How do you know when you reach bedrock?

[maverickuk]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but when digging down how do you know you hit bedrock?

Is it when the walls look like they have blood on them? (just saw that now im about 45 blocks down)

Cheers

[Valmar]

Its not the walls you have to look at but rather the "floor". Bedrock is the bottom. You'll know because you can't break it.

Bedrock looks like this, except underground. Lol. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZXLjQzg_XCw/maxresdefault.jpg

[maverickuk]

Ahh thats excellent thanks Valmar :)

As I say im atleast 45 blocks down, is that far enough or shall I keep going to hit the bedrock?

Cheers

[andole]

It's about 80 blocks down

[Green777]

its got speckled blue in the floor

[Honor's Bastion]

Originally posted by maverickuk:

Ahh thats excellent thanks Valmar :)

As I say im atleast 45 blocks down, is that far enough or shall I keep going to hit the bedrock?

Cheers

It's anywhere between 60 to 80 blocks down depending on the biome but it's been a while so I don't remember what the numbers were.

[maverickuk]

60-80? Wow thats far :) Am I quiet 45 plus down ? Ive already built a big room there

[ChocolateTeapot]

Someone, well several people, said that you need to be 30 blocks down for safety, so yeah, I'd say you're good.

[Honor's Bastion]

Originally posted by maverickuk:

60-80? Wow thats far :) Am I quiet 45 plus down ? Ive already built a big room there

45 blocks down is deep enough for most sounds to not be heard but there's always that occasional hiccup where you may still get detected. Since the zeds rarely dig down (yes they do dig, it just very rare and more or less based on luck with their collision detection system), it doesn't really matter that much.

And about the 60-80 blocks. That highly depends on how high up you are in a biome like your on a cliff or versus a flt plain that determines the height with the higher you are meaning more blocks that you have to dig through.

[oohbetty]

i think the only way of being sensed at that depth is from 60m range smelly food which instantly permiates 45m of rock no bother, but sensed or not you are very safe down there, good place to live when learning the game but gets boring fast i found.

[Ch53dVet]

The easiest way to determine where the bedrock ends and the impenetrable "Crust" begins is to go into the console and type in "lp" (w/o quotes) you'll see a set of numbers such as (♥♥♥♥,64,988); the middle set of numbers is your elevation, so 64 is actually 64 levels (blocks) from the bottom 0.0.

In version 11, 64 was basically the benchmark for 0.0 feet at sea level (ground level) but in version 12 all that changed even the level for the bottom bedrock has changed, for me the bottom layer is 3.1.

I currently have two mineshaft elevators roughly at 145 to 155 levels below the flat non-mountainous, non-hillside, ground they inhabit, so in my neck of the woods level 45 is just scraping away the top layer before hitting bottom.

P.S. even at 155 levels down under I can still hear the spiders and heat generated mobs tearing the crap outta the small town looking for me.

[maverickuk]

I dug further after these replies (was about another 35 down from where I was) and saw it very easy after the link provided higher. Actually quite like the look of that floor I decided not to put a new floor over the top of it :)