01 / Shallows
The aquifer ledge
A dry ledge skirts clear underground water, with familiar ore blocks visible along the route.
+ A world beneath your world
Beneath
the familiar.
The Earth has more to tell.
Follow the stone. Go deeper.
The shape of Surface
Read the stone.
Find your way.
Forests, rivers and familiar ground. The beginning of every journey below.
- Foundation
- Grass · dirt · familiar stone
- Passage
- Woodland approaches · rivers · cave entrances
- Minerals
- No chart minerals.
+ 02 / The familiar, fading
Shallows.
Daylight gives way.
Stone carries on.
Aquifers, ravines and familiar minerals lead away from the surface. Find a dry ledge beside the water and follow the darker stone below.
Explore the stoneThe world you recognize
A world within the stone.
02 / Shallows
The lower stone chamber
Calcite terraces and pointed dripstone mark a dry chamber with a darker route below.
03 / Shallows
Where daylight fades
A familiar ravine carries daylight from a forest entrance down toward darker stone.
The shape of Shallows
Read the stone.
Find your way.
Aquifers, ravines and familiar minerals lead away from the surface. Find a dry ledge beside the water and follow the darker stone below.
- Foundation
- Stone · deepslate
- Passage
- Ravines · aquifers · familiar caves
- Minerals
- Vanilla ranges, unchanged: coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond near the old floor, emerald in mountains.
Daylight thins.
The world opens inward.
+ 03 / The first deep world
Deepwilds.
Rivers find their way.
So will you.
Beyond familiar stone, tuff halls unfold into terraces, wandering waterways and sheltered pockets of green. Follow a shelf. Round a pillar. Find another way through.
Explore three biomesOne depth. Three ways to wander.
A world within the stone.
01 / Fracture Halls
Stone, split into possibility.
Broad shelves turn around tuff pillars. Pale seams trace the walls; a dry route disappears into the next hall.
02 / River Lowlands
Follow the water. Find your way.
A river bends beneath low arches, past shallow steps and stone islands. The bank offers another way into the deep.
03 / The Grove
A little life, sheltered in stone.
Moss, azalea and rooted terraces gather in a contained pocket of green, where the grove meets the river.
The shape of the deep
Solid ground.
Endless possibility.
Not an empty world beneath the world. A body of stone, threaded with routes, supported by pillars and carved by water.
- Foundation
- Tuff · local pale seams
- Passage
- Shelves · halls · river banks
- Minerals
- Tin, zinc, silver, sulfur, apatite
A threshold in stone
Light band.
A pale solid threshold. Routes can align above and below; the stone still has to be mined.
Solid band · no chart minerals
+ 04 / A closer world
Underreach.
Still water.
Unquiet stone.
Dripstone columns divide the galleries. Still lakes hold their reflections. Shore routes turn into branching passages, with salt and small crude oil pockets beside the water.
Explore the stoneOne depth. Three ways to wander.
A world within the stone.
01 / Underreach
Drip Galleries
An intimate dry gallery where the player walks around thick dripstone columns and beside clusters, choosing a lit shelf or darker side opening.
02 / Underreach
Still Lakes
An enclosed stepped lake basin with pillars, shoreline routes and a distant dry opening; clear shallows and reflective deep water reinforce its distinct geology.
03 / Underreach
The Branching Maze
Three natural route choices at a biome contact, with a small connected lake edge, discreet confined crude-oil pocket and salt-bearing shore blocks.
The shape of Underreach
Read the stone.
Find your way.
Dripstone columns divide the galleries. Still lakes hold their reflections. Shore routes turn into branching passages, with salt and small crude oil pockets beside the water.
- Foundation
- Dripstone · local calcite
- Passage
- Columns · lakes · branching dry routes
- Minerals
- Lead, nickel, bauxite, fluorite, salt, certus quartz, niter. Certus quartz generates as a mineral in this depth, not as a surface meteor. Salt is a mineral beside the lakes.
A threshold in stone
Dark band.
Obsidian and crying obsidian mark the next descent. Passage stops at the band.
Solid band · no chart minerals
+ 05 / The deep grows quiet
Abyss.
Less sky.
More possibility.
Deepslate closes around tighter forks, low vaults and sheltered shelves. A local vent warms one turn; a cool cleft leads into another.
Explore the stoneOne depth. Three ways to wander.
A world within the stone.
01 / Abyss
Close Warren
A close first-person dry tunnel fork whose cool and warm branches make route choice legible.
02 / Abyss
Magma Vent
A compact magma spring contained by blackstone and basalt, with a dry route passing the heat source.
03 / Abyss
Quiet Vaults
A broad but low enclosed vault with natural stone piers, repeated sheltered openings, dry layered routes and subtle embedded ores.
The shape of Abyss
Read the stone.
Find your way.
Deepslate closes around tighter forks, low vaults and sheltered shelves. A local vent warms one turn; a cool cleft leads into another.
- Foundation
- Deepslate · localized basalt
- Passage
- Forks · low vaults · natural piers
- Minerals
- Osmium, uranium, cinnabar.
A threshold in stone
Magma band.
A solid localized heat threshold beneath the upper depths. No lava sea.
Solid band · no chart minerals
+ 06 / A fault through immense stone
Mantle.
Follow the seam.
Keep your footing.
Basalt surrounds a narrow winding fault. Close shoulders and folded ribs make every ledge a route. Cinder pockets are small and local.
Explore the stoneOne depth. Three ways to wander.
A world within the stone.
01 / Mantle
Basalt Seams
A tall but very narrow winding fault with dense basalt walls and traversable mid-level ledges.
02 / Mantle
Cinder Pockets
Player-scale ledge travel past a tiny cinder recess below footing, with low roof and close basalt shoulders.
03 / Mantle
Closed Foundry
A natural compact enclosure of compressed stepped basalt ribs and folds, reached by tight routes around solid stone.
The shape of Mantle
Immense stone.
A narrow way through.
Basalt surrounds a narrow winding fault. Close shoulders and folded ribs make every ledge a route. Cinder pockets are small and local.
- Foundation
- Basalt
- Passage
- Narrow faults · cinder bypasses · rooted ribs
- Minerals
- No chart minerals.
+ 07 / The deepest quiet
Core.
Pale stone.
A rare way onward.
Dense quartz buttresses wrap compact cracks and offset galleries. Step into the narrow opening. Draconium belongs to this stone alone.
Explore the stoneOne depth. Three ways to wander.
Small openings. Deep possibility.
01 / Core
Bright Cracks
Close player-height exploration: dry footing, a one-block step, a low enclosing ceiling and a narrow onward glimpse beyond pale stone.
02 / Core
The Still Heart
A quiet compact enclosure wraps a substantial irregular stepped quartz mass, with a slender dry shelf and narrow onward crack.
03 / Core
Pale Galleries
Two rare narrow galleries wind around dense quartz buttresses, using stepped shelves and offset openings to reveal depth without a giant void.
The shape of Core
A body of quartz.
A thread of passage.
Dense quartz buttresses wrap compact cracks and offset galleries. Step into the narrow opening. Draconium belongs to this stone alone.
- Foundation
- Smooth quartz
- Passage
- Rare cracks · offset galleries · rooted buttresses
- Minerals
- Draconium. Only in the smooth quartz. None in the Mantle.
The foundation beneath it all
Bedrock.
The bottom of the Earth column.
Working column: Y=-352 through Y=319 · Sea level 63From surface to foundation
One Earth.
Many worlds within.
Solid bands hold the layers apart. Water follows the upper depths. Local heat gives way to basalt; the Core keeps its pale stone.
Explore every scene ↗The descent continues