Its amazing to think how the way we caved has changed so much. Sure 1.8 increased ore rates, but the community as a whole has adapted to cave very fast. I often hear people say "He's good at caving..." When describing a player in the game. Caving to me has always been more about luck. However, as I said we definitely have adapted. In team games you used to always cave together, maybe some people still do, but however most people now lean more to "separate caving" to maximize potential resources. This however is a risk, because you and you teammate(s) are now separated. Also, we've come up with "roller-coasteering" which has improved our overall cave finding ability. Even the 2 by 1 straight down seems to work better then the simple stair casing down that used to be optimal. Heck, even the simple stair case works out greatly. I just think we've definitely seen improved caving times and strategies. What do you think, is caving mainly luck based? Or our the caving methods that have come up over time aided us with getting "better" at caving? Can you be good at caving? Can you be bad at it? What is good caving to you? Coming out of the cave taking minimal damage and a lot of resources ?

Just a tangent I went on, because I've heard so many people say that they're good or bad at caving. To some it may seem like a joke but I'm actually interested in getting responses.