^lol i love exploring, i will take poor stuff with me, like just iron stuff, no diamonds, and only leather armor, and explore really far out, end up getting killed or lost, then if i have to respawn to find my way back, or i die i dont lose good stuff. You can find a lot of good stuff that way. About 2 days ago i went on like a 3 hour journey down a cave that was really far away, the cave was bloody huge, i got over 120 iron out of it, 4 diamonds, and about 30 gold. would have got a lot of red dust as well, but i no longer pick that up. I had to turn back cause the cave didnt seem to end, took me an hour to get down to where i turned back, then 2 hours to get out. Then i died on the surface, and found my way back to get all my iron and diamons, gold i dont really care for, but meh, its cool to have.