For example, if someone has a cave, or ravine, marked next to their house, or a staircase into the deepest parts of the map next to or inside of their house, and we go in them to explore, with out touching their things, and find gold, coal, iron or diamonds, and gather them, are we griefing?
- its not player placed blocks and no one can really define an area that is theirs in a mine
- when wasa the last time you were on?
More than once I have been mining and discovered other people’s base/mine. I would not normally say mining in such as mine as griefing. An exception to this is if the player has the entrance sealed at the top, and you clearly entered by breaking through around the doors.
I think it’s more of a respect thing to leave another person’s mine alone. If I were mining in a pattern, I would not like someone just breaking it all.
The normal standard applies, if the mine or house (that you go through to get down to the coal etc) is locked, then its not aloud.
If its just a open ravine that someone claimed to be theirs then i find that quite annoying, claiming a small cave or something is fine by me but a mass network of generated caves should not be claimable. (BUT player made tunnels should infact be their own as they get the benefits from their work)
In short, if its small and shows sign’s of someone living in it then yes it would be grieving, if its massive, generated and just has a few torches in it stop mobs spawning then no it isn’t, but theres still a moral implication that you will have to consider.