I always thought that ancient debris were supposed to look like petrified wood or giant pine cones, hinting at a past when the Nether wasn’t a lava hellscape.
my personal method of choice is efficiency V mining, its so much more cost efficient if you dont have a creeper farm or a wool farm and you can still clear a LOT! i usually do my tunnels 5 wide since you can just rip through netherrack with efficiency V and its not as monotonous as waiting for explosions to go off ^^
I read somewhere that AD spawns closer to chunk borders. So if you put the chunk lines on and do a 6-8 wide section along them, it'll be even better, in my experience of doing it
One tip: If you are digging tunnels for highways in the Nether, do it in Y15. That way you both get Netherite and to set up transportation at the same time.
Been loving your content. I'm 28 and just getting into the game within the last few few years. Most days I get home from work and chill out building and being inspired by, not just your builds, but your reasonings for them. Thank you for the great content! Keep it up dude!
You only need efficiency 2 on your diamond pick to start insta mining, which can be quicker than getting a wool farm. You only need a diamond pick, enchanting table and some books for it. (Also mining at chunk borders will increase chances!)
I'm pretty sure its actually possible to find ancient debris exposed because around when 1.16 dropped I started a nether only survival world and after exploring for a bit I found ancient debris generating right next to some crimson roots and the game probably thought that the crimson roots were a full block covering the debris or something like that(this might have been fixed tho cuz its been quite some time since that happened to me).
I think you should make a netherite episode and a bastion episode. The bastion one would definitely be helpful. You should also do a video on ancient debris mining.
In my experience enchanting a pickaxe w high efficiency worked very well :3 Got a full set of armor and tools in one trip to the nether. Maybe have spent less than an hour in there 30 mins? Just don't strip mine in the nether, aggressively mine everything out. Also clear out gravel.
Aggressively mining everything out is strip mining! That's the very definition if a strip mine.😉 As Wattles mentioned in the video, mining long hallways is called branch mining.
The best tool for explosion mining for debris will come down to what farms you have setup in your world. Wool and wood are much easier to farm than setting up a creeper farm and sucking up a desert. Need both, but there the time investment is quite different between each for an effective result.
I used to only use tnt, but I found recently beds are way way better. Beds are cheaper, clear more area, and as long as you have fire resist pots, it's not that damaging. Edit: due to inventory space, I think tnt is viable until you've got shulkers. But you can carry wool and wood, and make beds as you go instead of carrying 20+ beds in your inventory
@@petercarioscia9189 I believe bed explosions are smaller in Beckrock than they are in Java. But hey, still way cheaper. I like to make a main tunnel with several shallow branches. Then I put away my gear (just to be safe), and put beds at the end of each shallow branch. If you're more patient, you can hide behind a durable block, to protect yourself from the blast.
One thing you failed to mention is that Ancient Debris tends to generate on chunk borders so you can use that to find the Ancient Debris more easily. In JAVA using F3 and G key combo you can turn on chunk borders and place your beds on the chunk borders to find it more quickly. Also having a properly enchanted pickaxe with efficiency 5 and you can mine netherack so fast that standing on the chunk border and mining in all directions within reach is almost as fast as using beds. See Eyecraftmc's video for example but I tried it myself and it works well. I still prefer bed mining though. Also when you find debris after mining what you have exposed with the bed explosion if it is only one or two pieces you should always mine the surrounding area at least 2 blocks in every direction of the debris as since up to three can generate there may and often is more hiding just behind the netherack that didn't get exploded right next to the debris you find.
If you have some good Farms for gunpowder and a easy source of sand. Then I would say tnt method is better since you can lay down a stack and activate them all at once. I personally prefer the bed method though since it's easy to obtain materials.
So like, my main method is to use beds, and I found a way to take little to no damage 1.- go to your prefered Y level for mining debri 2.-start mining a pathway, and stop, honestly when you feel like 3.- on the pathway, put a cobblestone slab underneath you (mine the block you're in and then place the slab on the bottom half so that it can't catch fire) 4.- mine 6 blocks toward any side (you can do it to the front but I prefer not to so that you can continue the hole and move forward easily (I usually mine 2 block tall for the first 3 and just mine the other 3 from there) 5.- place the bed so that it takes up the 5th and 6th blocks 6.- on the 1st block, place another slab (this isn't necessary but i found it to reduce some damage) 7.-place yourself on the first slab placed crouch, and then explode the bed (make note that the second slab should be right on the block in front of you and on the bottom part of the block as to interact w the bed while being safe) 8.- keep mining the original pathway, and repeat. I have found this method to be incredibly efficient and hope it helps someone!, (btw since you have the cobblestone slab you're standing on and that can't catch fire you kinda don't need a fire resistance, and the damage is so low you also dont really need armor)
Idea : Sculk Infested Ancient debris or somthing like that. This knew ore could be found in and around the Ancient city and it could be purified into a new ore or into Ancient debris.
If you put your nether hub and highway system down at the bottom rather than up at the top (Bedrock, so above the top isn't an option for me), you will find a some just as you dig tunnels between your spawn portal, your base portal, the stronghold portal, your frog light farm, your blaze farm, and whatever other nether farms or portals you set up. That said, I usually strip mine out some huge open areas with the good old ST, E5, Mending pick and set up a central chest monster and super smelter (no shortage of lava fuel if you bring enough iron/buckets). Obviously, I end up with a ridiculous amount of quartz ore, gold (into the smelter it goes), and nether bricks - but the XP from the super smelter keeps the pick whole without having to break down the quartz (making it a pain to transport). May not be the fastest or the most efficient, but it is satisfying, calming, and neat.
I'm going to have to disagree with Wattles on the methods to obtaining AD. I spent 30 minutes using the bed method and came away with 6 AD. I spent 15 mining two block tall sections along chunk boarders and ended up with the remaining 30 I needed to get everything netherite. If you have a mending/unbreaking pickaxe, going along chunk borders at y=14, you can quickly and safely find AD.
True. I get what he's saying with the odds but it's all subjective. I'd be interested in him doing a comparative test between the methods to see in practice which is the better method. I think he'd be surprised.
@@adammetcalfe8748 right, but even with the odds, you can actively clear more blocks along a chunk border with Efficiency V than using beds. And the more area you clear, the higher the odds of finding AD.
@@bryantfuehrer2095 Like I said, it's all subjective. He feels like he's clearing more space and revealing more ore from beds than just ripping through chunk borders with a pickaxe even if it might not be the actual case
I honestly think pickaxe mining is a little underrated. Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, Mending on a diamond/netherite pick absolutely rips through netherrack and you can refresh the durability pretty quickly on nether ores. If you set yourself so that you're on the border of two chunks and dig wide tunnels it can be pretty effective. I like to do it when I'm bored of bed mining because ripping through that much netherrack is pretty satisfying
I agree get all the enchantments ad what I do usually is go down there to y11 and just wave my pick axe around in all directions no tunnels no set path just destroying stuff till I find that great piece of candy
It is entirely possible to find 20 debris in one pocket. As you said, in one chunk can generate 5 debris, if it generated on chunk corner, and if that happened 4 times so that corners are touching, you can theoretically find 20 debris.
I think it would be a great idea for the Devs to make an Ancient Minecraft version that you could play. It would explain all the bastion and portal varieties and maybe even the deep dark portals. It would be fun to explore an Ancient city that's not ancient.
Technically, because world generation goes on infinitely now, there is an unlimited amount of every single material in the game. You just have to travel for it :P
I know you don't like this method wattles, but I actually do strip mine. Believe it or not, it actually is the fastest method with efficiency V, and if you mine near chunk boarders, then you have an even higher chance of finding ancient debris.
The reason mining for ancient debris takes so long is because you're doing it wrong. If you get a diamond or netherite pick with efficiency 5 you can shred through netherrack super fast. If you walk side to side breaking all the netherrack not only is it more cost efficient than beds and TNT but it's also more controlled. Nobody strip mines for ancient debris
Yes you can! Make the tunnels 2 high at y15-y16, 2blocks apart. When you reach the end of your tunnel go back whill looking and sidestrafe through the tunnel you just made while minning. Not as fun as things that go boom butt works verry wel. That are make a TBM and just carve out the whole nether.
I strip mine on the 2x2 chunk boundaries (but only in a 1x2 strip). Very effective, makes it easier to deal with lava when you have a building block (netherrack) in your offhand. Ancient debris tends to spawn slightly more on chunk boundaries. You can hold down on the efficiency V pick, looking just slightly above the lower block, and walk forward. If you get the aim just right, you will be able to just continue walking, checking around you for ancient debris.
If you drop it in the void, it teleports to the nearest solid block. Used to upgrade Elytra (increases durability and flying speed OR possibly allowing player powered flight {when flying, pressing the jump button gives a 1 block altitude increase but uses hunger as if you were flapping your wings} ) and Bows (Increase durability, range and damage). Used to make flying boats. An upgraded boat would not fall, place it and get into it and row off a cliff or end island and you just keep rowing ahead. I might have already given some thought to this. :)
@@killerminnow6725 I take it those exist there. I've heard of 2b2t but don't know much about it. It's the oldest anarchy server i think, and i heard they might be updating to a newer version of Minecraft, but that's about all i know.
13:40 Mining with pickaxe is the best tbh. But we should call that "pickaxe chunk border mining" prob. You know, ancient debris generate close to chunk borders.
around new years 2020/2021 i had a server with a couple friends and we did actually get all our ancient debris to upgrade all our armour and tools from branch mining, took us many many hours lol
13:37 Place a bed with some TNTs around it, fuze them and then click the bed so it blasts a nice big hole and kicks the TNTs to the edge to get an even bigger hole... at least when you do have a creeper farm for gunpowder. Beds only is so much cheaper and easier to get.
Wattles: only posts his Survival series once-twice a week me: *sad subscriber noises* (you ain't losing my subscription, but where's my favorite series??)
I'm guessing this is why you asked about ancient debris mining recently. We have pretty similar preferences for how we wanna get those sweet sweet cinnabons. I just use TNT instead of beds, for the safety of it, like you said, and I do it at y13. It creates a much cleaner explosion, especially when you're chaining them and wanna make some tunnels. Space 'em 4 to 5 blocks apart if you are trying to chain the explosions. This is how I've obtained almost all my cinnabons, but I'm lucky to have a mob farm that supplies me good amounts of gunpowder. Otherwise, beds are much easier, just be careful of those explosions. Too bad beds don't stack as well. Anyway, happy hunting.
I like TNT mining because it doesn't set everything on fire but bed mining is definitely cheaper/faster in the early game. A maxed out pickaxe also does fast work.
tnt 1 block apart is the optimal method as the chain reaction will never stop (unless lava or gravel could stop it) and its slightly less dangerous than beds (although it is considerably more expensive)
Tnt for sure just build one of Wattles' handy creeper farms!! He has 2 diff kinds. Although the newest is the best since you don't need to light up all of the caves now.
@@killerminnow6725 I’m taking about modded Minecraft. There’s no ancient debris needed w/ the Create mod. But you do need a lot of brass for the deployers and a lot of andesite ingots in general.
Ancient debris spawns around chunk borders at a higher frequency. I find mining with efficiency V along chunk borders around y ~15 is super quick! (F3 + G shows chunk borders in vanilla Java)
I've had great results with the pickaxe: I use it with efficiency 5, unbreaking 3 and mending, I mine at level 9 one block away from the borders of the chunk as high as I can, and then I make a couple of strips leaving 2 blocks in between, If I find some I mark the chunk with quartz blocks and go to the next chunk, I also mine all the gold and quartz I find to repair the pickaxe. It takes maybe half a dozen hours to make a full set of netherite equipment. Given that chart I probably should mine higher.
Best method I’ve found is to strip/branch mine first about 100-150 blocks on y level 12. Then go back and place beds/tnt about every 8-10 blocks apart placed back into the wall on both sides. Detonate the explosion, and then pure profit on both sides. It’s super effective on both Bedrock/Java editions.
TNT Mining is the more efficient, than bed mining because: 1. you can stack, which means you have more spaces 2. The explosions in a chain reaction are more efficient and on average you find more ancient debris with TNT mining, than with bed mining and 3. It is cheaper, than beds.
An efficiency V pickaxe does a pretty good job. The Netherrack basically mines itself at this point, yet you've got pretty good control over what and where you mine. Slap some mending on there for infinite pleasure.
I personally do bed method but late game for better rates after you have built a creeper farm tnt is better as beds require you to place them in a certain pattern wheres tnt mining you can just dig strate and then run back while placing the tnt. Also beds have to be ignited 1 by 1. However bed explosions are bigger but this will be more likely to cause lava from above to fall down and beds also create fire which can cover up ancient debris. Considering all these factors it is a clear win but tnt is hard to get in large amounts without a farm so beds are still good early game.
If you mine for debris with a pickaxe you can find it easy if you just make a nether highway through hills it is pretty common. Also treasure bastions are OP trust me
Tnt with a flame bow 100%. It stacks in your inventory, creates a chain reaction, and doesn’t set everything on fire. I hate having to put out all those pesky fires after exploding beds. You can make an easy creeper farm and find a desert and you’re set. Line the tnt up in a tunnel (I do every other block) and you can blow up hundreds of blocks with just one flame arrow. I recently went to the nether with 3 stacks of and came home with more than a stack of ancient debris. It’s the clear winner here.
Beds at y15 isn't too bad but you will still hit lava, and there are ravines and large pockets everywhere so even if you go lower you won't be safe. y12 might be better, haven't tried it. Definitely netherite up your armor ASAP to help protect yourself while mining. Definitely don't branch mine unless you have a efficiency pickaxe with mending though. Too slow otherwise and it just eats your pickaxe. Explosions work well in netherrack. TNT vs Beds I think depends on your resource access. TNT is going to require a lot of gunpowder so you need a creeper farm to even consider it. And then you still need to get sand so you want a nice efficiency shovel (again preferably with mending). So I would recommend beds to start since it is pretty easy to get two sheep together and start a farm and breed a ton of them, and then sheer. And wood is easy to come by. Use a nether chest or shulkers depending on how far into the game you are to help carry more beds at a time and put barrels at your mine to store the extra beds. Building a creeper farm is a must once you get an elytra and need a good supply of rockets, and it will supply you with lots of TNT too, so I recommend it.
Tnt mining is good to start, when you don't have shulkers to hold 20+ beds. But beds+fire resist potions is definitely the superior method. Edit: would also recommend mending on your armor if you're doing bed mining. Tnt you can run away from, you gotta be pretty close to the beds to make them explode.
I found before 1.18. l absolutely mined out a chunk at y 15, 3 blocks high got me ancient debris fast. 1.18. I tried bed's, very messy and a pain to clog up the lava spills. I find at the same y level TNT is the one. Less lava and 100% block drop rate. Including nether rack, golden nuggets and quartz lol. 1.19.2 I struggle at that y level using TNT so any suggestions?
Iron is still the best ore. But you have to define the parameters in which you use to determine what is the "best". Regardless, generally speaking, use-wise, iron is the best. By far. Netherite is the rarest, though. And the best for armor? Maybe. You can't use it on its own to make armor and need to apply it to existing armor. Which, I guess would leave diamond as still the BEST ore for armor and weapons.
I prefer tnt method cause I'm gonna need a gunpowder farm anyway for rockets and tnt for other projects, so this encourages me to get it up quite early
idk why but I hate the bed method the most. It took the longest time of them all from my exp. Sure, you can technically find it faster than mining. but everytime you do it, you have to clear out each fire by hand because you can't see anything with those. And I believe this method uses the most fire res potion of all 3. At least with pickaxe mining you'll surely know you didn't find it simply by observing. But bed makes you second guess and put out all the fire before exploding another one. It's more time consuming imo.
tnt is by far the best method, you don't have to put fires out not to mention the other obvious benefits. Once you have a creeper farm set up and a decent shovel the resources really aren't a problem. Once you try it, you'll never go back to beds.
That last fact...about 20 netherite...I think I will from now on bed bomb at the chunk corners, to reveal 4 chunks at once. It seems like a better move than bombing the middle of a chunk. I will try it out.
i personally like bed mining way more than tnt mining because if you go to a village you can grab a ton of beds to get lots of ancient debris down in the depth of the nether and tnt mining would cause a lot of gunpowder and who loves killing or making creeper farms so i rather stick with the beds
Recently I found ancient debris in a nearby bastion.I forgot that it drops itself without silk touch. This made me think I found something rare... until I placed and mined it back at my underground base lol.
My personal theory is that ancient debris is made up all the armor/ tools (iron, chainmail and diamond) and other stuff that the ancient builders either lost in the nether or had on them when they died. Over decades (or even centuries) of erosion and exposure to extreme pressure and heat (because Nether) they were compressed into this block. I doubt the Piglins had much to do with it seeing as they don't use Netherite themselves and there are no mines for it anywhere. They might have found the occasional piece here and there which would explain why store it in their chests. However they are aware you can combine it with diamond armor/tools but can't figure out how.
I think we should promote wattles to hermitcraft. I say this because I’ve been watching his videos for about 2 years, and he helped me get through covid. It was really a stress reliever for me and I appreciate him. :)
I always thought that ancient debris were supposed to look like petrified wood or giant pine cones, hinting at a past when the Nether wasn’t a lava hellscape.
Never thought that way but, I like it
The top of ancient debris texture does look like that of logs
I thought it looked like a log because of the little circle thingy on top.
Imagine how old the Nether is if all netherite ore was mined and most of the debris already sunk to the bottom of the World
I thought it was maybe like a sea shell fossil , so kinda like your idea. It also kinda looks like a Swiss cake roll lol
my personal method of choice is efficiency V mining, its so much more cost efficient if you dont have a creeper farm or a wool farm and you can still clear a LOT! i usually do my tunnels 5 wide since you can just rip through netherrack with efficiency V and its not as monotonous as waiting for explosions to go off ^^
Do it at chunk borders and it will be 20% faster than bed bombing
I also do it like that its just the most efficient
I read somewhere that AD spawns closer to chunk borders. So if you put the chunk lines on and do a 6-8 wide section along them, it'll be even better, in my experience of doing it
Ye but make sure you have mending so when you run into a quartz vein you can get a mic refresh on your pick
@@bryantfuehrer2095 yup that's true
One tip:
If you are digging tunnels for highways in the Nether, do it in Y15. That way you both get Netherite and to set up transportation at the same time.
true but highways on the nether roof are muchhh faster to make and a lott more convenient and a wide open space is better
@@royalroamer1 this is probably more a tip for bedrock since you can't build at all on the nether roof :(
@@stradepilled yeah i know it really sucks on bedrock but we should seriously get mojang to allow bedrock players to have us build on the nether roof
@@royalroamer1 well they can add trident killers to java and the ability to build on the nether roof on bedrock cause the nether roof is farm city lol
This is true!! If you're setting transport anywhere that isn't near the top/on top do it there!!
Been loving your content. I'm 28 and just getting into the game within the last few few years. Most days I get home from work and chill out building and being inspired by, not just your builds, but your reasonings for them. Thank you for the great content! Keep it up dude!
You only need efficiency 2 on your diamond pick to start insta mining, which can be quicker than getting a wool farm. You only need a diamond pick, enchanting table and some books for it. (Also mining at chunk borders will increase chances!)
I have mined at borders for hours and never find any
@@vanessabarneskitten2141 Set your nether hub up at the bottom and make your roads at y= 15.
I'm pretty sure its actually possible to find ancient debris exposed because around when 1.16 dropped I started a nether only survival world and after exploring for a bit I found ancient debris generating right next to some crimson roots and the game probably thought that the crimson roots were a full block covering the debris or something like that(this might have been fixed tho cuz its been quite some time since that happened to me).
They can be exposed in fortress tunnels
I think you should make a netherite episode and a bastion episode. The bastion one would definitely be helpful. You should also do a video on ancient debris mining.
In my experience enchanting a pickaxe w high efficiency worked very well :3 Got a full set of armor and tools in one trip to the nether. Maybe have spent less than an hour in there 30 mins?
Just don't strip mine in the nether, aggressively mine everything out. Also clear out gravel.
Aggressively mining everything out is strip mining! That's the very definition if a strip mine.😉 As Wattles mentioned in the video, mining long hallways is called branch mining.
@@arasdeeps1852 oh shit true true! it's been a while since I've gotten back into the game I've gotten the terms hehe thank you!!
9:52 it's a housing units bastion, because there is nether ward in the bastion.
I love this series because after time I always forget facts about items ❤
The best tool for explosion mining for debris will come down to what farms you have setup in your world. Wool and wood are much easier to farm than setting up a creeper farm and sucking up a desert.
Need both, but there the time investment is quite different between each for an effective result.
I used to only use tnt, but I found recently beds are way way better. Beds are cheaper, clear more area, and as long as you have fire resist pots, it's not that damaging.
Edit: due to inventory space, I think tnt is viable until you've got shulkers. But you can carry wool and wood, and make beds as you go instead of carrying 20+ beds in your inventory
@@petercarioscia9189
I believe bed explosions are smaller in Beckrock than they are in Java. But hey, still way cheaper.
I like to make a main tunnel with several shallow branches. Then I put away my gear (just to be safe), and put beds at the end of each shallow branch.
If you're more patient, you can hide behind a durable block, to protect yourself from the blast.
One thing you failed to mention is that Ancient Debris tends to generate on chunk borders so you can use that to find the Ancient Debris more easily. In JAVA using F3 and G key combo you can turn on chunk borders and place your beds on the chunk borders to find it more quickly. Also having a properly enchanted pickaxe with efficiency 5 and you can mine netherack so fast that standing on the chunk border and mining in all directions within reach is almost as fast as using beds. See Eyecraftmc's video for example but I tried it myself and it works well. I still prefer bed mining though. Also when you find debris after mining what you have exposed with the bed explosion if it is only one or two pieces you should always mine the surrounding area at least 2 blocks in every direction of the debris as since up to three can generate there may and often is more hiding just behind the netherack that didn't get exploded right next to the debris you find.
I don‘t think ancient debris tends to generate at chunk borders, rather you‘re more likely to find ancient debris when looking in 2 chunks.
In bedrock, there are texture packs that will show chunk borders to help with this method
@@rawpotato1767 what texture pack
If you have some good Farms for gunpowder and a easy source of sand. Then I would say tnt method is better since you can lay down a stack and activate them all at once. I personally prefer the bed method though since it's easy to obtain materials.
WATTLES!! I used your tip about the beds at Y=14 and i found FIVE ANCIENT DEBRI in one explosion , i was overwhelmed with joy😁thank you!
So like, my main method is to use beds, and I found a way to take little to no damage
1.- go to your prefered Y level for mining debri
2.-start mining a pathway, and stop, honestly when you feel like
3.- on the pathway, put a cobblestone slab underneath you (mine the block you're in and then place the slab on the bottom half so that it can't catch fire)
4.- mine 6 blocks toward any side (you can do it to the front but I prefer not to so that you can continue the hole and move forward easily (I usually mine 2 block tall for the first 3 and just mine the other 3 from there)
5.- place the bed so that it takes up the 5th and 6th blocks
6.- on the 1st block, place another slab (this isn't necessary but i found it to reduce some damage)
7.-place yourself on the first slab placed crouch, and then explode the bed (make note that the second slab should be right on the block in front of you and on the bottom part of the block as to interact w the bed while being safe)
8.- keep mining the original pathway, and repeat.
I have found this method to be incredibly efficient and hope it helps someone!, (btw since you have the cobblestone slab you're standing on and that can't catch fire you kinda don't need a fire resistance, and the damage is so low you also dont really need armor)
Idea : Sculk Infested Ancient debris or somthing like that. This knew ore could be found in and around the Ancient city and it could be purified into a new ore or into Ancient debris.
wattles: it's a cinnamon block.
me: that's a pinecone
If you put your nether hub and highway system down at the bottom rather than up at the top (Bedrock, so above the top isn't an option for me), you will find a some just as you dig tunnels between your spawn portal, your base portal, the stronghold portal, your frog light farm, your blaze farm, and whatever other nether farms or portals you set up.
That said, I usually strip mine out some huge open areas with the good old ST, E5, Mending pick and set up a central chest monster and super smelter (no shortage of lava fuel if you bring enough iron/buckets). Obviously, I end up with a ridiculous amount of quartz ore, gold (into the smelter it goes), and nether bricks - but the XP from the super smelter keeps the pick whole without having to break down the quartz (making it a pain to transport).
May not be the fastest or the most efficient, but it is satisfying, calming, and neat.
This is what I do as well. Then I take all those Nether bricks and slab the areas I am mining in the basalt deltas, because frickin cubes ya know.
I've always wondered what's the y level for lava ocean's. You're the man
I like bed mining at Y 13 more than TNT . Coz I find sheep farms are easy to make.only problem is that beds create more fire ...
I'm going to have to disagree with Wattles on the methods to obtaining AD. I spent 30 minutes using the bed method and came away with 6 AD.
I spent 15 mining two block tall sections along chunk boarders and ended up with the remaining 30 I needed to get everything netherite.
If you have a mending/unbreaking pickaxe, going along chunk borders at y=14, you can quickly and safely find AD.
True. I get what he's saying with the odds but it's all subjective. I'd be interested in him doing a comparative test between the methods to see in practice which is the better method. I think he'd be surprised.
@@adammetcalfe8748 right, but even with the odds, you can actively clear more blocks along a chunk border with Efficiency V than using beds. And the more area you clear, the higher the odds of finding AD.
@@adammetcalfe8748 or he could just watch Cub's video on it...the master of ores....world record holder...CubFan135....
@@filbertovandette Haha I was thinking of that too
@@bryantfuehrer2095 Like I said, it's all subjective. He feels like he's clearing more space and revealing more ore from beds than just ripping through chunk borders with a pickaxe even if it might not be the actual case
you have been pumping these videos out, great work bro.
Wattles: Ancient Debris is the rarest ore
Deepslate Emerald Ore: Am I a joke to you?
I honestly think pickaxe mining is a little underrated. Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, Mending on a diamond/netherite pick absolutely rips through netherrack and you can refresh the durability pretty quickly on nether ores. If you set yourself so that you're on the border of two chunks and dig wide tunnels it can be pretty effective. I like to do it when I'm bored of bed mining because ripping through that much netherrack is pretty satisfying
I agree get all the enchantments ad what I do usually is go down there to y11 and just wave my pick axe around in all directions no tunnels no set path just destroying stuff till I find that great piece of candy
Viewers: How many ancient debris videos are you going to make?
Wattles: *Yes*
the key benefit to tnt over beds... you can carry stacks of tnt....beds have to be carried singly....becomes a question of how much you can carry
What I like to do when bed mining is carry the wool and wood separately and craft beds as I go, that way I can save inventory space.
Also fire.
Love your content bro keep up the work!
It is entirely possible to find 20 debris in one pocket. As you said, in one chunk can generate 5 debris, if it generated on chunk corner, and if that happened 4 times so that corners are touching, you can theoretically find 20 debris.
now it's only 2 debris I think
the funny thing is that I literally have 6x more ancient debris than diamonds lol
I think it would be a great idea for the Devs to make an Ancient Minecraft version that you could play. It would explain all the bastion and portal varieties and maybe even the deep dark portals. It would be fun to explore an Ancient city that's not ancient.
You mean Minecraft Legends?
Technically, because world generation goes on infinitely now, there is an unlimited amount of every single material in the game. You just have to travel for it :P
you aren't wrong
I know you don't like this method wattles, but I actually do strip mine. Believe it or not, it actually is the fastest method with efficiency V, and if you mine near chunk boarders, then you have an even higher chance of finding ancient debris.
The reason mining for ancient debris takes so long is because you're doing it wrong. If you get a diamond or netherite pick with efficiency 5 you can shred through netherrack super fast. If you walk side to side breaking all the netherrack not only is it more cost efficient than beds and TNT but it's also more controlled. Nobody strip mines for ancient debris
"nobody strip mines for ancient debris" yep sure totally nobody mines for ancie- wdym i sound strange i don- yep nobody mines for it
Yes you can! Make the tunnels 2 high at y15-y16, 2blocks apart. When you reach the end of your tunnel go back whill looking and sidestrafe through the tunnel you just made while minning. Not as fun as things that go boom butt works verry wel.
That are make a TBM and just carve out the whole nether.
I strip mine on the 2x2 chunk boundaries (but only in a 1x2 strip). Very effective, makes it easier to deal with lava when you have a building block (netherrack) in your offhand. Ancient debris tends to spawn slightly more on chunk boundaries.
You can hold down on the efficiency V pick, looking just slightly above the lower block, and walk forward. If you get the aim just right, you will be able to just continue walking, checking around you for ancient debris.
I hope there will be enderite or something in the future.
If you drop it in the void, it teleports to the nearest solid block.
Used to upgrade Elytra (increases durability and flying speed OR possibly allowing player powered flight {when flying, pressing the jump button gives a 1 block altitude increase but uses hunger as if you were flapping your wings} ) and Bows (Increase durability, range and damage).
Used to make flying boats. An upgraded boat would not fall, place it and get into it and row off a cliff or end island and you just keep rowing ahead.
I might have already given some thought to this. :)
@@PromptCriticalJello yes
@@PromptCriticalJello why do those boats sound familiar? *coughs in 2b2t*
@@killerminnow6725 I take it those exist there.
I've heard of 2b2t but don't know much about it. It's the oldest anarchy server i think, and i heard they might be updating to a newer version of Minecraft, but that's about all i know.
Wattles, do a everything series on that datapack you used for “ice caves” in frostburn 2.0 video please!
I wonder what the probability of the 20 debris in a whole clump is 🤔 love this series!! Can we get some biome episodes please??
Its been a long time since I last watched and the channel keeps getting better
13:40 Mining with pickaxe is the best tbh. But we should call that "pickaxe chunk border mining" prob. You know, ancient debris generate close to chunk borders.
Wattels: there’s some kind of ancient story...
MatPat: ANCIENT BUILDERS!!!!
Amazing video
TNT mining is the most useful, but beds are cheeper.
around new years 2020/2021 i had a server with a couple friends and we did actually get all our ancient debris to upgrade all our armour and tools from branch mining, took us many many hours lol
0:15 the fake fact was the 2. Ancient debris is immune to lava
13:37 Place a bed with some TNTs around it, fuze them and then click the bed so it blasts a nice big hole and kicks the TNTs to the edge to get an even bigger hole... at least when you do have a creeper farm for gunpowder. Beds only is so much cheaper and easier to get.
Great one mate, thanks for all the info.
Wattles: only posts his Survival series once-twice a week
me: *sad subscriber noises*
(you ain't losing my subscription, but where's my favorite series??)
I'm guessing this is why you asked about ancient debris mining recently. We have pretty similar preferences for how we wanna get those sweet sweet cinnabons. I just use TNT instead of beds, for the safety of it, like you said, and I do it at y13. It creates a much cleaner explosion, especially when you're chaining them and wanna make some tunnels. Space 'em 4 to 5 blocks apart if you are trying to chain the explosions. This is how I've obtained almost all my cinnabons, but I'm lucky to have a mob farm that supplies me good amounts of gunpowder. Otherwise, beds are much easier, just be careful of those explosions. Too bad beds don't stack as well. Anyway, happy hunting.
I like TNT mining because it doesn't set everything on fire but bed mining is definitely cheaper/faster in the early game. A maxed out pickaxe also does fast work.
tnt 1 block apart is the optimal method as the chain reaction will never stop (unless lava or gravel could stop it) and its slightly less dangerous than beds (although it is considerably more expensive)
Tnt for sure just build one of Wattles' handy creeper farms!! He has 2 diff kinds. Although the newest is the best since you don't need to light up all of the caves now.
Title : Ancient debris everything you need to know - Minecraft's Rarest Ore
Emerald Ore : Am I A Joke To You?..
Eff v is my favorite.
I get so much and it's insanely satisfying to rip apart stuff. Put on music and mow the lawn.
Of COURSE we want an episode about Netherite.
Came just in time😎‼️
Super helpful!!! Thank you
Best method is Create mod 10x10 tunnel bore w/ it running at Y14 and split on a chunk border. Flip switch, go for a ride and collect ancient debris.
Don't you need ancient debris to make a tunnel bore...
@@killerminnow6725 I’m taking about modded Minecraft. There’s no ancient debris needed w/ the Create mod. But you do need a lot of brass for the deployers and a lot of andesite ingots in general.
@@Bob_Smith19 oh my bad.
Ancient debris spawns around chunk borders at a higher frequency. I find mining with efficiency V along chunk borders around y ~15 is super quick! (F3 + G shows chunk borders in vanilla Java)
Sad bedrock noises
If you know your seed you could always use something like chunkbase to help find borders :)
I've had great results with the pickaxe: I use it with efficiency 5, unbreaking 3 and mending, I mine at level 9 one block away from the borders of the chunk as high as I can, and then I make a couple of strips leaving 2 blocks in between, If I find some I mark the chunk with quartz blocks and go to the next chunk, I also mine all the gold and quartz I find to repair the pickaxe.
It takes maybe half a dozen hours to make a full set of netherite equipment.
Given that chart I probably should mine higher.
Best method I’ve found is to strip/branch mine first about 100-150 blocks on y level 12. Then go back and place beds/tnt about every 8-10 blocks apart placed back into the wall on both sides. Detonate the explosion, and then pure profit on both sides. It’s super effective on both Bedrock/Java editions.
I like the everything series :)
11:40 if you’re going to use beds use a shield too
Oh thanks I needed this
I was totally caught off guard when I dug up 2 AD at 118! I prefer mining over the more explosive methods.
TNT Mining is the more efficient, than bed mining because: 1. you can stack, which means you have more spaces 2. The explosions in a chain reaction are more efficient and on average you find more ancient debris with TNT mining, than with bed mining and 3. It is cheaper, than beds.
i always find way more ancient debris early game than diamonds lol
Same bro that is so crazy
it's that damn deepslate i tell ya 😝
An efficiency V pickaxe does a pretty good job. The Netherrack basically mines itself at this point, yet you've got pretty good control over what and where you mine. Slap some mending on there for infinite pleasure.
I personally do bed method but late game for better rates after you have built a creeper farm tnt is better as beds require you to place them in a certain pattern wheres tnt mining you can just dig strate and then run back while placing the tnt. Also beds have to be ignited 1 by 1. However bed explosions are bigger but this will be more likely to cause lava from above to fall down and beds also create fire which can cover up ancient debris. Considering all these factors it is a clear win but tnt is hard to get in large amounts without a farm so beds are still good early game.
By stats strip mining with eff 2 diamond pickaxe at chunk borders is 20% faster than bed bombing (and safer)
4 Netherite Ingots + Shulker in a smithing table... Netherite shulker
Protect the contents of your shulker so it doesn't burn
WE NEED THIS
Is there a certain areas with higher rates of ancient debris, or can it be found in any Nether biome?
If you mine for debris with a pickaxe you can find it easy if you just make a nether highway through hills it is pretty common. Also treasure bastions are OP trust me
Tnt with a flame bow 100%. It stacks in your inventory, creates a chain reaction, and doesn’t set everything on fire. I hate having to put out all those pesky fires after exploding beds.
You can make an easy creeper farm and find a desert and you’re set. Line the tnt up in a tunnel (I do every other block) and you can blow up hundreds of blocks with just one flame arrow.
I recently went to the nether with 3 stacks of and came home with more than a stack of ancient debris. It’s the clear winner here.
Title: ancient debris - Minecraft’s rarest ore
Camman18: *not even close*
Beds at y15 isn't too bad but you will still hit lava, and there are ravines and large pockets everywhere so even if you go lower you won't be safe. y12 might be better, haven't tried it.
Definitely netherite up your armor ASAP to help protect yourself while mining.
Definitely don't branch mine unless you have a efficiency pickaxe with mending though. Too slow otherwise and it just eats your pickaxe. Explosions work well in netherrack.
TNT vs Beds I think depends on your resource access. TNT is going to require a lot of gunpowder so you need a creeper farm to even consider it. And then you still need to get sand so you want a nice efficiency shovel (again preferably with mending).
So I would recommend beds to start since it is pretty easy to get two sheep together and start a farm and breed a ton of them, and then sheer. And wood is easy to come by. Use a nether chest or shulkers depending on how far into the game you are to help carry more beds at a time and put barrels at your mine to store the extra beds.
Building a creeper farm is a must once you get an elytra and need a good supply of rockets, and it will supply you with lots of TNT too, so I recommend it.
Tnt mining is good to start, when you don't have shulkers to hold 20+ beds. But beds+fire resist potions is definitely the superior method.
Edit: would also recommend mending on your armor if you're doing bed mining. Tnt you can run away from, you gotta be pretty close to the beds to make them explode.
TNT mining is by far the best, it doesn’t take that long to make a creeper farm and they don’t take fancy elaborate materials to build either.
I found before 1.18. l absolutely mined out a chunk at y 15, 3 blocks high got me ancient debris fast.
1.18. I tried bed's, very messy and a pain to clog up the lava spills.
I find at the same y level TNT is the one. Less lava and 100% block drop rate. Including nether rack, golden nuggets and quartz lol.
1.19.2 I struggle at that y level using TNT so any suggestions?
>Minecraft’s Rarest Ore:
>Deepslate Emerald Ore:
whoever came up w the idea for ancient debris & netherrite needs sloppy toppy
😳
I've run into three chunks of netherite at around y=112. Yes, I use the roof to make my way around the nether.
Iron is still the best ore. But you have to define the parameters in which you use to determine what is the "best". Regardless, generally speaking, use-wise, iron is the best. By far. Netherite is the rarest, though. And the best for armor? Maybe. You can't use it on its own to make armor and need to apply it to existing armor. Which, I guess would leave diamond as still the BEST ore for armor and weapons.
for sure I would like to see a video on netherite!!!!!!!!!!!!
Letz gooo Best vid
That was a housing unit, not a Hoglins stable, the big difference it the soup sand and nether wart.
I prefer tnt method cause I'm gonna need a gunpowder farm anyway for rockets and tnt for other projects, so this encourages me to get it up quite early
If you have fire potions: beds. You're immune to the fire and lava.
If you don't have fire potions: TNT. It doesn't create the fire that beds do
idk why but I hate the bed method the most. It took the longest time of them all from my exp. Sure, you can technically find it faster than mining. but everytime you do it, you have to clear out each fire by hand because you can't see anything with those. And I believe this method uses the most fire res potion of all 3.
At least with pickaxe mining you'll surely know you didn't find it simply by observing. But bed makes you second guess and put out all the fire before exploding another one. It's more time consuming imo.
tnt is by far the best method, you don't have to put fires out not to mention the other obvious benefits. Once you have a creeper farm set up and a decent shovel the resources really aren't a problem. Once you try it, you'll never go back to beds.
With a good set of armor, some cobblestone, and a wool farm, bed mining is cheap, easy, and efficient.
Wow... I've been using TNT on Y 15 and it's been a nightmare. Y 12 it is! Thanks!
That last fact...about 20 netherite...I think I will from now on bed bomb at the chunk corners, to reveal 4 chunks at once. It seems like a better move than bombing the middle of a chunk. I will try it out.
two years already geee time flies
i personally like bed mining way more than tnt mining because if you go to a village you can grab a ton of beds to get lots of ancient debris down in the depth of the nether and tnt mining would cause a lot of gunpowder and who loves killing or making creeper farms so i rather stick with the beds
i like tnt mining at y 16 heading north/south. (not sure if its just me but i tend to find more going north/south than east/west)
Recently I found ancient debris in a nearby bastion.I forgot that it drops itself without silk touch. This made me think I found something rare... until I placed and mined it back at my underground base lol.
My personal theory is that ancient debris is made up all the armor/ tools (iron, chainmail and diamond) and other stuff that the ancient builders either lost in the nether or had on them when they died.
Over decades (or even centuries) of erosion and exposure to extreme pressure and heat (because Nether) they were compressed into this block. I doubt the Piglins had much to do with it seeing as they don't use Netherite themselves and there are no mines for it anywhere.
They might have found the occasional piece here and there which would explain why store it in their chests. However they are aware you can combine it with diamond armor/tools but can't figure out how.
I think we should promote wattles to hermitcraft. I say this because I’ve been watching his videos for about 2 years, and he helped me get through covid. It was really a stress reliever for me and I appreciate him. :)
Everything to know about potions next?!
I use mainly TNT mining because it's not as risky as bed mining or as inefficient as normal mining
Ngl This video actually help, If it wasn’t for you, I would Of Still been Bedmining at Y15
is this useful to bedrock edition? please answer
Considering how Bedrock Edition uses no code coming from Java, probably not