I really hope Notch changes something about the generation code. It's so annoying when you get to like a huge cluster of abandoned mines, ravines, and sometimes a stronghold all mashed together. :/
"Oh look, another Abandoned Mine Shaft."They are good for resources, but too common. The reason they spawn in ravines is because the code looks for an open space underground to spawn them, since he doesn't want the player's only way of finding them have to be digging. Ravines are such vast open areas, that the code spawns them there most of the time.
i enchanted like a fustercluck of my tools
You do realize enchanted stuff does nothing but glow right now, right?