformation like scratching. Glass is very hard. Are you using the term hardness in this video more colloquially or is there a different meaning in geology?
@@Ailtir Obsidian is about 5.5 on the Mohs scale, which is about the same as glass. Kind of middle-of-the-road in terms of hardness. You can't scratch it with a fingernail, but it's softer than, say, quartz.
Stone strikes me as a prototype material and wasn't intended to remain in the game, but it did. I think if they ever make a Minecraft 2, they would simply leave it out, replacing all the Stone with the various stratified subtypes.
I disagree. I think limestone is a better fit. Shale/claystone formed first. Burried. Metamorphosed into deepslate. Eroded. Then the limestone was placed unconfirmably, with some mixing at the interface (similiar to the bottom of the Lamotte Sabdstone in Missouri). The color, tenacity and surficial prevelence leads me to limestone.
Fellow Geologist here. When comparing sedimentary rocks, mentioning clay could further enhance understanding of grain size. For us, it also incudes a chemical change, which complicates things a bit more. It would be a geologist's dream if Minecraft made some kind of sense. Like some igneous rock pipes with diamond in the bottom, or gold (perhaps diamond) in sandy/gravel river beaches.
@@brevortofficial I think it's a matter of principle. There are fools out there that genuinely do it in an attempt at recognition. They are often completely unaware that with state the internet is at right now, that just doesn't happen anymore.
I have always imagined stone as various forms of marine sedimentary rocks, both clastic and carbonate. The slightly laminated texture and metamorphosis into deepslate hint at shale, the karst hints at limestone, and I had figured the ability to make tools from the cobbles could represent interspersed beds of chert (or perhaps erratics preserved in a turbidite). Great vid!
I found your channel recently and love your content! I like how you use commands to add a modded sort of feeling to the videos that can provide such good visualizations. I think you hit a perfect balance between information and using the game to demonstrate.
No way, what are the chances I did a science presentation project on this very volcano! When choosing the volcano I just searched up the most unknown volcanoes and it came up, the next 3 weeks were making a poster and answering questions about it. Even before the video started I guessed that it was limestone, like he did, based in my geologic knowledge and that most of the underground and caves are formed out of limestone.
I just watched a 20 minute video of a geologist theorising about the realism of digital rock composition in a game where you can milk mushroom soup out of red cows, this is amazing! Great work, this was fascinating to watch.
Ive seen a pink cow in real life once, while my parents were driving I got a good long look at it, when I was much younger.
Whose to say mushrooms aren't real too?
it's certainly more interesting that just:"it's a stand-in block for different types of rocks".
Also teaches you folks about geology :D
@@minoxiothethirdYeah they're real but they don't call them mooshrooms they call them
"Cows with a Fungal Infection"
The most interesting videos (akin to Game Theory as he alluded to at the very end) and the very real way scientists figure stuff out in the real world is going through declaring what are assumptions and comparing things to what we know so far. Ironically, being able to determine the accuracy of this stuff in a video game world or fantasy world helps people IRL understand the real world a lot better. There was some case where there was a problem that was only solved because some game developer put a puzzle in the game and it turned out the method to solving the puzzle coincidently lead to some breakthrough, but I don't remember exactly. But regardless, the most important thing he does before he begins his analysis is declares ALL assumptions up front. That's something many "Science videos" tend to fall apart before they start speaking. So if you ever hear things like "Gravity is 9.8 m/s" and don't hear the assumptions "at sea level, on earth, assuming uniform density and ignoring other elements in the calculation to determine that value conclusively" you're liable to make exponentially expanding error in your calculation and come to a conclusion that is WAY off...and then worse present that conclusion to people who will preach the conclusion as absolute fact. (e.g. people saying "we know the EXACT size of the universe based on the distance light travels and such" No...we don't, we have made several assumptions and the word "Observable" is missing in the declaration. We have managed to map what we believe to be the universe as we know it so far, but it's still based on assumptions. But when you declare the assumptions up front BEFORE starting the analysis, it shows that you considered every counterpoint that could be brought up and are coming to a very conclusive point based on irrefutable logic. EVEN if the conclusion is "there just isn't enough info because we don't know M or Q" which is a valid conclusion.
and with all that said... who's to say "Mooshroom Stew" isn't literally just milk with edible fungal properties caused by the fungus growing in the cow's udder akin to tea? Sounds gross to think about, but... your guy picks a poison mushroom and a button mushroom and turns them into a meal. XD It's in the realm of possibility.
This is what school will be like once we all decide to live in the Minecraft world.
The idea of a global carbonitite deluge with interspersed pockets of dirt forming life is kind of terrifying
Yeah, that's what all the blobs of igneous rock make me think of too, there was some event hat tore them up or ejected them or something
@@gneissname I interpret the granite and diorite as intrusive igneous that formed dikes in fractures in the limestone and deepslate, and then cooled slowly.
@@gneissname like in among us
@@4rumani brain rot 👍
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I've always liked the idea that the reason why obsidian takes so long to mine is because it has to be mined out carefully - sure, one could easily mine out a 1 cubic meter area of obsidian with the same time or effort it would take to mine out a 1 cubic meter area of sandstone. However, it would be very difficult to re-form the shattered obsidian fragments into a useable, placable block if it had just been wildly hacked at.
and the blast resistance thing does make sense from a metre-thick block of glass as well - I like this
And you could stretch it super far, even, and read a diamond pick as being used less as a pick and more as a cutting tool.
In that case, it should be possible to break it faster with a pickaxe, in a way that just destroys it. Maybe make it so that iron, stone, and gold picks can break it apart faster, but at the cost of totally destroying the block and leaving no collectable item.
@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 or leaving behind shattered pieces that you have to melt down later like metal nuggets.
i always assumed it was game balance, but this makes sense too.
10:53 The high iron content in the soul soil could very well be the blood from the people/life trapped within. Y'know, iron in blood and all that. Could explain the deep red seen all over the nether, which also lines up with netherrack almost being called bloodstone. The brown color of the soul soil/sand could be from the red color of the blood being counteracted by the bright cyan of the souls, creating a muddled brown color. Just a theory though.
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Another thing worth considering is that Netherrack was originally supposed to have a somewhat "meaty" sound when walked upon
@@FakeZircon Behold, canon fleshy interior.
@@techstuff9198oh god please no I already have enough RT brainrot, I don't need to think of it anytime I go to the nether
@@heretichazel Too bad, your brain shall be dust in a matter of moments!
(Villain Cackle)
I live in the South Island of New Zealand, so my head canon has always been that stone=greywacke.
Greywacke is basically a boring grey sandstone that is everywhere where I live.
Its been really cool hearing everyone's ideas on what stone is. I have limestone everywhere here so that's my gray rock.
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14:08
Alternatively, you could take into consideration that the pressure and temperature in the minecraft world might increase significantly faster as you go deeper. Caves that spawn low enough are often filled with lava, and this is far earlier than you'd expect in real life, especially considering that they are everywhere; not in concentrated volcanic hotspots. Secondly, if you take the canon size of a block as 1 meter, the gravitational force in minecraft is substantially stronger than in real life! (Roughly 2.9x stronger), which would make pressure increase 2.9x faster as you go deeper.
Another oddity of minecraft geology, it does not have plate tectonics. The way the world generates, there aren't mountain ridges or ocean trenches, and although some mountains may look like volcanos, if you dig down, there isn't any extra lava underneath them, or any obsidian or any odd abundance of volcanic rocks. It's the exact same composition as the rest of the crust. This means that minecraft also doesn't have volcanoes. This would substantially change the way different rocks might have to form, but more terrifyingly might explain why lava is so high up.
A planet with no tectonic plates has a stagnant lid instead (basically a single global plate), which is the same type of crust that Venus has. What happens to planets with stagnant lids? Core radioactive decay generates heat, but without plate tectonics, that heat has no way out. As a result, the mantle temperature just keeps going up and up until the crust cannot hold it anymore and literally the entire surface gets melted in an apocalyptic global resurfacing event. Considering that life has had time to evolve, it's been a long time since the last one, and looking at how high up the lava is, its safe to say that the Minecraft world is on the brink of such a resurfacing event. Scary stuff.
Considering your conclusion on what stone is, something that cools from volcanic lava, that also supports the hypothesis that the Minecraft world has undergone global resurfacing events in the past. Which makes the very high lava level even more concerning.
Also, I'd love to see a video on what exactly End Stone or Netherrack are (or at least their closest real world analogues)
Good gods... and to think this apocalyptic lore is applicable to nearly every overworld in the Gigaverse... 😨
End Stone is Cobblestone but with an inverted texture, just a heads up and a starting point for theory
That makes sense
Apocalyptic flood carbonatite deposits
If I can remember correctly the gravitational force is about 30 m/s^2
That would explain how the deep slate formed
An alternative theory for the deep slate forming so close to the surface is that the stone has weathered a lot, and eroded down to its current layer
The alternative theory does provide a way for the mountains to form with similar composition to the rest of Minecraft, as the mountains have been left un eroded
Magma starting to intrude into the cave systems is scary. As it shows how soon a new eruption could happen.
So the terrain implies a layer of caverns that was eroded to form the cliffs and valleys present in the minecraft world now, and the stagnant lid means that the entire world will be covered by lava in a resurfacing event.
Is the nether just time travel?
What if there's just extremely serious uplift/erosion, bringing deep rocks to the surface and making the crust thin
I always assumed stone was just shale in game. The textures between clay and stone are similar. When stone is broken it turns into cobblestone which is very similar to shale when it breaks apart.
same that’s why i have worked on a resource pack for a few weeks now that adds little fossils spread out randomly like plants in real shale
Well… it still could be. This is all retroactive. If we look at the first versions of the game rather than only tunnel vision on the latest version, the conclusion could be different
Mhm, This was my interpretation for a long time. As a huge rock nerd, I’m VERY glad I get to see a new rare rock in one of my favorite games.
I do like the idea he floated at the end that it's a carbonate shale. "This whole world is made of a rock that only exists in one place on Earth" doesn't sit well with me.
@@RalseiGaming there's sometimes big fossils underground but they're REALLY rare
"or unless if granite plus souls equals basalt" is probably the funniest thing i've heard all day
Now I need to apply that concept to real life basalt...
I think videos like this are super cool and honestly what I really like seeing from the Minecraft community. I don't care for the drama or acted let's plays, which seem to be what most people like. When I play Minecraft I think about things like this too. I appreciate your videos a lot, they're very refreshing and I look forward to them ! Thank you for making them ♡
Also I appreciate how you present the information. It's all paced very nicely and easy to watch but still entertaining. I was so engrossed the whole video
so glad that someone shares this opinion
Thank you. Its fun to try and figure out ways to demonstrate concepts in the game.
Agreed!
Exactly its a sandbox
As a non-geologist the realization that there isn’t just one major type of stone. and all the others is just “extra special stone(is the best way for me to describe it)” is weirdly surprising even though I kinda always knew it had to be true on some level.
The first time I learned that was when I played Dwarf Fortress. For a game about trying to keep a civilization of angry drunk idiots alive, the geology is surprisingly realistic.
Had a similar realization when i first learned about chemistry and that every atom is a isotope, and that they aren't just special radioactive versions of elements.
There is a strange implication that if soul soil deposits iron into the lava to produce basalt, then the soul soil very possibly has blood in it. Would not be uncharacteristic of the nether, but a bit of a reach.
That makes a lot of sense especially with the knowledge that netherack was originally called blood stone
actually, soul sand and netherrack does look like dried blood now that i think about it
@@Vulpyyy I came to that conclusion when I first stepped on it and there was fleshy sfx
@@mike-._also the fact there is so much fungus in the nether that exists on the netherrack
@@SmokeFactory oh dear O_O
I do _not_ like that theory for how the fungus gets its nutrients
And not because I disagree with it
What is stone?
Baby don't mine me
Don't mine me
No more
i love this
First thing i thought about.
*pulls out a Digital Miner from Mekanism* I won't, but this will.
No ore*
DAMNIT. SOMEONE ELSE DID THE JOKE
If minecraft ever redid world generation or did a stone addition/revamp, I would love to see them have a geologist apart of the team. I surprisingly loved this video, I think its because I love the idea of understand a world/game I've spent so much time in.
10:47 the idea of souls being iron rich had to make me pause the video and just appreciate what I’m listening to
The idea of a video on the geologic history of the Minecraft world sounds super interesting, but also daunting. Good luck out in Australia!
the mobs that spawn in Australia are pretty deadly
@@caixiuying8901 Australia is like a Vechs map
Australia is akin to playing on hard difficulty in real life.
I think one factor to consider is that Stone was made quite early in MC's development by Notch himself. Notch being a Swede, it might be useful to consider the type of rocks that appear in Sweden. Being a Swede myself, the appearance of Stone does remind me a lot of stones I would find on the rocky surfaces of the hills and small mountains in the Stockholm area.
Perhaps working backwards with what grey rocks appear in Sweden/near Stockholm and then reevaluating what can be observed about MC Stone might give some clues?
That seemingly brings us back to granite.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing about geology and have spent more time writing this disclaimer than searching google for answers)
It was also called smooth stone back then, so I'd expect it to be a a stone that's smooth
I copied my reply from another comment: Notch was born in Stockholm. The bedrock under Stockholm is mainly granite and sedimentary gneiss. If we look at tje original stone texture we can see that it has higher contrast light and dark horisontal lines, just like sedimentary gneiss. Therefore I think that is the most likely option.
Can we not talk about Notch given what he did?
@@Brite-um2tq The creator of Minecraft is definitely worth talking about no matter "what he did", but out of curiosity, what are you referring to?
I love how much effort you put into the world in this video. It feels like a mix between a museum and a powerpoint presentation
Very fascinating, and well presented. I love your use of command blocks to illustrate your process. I had been on the Limestone side until this... but you make a good case.
Yeah, I may still be on team limestone but I was surprised at how many things lined up for carbonatite. Really if it wasn't for the "coming from lava" I think it would work out to be a dirty limestone.
I know it is rare but I like when videos like these can get a twist like Tom Scott did, something like "we could just ask him but he would be 106 if still alive", cut to a 106 year old man still sharp saying "you're the first person to actually ask me that".
One can dream an alternate reality where this is capped at the end by just asking Notch.
RIP James Lovelock
Assuming notch actually had one in mind instead of it being representative of all stone, it's not like other minerals were in the game at that point
Notch was born in Stockholm. The bedrock under Stockholm is mainly granite and sedimentary gneiss. If we look at tje original stone texture we can see that it has higher contrast light and dark horisontal lines, just like sedimentary gneiss. Therefore I think that is the most likely option.
Notch absolutely didn't think about it that hard. He was a game developer, not a geologist.
Notch was a huge fan of Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft is partially based on it. And DF is pretty heavy on the geology
I was really surprised how interesting this was to me. I never really took the time to think “what is minecraft stone?” and I also really enjoyed your reasoning (comparing it to other blocks and real life) and the way you all had it laid out plain and simple in a series of showcases or exhibits.
(My thoughts before I watched the video)
I think stone encompasses several different types of stone. It's mostly a sedimentary rock because it has fossils that can generate in it and it breaks down into cobblestone when you break it.
It can be something else though, because it can be produced with lava & water or by smelting cobblestone (which can be formed as an igneous rock with lava & water) so it could also be igneous or metamorphic.
We also know that stone is VERY soft. Slate is a soft rock in real life and stone is even softer than deepslate so it must be extremely soft.
But Minecraft’s obsidian is very strong whereas irl obsidian is weak
tbf, idk if the comparison to slate works since Minecraft calls it deepslate, implying that there might also be a shallow (real) slate that just never generates
@@cement_eateryeah, like really, really heavily compressed slate
@@ralsei7820 though irl obsidian is sharp,and by sharp i mean - razor sharp
well it's extremely hard which makes it brittle(but also sharp)
So maybe minecraft mining is possibly scaled to hardness over strength?
Which actually would be in line with diamonds making good tools
This video is so cool! I really appreciate how you acknowledge (I think, at least, in the description) that the devs probably only intended it to be a generic grey stone with no real counterpart, like most generic stone in media, but still tried to find a good real-life example. And from what I can see your example is really solid, maybe even.. rock solid.. heh..
Papyrus: 🤬
Oooh, an exotic rock?
Maud Pie would be proud.
i would say that the 'dithering' could be more loosely interpreted as a gradual transition, as is the point of dithering when you dont have the 'in between' blocks. not that this nullifies the argument of them being intertwined, but it is another angle to look at. although since not many other such things in minecraft are dithered, and some do have natural transitions (grass and biome changes) it may be that the dithering would represent the materials being intertwined as you used it. very interesting
edit:that little 'but thats just a theory' brought back warm memories of the early good days of game theory, amazing
It's an artifact of deepslate replacing bedrock in the 1.18 update. I can't remember the exact way it works in 1.18+ but it either dithers in much larger clumps or doesn't dither at all
@@Milkyway_Squid It still dithers on newly created worlds, so i wouldnt say it is
Maybe it's metamorphic folding but the meter-scale low resolution obscures the detail.
Hey I'd just like to say I appreciate the work that goes into these videos! Thanks!
I do enjoy how well thought out everything is and how he goes in-depth on the information he's providing
same!
I can’t believe I watched a 21 minute video on what kind of a rock Minecraft stone is. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and you’ve earned a new subscriber!
I can't believe it. You made me watch a 20 minutes video of you talking about virtual rocks. And the worst part is that you actually made me enjoy every second. Nice work man 😅
Stone is likely a placeholder for multiple types of rock that is not yet in Minecraft, or would otherwise serve little to no purpose aside from making early-game tools and as building materials in Minecraft. I had a radical Minecraft idea to remove stone and fill in the gap with various different rock types, including existing Minecraft rocks like sandstone, which was ultimately rejected. Similarly, deepslate is a placeholder for various different metamorphic rocks that have yet to come into the game, as the Caves and Cliffs update was relatively recent. In addition, if you consider Minecraft stone as multiple types of rocks and their relative abundance, I guess it could either be some or all of your guesses, most likely shale, limestone, and rhyolite.
These video are so soothing to me. Minecraft and learning go so well together. Please don’t stop making these videos this is a really good niche you have found.
I love how you made this feel like a museum tour you had displays set up a lot of really interesting info and even took us on a tour
I don't think Notch was a geologist so he just went "rocks are grey right? Ok grey stone blocks"
Very interesting video and I really appreciate slow, calm and thoughtful videos like this!
I like the idea that it is carbonatite because while the volcano that makes it is rare on earth maybe nether lava is similar and the overworld used to look like the nether but with water too
I have no idea why the algorithm recommended me this but im glad it did because this is incredibly cool
I love these videos, I grew up with minecraft and I have always enjoyed informative content so this channel is perfect. Something that would be really nice to see would be a regular survival series but with your usual commentary. This format wouldn't work for your bigger projects like the colour spaces video, but for smaller ideas and general facts I think it could boost watch-time and maybe engagement.
Binging all the Geology Videos about Minecraft which borders fantasy and real life is amazing, this really shows that the Devs did some research before adding stuff into the game.
Asking the big questions!! Every time I watch your videos, the game feels a little bit more real, and the world feels a little bit more fun :P
Hey Dingy, I'm not looking forward to figuring out what netherrack is.
@@gneissname lol xD to be fair, I'm also not looking forward to finding out where to find the nether in the real world :P Tbh tho - since it was originally called bloodstone, and since 1.16 it sounds almost sticky/squelchy so I've always thought of it as more of an organic soil than a rock, or at least some kind of oily midpoint between between "decaying remains" and "petroleum" if that makes sense lol xD Whatever it is, the presence of lava in a stable state suggests the first step in your approach might be to take a temperature/pressure reading of the nether, and the second step might be to consult Igneous Rex :P
the effort put into these videos, beyond the editing, just for you to end it off with casual discussion of your near future at the time. It's so good.
I think "itemization" is just part of the magic of the Minecraft world. When something is destroyed it drops as an item which is a very fragile state with very little density, it loses many of it's properties such as heat resistance, and can be destroyed very easily by being punctured...
That's a cool way to think about it.
Yeah but then you gotta think about netherite and how it dosn't burn in its item state. I think its best not to think to deeply about it
Minecraft: stone is literaly everywhere
Earth: yeah this one specific vulcano but only some times when it works out the right way-
LETSGOOOO, I love this series!
_edit post watch:_ This is probably my favorite video of the series so far! The real life examples are GREAT and you breaking down the aspects of the stone is really interesting. I'm very excited for the future of the series!
I've been binging all your videos, this channel is criminally underrated
Such a unique niche on youtube! Geology and minecraft is a combination i’ve never thought of
11:00 I was gonna say maybe soul sand has magnetite sand in it. It's not that strange given the coloring. But I'm interested to see where this leads.
In minecraft education addition, there is a item that shows the elements in blocks, and stone is made of SiO2, along with every other type of stone such as diorite, andesite, etc.
Yeah, but that makes no sense and education edition is just an afterthought of some intern anyway
21 minutes talking about minute details of minecraft stone? Now *this* is the content ive been waiting for
Hey! I hope you’re alright!
Just wanted to share that in old versions of the game, items used to sink slowly instead of floating, meaning that everything was more dense than water back in the day.
doesnt the netherite block sink?
I really love how you prepare these videos
The pathways to walk with the setup of the different stones and comparisons you want to talk about
It's so fun to watch
Like such an interactive way to make a presentation
In Minecraft!
I'm gonna watch all the videos in this series!! Right now!!
i dont know anything about minerals, gems, whatever, but i loved watching this video and seeng all the work behind it, the world u used as example wasnt simple and ur clearly talking about something u researched a lot.
extremelly well made, hope you get even more visibilty
I'm floored by the amazing presentation of your videos!!! I'm absolutely starting to geek over geology by all this!
I've thought about this before and I've always considered stone to be sedimentary, despite its relation to lava. It really was a catch-all before other types of stone were added. Vintage Story has quite detailed geology, have you considered looking at it?
That and terrafirmacraft are mods that i would like to look at sometime.
Everything floats in Minecraft, except Steve.
I never thought that I will take a class of Minecraft geology on TH-cam, and here I am. Your videos are so interesting, entertaining and informative! In my country basic geology is usually a part of a standard school geography course, and I had an awful geography teacher. I lost so much! Good thing you popped up in my recommendations. It's never late to learn something fascinating.
I like thinking it's dolomite since that's more commonly found than carbonotite, but then again, working with a game that lets tree float speaks for itself like you said
Very well produced! I love all the visuals
huh, i never even gave the name "stone" any thought, i never thought that it should have an actual name. super interesting video!
Would absolutely love to hear about what you get up to in Australia. Come down the pub and say gday
Sounds good, I’ll meet you there.
You couldve appreciated the fact that boney fossils generate in Minecraft, which is a proponent of the idea of pervasive carbonate minerals within the stone itself.
It's so fun every time you find out about a channel like this one, you just get to indulge for a bit and binge all their amazing videos about some obscure topic, and usually end up interested in it: I'm sure that after I'm done watching all your geology videos I'll end up reading some more on geology, and since I'm already very interested in the history of earth then I'm sure I'll find tons of fascinating insight.
Biggest question is, if you put Carbonatite into a furnace hot enough to smelt gold, do you get a perfectly smooth rock out?
Good question.
i’d assume so, but it wouldn’t be the same type of rock since the formation is much different.
Just discovered your channel from your recent Education Edition video. Love your content, this is a really interesting way to learn more geology. I probably have collected a few hundred different mineral samples at this point, including two spheres of selenite and obsidian on my desk. But other than being able to say that obsidian is volcanic glass and selenite will dissolve in water I regretfully don't know very much. I'm excited to see all the other videos you have now.
Also, the black lava video is absolutely terrifying. It doesn't exactly scream "safe to touch", but it's still deceptively toasty.
One thing that probably only I find interesting about the hardness of Minecraft stone is that in Infiniminer (the game that inspired Minecraft) the world is basically broken up into just dirt and stone (Infiniminer tried to get away with very few block types) and the distinguishing feature of stone is that, unlike dirt, you couldn't dig through it using a pickaxe and instead could only get rid of it by detonating TNT. Nothing really like that in Minecraft.
this was a really good and chill video , reminds me of the educational gaming related videos from 2015
A lot of information that we can learn, much better than schools 😅
Absolutely outstanding video. Watched it through and was engaging enough to not need to skip any. Looking forward to future content as this video reaches six digits!
really intresting video but i looked up some rocks common here in sweden and my uneducated guess is either gneiss or granodiorite was what notch was going for, still a very intresting video
im loving these videos so much. as an aspiring geologist and big rock fan, these are incredible!!! if you had to pick one precious and one non-precious stone to add to minecraft, which ones would you pick? (if any)
Nor really a stone or gem but opal could be a cool block. for non precious i would add gneiss... :)
11:38 i love how fun and wholesome the "thats a win" is for more rocks :)
also at 14:10 i disagree i think that kilometers of space down would be functional, the cubic chunks mod does something simular up and i think it has another mod built on it that works the same but down, if your talking less hardware and more game design i still think it would work perfectly well, maybe have an oxygen or heat or preasure bar appear if you get too far down but with propper blocks around you and setup those can be mitigated to go deeper
6:20 That hammer probably was enchanted with efficiency IV.
Ever since they added three other stones, I was annoyed by having generic "stone" among them, and I lacked geological knowledge to research it.
Thank you very much, this video really scratched my itch!
Baby don't hurt me?
They always ask "What is Stone?" but never "How is Stone?" 😞🙏
I would've never expected to click on a video about stone in Minecraft and find it actually interesting while browsing TH-cam today.
Guess you can sometimes find some cool stuff through the recommendations.
Wow, you made my perspective in geology change a lot! Going out of Minecraft and thinking about it in a fantasical aspect, like D&D, Avatar:TLA, etc. If a "mage" or "bender" can change or create "rocks" and "stones" how far could you strech how the rocks metamorphoses and changes? Really interesting to think about it. Also, what could define the hardness, brittleness, and other characteristics of a materiel as you transform it?
Dang you put so much work into this video.
This video was amazing
6:50 the granite chunk broke easily because it's low grade granite with smaller crystals and was probably subjected to weathering. high grade granite is extremely hard with larger crystals and is used as a building material. Though of high grade granite is subjected to weathering it will become more fragile. Fun fact, granite at the surface is also very slowly expanding since it's not under so much pressure anymore, but that's over a very long period of time
Interesting! I've always been torn on whether it's an igneous or metamorphic rock (if you ignore the lava+water thing) but the fact that it's basically everywhere always made me lean towards regional metamorphism, so before deepslate was introduced I thought of it as slate. I guess that interpretation could still stand if you assume deepslate is a form of slate with slightly higher grade metamorphism, especially since it sort of looks more like schist or gneiss than slate imo, maybe a phyllite. I didn't really think the generation felt either plutonic or volcanic which is why I initially dismissed it being igneous, but your point about it being slightly layered pointing towards being volcanic is good. Carbonatite and Rhyolite both feel like compelling options for an extrusive igneous rock!
Very neat! That volcano you shared is terrifying... but the low temperature of its lava makes sense for why you can pick it up in a bucket.
That's...actually a good point there. Chalk up another reason it's probably carbonatite.
I did something similar to this, and my conclusion was Rhyolite. It has similar hardness and composition to Granite like in the game, and it's almost a perfect color match! Rhyolite isn't that common, but much more common than Carbonatite!
You can just tell the algorithm is gonna make this viral. Very well done video
Baby don't hurt me
Massively underated comment
STONE IS STONE
14:12 Regarding this- it's interesting to point out that going down 2000 blocks isn't necessarily *impossible* or even *impractical,* it's just that Minecraft's existing framework wouldn't really support it.
This is something that would basically mandate cubic chunks (probably 32x32x32 rather than the current 16x16x384 chunks that we currently have), but having a theoretically-infinite worldheight IS entirely possible, just not within the current implementation.
"We don't see caves formed in Minecraft."
Caves & Cliffs update: Am I a joke to you?
This guy (and everyone else): Yes
I noticed too lol
But I already commented something else.
This is my first watch of any video of yours and I know this isn't like an ASMR video or anything but I want to relax tonight and this video is so good for that. And I get to learn something as well
It's worth noting when comparing to bedrock, the bedrock texture is the same as stone but with really high contrast
I love Minecraft and aspire to be a Volcanologist. I found a hidden TH-cam gem and i thank you for it!
Soul sand being very iron rich makes sense, for to extract souls, one must spill blood.
i genuinely love this channel. it’s small creators like you that aren’t shills (yet…?) and seem passionate about doing this for THEIR enjoyment that makes me enjoy this even more :)
I just attended a geology summer camp and it's so great to understand the concepts you're explaining :D
Obsidian is a very hard mineral in real life though?
no its not, its fragile like glass
It’s a type of glass and it is also fragile
The piece I broke in the video took more hits than i thought it would. I have broken boulders the size of a basketball with a light hit before. There is a difference between "hardness" and "brittleness" too.
Hardness is resistance to local deformation like scratching. Glass is very hard.
Are you using the term hardness in this video more colloquially or is there a different meaning in geology?
@@Ailtir Obsidian is about 5.5 on the Mohs scale, which is about the same as glass. Kind of middle-of-the-road in terms of hardness. You can't scratch it with a fingernail, but it's softer than, say, quartz.
Stone strikes me as a prototype material and wasn't intended to remain in the game, but it did. I think if they ever make a Minecraft 2, they would simply leave it out, replacing all the Stone with the various stratified subtypes.
I disagree. I think limestone is a better fit. Shale/claystone formed first. Burried. Metamorphosed into deepslate. Eroded. Then the limestone was placed unconfirmably, with some mixing at the interface (similiar to the bottom of the Lamotte Sabdstone in Missouri). The color, tenacity and surficial prevelence leads me to limestone.
Ding dong your opinion is wrong
Awesome! I've always wondered this question and I'm glad that you've made this wonderful resource to answer it to a satisfying degree!
I genuinely hate people who say they genuinely hat people who think they’re cool or smith by saying first or second. All love
Thank you for putting a smile on my face and making me laugh❤
Fellow Geologist here. When comparing sedimentary rocks, mentioning clay could further enhance understanding of grain size. For us, it also incudes a chemical change, which complicates things a bit more. It would be a geologist's dream if Minecraft made some kind of sense. Like some igneous rock pipes with diamond in the bottom, or gold (perhaps diamond) in sandy/gravel river beaches.
I genuinely hate people who think they're cool or smth by saying first or second.
That's the thing I don't think I'm cool I think I'm funny😂
@@Raymond_Girini Think.
I guess third is fine, though.
It increases engagement on the video and the comments end up getting buried anyway so why does it matter so much?
@@brevortofficial I think it's a matter of principle. There are fools out there that genuinely do it in an attempt at recognition. They are often completely unaware that with state the internet is at right now, that just doesn't happen anymore.
I have always imagined stone as various forms of marine sedimentary rocks, both clastic and carbonate. The slightly laminated texture and metamorphosis into deepslate hint at shale, the karst hints at limestone, and I had figured the ability to make tools from the cobbles could represent interspersed beds of chert (or perhaps erratics preserved in a turbidite). Great vid!
This is an amazing video series - you earned yourself a subscriber!
I found your channel recently and love your content! I like how you use commands to add a modded sort of feeling to the videos that can provide such good visualizations. I think you hit a perfect balance between information and using the game to demonstrate.
No way, what are the chances I did a science presentation project on this very volcano! When choosing the volcano I just searched up the most unknown volcanoes and it came up, the next 3 weeks were making a poster and answering questions about it. Even before the video started I guessed that it was limestone, like he did, based in my geologic knowledge and that most of the underground and caves are formed out of limestone.