@@ReformationRamblings I like when challenges do it because they have to and the older versions have a mechanic that is needed, but just changing because like the wither is easier to kill in this version or switching so I can put all protection enchantments on my armor is super lame
True ngl, I was dissapointed when he switched them remembered that most of skyblock challenges just used a mod for villagers to drop lava buckets when having hero of the village 5
Yeah I think we all know that without cheating with the version switch that the answer is most definitely no😂but that's no fun. I'm actually glad people find these workarounds because it not only uses more obscure game knowledge but it also makes it much more fun to be able to beat it
First "CAN YOU BEAT MINECRAFT ON A ONLY _______ WORLD?" That ive seen so far that didnt start with Stone shove and killing snow foxes for esmerald. Nice work keep it up
Have you heard about “mudflaps” they have some of the best of these videos I’ve ever seen they used a different method to get the portal without cheating either
@@horizonlesssans I think he's just not showing the lily pad on the water, just in his inventory. Cause I don't see it anywhere when the places the copper blocks.
I've found fishing loot tends to be super high end. Once got a maxed out fishing rod, I've got great bows too from it. I think the loot table for fishing is kinda unbalanced
Excelent Video! I love to see entirely unique challenges like this. Various versions of skyblock challenges are really commonplace but this one has a really unique progression!
@@ausc4747 Afaict without the villager trade rebalance this would have still been possible but would have been substantially more tedious. The "villager trading rebalance" meant he could sell a water bottle to the wandering trader to get an emerald, which he could use to buy wood to get the crafting table he needed. Without the rebalance neither of those trades exist. So the only way to "bootstrap" trading is to kill foxes for emeralds so you can buy saplings and something to grow them on which is incredibly tedious. If you want to finish bootstrapping trading (rather than just getting wood) then you can get apples. Then there is another side quest to turn pigs into zombified piglins and get gold. Then you can finally cure a zombie villager (using a witch to apply the weakness effect). An alternative might have been to skip trading completely and use bamboo from fishing in a jungle biome to make the crafting table but that would mean fishing up 18 bamboo which might take a while. Still probbablly much quicker than killing foxes for emeralds through.
Ok ngl I completely forgot items float since I’m still used to older version. So, I was also expecting this challenge to be horrible since you would lose all early progress upon dying. Glad you’re safe from that!
Other content creators: No! How am i gonna create good contents if i dont have a nasa pc with 4 4090 in it? This dude: *using 3700x and a graphics card that literally stops updating its software* What a goat
i can understand why you went the route you did with the copper blocks, doing this in the latest edition would require you to fish about 800 times for just one block (string is 1/200 chance from fishing, so wool takes roughly 800 tries per block) Doing it that way would require you to fish 6,800 times roughly to get the 8 blocks and 2 string needed
this is so creative!! this kind of video where u push Minecraft to its limits is always fascinating, but the grind tends to ge repetitive to watch. you utelized new fun techniques to play with the games mechanics. cant wait to see what you do next
Since when could you trade a water bottle/cooked potatoes with a Wandering trader for emeralds? Also 1 emerald for 8 jungle logs does not seem like vanilla game behavior.
Thats good, but version switch allow u to find some structures. That doesn't break the rules? (No structures) Nevertheless, I really liked the video, thank you!)
switching versions is a little cheesy, but using the april's fools snapshots is basically modding and not really in the spirit of these "taking X to its limits" challenges imo. this video was really interesting up until 7:37, where i checked out.
@@daggieYT It kind of is cheating though if the challenge is to beat a world that's only water blocks if you change the world to have other blocks in it. It's like saying you'll beat minecraft with no mobs, then switching to a version that has mob spawns enabled. Like, what's the point..?
yes, but then it's the same as with skyblock worlds, where it's interesting to see how far you can take that challenge. imagine going to the moon in skyblock and getting everything through that instead of trading. sounds pretty lame if you ask me.
At first I thought this was kind of dumb but my mind was changed by some other comments. I enjoyed it after all. It's so interesting to learn about these kinds of mechanics in minecraft.
I was thinking this too, but the water isn't spawnproofed, it spawns drowned (and he cannot skip the night). It also has to be a player kill-based farm in order to get some of the drops such as iron ingots.
I like that you didn’t start with zombie with shovel, get snow, iron, wandering trader. Arctic fox with emeralds. That is the most common way to do all of these challenges
I clicked on this wondering how you'd be able to place _any_ blocks. I had forgotten lily pads exist. Also hearing Marble Machine as the bgm was a pleasant surprise!
I've seen a ton of people do water only world challenge but they always do something like a little Island to start on. This is the first time I've seen someone start with literally just the ocean
You, choosing wintergatan's marble machine music was something that I didn't expect , thank you so much for the nostalgia you gave, wonderful gameplay too :3
Bold of y'all to assume he would take damage in water with that Enderman skin. He applied a Hydrophobic spray to coat himself for the run also why didnt you bring the trident to the end for melee?
Hello! You probably won't see this, but you are my favorite TH-camr. You are chill and cool. I want to ask a question, how did you transfer the world to an april fools version from a regular version? I can't do that. It says I can't transfer the world from a regular version to an April fool's version. If you read this, thank you so much.
@@mRhea i think how it works is that the water breaks it, and since its disabled it somehow regenerates/doesn't think its actually broken, and then that cycle just repeats itself
1:25 Dang the veratasium music got me. Its fireflies in a fairytale I believe. Btw! Ur production quality is top notch! I totally expected this video to have a million views but I am surprised. Keep up the good work!
@@lazerman121you can disable the string on trip wires with shears (barely anyone knows this feature) and there was a glitch when you break disabled string that it duplicates, in the new updates I don’t think it works
You could've stuck the portal frame on your head while in the nether, grab another one and hit F to make it go into the offhand, and grab one last frame, to carry a total of 3 end frames at a time rather than a single one.
otherside playing while you were exploring the moon is my favourite thing. surprisingly i've never heard about this april fool's update, so it was such an exciting experience for me lmao
Ironic that you decided to go with water, fellow Enderman.
This means he’s the strongest enderman
@ Creepers should be scared of us, we’re technically Cats but we take our weakness purrsonally
@AshishXMC Hello Fellow Enderman
um i am a cwreeper
😂😂😂
The april fools update where you can only hold one block at a time is funnier considering you have an enderman skin
And also how he’s doing a water only challenge in an enderman skin
Normally, I think switching versions is a little bit of a cheesy strat, but I loved it here. Way better than just spawning lava buckets in!
@@ReformationRamblings I like when challenges do it because they have to and the older versions have a mechanic that is needed, but just changing because like the wither is easier to kill in this version or switching so I can put all protection enchantments on my armor is super lame
That’s actually what most people do😊
True ngl, I was dissapointed when he switched them remembered that most of skyblock challenges just used a mod for villagers to drop lava buckets when having hero of the village 5
He makes it more entertaining as well, kinda acknowledging that it's a bit cheaty
Yeah I think we all know that without cheating with the version switch that the answer is most definitely no😂but that's no fun. I'm actually glad people find these workarounds because it not only uses more obscure game knowledge but it also makes it much more fun to be able to beat it
First "CAN YOU BEAT MINECRAFT ON A ONLY _______ WORLD?" That ive seen so far that didnt start with Stone shove and killing snow foxes for esmerald. Nice work keep it up
why is this so true though?
Yeaaaah🎉🎉
Wdym?
Thats because snow foxes can't spawn on the middle of an ocean
he didn't have that much of an option lol
@@LuniIsHere well it’s water not necessarily an ocean biome
I like the way you use april's fool update to progress instead of spawning the portal room like you usually see in this type of challenge.
Have you heard about “mudflaps” they have some of the best of these videos I’ve ever seen they used a different method to get the portal without cheating either
The first "can you beat a ____ only world" of 2025 is pretty great!
YOU SAID THE NAME!!!AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
@GodOfGaming-e3d ??
Me: Wait you cant place blocks on water, where are you gonna build??
After seeing lily pad on the water: Ohhhh ok I see.
Is that how he did it? Placed it on a lily pad? I missed it and didn't even know you could. Learned something new, thanks!
Still didn't see him put the copper block on a lily pad.
@@andrewwashere82Iirc you can also place a full block under or on the side of the lily pad, so it's possible that he did that
@@horizonlesssans I think he's just not showing the lily pad on the water, just in his inventory. Cause I don't see it anywhere when the places the copper blocks.
@@andrewwashere82 Ye he did lol.
i loved how you creatively used the April fools updates to get to the end instead of spawning in the portal room
"I always come back"
-EnderSkull
I Love these types of challenges it’s so good and Unique I love it keep up the good work 😀
Sbringtrab🤑
-no long useless intro of trashtalking and telling theories
-doesnt put a dirty joke in the middle of the video for comment bait
perfect guy to watch
2:13 that is an insane bow to get from fishing
Perhaps too insane? What are the odds?
@@Muhammed_English314 idk, doesnt seem sus to me, he didnt even use it, just said it was cool
It's literally perfect aside from Power IV instead of V, wtf
I've found fishing loot tends to be super high end. Once got a maxed out fishing rod, I've got great bows too from it. I think the loot table for fishing is kinda unbalanced
Mending is too op
Having to punch the dragon seems about in line with the spirit of this challenge
I really hate it that it shows spoilers on mobile
2:00 Dude casually drops some Marble Machine music like no one would notice. 🎵🎵
It's so well known even my computer science prof played it once in class; lol.
15:16 CARAMELLDANSEN REMIX!!!
There's so much great music in this video, whoever does the editing has good taste
@@newgate-zerohourYeah he uses Marble Machine by Wintergatan a lot as well, bra låt
You had me until the switching of versions part. Whole world is water, using the "Moon" negates the "water" only challenge.
Excelent Video! I love to see entirely unique challenges like this. Various versions of skyblock challenges are really commonplace but this one has a really unique progression!
Are you a bot?
@@Initfordamemes nah im legit. I played Gershwin today, robots dont like Tin Pan Alley
for those who aren't aware he's using villager trade rebalance datapack
edit: i didn't mean this in a bad way lol
Experimental feature.
The one that makes Diamond Armor and Enchants way worse.
i mean he also used 3 separate snapshots, 2 of which were April Fools' ones, so that seems like a relatively minor hiccup :P
Why would he need that?
@@ausc4747 For the Wandering Trader.
@@ausc4747 Afaict without the villager trade rebalance this would have still been possible but would have been substantially more tedious.
The "villager trading rebalance" meant he could sell a water bottle to the wandering trader to get an emerald, which he could use to buy wood to get the crafting table he needed.
Without the rebalance neither of those trades exist. So the only way to "bootstrap" trading is to kill foxes for emeralds so you can buy saplings and something to grow them on which is incredibly tedious. If you want to finish bootstrapping trading (rather than just getting wood) then you can get apples. Then there is another side quest to turn pigs into zombified piglins and get gold. Then you can finally cure a zombie villager (using a witch to apply the weakness effect).
An alternative might have been to skip trading completely and use bamboo from fishing in a jungle biome to make the crafting table but that would mean fishing up 18 bamboo which might take a while. Still probbablly much quicker than killing foxes for emeralds through.
14:48 didn't expect to hear Atlas on a non Mind-Field video, let alone a minecraft challenge video, but i love it!
Where is that song from?
@@CarlosZambrano-eu5ev The song is Atlas from Jake Chudnow. It's the opening theme of the Vsauce series "Mind Field".
9:11 bro saw elytras and didn't get them
Ik like why didn't bro take them
Ok ngl I completely forgot items float since I’m still used to older version. So, I was also expecting this challenge to be horrible since you would lose all early progress upon dying. Glad you’re safe from that!
9:11 why didint he take the diamonds and elytras??
the "diamonds" you saw were prismarine shards.
also to use the elytra you need fireworks, which require paper. there's no way to get sugarcane though
THE BOW YOU FISHED WAS INSANE WTH WHAT ARE THE CHANCES???
VERY low, but it is one of the best ways to breeze through the game if you don't mind fishing for a couple hours
1 in 7.5 trillion
@@amaze3727 no 0.000004641
Other content creators: No! How am i gonna create good contents if i dont have a nasa pc with 4 4090 in it?
This dude: *using 3700x and a graphics card that literally stops updating its software*
What a goat
Finally someone started to use april fools snapshots and experimental features in such challenges.
your editing has become truly phenomenal
GUYS HE BACKK
Have you seen the new Skibidi Toilet?
Fortnite
@ what is this brainrot
@Penhouse9476 nahh
So sigma
THIS VIDEO BRO GOD DAMN TH-cam KEEP RECOMMENDING ME AND YEAH HERE I AM NOW WATCHING IT (i hope youtube happy)
7:19 Bro don't cheat! Wandering traders don't buy stuff from the player! They also only sell saplings! Not Wood! At Least say you used a mod!
I was going to ask if things were different in the other snapshots but he changed the version after this trade!
it's new snapshot
5:56
Mogswamp: You aren't alone my friend.
slowed caramelldansen is a wild choice for the ending but I love it
most fitting song imo, that song is lowkey a national anthem 💀
LMFAO YEAH I LEGIT STARTED LAUGHING
all the music choice for this video was hilariously random
same
6:28 Bro has the most lit content.
7:15 I don’t think you can do that
You're right, You literally can't, You can only buy things from wondering traders you cannot sell them anything, other than Emeralds.
He used the experimental villager trade rebalancing, prolly shoulda emphasized it tho
Minecraft snapshot 23w31a adding that trades
The first best channel I've discovered in 2025. The quality, the content, the edits, the challenge. Great video! Hopes to see it grows!
i can understand why you went the route you did with the copper blocks, doing this in the latest edition would require you to fish about 800 times for just one block (string is 1/200 chance from fishing, so wool takes roughly 800 tries per block)
Doing it that way would require you to fish 6,800 times roughly to get the 8 blocks and 2 string needed
this is so creative!! this kind of video where u push Minecraft to its limits is always fascinating, but the grind tends to ge repetitive to watch. you utelized new fun techniques to play with the games mechanics. cant wait to see what you do next
“Was my key to one of the best mobs in the game, the Wandering Trader”
ok but wandering traders are actually really good in challenges where you cant get stuff like trees
Since when could you trade a water bottle/cooked potatoes with a Wandering trader for emeralds? Also 1 emerald for 8 jungle logs does not seem like vanilla game behavior.
8:13 the Proposal #26: option 3/5... lmao
7:20 wait when did they get sell trades instead of just buy trades?
Bro I love these type of challenge videos it’s literally like just you mudflaps and yeahjaron who does them like you deserve way more
Thats good, but version switch allow u to find some structures. That doesn't break the rules? (No structures)
Nevertheless, I really liked the video, thank you!)
EnderSkulls's video is the best end of 2024
14:47 love the mind field theme song here, fits perfect
I knew it was from something cool
1:45 WINTERGATAN MENTIONEDDD
WTF IS A BAD MARBLE INSTRUMENT 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
ROKKIT FOREVER🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Can You Beat Minecraft if the Whole World is Water?"
The whole world should account for the nether aswell.
switching versions is a little cheesy, but using the april's fools snapshots is basically modding and not really in the spirit of these "taking X to its limits" challenges imo. this video was really interesting up until 7:37, where i checked out.
at least its legit and official versions and not straight up cheating
@@daggieYT It kind of is cheating though if the challenge is to beat a world that's only water blocks if you change the world to have other blocks in it. It's like saying you'll beat minecraft with no mobs, then switching to a version that has mob spawns enabled. Like, what's the point..?
@@kellymccarthy7109 hmm interesting point of view
yeah but he literally can't do anything else for progression lmao, no other way to get lava and end portal
yes, but then it's the same as with skyblock worlds, where it's interesting to see how far you can take that challenge. imagine going to the moon in skyblock and getting everything through that instead of trading. sounds pretty lame if you ask me.
2:13
THAT'S ALMOST A FULL MAX BOW
Only thing it doesn't have is Infinity.
And Mending and Infinity can't go together
infinity and mending can't go together
have u ever played minecraft
these are the most unique ways of doing this usually its all the same strategies but different titles but this is great
At first I thought this was kind of dumb but my mind was changed by some other comments.
I enjoyed it after all. It's so interesting to learn about these kinds of mechanics in minecraft.
STOP DRIVING, STOP EATING, STOP SCROLLING, STOP BREATHING, STOP EXISTING, ENDERSKULL JUST UPLOADED
Yes!!
Never knew The Organic Chemistry Tutor played minecraft. What a start to 2025
The thing about efficiency with mob farms is that the lower you go the higher the spawn rate.
I was thinking this too, but the water isn't spawnproofed, it spawns drowned (and he cannot skip the night). It also has to be a player kill-based farm in order to get some of the drops such as iron ingots.
@ true
I like that you didn’t start with zombie with shovel, get snow, iron, wandering trader. Arctic fox with emeralds. That is the most common way to do all of these challenges
0:03 proceeds to have the entire run revolve around structures. (moon rovers and nether fortresses)
yeah, nether fortresses... hold on
that's why I am not playing minecraft anymore...to many tryhards...
It's been a while love to see you back
I clicked on this wondering how you'd be able to place _any_ blocks. I had forgotten lily pads exist. Also hearing Marble Machine as the bgm was a pleasant surprise!
1:45 im glad this song is still being used to this day
I've seen a ton of people do water only world challenge but they always do something like a little Island to start on. This is the first time I've seen someone start with literally just the ocean
Getting struck by lightning before getting a trader to spawn is wild luck😂😭
for a while i was wondering how the hell you are gonna place the blocks... but then... holy grail of building on water... LILYPAD!!!
Yeees is back I love your videos
Why did I read that like "Can you beat Minecraft but the whole world is still water"
"We have Subnautica at home"
love it when challenges like this just break out the obscenely obscure minecraft knowledge instead of giving up on routing
"the platform required many stacks of blocks and there was no way i was going to get that 1 string at a time" 3:46's inv o_o
was it just that you didnt want to farm anymore? or was the string from earlier cheated in as a proof of concept sorta thing
in the time you’ve been gone i’ve had one of the worst relationships ever and you’re return signifies the end of it
enderman used to be my favorite mob as a kid
Used to?
@@Bluish_moon 😳
You, choosing wintergatan's marble machine music was something that I didn't expect , thank you so much for the nostalgia you gave, wonderful gameplay too :3
Bold of y'all to assume he would take damage in water with that Enderman skin.
He applied a Hydrophobic spray to coat himself for the run
also why didnt you bring the trident to the end for melee?
To end it the Enderman way ofc
So, here we have a rare sight of what endermen do when the player is offline -David Attenborough 2025
an Endermans nightmare
lol
Hello! You probably won't see this, but you are my favorite TH-camr. You are chill and cool. I want to ask a question, how did you transfer the world to an april fools version from a regular version? I can't do that. It says I can't transfer the world from a regular version to an April fool's version. If you read this, thank you so much.
I went in the files and changed the “version” part into the April fools version to trick Minecraft
2:30 How did he place those blocks? Can you place blocks against the underside of the water/air and I haven’t known that all these years?
that's what i was wondering, i had to check the comments to see if it'd been answered 😭
I placed it on the lilypad
Ah, right, I guess I’m just blind then
@@EnderSkull11how did you craft copper block in a 2×2 crafting grid, pretty sure you need a 3×3 crafting grid
@@Glitchnb it was explained in the video that in that snapshot you could do that
This might be the smartest person to ever do a "can you beat minecraft with _____ only" challenge
5:45 i dont understand how the string farm works and why a shear is needed
the shears disable the tripwire which for some reason lets the string be duplicated, this got removed recently to patch the duper
@sfz_hyper how it is automatically making string continuously?
@@mRhea i think how it works is that the water breaks it, and since its disabled it somehow regenerates/doesn't think its actually broken, and then that cycle just repeats itself
1:25 Dang the veratasium music got me. Its fireflies in a fairytale I believe. Btw! Ur production quality is top notch! I totally expected this video to have a million views but I am surprised. Keep up the good work!
minecraft challenge videos be cool af
I like how the End Portal was like, _"Screw your Nether Portal!"_ as a completely needless "f*ck you".
Awesome run! And nice use of mechanics. 🎉
Great video man, can't wait for the next Skyblock episode as well :)
Happy new year goat 😎
14:46 Atlas by Jake Chudnow, never thought I'd hear it outside of Vsauce... excellent choice of music!
@5:40 how does that auto duper work without red stone?
The water flows onto the string, breaking it.
@PurpleBug222 But what replaces the string? it was doing it on it's own.
@lazerman121 it's a glitch
@@lazerman121you can disable the string on trip wires with shears (barely anyone knows this feature) and there was a glitch when you break disabled string that it duplicates, in the new updates I don’t think it works
You could've stuck the portal frame on your head while in the nether, grab another one and hit F to make it go into the offhand, and grab one last frame, to carry a total of 3 end frames at a time rather than a single one.
8 seconds in, already a banger
I have been here ever since 12k subs, its so nice how u have grown. Road to 100k. Please keep posting cuz ur vids are awesome
There is 1 benefit to normal superflat, no cauldron for water required.
otherside playing while you were exploring the moon is my favourite thing. surprisingly i've never heard about this april fool's update, so it was such an exciting experience for me lmao
So happy to see you back
I will not ask what happened to you.
Will you continue nothing sky block series??
Yes it'll be my next video
@EnderSkull11 haa thank God
I appreciate how you used snapshots instead of glitching things back into the world like most other people doing minecraft from nothing challenges
Pls make this a series where you try and do as much as u can in this world! It’d be sick!
Bro is living in Millers planet
The whole world isn't water though if access to the end exists which is filled with end blocks and copper blocks?
11:30 ur so chill about the piglin killing u after such a long journey, I would be raging
2:13 watttt god bow bros luck on top
2:10 WHAT HOW RARE IS THAT DROP?? ITS ALMOST MAXED OUT
What is the song at 5:00
I don’t know but have you ever heard bike rides?
I found it out. It‘s „We miss you“ by Ponder
The mark rober song
I didn't even thinks about lilypads. I assumed you'd swim to an ice making biome at first.
So, the answer is no... without exploits. (As is so often the case with these types of challenges.)
why was the final song carmeldasen instrumental???