Tuff Talk

[@Lich_V.]

"So I quickly made a model of a vulcano" -he says casually

[@manas7372]

This has the same energy as "so I went mining off camera for a bit"

[@Juan_224]

Weakest Geologist at 5% power be like (of course Gniess is not the weakest)

[@dantekiwi7926]

​@@Juan_224geologist creating a whole simulation of earth just to demonstrate how his favorite material makes his favorite color

[@mkks4559]

Just like that one time BDoubleO built an entire hill/mountain off-camera.

[@Chookly44]

Gday. ikr. Impressing on different levels!

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

*writing down* ✒️ lava... is... a soda

[@gneissname]

*orange soda

[@SupersuMC]

​@@gneissnameThat poor Sunkist. What did it ever do to you?

[@frostnovaomega1152]

So if lava is orange soda…. Tuff would be a sorbet, right?

[@iroboskelly4421]

@@SupersuMC be the worse orange soda. Fanta supremacy.

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

Fun fact: Tuff is one of the few kinds of rock that you can tell how how windy it was the day it formed. On a windless day tuff will deposit near the volcano and have a variety of grain sizes. If it's windy, the fine ash will be blown away from the volcano and only large grained pumice will be deposited near the volcano. I learned about this from a video about the Jemez Mountains near where I live.

[@gneissname]

Yeah that’s very cool.

[@Phillip.E.Newmann]

Yo I'm near the Jemez too! Tuff here is what got me into geology, so seeing it in minecraft was cool.

[@pikatheminecrafter]

"You wanted me to talk about the crafter and the copper bulb? Tuff schist, we're talking about rocks."

[@SupersuMC]

XD

[@Uni_]

It was really cool when they added calcite in vein deposits! It made the game feel that much more realistic. Let's hope they do like you said and add volcanic tuff biomes or at least forests growing over a large tuff deposit where the trial chambers could generate underground

[@KJ7Tillymann]

Tuff deposits with surface contact to hint at trial chambers below is actually a really cool idea. Like the flowered oak trees that spawn above lush caves (can’t remember their actual name, sorry)

[@libraryofgurkistan]

@@KJ7Tillymann they‘re called „azaleas“ But anyway i agree

[@KJ7Tillymann]

@@libraryofgurkistan ah yes, thank you

[@EndCraftProduction]

As a volcanologist working on sub-plnian and plinian eruptions I find you explanations incredible ! cheers !

[@B463L]

Tuff's softness/suitability as a building material had me really disappointed that it didn't get a family of building blocks! I'm so happy Mojang added this. They look great.

[@theaureliasys6362]

The entire "My hatred for geologists is purely theatrical..." Copypasta strikes true yet again.

[@cillianennis9921]

problem is deep down everything is a mineral. You can't beat them. As in the end wood is just soil yet to return to its home as organic matter of the soil. The only way we can beat them is with plastic since it takes too long to return for them to see it as minerals.

[@triacontahedron]

@@cillianennis9921 Obsidian isn't a mineral, nor is anything else without a crystal structure. Of course, geologists _can_ see mineraloids, and glumshoe, not being a geologist, was unaware of this.

[@cillianennis9921]

@@triacontahedron doesn't volcanic glass have some form of crystal structure not like that of diamonds or ionic crystals like emerald but more like Ice has?

[@triacontahedron]

@@cillianennis9921 No. Glass, by definition, is amorphous.

[@cillianennis9921]

@@triacontahedron wait is that because its a something fluid or something. Is Obsidian the same thing? or is it just a similar looking thing.

[@nezzu2656]

If you're interested in both Geology and Minecraft, then I bet you're going to love Vintage Story. Long story short, it's a minecraft mod that grew into its own game, with a bigger focus on realism. What ores will spawn depends on the type of rock they are in. So, for example, Iron can spawn as Magnetite in Andesite, Chalk, Conglomerate, Claystone, Slate or as Limonite in Chert, Basalt, Shale, or as Hematite in Phylite, Sandstone, Limestone, Peridotite, and Granite. Salt, on the other hand, spawns as Halite only in salt domes in sedimentary stone layers, or in dry lake beds under deserts.

[@AnkleBiter3854]

Where could I find this possibly?

[@zacyquack]

Is that like Terafirmacraft?

[@nezzu2656]

@@zacyquack Yeah, it's somewhat similar. You also start out shaping tools by banging flint pieces together and sculpting clay pottery then firing it in pits.

[@TheUnknownFactor]

So what you're saying is, @goodtimeswithscar should add a lot of tuff around his volcano?

[@dan_asd]

I love the geology puns. Its really gneiss

[@VelaiciaCreator]

It would be neat if they had a "stone update" where they provided the basic stone types with all the blocks regular stone has, in their colours, while also permitting alternate stones to be used for cobblestone in recipes. And THEN decide which biomes get which stone type so we can see different cliff faces. It won't be strictly accurate all the time, but I think it would make biome aesthetics that little bit more differentiated while organically providing more of a certain resource. It would also result in the initial base structures have more logical reasoning to be made of different stone types. I think retaining the lava stone method should be okay, that way if you want normal stone or cobblestone, you can just get lava and water.

[@Telmach]

I personally play in 1.12.2 with the underground biomes mod for that reason. It has whole regions and layers dedicated to particular types of stone - rather than just random blobs. It's not perfect, but it feels better.

[@childish4487]

the reason they don't implement this is game play reasons, they don't want you to travel thousands of blocks to get a stone type you want to build with, still though I think they should add it as an option similar to large biomes (maybe even combine it into that).

[@Telmach]

@@childish4487 I think it's more likely that they just want gameplay to be simple to understand. UB adds 30 different types of stone that are all compatible with the vanilla stone recipes. Which would be confusing for players. It also makes the problem with inventory management significantly worse. But they absolutely want players to have to travel for a palate. Amethyst and Prismarine are both examples of that as well as the changes to ore distribution to shake up the mining depth meta. They want to encourage players to build infrastructure between farms. Still, I like the mod. Though it likely won't be implemented in vanilla.

[@haiperbus]

​@childish4487 this would encourage exploration though, which Mc sorely needs. Terralith does a thing where there no more blobs of alternate stones, and instead entire buiomes of andesite or diorite. Finding it feels rewarding and encouraged a infrastructure to quarry it and bring it home.

[@childish4487]

@@haiperbus It would only encourage exploration for people who like exploration. The people who just wanna build something cool without walking 1000s of blocks are gonna just get frustrated. You could argue it's the same as wood types but the thing is you can get saplings from wandering traders. Doing the same with stone wouldn't really work as you can't grow stone (aside maybe dripstone I guess). That's why I think it should be a world option like large biomes because some people would actively hate the change. Having it be a world option keeps everyone happy.

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@childish4487 Let's be real here, there are simply NO players that gets saplings from Wandering Traders at all unless it's a challenge run. 99% of Players still go to biomes to get a certain wood for their building, and it's not like Biome-based Stone Types would mean Andesite would be rarer than regular stone-- enough that it requires 1000s of blocks just to find a nearby one, that shit only happens if you specifically make a certain stone rarer for basically no reason. TL;DR: Biome-based Stone Variant generation is not that big of a deal and wouldn't make you travel for it like a Woodland Mansion.

[@Minecraft-Expert]

I think trial chambers are more inspired from games than from real life.

[@DJSlimeball]

Almost every structure in the game is clearly meant to be built by some ancient long gone race/species though...

[@catharsis9789]

@@DJSlimeball assuming they would need local tuff to carve into is using real world rules, its probably safe to say most structures were built with minecraft rules

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@DJSlimeball Just because there's lore tied to it doesn't mean they based it on a real life structure... Obviously the structures would have been built by ancient people of Minecraft but that's like a given, there is literally no other way for an elaborate structure in Minecraft to exist other than being built by others.....

[@runnerduck4844]

Those villager moai are hilarious!

[@SupersuMC]

🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@Dingyfried]

Ooo I'd love to see Minecraft add some tuffaceous blocks! (Tuffaceous obsidian, tuffaceous sandstone, etc) That really got my imagination churning :D

[@gneissname]

Thanks for nudging me to do this episode Dingy

[@Dingyfried]

@@gneissname [finger guns]

[@Little-rb6rb]

I shouldn't have taken that pun for granite

[@constantinedylan]

love it when creators use minecraft as an educational tool, i’ve never knew i wanted to know more about rocks until i saw this. please keep making more about the realworld using minecraft blocks and mechanics *subscribed*🎉

[@artist0154]

Your example was really good, specially watching the volcano in real time, it helps a lot to understand as always your videos are amazing

[@gneissname]

Thanks a lot. The volcano wasn’t exactly like I would have wanted but I limited myself to making the episode in one day. Probably over half of that was tinkering with the volcano. First time I have really used falling blocks before and I learned a lot.

[@zipperozicvideodump]

Tuff and its derivatives/variants are SO damn pretty. It’s honestly a block I use in nearly any “Ancient temple” build

[@PunishedFelix]

Now this is the kind of geology content i live for

[@Hazy_Heart]

I was confused about why you would make a video about tuff, but I got so exited when I heard you are a geologist. I love hearing people talk about their interests instead of what ever is popular, even when I also like what is popular. 1:52 that rock looks so cool 3:18 that's so cool! This video, and others like it, really help me to appreciate the lesser-loved aspects of this game, thanks! :)

[@RampagingCat107]

I think it'd be really cool if they added moai heads as a small structure. Kinda like the desert well or something. Really good video as always, love learning about geology and other things through the lens of minecraft.

[@FarmandSMC]

I’ve spend the last two evenings in the snapshots….haven’t seen the new building blocks yet. The new red stone components are just too amazing!

[@deckie_]

I've felt for most rock types that it could be interesting to have biomes that revolve around them. Mountains that are mostly granite, for example.

[@dranorter]

I always love to hear about the anthropological aspects of geology.

[@dranorter]

Also, "tuffaceous" is a great word.

[@alexdacat7052]

yes i love tuff its tuff that not much peoples talkigb about it

[@h.gatnaw]

Thanks for the saw lovers shoutout, I can now sleep peacefully tonight

[@titaniom77]

a full volcano model would be so cool to see

[@gneissname]

When i get around to doing a volcano episode It would be cool to something like this but maybe bigger and have it so you can see a cross section while its erupting/growing. Maybe with a few types of eruption styles too.

[@SupersuMC]

​@@gneissnameMake a supervolcano, too!

[@samueltrusik3251]

It`s a tuff time being a geologist in minecraft.

[@Altair4611]

What I got from this video: Lava is the forbidden soda

[@lajawi.]

1:00 I'd love a longer simulation of that volcano you made! I want to know how it will look in the end!

[@gneissname]

When I actually do a volcano episode this will show up again. I might talk more about tuff when I add it to my interactive geology world and that will also have a better version of this too.

[@bbittercoffee]

That volcano was so cool! What!

[@theyeetster32]

another gneiss video, nice!

[@Everything_I_Need_To_Tell_You]

Tuff is of the old world

[@frostebyte]

I get so giddy when i get a gneiss notification

[@halyoalex8942]

You’re in for a gneiss time 😂

[@AlexandHuman]

Okay, every single video of yours just really makes me want more rocks and realistic formation of said rocks. Like I bet Tuffaceous Obsidian would look so pretty in Minecraft. Volcanoes might be a little far for minecraft, unless it was added in a specific way. One way could relate the real life ring of fire to minecraft's many rings of strongholds, with there being a limited predictable amount in the world. I am not sure how many Volcanoes there would be.

[@thewolfofthestars1847]

So what you're saying is that volcanoes are the ultimate forbidden Fanta

[@Heilzmaker]

Thanks for talking about geology in minecraft, I didn't know tuff was so interesting

[@geofox6430]

Just a reminder that your content is beloved

[@domoddo3063]

Question/video suggestion: if the Nether is really below the Overworld (as some theories suggest), wouldn’t it’s cavernous nature cause it to act like an insulator? I mean it’s essentially a giant air pocket so it would make a lot of sense but what would that mean for the Overworld?

[@recycledwaste8737]

I'd like to imagine the Minecraft "planet" has layers with a hot core at the center, much like Earth. The "Overworld" would be the "Crust" layer, with Bedrock being the border into the Mantel. The Nether is likely the bottom of the Mantle layer, with the lava oceans at the lowest levels being the beginning of the Outer Core, which is mostly liquid.

[@Ganpan14O]

I believe it has been hard confirmed that the nether is another dimension and not just a deeper part of the Minecraft world Edit: I didn't know for certain this was the case when I made this, but as it has been interpreted that way I want to make it clear that I thought I remembered hearing that a Dev had confirmed it, but nobody else here has mentioned it so I don't know for certain.

[@recycledwaste8737]

@@Ganpan14O Do you have an in-game source for that? All evidence supports the theory that the Nether is below the Overworld.

[@MinilopBun]

@@recycledwaste8737 "Subspace Bubble" sort of supports the alternate dimension theory, but the fast travel could also be explained by the nether portals being tunnels straight up and down relative to the center of a spherical world, and travel in the nether being the same arc angle with a different arc length to surface travel. I suppose the correct theory depends on whether Minecraft has a flat or a spherical world.

[@JavierSalcedoC]

what evidence@@recycledwaste8737

[@shipwreck9146]

Volcanos are something I've always wanted added to minecraft.

[@frankmckenneth9254]

As a redstone I was still more excited for tuff blocks than the crafter because they are just so damn good for texturing & are far easier for my 2 brain cells to work with.

[@ProfWisecrack]

Love the content

[@kalebv1860]

I wish they would just add all the variants, granite, andesite, and diorite.

[@Leonagraphy]

Instructions unclear, I am now a volcano

[@dialog_box]

ok this was insanely cool and interesting! i've watched a lot of your videos at this point just from them being recommended to me. but this kind of passion about a topic is what earns a subscription

[@omegahaxors9-11]

Seeing all these new rocks added to the game I want them to do a minechem and give them all chemical compositions with trace rare minerals that you can extract.

[@childish4487]

IIRC the education edition has things like this. Also it confirms that redstone contains radioactive isotopes.... that's sorta scary considering a lot of players fiddle around with redstone dust lol.

[@omegahaxors9-11]

@@childish4487 It's pretty weaksauce compared to what you can do with minechem. I wanna see them expand it. Especially being able to do nuclear fission/fusion because that is by far the best part of the mod.

[@userNULL]

I also love the new tuff blocks! Though I do wish they added tuff pillars as well...

[@RoachChaddjr]

A natural erupting volcano like your demonstration in Minecraft would be really cool

[@megapikachu66]

Geology student (and hopeful future geologist) here, wonderful video! Love seeing minecraft being used to explain geology.

[@aaronengland5622]

I'm not a geologist but I am knapper who's love for sharp cutty cut-cut rocks has driven him to do absurd amounts of research into the formation of certain rocks. the subject of tuff has reopened an old internal rock mystery that has intrigued me for probably close to 15 years and will likely drive me insane if it isn't solved in my lifetime. if anyone a bit more qualified would like to assist it would be greatly appreciated... indistinguishable

[@Splarkszter]

This year i got so separated from minecraft that i forgot that yearly updates exist, now my brain is confused and also i feel nothing about the situation... hmmm... like if i wasn't expecting anything. Cool! Anyway, those tuff block decoration look quite nice. Thanks for your nice work and extremely well made educational content. Awesome!

[@SuperLlama88888]

Wow, great animation! Loved the volcano animation and how you made it educational while still relevant to Minecraft!

[@AlbySilly]

Tuff actually gets uses? That's unheard of!

[@matematikaadit]

truly excellent thumbnail

[@oskiebadoskie]

That's pretty tuff.

[@suzannafreund5745]

That rock at 1:52 looks delicious... like ice cream with crushed oreos and caramel and fudge...

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

the villager moai statues were great

[@gatewoodanimations9753]

I’m an artist who likes to build in the game, but I always hated the tuff blocks because they were ugly and added nothing. I’m so hyped up for these new tuff blocks because they look so good

[@lythd]

ur presentation is amazing i gotta say! like the volcano, and in the igneous video you just casually make a valley, and your block animations i guess is the best term and just the way u put ur world together, truly well done!

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Tuff is underrated.

[@B.H.L.studios]

I’ll take a new brick type over a game changing feature any day!

[@NecoBridge]

This is a tuff subject to talk about

[@clarissacastelan410]

Geology for my minecraft addicted cousin

[@minerman60101]

This reveals to me that Minecraft doesn't have any volcanoes, something that must be rectified immediately

[@korvincarry3268]

so a volcano is just the forbidden soda? Brb, gonna go get me a drink

[@gneissname]

I choose to look at soda as permissible lava

[@DissonantSynth]

Loved this video

[@dranorter]

I think you could make a datapack that would make different biomes out of different types of stone. Could get pretty tricky though.

[@omegahaxors9-11]

*welcome to the Geology club, how tuff are ya*

[@posterboymc]

The Volcano visual was amazing! Mojang needs to hire you as a consultant 😆Imagine if events like this happened after world generation, so cool!

[@gneissname]

Yeah, its a bit sad that the world is so static. besides weather there isn't really anything happening. Rivers don't even have moving water and they are all the same elevation as the ocean.

[@lewismassie]

I did wonder if tuff was a real stone type

[@booaks2980]

A geology update for Minecraft will have this KZbinr excited lol, except we don't know if it'll be realistic or accurate

[@Jotaauvei_]

So, could they implement a way to get obsidian when put tuff in a furnace?

[@wafity]

I love tuff blocks

[@pwnwin]

More blocks, still same inventory space.

[@refl9630]

Minecraft tuff is to tough to be tuff. Real tuff is not that tough.

[@YoungZibzy]

Gneiss vid!

[@dawgd0g]

the fact that you havent really gained subscribers since ive found your channel baffles me, I thought youtube showed me your channel because you were in the process of blowing up but you just havent yet??? this is preposterous, frankly, you deserve like at LEAST ten times your subs and even thats a low amount for how good your videos are

[@gneissname]

Well thank you, I only had about 200 subs a year ago so its been a pretty sharp rise from a few videos. A minecraft dev tweeted about one of my videos back then and I jumped to like 10k subs in a week.

[@littlebitmoreksp]

i love your videos, dude!!

[@_ushankazz_5614]

Dude is so underrated and it's hella sad

[@Sebastian-Maeda]

ooh yes the thumbnail very good 10/10

[@maxboes5723]

I'm in the picture at 0:18 so when am I famous?

[@rubixtheslime]

so you're telling me, tuff isn't actually tough? i feel so betrayed

[@archniki_]

Is there a data pack that adds tuff to 16.5 without upgrading the version

[@charlespelleray3524]

You really should try Vintage Story someday, it’s a minecraft like but with realistic ore distribution that you have to prospect for and you don’t found every ore in every rock type !

[@PokeRedstone]

The way tuff straddles a weird line between igneous and sedimentary reminds me of a thing John Green said about how the majority of things that we insist are dichotomous are actually spectral.

[@ahmaddzaki1488]

can you please review the accuracy of the terrafirmacraft mod

[@nazrin693]

Can you make geology about mountain?

[@WingSun]

🎉

[@ratlinggull2223]

I was scared thinking 'tuff talk' meant you were going to voice lengthy criticism towards Mojang for their depiction of tuff.

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

Only overly dramatic youtubers that constantly put out "the problem with x" and "the downfall of x" no matter how small it actually is would do that sort of thing.

[@Boiled_Pizza]

Hello there geologist! Look at this cool obsidian knife i made, come closer and take a look

[@SupersuMC]

Contrary to popular belief, they _can_ see that wooden bat in your other hand. XD

[@tjpprojects7192]

I honestly hate tuff. I was so confused after discovering an ugly grey block named something as stupid as "tuff" in my world. I immediately burned it in lava and the proceded to check if my Minecraft world had a virus.

[@SupersuMC]

A bit of an overreaction, I think.

[@tjpprojects7192]

@@SupersuMC Oh definitely, 100% it was an over-reaction (and a bit of embelishment) but I still kinda hate tuff. We already have what, like 3 greyish stone types? Why do we need more? Honestly though, the only thing that I really hate about it is that it clogs my inventory sometimes. Digging a nice hole, and I stumble upon a random vein of tuff that disrupts my mining.

[@georgeofhamilton]

Nice name.

[@fares_gamer603]

I knew it lmao

[@Echolotl3]

nice name!

[@abyssaljam441]

Do you plan on getting a discord? I have a musing about terracotta which need an image to explain... or do you have a terracotta video in the works (or the presumed video idea list). FYI The question is what effects the colour of "stone?" in badlands IRL vs minecraft..... My guess is the layering random in both cases...

[@gneissname]

Yes, I plan to start a discord soon. A terracotta video is on the list. The quick comment answer for the colors in real life are mostly iron and manganese. With oxygen they can be reddish but if the water was deeper when a sediment layer was deposited, there might be low oxygen and those elements don't "rust". The low oxygen layers end up with greens and blues.

[@abyssaljam441]

@@gneissname that's interesting that green and blues don't show up in Minecraft 😞 means you have to craft more colours. Also good with the discord....

[@jaydenlobbe7911]

🗿

[@djimperium149]

i want to try carbonated lava

[@jarcuadanantus28]

Soft, carvable. Okay. So don’t use it as large structure foundation. Got it.