How does Minecraft ore compare to Earth

An introduction to ores. We talk about the minecraft ores and look at how they compare to real life ores and how much we mine each year.
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[@muno]

That effect with all of the ores flying over to form the depth chart is so cool

[@why3994]

omg! muno! didn't expect to see you here :3 (i love your workshop characters and stages theyre amazing)

[@Switchup192]

for real

[@Wax_Man]

Litterally is what got me to click on the vid tbh

[@Aurora_Animates]

IKR WOWW

[@PeridotEX]

Small world, nice to see you! I remember when you were a part of Make Your Move, I joined around 21 (so close to when you were done). Congrats on hitting it big as a Rivals modder!

[@alex.g7317]

It’s odd how your hand keeps switching from being blocky and realistic. I recommend going to a doctor about that.

[@justseffstuff3308]

8:30 Cinnabar seems to be the genuinely accepted headcanon, in Minecraft modding. Many mods have ways to refine it that allow you to get cinnabar from Redstone ore.

[@ElNeroDiablo]

And in some mods (like Thaumcraft) Cinnabar is processed in to Quicksilver - aka Mercury (since at room temp and standard atmosphere, purified Mercury is a silverly liquid, the historical name has been Quicksilver).

[@thewhitelynx8492]

Another example is Gregtech, which has interesting ore generation, where veins are huge, and redstone generates in a vein with ruby and cinnabar.

[@bobisnotaperson]

Oh! Even in a mod I helped a little with you get cinnabar from redstone! Same mod, Spelunkery, also makes lapis ore drop lazurite too...

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

Another interesting example is Minechem, a 1.7.10 mod that lists redstone dust as Fe2Cu3. (Which I am unable to find a common name for with a cursory Google)

[@lorekeeper685]

​@@ElNeroDiablo I mean Thaumcraft is also sorta based in ad&d

[@Everest111]

That volume of coal really puts into perspective the sheer size of impact we have on the planet each year

[@alekkowabunga3294]

you can see all the coal mines of germany from space; check out google maps in satellite view and, I'm sure you can find all the giant open pit mines eating into germany's historic countryside, and the often acidified and salty sterile lakes they leave behind, all because there's more money in burning fossil fuels than there is in nuclear power

[@ovechkin100]

yea. and people buying EVs is only going to make it increase.

[@diablo.the.cheater]

@@ovechkin100 decrease*

[@Real_Sp00ks]

No, increase. Have you never seen what a lithium mine looks like?​@@diablo.the.cheater

[@jeremychicken3339]

@@diablo.the.cheater Increase, the lithium mines is absurd. we should go back to steam cars.

[@SupersuMC]

According to the Education Edition, redstone is mostly uranium carbide with a "mystery element" that makes it red and do the redstone stuff.

[@gabrieltellez8148]

its probably uranium methanide due to the carbon

[@Wyattporter]

Wow, that’s really cool, thank you for posting

[@gneissname]

Hmmm, someone else asked it I have looked at education edition, which I have not. Uranium seems like such a strange choice. I was a nuclear electronics technician in the Navy. the only magical properties it has is making things hot and radiation. Seems like its just used because people think its cool and mysterious. I have some uranium ore at work, I'll have to put that into the redstone video and look at the education edition i guess. Uranium carbide is only man made and not found in nature too.

[@jad05]

@@gneissname well, theres a lot of theories on the ingame historical lore of the world, and one popular theory is that it all happens after some crazy world war, so theres that.

[@SupersuMC]

@@jad05 The thought that singleplayer is the "canon" world as far as the lore goes means that you'd be the only survivor, which is fairly frightening.

[@supertinnietank]

I absolutely love these type of analyses. "There is no real world equivalent for this, so we'll make some assumptions and show you the relationship." Love it.

[@fantastikboom1094]

Can't tell if you like it or don't.

[@supertinnietank]

@@fantastikboom1094 Do love. No sarcasm.

[@DJBaphomet]

I think Ancient Debris is an interesting material, since judging by the Lore surrounding it, it's definitely not natural, but actual residual scrap and waste left behind by the machines once used to harvest all the ACTUAL Netherite Ore. This means there *was* a netherite ore, at one point, but the Piglins harvested it all away with big machines (See: MC Dungeons environments for the nether), ruining their environment in the process

[@cjslime8847]

I always viewed it as a meteor

[@Akira-Aerins]

Piglins? Or Ancient Builders?

[@nemesissombria]

​@Akira-Aerins Is that just a theory? Jokes aside, I saw someone say like the piglins from nowadays are degenerated descendants of some sort of Ancient Builders faction

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

@@Akira-Aerinsthe piglins,they’re always the one that mess the nether

[@Akira-Aerins]

@HYDROCARBON_XD sounds like someone doesn't want to admit to being part of the problem.

[@xyznihall]

amazing visualisations as always! liked that joke about ice being a mineral. learnt about that fact recently and would live to see a video about ice as a mineral or smth. not sure how it would fit with minecraft but yeah. great stuff as always.

[@gneissname]

I actually got one planned talking about how ice packs in real life and plan to talk about it a bit there

[@christianmetaldreamur3491]

Water is lava, guys!

[@SupersuMC]

According to the scientific definition of a mineral - a natural crystalline substance with a uniform structure - ice is a mineral!

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

seconds that ,specially the ''core/mantle/crust'' 3d blocks shape part

[@Dollusionist]

The twist that Gneiss was a Minecraft character in real life was not something I was expecting. Also I love how amazing you are at explaining things and the work you put into the Minecraft world. Never has anyone else made being a geologist seem so fun.

[@Thespikedballofdoom]

Dude that coal interlude was straight ominous, "It gets a lot worse" with the black beam in the middle of the screen opening up like the portal to hell

[@jtcav6484]

Love these videos! I can't remember if you've done this in past videos, but the 'Education Edition' of Minecraft actually lets you break down certain blocks to their 'original elements', so you can get rough chemical compositions of stone, dirt, ores, etc., though it's not 100% true to life with stuff like stone or sand, but it is interesting because you can break down fictional blocks like redstone, netherrack, glowstone, etc. All of those have a "???" element in their composition to show that they're fictional, but what IS identifiable is pretty interesting.

[@gneissname]

The only thing I have done with education edition was explore the lessons / modules, whatever they call the things you can download. I was looking for geology related ones and found zero, so I started making these videos. I could do a geologic review of education edition maybe.

[@crissis3263]

It was a while ago, but I remember that redstone contained uranium, and the '???' which has interesting imprications 🤔

[@elnico5623]

Iirc this specific feature is available to anyone who has bedrock edition as a world-setting, kind of like a demo of education edition

[@quakxy_dukx]

⁠@@gneissname A mod called gregtech gives Si(FeS_2)_5(CrAl_2O_3)Hg_3 as the chemical formula for redstone

[@Thexus]

@@gneissname GregTech is a mod that adds chemical compositions to all Minecraft items, you could check it out.

[@wampXs]

You should totally check out the Gregtech mod and its ore generation. They go at great lengths in implementing more realistic ore distribution, such as Chalcopyrite for Copper, Cassiterite for Tin and even lumping Redstone with Cinnabar

[@AL_O0]

This is amazing, i love all the animations and visual, with everything done in game Also the size of the real life amounts of materials we extract is mind blowing, billions of tonnes every single year

[@adawg3032]

the size of the real life earth is also mind blowing too

[@AL_O0]

@@adawg3032 surface wise Minecraft is actually 7 times larger than the earth, but the earth is a lot thicker (and also round)

[@wafity]

Yeah and we keep destroying the poor earth 😡

[@jackielinde7568]

Oh, you MISSED an opportunity. While Minecraft doesn't have steel drums, they do have wooden barrels, and you could use those to represent the barrels of oil we suck out of the ground.

[@samueltrusik3251]

I find hypothetical and real lore about the minecraft world the most fascinating. Even if we scale up and down some of the weirder aspects of Minecrafts` world, like its insane surface size or tiny crust, we still get fascinating statistics like how Minecraft is extremely rich in gold, but extremely poor in Copper, at least compared to our earth. I would love if you eventually made a large video exploring how the Minecraft world might have come to be, what went on during its creation, what its properties are, how Humans might colonize it and why, etc. If you have time, of course.

[@widmo206]

I'm sure a lot of rich people would push against it, since it would make the prices of gold and diamond plummit

[@stinkynoodles8312]

​@@widmo206or theyd flip it and make copper the pretty ore

[@widmo206]

@@stinkynoodles8312 Not really, since it'd still be produced back home

[@vadernation1233]

Well the copper came from just that “small” chunk whereas the copper shown in the real life statistic came from the entire planet so it could still compare.

[@jasonreed7522]

Amount extracted and amount available for economic extraction are 2 different figures. The ammount extracted tells us how much our industrial economy consumes as "fresh" material but ignores how much gets recycled from scrap back to raw material. (This is what his real life figures were) The amount economically available is called the reserves, and is what the Minecraft data yielded. But just because a resource is available doesn't mean you will extract it to its full potential. A slightly funny/ironic story about the conquistadors is that they threw out so much Platinum in the amazon because they were looking for yellow gold and didn't even know about the even rarer and more valuable platinum. As an aside these 2 figures are often combined into an RoP figure. (reserves over production) Reserves measured in tons divided by production measures in tons per year equals how long you can continue the status quo measured in years. (Most commonly used in the context of fossil fuel consumption where oil & gas have values of around 50years and coal has a value of around 200 years. Basically even without climate change its still a good idea to switch off of "dino juice"[not actually from dinosaurs] before we run out and we can't power our industrial economy)

[@syntheticcelery34]

I think it's worth noting that the diamonds in-game are a bright cyan shade. This would make them incredibly rare in real life (cyan diamonds might contain trace amounts of boron. Some examples might get a slightly green quality from irradiation as well). Gem quality diamonds can come in every single color of the rainbow and vivid ones are worth an incredible amount on the market... After going through hoops with the diamond industry.

[@Endersouled]

I didnt think i would watch an entire 26 minute educational video about the geology of ores in minecraft, but the effort put into this kept me intrigued. The visual representations, the animations and how it all flows so smoothly looked incredibly well done. I think this deserves more recognition

[@hundvd_7]

THIS WAS 26 MINUTES???

[@jupitersky]

I was having so much fun, but then we hit the coal section. Still fun, but terrifying. Then you mentioned oil. _And then it hit me that you said "per day"._ I've learned a lot from your videos. It's always fun, entertaining, and educational. Thank you for getting so many people excited about our world!

[@Maxie962]

If anything, it should make you realize that climate hysteria is overblown.

[@Actinide5013]

​@Maxie962 it's so overblown that you can see the very things climate scientists have been warning for decades starting to happen right before our very eyes. Every year is the hottest one ever now, enjoy the kool-aid.

[@pretztail23]

Hey Gneiss, you should check out the mod TerraFirmaCraft, it has a large geology aspect to it, where it adds many rock types and ores, along with those ores only spawning in certain rock types. Would be interesting to see how accurate the rock, ore, and generation are to real life

[@gneissname]

Thanks, I would love to look at it. I know some about the mod but haven't looked at it in detail.

[@alecity4877]

​@@gneissnameit is really interesting, basically a whole other game made with minecraft as a baseline.

[@Crayon_Egbert]

​@@gneissname if you're interested you should try doing a series!!!!

[@ramboturkey1926]

@@alecity4877 it even inspired another voxel game called vintage story

[@elnico5623]

​@@gneissnamethe devs of terrafirmacraft actually made a game, vintage story, which has a lot of geology features, like ore veins spawning in flat layers, or different rocks spawning in layers too (like stone and deepslate) but the depth division follows the surface elevation instead of a specific y coordinate, and there's also meteoritic iron you can find sometimes

[@vk8a8]

6:17 its kinda implied that fortune DOES magically multiply the amount of ore, cause its an ENCHANTment, not an upgradement or whatever.

[@ReallyRealColby]

I absolutely love this series. You could almost say I *dig* it...

[@Lightning_Lance]

I had to take a pause after you showed the amount of coal mined and burned to Co2 in real life every year. I'm not gonna lie, that definitely got to me.

[@EloyGray]

What fucked me up the most about that was how casually he brought up how an equivalent amount of oil is produced *per day*

[@wafity]

I KNOW RIGHT?!?! WHY DO WE STILL MINE COAL?!??! I freaking hate how we destroy the planet for money

[@tynj4173]

@accelerationquanta5816 agreed

[@brevortofficial]

Gilded blackstone actually can't be smelted btw, it behaves like gravel in that it has a random chance of dropping itself and nuggets, also I believe redstone is partially made of uranium iirc according to education edition! Great video!

[@approach_divinity]

That hulking coal cube bit had such a huge impact on me, seeing just how much damage we're doing. I don't know, seeing it presented in Minecraft made it feel kinda esoteric in a way. Very cool video, thanks for making it.

[@greg77389]

That coal cube is a spec of dust compared to the size of the earth.

[@JustJum]

​@accelerationquanta5816 daamage to the atmosphere. Yknow, greenhouse gases, global warming, climate change, all that?

[@JustJum]

@accelerationquanta5816 by damaged they obviously mean changing to to a terrible state, due to greenhouse gases and pollutants getting up there. Yes, a tiny amount of greenhouse gases keeps the earth warm, but after the industrialisation of earth, the amount of greenhouse gases going up there is heating up the earth way faster than before. Sea levels are rising like crazy due to ice melting, removing ice habitats and removing our land. Heatwaves, storms, hurricanes, floods etc are become increasingly are dangerous due to global warming. Habitats are being lost faster than ever before, with the hotter water destroying coral reefs, rising sea levels destroying coast habitats, hotter temperatures changing where plants grow, more carbon dioxide being absorbed by bodies of water are making them more acidic and destroying habitats underwater, hotter temperatures making wildfires more common, etc. Going back to the entire world being hotter as it once was wouldnt be absolutely devastating if this transition occured over several millipms of years so animals can adapt, like it did last time, unlike now how its occuring over a couple of years. Overall we are losing more than gaining from whatever benefits there are. Crops have more chances of spreading diseases due to hotter temperatures. More floods from rain and more droughts are making it harder to farm crops, These are all heavily researched and proven areas by million of people, it cannot be refuted that the earth is getting "damaged". I never expected to meet a climate change denier here of all places...

[@JustJum]

@accelerationquanta5816 idk why my previous reply disappeared but here it is again: by damaged they obviously mean the atmosphere changing to a terrible state. A tiny amount of greenhouse gases keeps the earth warm, but after industrialisation, the earth is heating up faster than ever before. Storms, hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, etc are becoming increasingly common and dangerous. Higher temperatures increases chances of disease spread. Rising sea levels remove our land. Habitats are being lost everywhere. Bodies of water are getting more and more acidic from absorbing more co2, hotter oceans are killing coral reefs, wildfires and other weather events are destroying habitats alone, rising ses levels are destroying coastal habitats, plants are growing differently and in different areas and change very fast now, ice habitats are getting destroyed from melting, etc. The earth heating up wouldnt be absolutely devastating for animals if the transition occured over several millions of years like last time, so the animals can adapt, unlike now where its changing in a couple years. Overall we are losing more than we are gaining from whatever benefits there are. Crops are harder to farm due to floods and droughts, diseases spreading faster from higher temperatures, etc. As a side effect of this, developing countries are suffering way more than before as they depend heavily on agriculture, which is impossible to adapt and maintain, especially with the extreme weather and financial problems they have. This is a heavily researched and proven thing by millions of people. It cannot be refuted, and the changes can be easily observed. I never expected to meet a climate change denier here of all places...

[@JustJum]

@accelerationquanta5816 idk why my previous reply disappeared but here it is again, sry if theres like 3 duplicate replies lol: by damaged they obviously mean the atmosphere changing to a terrible state. A tiny amount of greenhouse gases keeps the earth warm, but after industrialisation, the earth is heating up faster than ever before. Storms, hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, etc are becoming increasingly common and dangerous. Higher temperatures increases chances of disease spread. Rising sea levels remove our land. Habitats are being lost everywhere. Bodies of water are getting more and more acidic from absorbing more co2, hotter oceans are killikg coral reefs, wildfires and other events are destroying land, rising ses levels are destroying coastal habitats, plants are growing differently and in different areas and change very fast now, ice habitats are getting destroyed from melting, etc. The earth heating up wouldnt be absolutely devastating for animals if the transition occured over several millions of years like last time, so the animals can adapt, unlike now where its changing in a couple years. Overall we are losing more than we are gaining from whatever benefits there are. Crops are harder to farm due to floods and droughts, diseases spreading faster from higher temperatures, etc. As a side effect of this, developing countries are suffering way more than before as they depend heavily on agriculture, which is impossible to adapt and maintain, especially with the extreme weather and financial problems they have. This is a heavily researched and proven thing by millions of people. It cannot be refuted, and the changes can be easily observed. I never expected to meet a climate change denier here of all places...

[@Rowann1]

Honestly i have no interest in geology but I always find your videos so damn interesting.

[@gneissname]

Thanks, I have had a video planned called "why nobody cares about geology" that I hope to get out eventually.

[@Lightning_Lance]

watching these videos, it seems like geology is a field that should be given more attention in middle school. Because I'm sure a lot of people would be interested if they knew anything about it.

[@Rowann1]

@@Lightning_Lance Yeah, they just told us there's 3 types of rocks and moved on

[@clintonbehrends4659]

@@Rowann1 the biggest thing with interest and education is really in how it's presented humans are naturally very curious it's just that school systems (especially in america) manage to wring out that curiousity

[@0Blueaura]

everywhere in the world. mind you. we only start to truly learn our place way after we graduate or drop out@@clintonbehrends4659

[@dr.derpington]

Why the hell is this so high quality. This has no right being this well made.

[@Victoria-zu9yp]

The production quality is insane, I adore how much love and effort you put into it. It's both educational and entertaining. The best Minecraft video I've seen, hands down

[@Cloudyqueso]

Everything from the animations and command blocks in game is absolutely beautiful.

[@wiggletonthewise2141]

The Minecraft production value here is unmatched! This is incredible

[@ExplodingDarth]

I really like the real world comparisons, especially the coal one

[@limpfall13]

Idk why but the coal cube gave me a sense of dread due to the vast amount of it being dug up used and turned into co2. Kinda insane tbh

[@wetlettuce6933]

So you do know why

[@amberisvibin]

by the tone in his voice, I think that was intended. a sobering thought

[@limpfall13]

@@amberisvibin yeah

[@amberisvibin]

@accelerationquanta5816 it's called non verbal communication. it's used in all speech. anyways, go away. I've seen you trolling elsewhere in this comments section

[@Maxie962]

All that Co2, and it's yet to have an effect on Earth's climate.

[@soraxusdragvoir5256]

The minecraft arm rummaging around your freezer joke absolutely killed me dude. I hope your channel grows huge!

[@deepintermission]

I love this channel. The effort put into the animations is amazing. Plus, finally somebody actually uses display entities for something meaningful, AND custom world hights, seriously underrated features.

[@IExistSometimes]

The joy of there being so many people is that statistically someone is gonna come along and make exactly what you want to see. I am a geologist, I play minecraft, and my particular youtube niche is experts in a field fucking about/taking a silly concept and seeing how far it can be pushed. Beyond that you pay incredible attention to detail, the visualisations are beautiful, your explanations are clear and concise, you write good code, and you make the resources available to people afterwards. I can't really think of anything better.

[@kikivoorburg]

17:55 I've been alright, hope you have been too! These videos are always super informative, keep up the wonderful work! edit: those iron and coal visualisations are insane, especially seeing as they're _per year_ -- makes it clear how much humans have taken over the planet. On the other hand though, it's all from the top layer of the tiny sliver of crust and quite literally just "scratches the surface" of the planet. Scale is amazingly unfathomable!!!

[@gneissname]

Glad to hear. Ive been alright too. The scale thing is very hard to get your head around for a lot of things. I struggled with how to convey it here. I didn’t want to just scale it down because I do feel like you lose some of the effect. Even though a quarter of the world download size is the coal and iron cube, it turned out well.

[@Lightning_Lance]

@@gneissname I'm glad you kept the size, it was very effective visually

[@kikivoorburg]

@@gneissname I agree, the way you’ve done it here was quite effective! Rewatching the video now and I’m still amazed.

[@swordsmancs]

Coal is incredibly common where I live in the Appalachian mountains, I used to have a chunk wider than my head that I found in a lake, and I used to go out exploring in my grandpa’s backyard, bringing back hand-sized chunks of coal that I found just lying out in the forest It’s still shocking to see that massive pillar that represents how much we mine in a year, though

[@PenguinGunnerProductions]

12:40 PFTTTT the smash cut made me laugh. The fact you have a Minecraft arm on standby to act out the irl bits is just so good. Never breaks immersion.

[@thesaltyduckling80]

I’ve been making a mod pack and I’m trying to focus on a balance between scientific realism, and fiction. One area that I have planned to focus more on realism for, is the processing of ore. Videos like these and creators like you are really helpful information-dumps that I can re-watch over and over to make sure that I can properly implement “geologically correct” processing of ore into pure material such as ingots. or nuggets. Just wanted to say this video was a gold-mine and thanks for making it!

[@vicmoreno.a]

tell us when it's done, i'd love to try it!

[@thesaltyduckling80]

@@vicmoreno.a I could have sworn I replied to this already but youtube is either being weird and I cant see my own reply, or it just didn't reply. :shrug: I actually already have the beta branch of the modpack uploaded to curseforge under the name "DucKs Divergent Survival". Much of it is quite developed, however what I speak of here is only to be developed in the future. The basic backbone of realistic ore processing does exist currently, in the form of receiving less while using more basic ore processing, and progressively improving ore processing to waste less of the ore. In the future I will hopefully have gangue byproduct at the lower tiers of progression. I also plan to allow harvesting the gas byproduct of smelting ores, such as oxygen from gold, and carbon dioxide from iron. However all but the basics are currently on the drawing board. There's a rather large update that I plan to push out in a few days, and after that I might go back to the ore processing and rework it after seeing this video, as it got the motivation pumping to finally start on that.

[@hatetheantichrist]

​​@@thesaltyduckling80youtube shadow bans some comments and replies now

[@Miguecraft]

The Minecraft arm at 12:38 was absolutely hilarious lol

[@kaboomkp]

Holy shit dude this video was next level. The animation/command block sequence w the layers fading away and revealing the ores was one of the most creative things I’ve seen, and everything was so well presented

[@Maetthw]

This channel is so consistently fascinating and high quality

[@immortalsun]

I love how you use your platform to educate people via Minecraft. I probably wouldn’t have clicked if it were titled ‘Distribution of Ore in Earth’, but comparing it to Minecraft adds another layer to it and makes it more interesting and relatable.

[@HolyShinta]

What a cool video. Not just the facts and how they are presented but also al the smaller stuff, like the pretty paths, the math, the real life minerals and crystals and of course the little gag with the minecraft hand in the freezer 😆 Ridiculous level of effort, absolutely appreciated. Thanks Gneiss!

[@gneissname]

Really glad you liked it. Its little dumb things like making a irl version of my hand for a dumb 2 second joke that I do for me, but hope other will like too.

[@warriorfelip]

@@gneissname I loved the minecraft hand joke. Went to the comments just to see if anyone else caught it

[@edwardsmoliak109]

This is a fantastic KZbin video. Arguably S tier content and information and just so clean.

[@Magnogen]

Hey Gneiss! Have you thought of making a mod for Minecraft that adds/fixes/updates more plausible rocks and plants and such? I've always wanted to do a mod like that.

[@biggle_man]

a long time ago the Swedish Geological Survey made a mod like this. I'm not sure if it's been updated though

[@Magnogen]

​@@biggle_man ooh that sounds cool

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

i think TerraFirmaCraft is a mod that does that, more or less

[@swagnilla_ice]

@@Sopsy_Hallow I think it added gravity to blocks that could defy it before, to make mining and caving more "realistic".

[@gneissname]

I have, but it would probably take too much time. The way that minecraft generates the world has some limitation and my real complaints are things like none of the rivers actually flow, they are all at sea level. the transition to deep slate is the same everywhere. I need to look at what the mod terrafirma craft has done, they might address many issues.

[@j_boc]

Dude you are so good at visualising information you would make most professors jealous

[@DangerDurians]

I picture your Minecraft skin as a rough marble statue with facial hair

[@gneissname]

lol

[@roseintheobservatory]

That coal and oil parts of the video are honestly scary, because that's just in our air

[@nicklas2524]

Ancient Debris are what remains of netherite machinery made by piglins The extinct Pure Netherite mined by the piglins was described as the most strongest and durable material in minecraft

[@t.b.cont.]

I think one thing to keep in mind with gold in particular is that the way you described it being extracted in the modern day is much different than how it was for most of history, and a lot of the sources we get our gold now wouldn’t have been accessible back then. The idea that gold in minecraft could be concentrated veins of gold is possible, considering your character’s limited ability to extract minerals in more complicated procedures. Every culture from the past from the aztecs to the hittites would have gotten all their gold from similar sources. Calling back to your video on stone, I imagine stone isn’t any particular type of stone in real life but rather an amorphous amalgam that the player character cannot distinguish as any particular ore or mineral, but most likely contains smaller traces of the ores and minerals around it but in much less concentrated amounts, to the point of it not being useful to the character and their limited capabilities of extracting said materials when in smaller traces

[@DogsRNice]

An interesting though more niche idea would be to compare how the ores added by popular mods compare Including the complete mess that copper was before it was added to vanilla lol If you tried to make your own mod packs you could end up with like 6 different kinds of copper ore generating at once

[@Matt_82]

An idea for displaying big sizes, instead of going big you could go small, using a full block for the larger exemple and a small model for the lesser. Putting them up close side by side would be easier to compare. But still, the big ones are a really cool spectacle.

[@D0cSpot]

god i love this channel. its my two favorite things, minecraft and geology. this makes me even more motivated to be a geologist too!

[@jackielinde7568]

Sounds like you might live in the state of Michigan. If so, "Hi from another copper producing state, Arizona!" about a decade ago, My brother took my daughter and I on a road trip through eastern Arizona. We got to see the Morenci Copper Mine. It's a HUGE FRICKIN HOLE! It was so big those oversized dump trucks used in mining looked like Tonka toys from our vantage point. If you like minerals, you should drag the missus out to Arizona, as my state's lousy with the stuff. (I'm also sure you'd be able to find something the Missus would like, too.)

[@watermelon_sir]

You should try the Distant Horizons mod if you ever have any more comically large cubes, so the crust of the mimecraft world is still visible.

[@watermelon_sir]

*Minecraft I don't know how a game called Mimecraft would work.

[@danielmobley1]

This is one of the if not the most professionally-made Minecraft videos I’ve ever seen and you kept my attention throughout! I must say most of the numbers went straight over my head so I appreciate the graphics supplimenting your notes. Just subscribed and hope to get the same enjoyment out of your other videos as I got here. Keep up the good work!

[@kyrius_gm4]

Wow what a great educational video! I always feel like I learn so much from your videos and the display entity magic really drives it home. And damn... that coal cube, that's insane... I dont know what to say

[@kamel9715]

Hey dude, ive been watchin your videos for about a year now and i gotta say theres still no one doin what you do. I love how passionate, informative, mature and straight to the meat and potatoes your videos are. Good editing and minecraft studio world you got there too. Top tier content for sure for sure.

[@JosephsDesign]

That sheer volume or iron and coal is terrifying, and you did an amazing job visualizing it with that map. Great stuff.

[@Kyropinesis]

i was not expecting such variety in the difference

[@chromaticroses]

really interesting information! the coal cube really hit hard. man. the coal episode is gonna hurt isn’t it.

[@gneissname]

Yeah, it might. That hit me hard when i was making it too. I would rather try and stay positive but there are some things you have to talk about.

[@chromaticroses]

@@gneissname 100% agree

[@Maxie962]

@@gneissname Talk about what? how, despite all the coal we've burnt, we've had no effect on Earth's climate? Stick to your own lane, grandpa. Or better yet, check yourself into an elderly nursing home.

[@DereC519]

i just started taking intro to geology this semester and this is so cool

[@simsley5501]

That coal cube compared to the iron cube was insane and really put our CO2 emissions (just from coal! Not even including oil!) into perspective. Wow. Amazing job, Gneiss

[@Maxie962]

Yeah. it shows that all of the supposed "emissions" are just a drop in the ocean. They don't matter.

[@meepilee7991]

6:00 wait this is actually a huge bombshell to drop, Steve carrying around 27 shulkers of solid gold makes ever so slightly more sense

[@NotALotOfColonial_SpaghettiToG]

Taking into account the recipe for the enchanted golden apple that was still there before 1.9 (1 apple surrounded by 8 gold blocks) and the overall storage capacity of the inventory filled with shulker boxes (972 slots), steve can hold a total of 62,208 enchanted golden apples. This is equivalent to 497,664 gold blocks. The density of gold is 19,300 kg/m³. This adds up to 9,604,915,200 kilograms of gold. The apple components add an extra 27,999,820.8 kilograms, assuming an average density of 450.1 kg/m³ and an apple count of 62,208 (same as enchanted golden apples). This totals up to 9,632,915,020.8 kilograms (21,192,413,045.76 lbs), or just short of 1,000 Eiffel Towers, assuming the Eiffel Tower weighs in at exactly 10,000,000 kg (22,000,000 lbs). (it's more like 9 million kg but shh) Minecraft Steve can cram a little under one thousand Eiffel Towers into his pocket and not be weighed down whatsoever. Minecraft Steve is impossibly strong. His muscle density is so high that something of his size would immediately collapse into a black hole if Minecraft obeyed proper physics. Although, no matter how much weight he can carry, he would collapse under the weight of your mom.

[@useruser-mm8zy]

Vsauce in minecraft

[@hamburgerbroz6439]

im in a minecraft roleplay at the moment, and my character is a general "scientist" and currently is looking into the composition of minerals and their origins in the world! its nowhere near uh... accurate, at all. but it's a lot of fun! XD i imbue it all with the knowledge i glean from your videos. my favorite part is her studies on debris! she calls it "Nethum"

[@WowLookatThat-xu5eb]

That coal cube really puts things in perspective. Great video!

[@Maxie962]

Yeah, it shows exactly how irrelevant human activity is in the grand scheme of things.

[@srtorvic]

The amount of research, the quality of command block effects and all the detail in general you put on the video is just outstanding. One of the best mc videos i've seen in years, great job :D

[@CorneliusThroatworthy]

loved the video and the coal demonstration was sobering and honestly disturbing - very effectively done! re-watching the video and 1:15 and 23:44 stands out to me again, and this time I've checked the minecraft wiki which backs up my suspicions - gilded blackstone can't be smelted to produce a gold ingot - that's nether gold ore that does that gilded blackstone has a 10% chance of dropping 2-5 gold nuggets, and fortune keeps the nugget amount the same but increases the probability of getting nuggets instead of the gilded blackstone block, up to fortune 3 which guarantees the nuggets doesn't really make a difference to the point you were making, as it clearly does contain a small amount of gold, but it certainly made a difference in a speedrun I was doing many months ago where I entered the bastion without an iron pick (which'd be required for mining the gold blocks) and my plan to just smelt the gilded blackstone didn't work :D

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

This may be the best looking minecraft ore distribution video I’ve ever seen, all those animations were amazing

[@Mj1343_]

Wonderful video as always! The coal reveal was Awesome. I know its not vanilla minecraft so a grain of salt can always be taken but when you mentioned irl alternatives for redstone, i instantly thought of cinnabar and was excited to see you mention it! Cinnabar is quite common in some modded minecraft packs and, while basic processing like a regular furnace or basic machine will yield quicksilver, (unsure why its called that instead of mercury, but. same diff ig?) with more advanced machines that can sometimes process bonus rewards, cinnabar ore can yield bonus redstone, or redstone ore yielding cinnabar, depending what mod and what process. Whenever i think about modded minecraft and red ores, my mind jumps to cinnabar being the odd ore that isnt redstone, but in a pinch can be processed into it (although its much easier to just Find Redstone instead). So, seems some modmakers have taken the same thought process as you! For funzies i also looked up the other red things you showed off. Realgar is a resource used in a few notable modpacks, notably GregTech, a mod known for adding thousands of items and hundreds of machines and resources, making the game much more real to life and take genuine months to beat (so you didnt go from iron armor to a tron suit in a day like some other mods offered), but as far as i can tell orpiment and vanadanite only appear in mods that attempt to add 'every single resource' to the game. So, cinnabar seems to be the closest equivalent to redstone in the modded world! EDIT: as a bonus, i KNOW ive seen beryllium in modded before, but for the life of me i cant find a version that produces emerald as a bonus resource.

[@Lightning_Lance]

I guess it's called quicksilver because of the somewhat medieval / steampunk aesthetic minecraft has

[@joseywales6168]

is this an artificially generated comment

[@sand2.061]

The way you made everything so easy to understand visually is amazing!!! Love that!

[@diegodoesstuff86]

I'm going to have to disagree with you that fortune isn't magically creating more minerals, it's an enchantment so it is strictly magical by nature

[@gneissname]

Yeah, you got me there. Maybe it’s magically enchanting your ability 😅

[@vcka]

the irl minecraft skin arm i love it

[@elnico5623]

Fun fact: redstone is almost definitely a gem in minecraft, as when mojang added the trimmed armor they mention what materials can be used, and they say metals and crystals (or metals and gems i forgor) so that accounts for the metals and lapis and quartz and the like, but has to also include redstone, meaning it's most probably some sort of crystal, maybe so fragile it breaks down into dust when mined

[@expanddong9413]

i like donkey kong's right nut, it looks better than donkey kong's left nut

[@stargazer-elite]

Can we just take a moment to admire how much Minecraft knowledge is required to make a video like this not only real life calculations, but just knowledge of Minecraft itself commands, Redstone, etc. and then come by and then with the real life knowledge required for this like that was already hard enough then you had the extra Minecraft knowledge needed and wow

[@hollowsteel]

5:53 in Minecraft’s earlier days, when you mined iron or gold ore, you would get the block unchanged from how it looked before mining. I’m not sure if it’s entirely accurate, but it still seems like less of a stretch than the new raw iron and raw gold (also, a part of me just misses being able to get those ore blocks…)

[@АлександрБолбат-ы1у]

This video should be shown in schools. Seriously, this would spark students' interest in geology and give some perspective on real-life mining scales.

[@kalebbeer3526]

What's even more rare than diamonds on Earth is videos like this diamonds in the rough on KZbin. A Minecraft video from a channel with the subscribers you have, giving information only a professional can using techniques and commands in Minecraft that are so much more advanced that I thought possible I would have assumed you were a professional in that instead. I was truly blown away and I cannot wait for each and every follow up video.

[@rivercairn1832]

I audibly gasped when the coal cube appeared... your videos get better and better, can't wait for the next one!

[@superking208]

I've watched 14 years of Minecraft videos and this is genuinely one of the most fascinating I've ever experienced

[@gneissname]

Thanks! I got sidetracked by a few other projects but I'm finally working on the specific ore episodes now.

[@superking208]

@@gneissname Looking forward to those! Take your time :)

[@rqb6731]

That was a rly cool and interesting vid Edit: I rly do like how informative and interesting this vid was and i rly appreciate the fact that stuff like this is free for all to see and learn I guess i just have a lot of respect for quality educational content, especially when it seems to have had great care put into its creation

[@Wekulu]

the haha funny joke with the ice and your player arm was the single most hilarious visual gag to me, ive NEVER seen that in any other minecraft video. its both creative and impressive on top of being funny as hell to me

[@sarahstewart4684]

metallurgy student here!! This is so cool to see all this stuff I’ve been learning popularized! The processes he goes into about going from this gangue to metal is called extractive metallurgy, it’s what I’m wanting to go into as a career!!

[@knicklichtjedi]

That was absolutely incredible to watch! I now kind of wonder, how Minecraft would feel if we change the ore distributions to be similar to those in the real world!

[@literally_ramiel]

this video is extremely interesting, you should make a mod that makes every mineral in minecraft as rare as its real life counterparts

[@duckface81]

i think you might like the world generation from the TerraFirmaCraft mod, it has multiple variants of mineral ores which all generate in veins in specific stone types (like how sphalerite generates in only metamorphic rocks)

[@bbittercoffee]

11:50 for me? Not at all, seeing it go from the surface of a savanna up to CLOUD HEIGHT was freaking insane! And even though I expected something that was too big to put in that little platform, so you would instead place it at the ground, I did not expect something THAT big

[@augustina3657]

Excellent video. I'm very impressed with the visual aid effects

[@quasnoflaut7619]

I love this. I took a geology class in my first year of college and did a report on emerald. I wanted to show how much emetald was mined in a year, (no clue where i got that answer) and showed it in a powerpoint as just under two minecraft blocks, which got a kick out of the young adults in the class.

[@windywendi]

6:19 That actually makes a lot of sense, and is the best realistic explanation of fortune so far!

[@andreiart_fr]

This is so well made, I'm glad there's still youtubers like you that put their heart into videos

[@TheLaughingDove]

... I literally just left an excited comment about fretting about proportions and scale in worldbuilding when I don't understand geology and this visualisation of scale is. So fucking helpful. It's so helpful to learn that ores are often chosen for multiple different yields at once, it's so helpful to have visual scales I can use to figure out proportions in more visual terms. You are saving my bacon here dude, I really hope you continue the series with more info on ores like this 👀 Side fact, I was born in South Africa and my parents had friends who lived in Kimberly and I remember seeing some of the VAST deep old holes of the old mines. Very eerie places! Holy crap. The coal cube rendered me dumbstruck.

[@LeopardMask12]

Also 12:34 "who wants a dumb clear mineral when there are so many more interesting colors in natural stones?" This comment earns another respect point from me, as if you didn't already have enough! That's my thoughts exactly on diamonds irl. In terms of decorative applications, lapis lazuli and my birthstone, opal, are two of my favorites

[@SuperCrazyfin]

Man, you definitely deserve a sub. The video presentation quality is off the charts and you're amazing at explaining these concepts in a fun and interesting way.

[@gneissname]

Thanks! They are really fun to make.

[@Kwauhn.]

Whether you realize it or not, you are quickly becoming the most creative users of display entities in the entire Minecraft community. There are very, and I mean _very_ few youtubers who are as capable as you at creating an engaging and intuitive demonstration within the Minecraft engine. Koodos.

[@Gilboron]

I don't know what I'd do without videos like these

[@alchemicColored]

i took my first geology class last term and i looked for geology-related minecraft mods and worlds... I just needed to wait a couple months! this is awesome!!!

[@katieourmatie8250]

This was real fascinating! You did a great job bud. The section on coal had me sitting in reverent silence, that's god damn terrifying, thinking about how much we burn.

[@guillaumepreudhomme4800]

I never thought I’d enjoy geology but this is genuinely super interesting. Great visuals and explanations!