During my survival playthrough have noticed that there are no caves in my infinite Minecraft World.
Caves are underground areas where mobs are able to spawn and often include water and/or lava streams and valuable minerals. I reached the bedrock level and could only find lava but no open areas where found.
Some websites claim that the 0.9 Update included "optional" caves.
The map is an infinite world generated in Minecraft PE 0.10.
I'm unable to find an option to enable caves in Minecraft PE 0.11 for Android.
Are caves uncommon to Minecraft PE due to memory constrains or this is a bug?
Best Answer
With the update to Pocket Edition which includes infinite world generation and caves to say the least, when selecting old generation the game uses the world generator from prior to the update. This means that you will get no caves in this variation.
If you wish to have caves included the world has to have been created after update 0.9 and must have had the 'infinite' world option selected. After creation this option can not be changed and is not retroactive either.
If you change the world from old to infinite after initial creation you will get an effect similar to PC version when world generation is changed. The original area remains unchanged, then world generation is 'broken' at the old generated world and from there you will have infinite world with caves. (Tested in version 0.11 and 0.12)
This applies to ALL version and devices of the Pocket Edition, including Windows 10 version, Android and iOS.