Dirt duplication, one of my favourite methods of renewability. Gold is renewable through killing Zombified Piglins, and gold can be used to barter with Piglins for gravel. 2 gravel and 2 dirt can be used to craft 4 coarse dirt which, when tilled with a hoe, can be turned into 4 dirt.
@@sammin101 You don't have to find moss. If you get emeralds you can trade a wandering trader for it. Of course you need emeralds, but converting zombie villagers using a witch for weakness is pretty simple if you have a mob spawner. Just smelt gold armor drops until you have enough (or use other means for gold that are faster). Emeralds will also let you trade for podzol (more dirt). You need a villager hall to get all the diamond gear and lots of other blocks in a sky island map anyways - so villager conversion is usually the next step after the mob farm anyways.
There are two ways I know to duplicate dirt: either barter for gravel and till the course dirt; or convert stone into moss, grow azalea trees on said moss, and till the rooted dirt.
Hi, Gem! In case nobody mentioned yet, you can get bamboo by fishing in a jungle! You just need to make sure it's a 5 by 5 square of water to have a chance of getting it. I'd recommend fishing there next time, scaffolding could come in very handy for your future builds!
Do you have moss? Because you can plant azaleas and spruce on moss. Azaleas will turn 1x block into rooted dirt, and spruce will do the usual podzol spread, replacing the moss. And since you have cobble, you can do cobble -> stone -> moss -> dirt Although I know what you are planning with that sneaky obsidian over there XD Just wanted to share an alternative
I was wanting to try Skyblock for the first time ever, but wasn't sure what map to use. Your first video serendipitously popped up the day after I started polling all my discord friends to see if they had a map they'd played (they didn't). So now I guess I'm playing along with you! This episode you've definitely inspired me to make my island prettier now that I'm out of the panicking about survival phase. Thanks for your videos! I'm thoroughly enjoying cozy autumn skyblock season during my thanksgiving time off here in the states.
I'm loving this series so much. Gotta love some chill skyblock. It's inspired me to pick up skyblock again. It's honestly one of my favorite things to do in Minecraft.
Your videos are my favourite to watch while holding a warm chai wrapped in a blanket (me not the chai) and eating a cookie. Sky block series and your survival minecraft worlds make me so happy to have no chaos and just a happy little half hour in peace. Gem is Great.
There's no better way to start my day off then some chill Skyblock. I don't know why it's so cozy compared to normal Minecraft but for whatever reason it just is
Truly loving the simultaneous Gem relaxing skyblock with Ilmango's insane skyblock series. It's great to get a bit of reality once in a while, and this series is really doing that for me
After my first job i started struggling to see all of gem's videos, but every time i get to see them it's a breath of fresh air. The island is looking great, keep it up and thanks for your content here on youtube!
Yo Gem, love the series! About your pond: if you want to fish up some treasure, you gotta fish in "open water". Basically, in a 5 by 5 by 4 volume around your bobber, there may only be water or air. Hope to see more soon!
I was going to add this too. Gem won't get treasure drops if she doesn't expand and deepen the fishing pool. I think that fishing is one of the underated grinds in Skyblock, because the magic books can be SO valuable early game.
I actually did that half-slab thing in my skyblock world too. I also use that technique to build up in end raids to save blocks. Also, it's a good thing you made the mob farm floor out of full blocks. This was a fatal mistake averted, a fatal mistake I once did. Making the floor into half slabs allows diffused light to enter the farm via the floor edges, and lights up the entire farm internally. The internal edges of the farm get lit up by light level 10 or close to it.
I'm loving this series!! Your cheerful attitude as always brightens our days. Your gorgeous aesthetics too. I also love the occasional annotating of self like 'considering life choices.' Brilliant!!
I love watching you play sky block because you can see and hear that you enjoy it which makes the video more relaxing Also the duplicate dirt is gravel which makes course dirt
Hi Gem! Here's something cool to consider when it comes to the cobblestone generator: Waterlogged blocks! you're likely already aware of this, but several blocks which can be waterlogged do not spread water, but are still able to be used as the water block in cobble generators. This can be useful to avoid the possibility of accidentally turning your lava into obsidian, and can spruce up the aesthetic look of the generator as well. My personal favorite block to do this with is leaf blocks, since they can be waterlogged as of 1.19.
Nice to see more of this series, I hadn’t thought about doing any fishing! My world is coming along ok too, got a mob farm, taken a trip to the nether, and I’ve started making my own dirt! Tho my world is a lot messier than yours ✨
I checked your channel every day since ep 1 to see when ep 2 was coming out! Please continue the holiday series. It's so cozy watching someone playing skyblock and having a chill time.
You could actually use the mob farm (not just for villagers - which I'm sure you're gonna do eventually) to get chickens! A small chicken farm would very quickly upgrade your food saturation, which is very important in hardcore.
since you are in a 1.19 skyblock you try to get lucky with a travelling merchant and get moss! you can use moss as a way to get dirt by turning stone into moss and then moss into dirt using mega spruce trees which will turn the moss it is on into podzol. you can just shovel that to make unlimited dirt :D
You could double your sweet berries in the basement by lowering the floor one more block which would give you room to make floating planters with a dirt block and trap doors without blocking the lower bushes from growing. Not sure if it would work, but it would look cute.
I was waiting for the inevitable fall from the mob spawner but was very glad to see it didn't happen. The island is looking nice and functional, can't wait to see how you expand it further. Now I need to go work on my island until your next Skyblock video comes out… or until I fall and end my world. Probably the latter since I never live long in Hardcore.
Get moss, bonemeal moss on stone to make more moss, plant 2x2 spruce on moss plot to make podzol, which digs up as dirt. Getting silk touch and creating a stone generator is key, of course. Also, getting gravel allows you to duplicate dirt by making coarse dirt with it, then tilling it and digging it up for normal dirt. Probably the easiest once you get to the nether. The moss method is replenishable, with the correct setup, this method depends on gathering gravel, but is simpler (no enchantments needed, just nether access).
8:01 the entire time you were building the mob farm I was worrying about the explosion at the farm during your last skyblock so I was quite relieved when you fixed it!
It'd be cool if you build a giant donut around your starting island and encase it in glass or something. Like a floating display with a viewing platform.
Excellent, as usual!!! It'd be funny to see you jump into Imp & Skizz's SB playthrough. Or a parallel runoff competing SB's in their SB evolution version. Regardless, great ep and series. GEM IS GREAT!🎉
Brave Gem tackling the Nether already! I’m guessing she’s going to do what Impulse and Skiz did at the beginning of their world (go check out their series, it’s really cool)
I also know how to duplicate dirt, use two dirt and two gravel to get 4 course dirt, then hoe the course dirt which will turn it into regular dirt, thus giving you 4 dirt, you can get more gravel by trading with the piglins and you can gold nuggets from killing zombie pigmen, and gold ingots from killing zombies.
Early gang🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ I just wanna say thank you Gem for being a bright light in the absolute struggle that is high school (and life in general) love you so much and keep up the great work! Also if anyone has tips for playing skyblock, it’s my first time playing it and idk what I’m doing. Anything helps😅
One tip for skyblock and general building/bridging, under accessibility settings you can change sneak from "hold" to "toggle" so you only have to tap shift to enter sneak so you won't fall off the edge. (I have fallen from bridges too many times because shift failed for no apparent reason, also it just saves your pinky) Its not always worth it but whenever i plan to be bridging for an extended period or over a particularly dangerous hazard like lava or the void without wings i take the time to switch my sneak controls.
There's a nice dirt trick now that moss exists. Turn smooth stone to moss, plant a giant spruce on moss, moss turns to podzol, harvest podzol for dirt!
I love how i am watching 2 skyblock videos that are polar opposites in all ways, Gem's and Ilmango's... "lets make everything pretty!" "We'll use prismarine and we will like it!"
Gem TIP - Put wood behind the cobblestone generator block that you mine with a slab on top. That way you can just hold down your mouse button without worrying about breaking the back block.
Dirt duplication, one of my favourite methods of renewability. Gold is renewable through killing Zombified Piglins, and gold can be used to barter with Piglins for gravel. 2 gravel and 2 dirt can be used to craft 4 coarse dirt which, when tilled with a hoe, can be turned into 4 dirt.
There’s another way to make more dirt, if you can find an island with moss.
Still worth making a gold farm tho!
@@sammin101 You don't have to find moss. If you get emeralds you can trade a wandering trader for it.
Of course you need emeralds, but converting zombie villagers using a witch for weakness is pretty simple if you have a mob spawner. Just smelt gold armor drops until you have enough (or use other means for gold that are faster). Emeralds will also let you trade for podzol (more dirt).
You need a villager hall to get all the diamond gear and lots of other blocks in a sky island map anyways - so villager conversion is usually the next step after the mob farm anyways.
Skyblock definition: getting the simplest of resources in the hardest ways possible.
Pretty sure Gem will just be mining gravel in the nether
There are two ways I know to duplicate dirt: either barter for gravel and till the course dirt; or convert stone into moss, grow azalea trees on said moss, and till the rooted dirt.
nothing like a relaxing skyblock video on a friday afternoon!
Friday early morning in Az
Lucky she liked your comment
At 4 18 for me
True this
IKR except it is 10:32 for me!
Hi, Gem! In case nobody mentioned yet, you can get bamboo by fishing in a jungle! You just need to make sure it's a 5 by 5 square of water to have a chance of getting it. I'd recommend fishing there next time, scaffolding could come in very handy for your future builds!
Thank you for the suggestion!
Did not know that. Thanks Diana.
It's important for clutching 5oo!
Too*
I love this series already. It’s so cozy and chill.
AGREED
the best achievement in skyblock,
*”achieving a bed”*
HAHA YEAH!
Was it just me who wondered why she didn't get the advancement "sweet dreams"?
@@denzilserrao779 skyblock has mod where it has different achievements
Do you have moss? Because you can plant azaleas and spruce on moss.
Azaleas will turn 1x block into rooted dirt, and spruce will do the usual podzol spread, replacing the moss.
And since you have cobble, you can do cobble -> stone -> moss -> dirt
Although I know what you are planning with that sneaky obsidian over there XD
Just wanted to share an alternative
They don't have moss yet, maybe one of the islands will have it though
you can purchase it from the traveling merchant (forgot the Minecraft name for him but i think you know who i mean)
“Okay, everybody is dying! This is perfect!”
-Gem 2022
That is an awesome timing. Thank you Gem, loving your skyblocks !
I was wanting to try Skyblock for the first time ever, but wasn't sure what map to use. Your first video serendipitously popped up the day after I started polling all my discord friends to see if they had a map they'd played (they didn't). So now I guess I'm playing along with you! This episode you've definitely inspired me to make my island prettier now that I'm out of the panicking about survival phase. Thanks for your videos! I'm thoroughly enjoying cozy autumn skyblock season during my thanksgiving time off here in the states.
Gem her focused gamer face is really intimating 😂❤️
Geminislay face…
@@Amazon_213 you said GeminiSlay I think you mean Geminitay. Sorry for being that person
@@hannahampleford2588 No they meant slay. Hermitcraft reference, not sorry for being that person.
Gem : we're gonna make a mob spawner today
Me : What kind of mistake are you gonna do this time?
100 like!
I really like the fishing hut! It's so simple, but it fits the mangrove island so well.
I'm loving this series so much. Gotta love some chill skyblock. It's inspired me to pick up skyblock again. It's honestly one of my favorite things to do in Minecraft.
Your videos are my favourite to watch while holding a warm chai wrapped in a blanket (me not the chai) and eating a cookie. Sky block series and your survival minecraft worlds make me so happy to have no chaos and just a happy little half hour in peace. Gem is Great.
thanks for the clarification that it’s you in the blanket
Can i have some cookie 😂😂😂
Gem, you're scaring me. Please put some rails around the mob spawner!
Exactly!
really loving this series already
There's no better way to start my day off then some chill Skyblock. I don't know why it's so cozy compared to normal Minecraft but for whatever reason it just is
I love Skyblock, especially Dr. Trog's version. Looking forward to the series!
Everyone says this is the chill, relaxing series but now I'm excited and inspired SOOO I'm gonna go play Minecraft instead of going to sleep 😴
Truly loving the simultaneous Gem relaxing skyblock with Ilmango's insane skyblock series. It's great to get a bit of reality once in a while, and this series is really doing that for me
Hi Gem!, Let's take a second and thank Gem for posting today.
THANKS GEM!
Gem is great 😉
Thanks gem ❤
I love this series! Im sure that this episode will be as great, or even better than the last!
OH YEAH FOR SURE!
i love this series. its so chill and relaxing and makes me smile. thanks for lighting up everyones day with your videos. ❤❤❤
MAKES ME SMILE TO!
I'm really enjoying this play list. Can only see 2 of the 3 videos. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the entertainment
I clicked on the notification on accident..I don’t regret it
Same. I'm not complaining 😂
Same lol
Yas sisters
Yeah!
After my first job i started struggling to see all of gem's videos, but every time i get to see them it's a breath of fresh air. The island is looking great, keep it up and thanks for your content here on youtube!
Yo Gem, love the series! About your pond: if you want to fish up some treasure, you gotta fish in "open water". Basically, in a 5 by 5 by 4 volume around your bobber, there may only be water or air. Hope to see more soon!
I was going to add this too. Gem won't get treasure drops if she doesn't expand and deepen the fishing pool. I think that fishing is one of the underated grinds in Skyblock, because the magic books can be SO valuable early game.
YES!! I’m so excited for this series!
"I can't see myself constantly fishing" looking at that sentence with hermitcraft season 10 in mind now xD
Love this I couldn't wait for ep 2 ep 1 was so fun I hope this episode is also fun
YEAH!
I actually did that half-slab thing in my skyblock world too. I also use that technique to build up in end raids to save blocks.
Also, it's a good thing you made the mob farm floor out of full blocks. This was a fatal mistake averted, a fatal mistake I once did. Making the floor into half slabs allows diffused light to enter the farm via the floor edges, and lights up the entire farm internally. The internal edges of the farm get lit up by light level 10 or close to it.
I'm loving this series!! Your cheerful attitude as always brightens our days. Your gorgeous aesthetics too. I also love the occasional annotating of self like 'considering life choices.' Brilliant!!
I love this series be cuz it makes me so happy and it just that when I'm sad it makes me so happy
I love watching you play sky block because you can see and hear that you enjoy it which makes the video more relaxing
Also the duplicate dirt is gravel which makes course dirt
Haven't watched the video, but I know this will be a good video. Love you, Gem!
OH I CAN TELL YOU IT IS A AMAZING VID AS USUAL!
Hi Gem! Here's something cool to consider when it comes to the cobblestone generator: Waterlogged blocks! you're likely already aware of this, but several blocks which can be waterlogged do not spread water, but are still able to be used as the water block in cobble generators. This can be useful to avoid the possibility of accidentally turning your lava into obsidian, and can spruce up the aesthetic look of the generator as well. My personal favorite block to do this with is leaf blocks, since they can be waterlogged as of 1.19.
This series is so chill! Perfect for the holiday season! ❤
Nice to see more of this series, I hadn’t thought about doing any fishing!
My world is coming along ok too, got a mob farm, taken a trip to the nether, and I’ve started making my own dirt!
Tho my world is a lot messier than yours ✨
I needed this today, thank you Gem for sharing your wonderful personality and creativity with us all :)
when you make your nether portal you should do it underneath your base/bunker! (love what your doing btw keep it up)
Yayyyyy!!! I love Gem’s skybox videos
I'm so hyped a new skyblock series has returned. The coziest place on youtube :)
Just started watching, but I already know it’ll be amazing! ❤
Love your mob farm! Now I can buld something other than the cobblestone monster. Yours looks great!
I'm so happy you started playing skyblock again, we missed it
You make this look easy, Gem. This was the perfect video for relaxing after the chaos of yesterday's Thanksgiving festivities. 🤠👍💕
I love skyblock Gem you have inspired me so much and definitely made me a better builder
Love the skyblock gem!! Single player videos are always nice and it’s great to see your expertise in the game really shine!
Everyone has to agree there’s nothing like watching gem before going to bed
I like watching her videos with my morning coffee, it’s such a peaceful way to start the day 😌
Any time of day is a great time to watch GeminiTay
@@behcherry9815 exactly 😊😊😊
Dude,that mob farm works fabulously! Nicely done
I checked your channel every day since ep 1 to see when ep 2 was coming out! Please continue the holiday series. It's so cozy watching someone playing skyblock and having a chill time.
Great progress on the island. I feel like you’ve made so much… well…. Progress!
Lovely episode! Skyblock with Gem is definitely one of my favorites.
You could actually use the mob farm (not just for villagers - which I'm sure you're gonna do eventually) to get chickens! A small chicken farm would very quickly upgrade your food saturation, which is very important in hardcore.
I'm actually really loving this series.
i appreciate how you don’t make the island ugly, it hurts me soul when it’s all just cobble ;-; thankyou gem, thankyou 🥰
I love you gem!!!! Your so calm and nice and funny!!!!! Keep doing videos!!!!!!
Also I know what the duplicating dirt thing is
since you are in a 1.19 skyblock you try to get lucky with a travelling merchant and get moss! you can use moss as a way to get dirt by turning stone into moss and then moss into dirt using mega spruce trees which will turn the moss it is on into podzol. you can just shovel that to make unlimited dirt :D
You could double your sweet berries in the basement by lowering the floor one more block which would give you room to make floating planters with a dirt block and trap doors without blocking the lower bushes from growing. Not sure if it would work, but it would look cute.
i was feeling so sick and gross but you uploaded and my day is 10x better!! ily gem (and winnie
I love your skyblocks! I also love the plaits! :)
I was waiting for the inevitable fall from the mob spawner but was very glad to see it didn't happen. The island is looking nice and functional, can't wait to see how you expand it further. Now I need to go work on my island until your next Skyblock video comes out… or until I fall and end my world. Probably the latter since I never live long in Hardcore.
Words cannot describe how excited I am for another GeminiTay sky block series
Download this video cause it's so fun to see Gem work and play this game thanks for all this videos gem love it
I love structures that don't make sense in real life but are only possible because of minecraft mechanics.
It's just so cool.
Get moss, bonemeal moss on stone to make more moss, plant 2x2 spruce on moss plot to make podzol, which digs up as dirt.
Getting silk touch and creating a stone generator is key, of course.
Also, getting gravel allows you to duplicate dirt by making coarse dirt with it, then tilling it and digging it up for normal dirt. Probably the easiest once you get to the nether. The moss method is replenishable, with the correct setup, this method depends on gathering gravel, but is simpler (no enchantments needed, just nether access).
8:01 the entire time you were building the mob farm I was worrying about the explosion at the farm during your last skyblock so I was quite relieved when you fixed it!
I’ve been stress lately bcs of the exams and hospitalizations 🥺 Your vids are soooo relaxing and making me feel at ease. More skyblocks plsss Gem 🥰💕
seeing that you're having a great time it's so nice!!
It'd be cool if you build a giant donut around your starting island and encase it in glass or something. Like a floating display with a viewing platform.
This episode was so wholesome!!! Thank you gem!!!
can't wait for gravel tricks next video :) You should make a castle with a garden courtyard in the middle, with your OG island as a lush garden.
I love your videos so much! :D
That nofitication just made my day❤
Excellent, as usual!!! It'd be funny to see you jump into Imp & Skizz's SB playthrough. Or a parallel runoff competing SB's in their SB evolution version.
Regardless, great ep and series. GEM IS GREAT!🎉
It's Friday Morning. Raining in Seattle and I'm watching this from my car. Love this series!
These skyblock & one block series are my absolute you make!! Thank you for blessing us once again hehe :3
Perfect time for a cozy skyblock episode :)
Gem is always at her most chaotic state while playing skyblock and we're here for it.
Brave Gem tackling the Nether already! I’m guessing she’s going to do what Impulse and Skiz did at the beginning of their world (go check out their series, it’s really cool)
I also know how to duplicate dirt, use two dirt and two gravel to get 4 course dirt, then hoe the course dirt which will turn it into regular dirt, thus giving you 4 dirt, you can get more gravel by trading with the piglins and you can gold nuggets from killing zombie pigmen, and gold ingots from killing zombies.
A rainy day and there’s a new video from Gem. So cozy!
Early gang🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I just wanna say thank you Gem for being a bright light in the absolute struggle that is high school (and life in general) love you so much and keep up the great work!
Also if anyone has tips for playing skyblock, it’s my first time playing it and idk what I’m doing. Anything helps😅
Also are there more spots where you can get spruce trees? I didn’t get one from the island.
You can get more saplings from wandering traders!
This series is so slaayyyy
One tip for skyblock and general building/bridging, under accessibility settings you can change sneak from "hold" to "toggle" so you only have to tap shift to enter sneak so you won't fall off the edge. (I have fallen from bridges too many times because shift failed for no apparent reason, also it just saves your pinky)
Its not always worth it but whenever i plan to be bridging for an extended period or over a particularly dangerous hazard like lava or the void without wings i take the time to switch my sneak controls.
I love this series even if i just watched (watching*) part 2, I'm sure this series will be amazing
Nice choice when you made a mob spawner
"Lets stop fluffin' around, doin nothing, worrying about Phantoms, and just get to work!"
Phantom: RÆAA-
4:26
Yayyy new gem vid! Luv ur vids Gem! Keep up the amazing work 💜💜💜
There's a nice dirt trick now that moss exists. Turn smooth stone to moss, plant a giant spruce on moss, moss turns to podzol, harvest podzol for dirt!
I couldn’t wait for this!!’😂
I watched episode one with my cat. She just passed away last night but I really appreciate being able to watch this today
This series is so cool
heyy gem i love your videos so much i cant wait to watch this !!
I love how i am watching 2 skyblock videos that are polar opposites in all ways, Gem's and Ilmango's... "lets make everything pretty!" "We'll use prismarine and we will like it!"
Best episode yet of this series. Love it. I look forward to episode 3
Yay new video I just came back from school
You can put a crafting table behind the cobblestone in the generator so you won’t have to stop between each block.
Also loving the series!
Gem TIP - Put wood behind the cobblestone generator block that you mine with a slab on top. That way you can just hold down your mouse button without worrying about breaking the back block.
I love your videos so much, keep up the good work!