Minecraft:Dripstone Caves
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Template:For Template:Infobox biome The dripstone caves is a cave Minecraft:biome found in inland areas, filled with clusters and pillars of Minecraft:pointed dripstone and Minecraft:dripstone blocks.
Generation
Dripstone caves generate underground at any Minecraft:altitude beneath areas with high Minecraft:continentalness values (≥ 0.8), which means they are usually found far inland, and are essentially never found under Minecraft:ocean biomes or bordering a coast. While Minecraft:dark forests, Minecraft:old growth taigas, Minecraft:bamboo jungles, Minecraft:wooded badlands, and Minecraft:taigas at temperatures of -0.450 and below are almost guaranteed to have Minecraft:lush caves under them, dripstone caves may generate under them instead of lush caves when they're far inland.
Description
A dripstone cave looks similar to a regular cave, but Minecraft:dripstone blocks and Minecraft:pointed dripstone both hanging as stalactites and growing from the ground as stalagmites generate throughout the biome, with small Minecraft:water wells of 1×1 blocks also commonly generated all over the biome. Large Minecraft:dripstone clusters structures occasionally generate inside ravines. This biome also generates larger copper ore blobs compared to other biomes. Minecraft:Drowned and rarely Minecraft:zombie nautiluses are able to spawn in aquifers, unlike in other biomes. Minecraft:Mineshafts, Minecraft:amethyst geodes, Minecraft:monster rooms, Minecraft:trial chambers and glow lichen can be found in dripstone caves like normal, and Minecraft:strongholds and Minecraft:woodland mansionsTemplate:Only also rarely generate.
When exposed to the surface, the surface is made entirely out of stone with occasional patches of dripstone.
Mobs
The following mobs naturally spawn here: Template:Spawn table
Sounds
Music
These music tracks play while the player is in the dripstone caves.
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History
Announcement
Java Edition
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Trivia
- The Sơn Đoòng cave in Vietnam was of particular inspiration when coming up with the features of dripstone caves.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
Gallery
Screenshots
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A large dripstone cave below y=0, with multiple dripstone clusters.
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A spaghetti dripstone cave between the regular stone and deepslate layer.
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A dripstone cave intersecting a Minecraft:lush cave.
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A Minecraft:mineshaft in a dripstone cave.
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A Minecraft:player looking down into an exposed dripstone cave.
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An open dripstone cave within a plateau of Minecraft:forest and Minecraft:taiga biomes.
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A very dark dripstone cave.
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A player in a dripstone cave, lightened by a Minecraft:torch, as seen from above.
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A player emerging from a dripstone cave as the sun sets.
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Dripstone caves.
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A dripstone caves Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18, which generates the surface as a plains biome. The caves are filled with dripstone.
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Exposed dripstone caves in Minecraft:badlands Template:In, where snowfall may occur at this height.
Mojang screenshots
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Dripstone caves as seen in Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2020.
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Mineshaft in a dripstone cave.
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Stalactite in a dripstone cave.
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Pillars in a dripstone cave.
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Lavafall in a dripstone cave.
In other media
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Minecraft:Steve falling down a dripstone cave with a Minecraft:mace.
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Steve falling through a dripstone cave.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
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A Minecraft:camel falling through a dripstone cave.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
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