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Mineshaft

Networks of abandoned mining tunnels with wooden supports, rails, chest minecarts, and cave spider spawners. Players explore them for supplies and rare loot, including the Bounce music disc in Sulfur Caves.

From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Normal mineshafts generate underground; badlands mineshafts can appear higher up and break through the surface. Exposed corridors can receive supporting logs or suspension chains.

Biomes

Mushroom Fields
Deep Frozen Ocean
Frozen Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Ocean
Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Lukewarm Ocean
Warm Ocean
Stony Shore
Swamp
Mangrove Swamp
Snowy Slopes
Snowy Plains
Snowy Beach
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Grove
Windswept Hills
Snowy Taiga
Windswept Forest
Taiga
Plains
Meadow
Beach
Forest
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Flower Forest
Birch Forest
Dark Forest
Pale Garden
Savanna Plateau
Savanna
Jungle
Badlands
Desert
Wooded Badlands
Jagged Peaks
Stony Peaks
Frozen River
River
Ice Spikes
Dappled Forest
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Sunflower Plains
Old Growth Birch Forest
Sparse Jungle
Bamboo Jungle
Eroded Badlands
Windswept Savanna
Cherry Grove
Frozen Peaks
Dripstone Caves
Lush Caves
Sulfur Caves

Java 26.3 gives each chunk a 0.4% chance of a mineshaft start (the legacy_type_3 roll), and the salt shown doesn't affect that roll. Normal and badlands mineshafts share one placement grid but use different biomes. A mineshaft can't start in the Deep Dark, though its tunnels can run into it. Bedrock's rates and a single height range for it aren't confirmed. Bedrock's added version (0.9.0) is the Pocket Edition release.

Variants

Normal · Uses oak supports and the minecraft:mineshaft ID.
Badlands · Uses dark oak, can reach the surface, and retains the minecraft:mineshaft_mesa ID.

Notable loot

Enchanted Golden Apple
Diamond
Name Tag
Enchanted Book
Glow Berries
Melon Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Music Disc: Bounce (Java chest minecarts in Sulfur Caves)

Mobs

Cave Spider

History

Beta 1.8Java
Introduced mineshafts.
1.5Java
Replaced ordinary loot chests with chest minecarts.
0.9.0Bedrock
Added mineshafts to Pocket Edition.
0.10.0Bedrock
Added surface badlands mineshafts with dark-oak supports.
1.9Java
Expanded minecart loot with name tags and golden apples while removing saddles and iron horse armor.
1.10Java
Added the dark-oak badlands variant and surface generation.
1.17Java
Added improved log and chain supports and glow berries in chest minecarts.
1.18Java
Removed dirt floors from starting rooms and raised badlands mineshaft generation.
26.2Java
Added a chance for Bounce music discs in chest minecarts located in Sulfur Caves.
26.3Java
Added abandoned-camp maps leading to mineshafts and the distinct Buried Mineshaft Map item.

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Seeds with this mineshaft

We found this mineshaft at these coordinates in the seed's Java version. Other versions and Bedrock may generate a different world.

Seed	Version	Variant	X, Y, Z
Abandoned zombie village beside a cherry grove`2734971658`	Java 1.20.1	Mineshaft	-215, -2, 115

Sources

The description, generation rules, variants, loot, mobs and history above are summarised from the Minecraft Wiki article Mineshaft, retrieved 2026-09-30. Minecraft Wiki text is available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. We have not checked these facts in game.

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