I think that's intentional from the devs in response to strip mining. The current meta post-Caves and Cliffs seems to be to raid structures in the early game to build up an iron/gold/diamond stash before transitioning to the renewable resource farms in the late game.
minecraf
this picture but literal. spending hours mining through deepslate is one of the reasons i barely play that game anymore
I think that's intentional from the devs in response to strip mining. The current meta post-Caves and Cliffs seems to be to raid structures in the early game to build up an iron/gold/diamond stash before transitioning to the renewable resource farms in the late game.
The current meta is villager slavery.
Yeah for the mid-game and beyond. It's difficult getting a full trading setup without at least some renewable farms set up beforehand.