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[Scelly9]

Recently I've been pleying the "Never head up, never establish a base" game. I bring two sapling down with me and never see the light of day again.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   On my personal games I tend to just go down with a stack of logs and not come up. You have everything you need down there to make a living and if you bring a sapling you don't even need to come up a few years later after you logs run out and just saying, I have never fully run out of a stack of logs in any short amount of time. Other times I go the opposite way and never go down. Its actually a lot harder as you never get diamonds or any other deep resources unless you get lucky with some kind of ravine or something as I don't count those.

[Devling]

Torches are easy to get underground, just a single stack of planks is enough for 512 torches (and you can easily get coal underground).

A harder limit to get around however is inventory spaces, and when that runs out (and I have thrown away everything I am willing to) I begin to head up.

That doesn't help with my insanity....

Recently I've been pleying the "Never head up, never establish a base" game. I bring two sapling down with me and never see the light of day again.

What about food? And that kinda stuff?
Also sounds boooooooooooring.....
Exploring is the best part of minecraft, and all most of the cool stuff is up top.

[Duke 2.0]

Torches are easy to get underground, just a single stack of planks is enough for 512 torches (and you can easily get coal underground).

A harder limit to get around however is inventory spaces, and when that runs out (and I have thrown away everything I am willing to) I begin to head up.

That doesn't help with my insanity....

Recently I've been pleying the "Never head up, never establish a base" game. I bring two sapling down with me and never see the light of day again.

What about food? And that kinda stuff?
Also sounds boooooooooooring.....
Exploring is the best part of minecraft, and all most of the cool stuff is up top.

Rotten meat is a surprisingly good source of food. Good enough to survive underground like the morlock you are.

And Terraria kinda showed us that all the good stuff is underground. We just need better caves. Better caves that nobody has made a good mod on. Generation mods have been messed with, but nothing that fits with other mods and vanilla well that just adds a few new cave shapes and caverns.

[Devling]

Torches are easy to get underground, just a single stack of planks is enough for 512 torches (and you can easily get coal underground).

A harder limit to get around however is inventory spaces, and when that runs out (and I have thrown away everything I am willing to) I begin to head up.

That doesn't help with my insanity....

Recently I've been pleying the "Never head up, never establish a base" game. I bring two sapling down with me and never see the light of day again.

What about food? And that kinda stuff?
Also sounds boooooooooooring.....
Exploring is the best part of minecraft, and all most of the cool stuff is up top.

Rotten meat is a surprisingly good source of food. Good enough to survive underground like the morlock you are.

And Terraria kinda showed us that all the good stuff is underground. We just need better caves. Better caves that nobody has made a good mod on. Generation mods have been messed with, but nothing that fits with other mods and vanilla well that just adds a few new cave shapes and caverns.

My point on the caves still stands.
Of course, I would like better caves, and a better map so I could map the underground.
But I don't know.
My lil' guy spends enough time in the stygian abyss gathering materials, I certainly don't want to LIVE down there.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I wish that to use a map you where actually able to see the places you where mapping as the map makes a better door then a window.

[Solifuge]

From the guys who made Regolith ruins, this is the most impressive minecraft HQ I have ever seen.

[eerr]

Why is it I have shittons of cobblestone until I need it?

I have more iron than cobblestone. Too much time in caves, I guess.

The bigger question is where in the hell my structures are though. I told them to generate, but... Do they not generate underwater? It's an island map, mainly. I hit a mainland farther up, but not anywhere near my spawn.

The amount of cobblestone required for your projects scales too hard.

Exponential is really fast.

[Solifuge]

Recently I've been pleying the "Never head up, never establish a base" game. I bring two sapling down with me and never see the light of day again.

What about food? And that kinda stuff?
Also sounds boooooooooooring.....
Exploring is the best part of minecraft, and all most of the cool stuff is up top.

I like doing subterranean playthroughs as well. One of my favorite Minecraft experiences was attempting a Multiplayer 404 Challenge on the Livestream, with permadeath rules for each player. Explorers would buddy up to ensure safety, while others guarded our base and tended crops to make sure we had a safe well-stocked place to return to. It was a lot of fun... RIP Bones the Quantum Skeleton.

Anyway, thinking back on that, and on hearing that some of you like subterranean runs too, while others worried that it might get a bit boring, I decided to whip up a more interesting subterranean custom map using terrain generation scripts.

Spoiler: Screenshots: (click to show/hide)

(Click to Embiggen)

It's a sprawling cavern complex, similar to what you'd get if you rendered default MC biomes in the style of the Nether. Though trees and natural sunlight can be found, it's pretty rare. To remedy this, there's an optional chest with some starting lumber and saplings not far from the start location. Also, note that the terrain was only generated out to about -500 and +500 in all directions, so anything outside that will revert to vanilla MC terrain. Still, since the caverns wind around and overlap, you probably won't get that far unless you try to.

Map downloads:
The Dwarrowdelf (Default)
The Dwarrowdelf IRONMAN (Hardcore)

Let me know how you like it. If you run into any problems, or have any questions, hit me up here or via PM. Hope you guys enjoy it!

EDIT: For best effect, play it on Moody lighting, with a Fog Distance of Short or Normal.

EDIT EDIT: Trying this in Hardcore was actually really exciting. Just found a big enough clay deposit to make a lot of bricks, and I hoped to build a creeper-resistant shelter out of it, only to uncovered a creeper right behind the clay. The explosion hurt me pretty bad, so I turned toward my shelter, ans dashed across a makeshift bridge I'd built to cross a chasm. About midway over, I got spider-tackled into the chasm and nearly died. Stuck on a cliff with a spider in hot pursuit, I made a flying leap to some free-hanging vines, and used shift to grab hold and slowly descend deeper into the pit. I almost made it to an overhang with some glowstone light, but the spider followed me down and did me in.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Looks nice from what I quickly saw. Might have to do a quick hardcore lets play of it tomorrow night, just playing and recording till I die or meet some kind of goal.

[NRDL]

Has anyone done an absolutely no crafting playthrough?  As in, live with just your wits, and your fists.

I'm thinking of doing this, preferably in an ape skin, so it'll be like the apes from the beginning of 2001: a space odyssey.

I can use bones, I guess...

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I imagine you'd starve to death rather quickly.

[Biag]

There have been a couple of no-pickaxe LPs, although I never watched any of them for more than a couple minutes. It's an interesting challenge, though; even getting enough stone for a furnace is a major accomplishment.

[Sirus]

There have been a couple of no-pickaxe LPs, although I never watched any of them for more than a couple minutes. It's an interesting challenge, though; even getting enough stone for a furnace is a major accomplishment.

I imagine it involves hunting creepers for gunpowder, right?

[Biag]

Hunting creepers for gunpowder or, if you're especially hardcore, luring creepers to explode where you want them to.