I'm a veteran player, but I started a new world for 1.20 and this series is encouraging me to take it slow and enjoy the early game again instead of rushing through and getting op asap
I already have several thousand hours in Minecraft and I've learned a few tidbits from this series, but even beyond that i'm genuinely impressed from the sheer quality of your videos in how you're able to articulate your every move. No doubt this is an invaluable resource for new players, heck even veteran players.
As someone who played a lot of alpha and beta minecraft and sort of clocked out when villages were first added this has not only helped but gotten me really keen to get back into the game. You explain a lot of information very quickly and very clearly and your love of the game makes me want to love it again too
I've been playing this game for about 12 years now, yet I still learn small details from these videos! I never knew crops grow faster if you put them next to other types of crops!
Love the casual playstyle and focus of each episode. Minecraft is if anything full of distractions. This kind of focus and ambling pace really contrasts with the race-to-the-End mentality. Each step is full-filling in and of itself. And Pixlriffs has thought out each 'phase' to build on the next. If you are following along with Pixlriffs, be aware that the nearby cave he enters is part of a very large cave system. You can easily get lost if you don't take care. It connects the dripstone to not only the big cave system East but also the Deep Dark areas under the West Cherry Tree Mountain. This makes this is a very interesting seed to me. It's one of the most crazy caving maps I've personally seen. Those into exploration and unafraid to push into the unknown will find a lot of fun above and bellow the ground with Pixlriffs' Survival Guide season 3 map. There are multiple abandoned mine shafts in these cave. I'm pretty sure that Pixlriffs will be covering at least the mine shafts soon. And how to live-off-the-land in them with things like using fences as fuel and how to make torches from the support pillars. And don't dig straight down. (Unless you want to fall through two caves, a huge geode and a skeleton spawner right next to the house.)
I like to use leaves in Minecraft 1.19+ for waterlogging for sugarcane and other farms. You can see through them like the trapdoor but you won't accidentally open the trapdoors when trying to collect crops.
I think mangrove roots are even better (once you achieve that tree). Like with leaves, the water doesn't flow out in any direction (possibly not true in Bedrock, though?), but you can also place a torch on mangrove roots, which I don't believe you can on leaves, and if you tend to harvest crops with a fortune hoe as I do, you also won't accidentally break the roots with that.
As someone that just stepping back into Minecraft after not playing for years, it has been refreshing watching your series as not only has it been extremely informative with regards to the 1.20 update but also a much easier watch than most of the other MC TH-camrs as they are obnoxious and predominantly geared towards children. Thanks!!
An alternate take on the rows of crops thing is that some crops actually thrive better when planted together. It's called crop combination. Unlike in minecraft this isn't universal, but it can be really effective.
Sadly, he didn't cover the other big secret of Minecraft farming: the bees from the hives on the mountain will "pollinate" crops as they fly over with pollen on their rears. This action bonemeals crops and is very very fast. If you can setup behives by your crops and put flowers on the other side, you can get lots of free bonemeal from your bees.
@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 ...And now I'm trying to wrap my head around the thought of Pixlriffs talking about the birds and the bees...Minecraft-style. :-)
These videos so inspired me that yesterday I have started a new game on 1.20.1 with the seed from the first survival guide world. I was curious to see how those terrain has been changed with new generation, but in general expected to start new game in those lovely valley between those awkward mountains. I was so disappointed to see completely irrelevant terrain on a coast of cold ocean. No features from previous terrain were preserved! Finally I found solution: generate new world with this seed in 1.16.5, walk a little bit around, and them update this world to 1.20.1. I know the rest of the world will be completely different but at least my spawn will be at old good Pixlriffs cozy valley :)
So I have no idea how villagers and trading halls work, so I wanted to watch those vids, but I don't like jumping into the middle of series, so I started from the beginning. I've been listening to these early episodes in the background since I figured I already knew the basics, but I had no idea about the alternating crops! Goes to show there's always more to learn
I found this video very interesting as I didn’t even know an enchantment table can’t detect book shelves that are 2 blocks above the enchantment table. Keep it up Pix!
I’ve been playing Minecraft for more than a few years now, but thanks to this video, I finally understand enchanting. This series has proved to be very informative and easy to follow for newer players. Thanks Pix!
Im a relatively new minecraft player, but im not a novel minecraft enjoyer. I have been watching minecraft for years, but its annoyingly difficult to apply what ive seen to actual game play, seeing as im am avid hermitcraft watcher and all hermits tend to do is say "i did some resource gathering" and then build the largest most detailed bases known to man. These videos have been incredibly helpful and i always feel so inspired and comforted when i watch them. Thx pix!
I've never watched this series (I'm more a hermicraft-recap/empires/afterlife/newlife viewer) but this is super friendly and extremely helpful to newer players! I also like that you explain your thought process as you play and what things you're going to do in each episode.
Even though I'm a veteran player, I still find it relaxing to start a fresh world on a update with the knowledge I know now. 😊 and I always learn something new by either watching you Pix or any of the other hermits out there. Whether it's building tips to Redstone advice. Thank you so much 😁😁
Thank you so much for this series and this video specifically. I'm too old for online games and shooters, so I've tried to get into Minecraft. But it just felt so tedious. I've tried to watch a few different videos on enchanting, but they were either too basic to help or too advanced for me to understand. Yours was perfect. Gave me what I needed while still allowing for experimentation. Thank you for this excellent series.
You're posting almost daily! I'm in my happy place... all is right with the world. I've missed your videos while you took a break and while Empires is lots of fun, I miss your more informative Survival Guide videos, so I'm glad you're back at it regularly. Very excited about all the new stuff in 1.20, Looking forward to auto-farms and your take on all the new things to explore. I've watched every episode of the past two survival guides and often refer back to them for technical builds as well as architectural inspiration. Big fan!
This is such an enjoyable way to learn how to Minecraft! I have been playing for years and it does not get old! If I may suggest tho, you could touch the subject of UNenchanting in the next episode. There are many times where the enchanting table gives you none of the enchants you want, so it is common for people to enchant a random item to reset the list available; but then you have an enchanted item you do not want. Plus, when you eventually find a villager trading enchanted tools, you can reset whatever enchant the tools you buy have to better ones. Always useful for the newer players to know that. EDIT: I wrote the wrong name for the block, only noticed it now. Oops 😅
Thanks for this! It’s a great help - both for not constantly being yelled at (or put in a hole) by a nine-year-old and for my own amusement and bravery. 😊
I have played Minecraft for years and also followed along with both survival guides, and I still learned something new with that safer method of mining obsidian. Totally awesome!
So enchanting is my specialty so here's a bit more of a midgame tip. When going for feather falling don't use a full set of books. Rather remove one so you're enchanting at LV28 since that has a very high chance there but not at level 30
This has been very informative! I'm still relatively new to MC and have only really seen people use the villagers to get enchantments they want, so I'm happy to see that you can use the enchanting table as well! Im really enjoying these videos!
This was so good! Thank you for explaining the enchanting table mechanics! Even playing for a couple of years I still just kind of wing it when it comes to enchanting and books. I kind of know fortune is good and mending...but I didn't know the details of efficiency and unbreaking! Unbreaking! Gah! I knew it was harder to break but like...🤷♀️ I had not clue how it worked! Just enchanted and hoped for the best! Great episode once again! And thank you for sharing how long your farming and breeding took. I think it might be helpful for newer players who are starting out as they don't know that this game can be both exciting (caving!) and relaxing (farming) but also frustrating (roofs....I struggle there). Thank you and again, AWESOME episode!
A little tip for anyone using smelting for xp and wants to conserve their coal- use a block of coal instead of individual pieces. One block of coal will smelt 80 items= to 10 individual pieces. The only thing you have to do is have a full stack of 64 plus 16 extra. I usually put my full stack in first. Once the first 16 are done, I then remove those from the smelted side and then add the remaining 16 pieces and go about doing something else while they smelt. Alternatively, if you have a lava bucket, that single bucket will smelt 100 pieces. When I have large amounts of smelting to do, I always use one of these two options as they're more fuel efficient, especially early game when fuel might be a bit tighter. Once you make the renewable lava source (dripstone), it's even more efficient yet. Freeing up your coal to be used as torches to light up all those treacherous caves.
Holy cow! CMDR Keen. That game got me into video games when I was a kid. So awesome knowing that others know of that game as well. I thought that's what the writing was but wasn't sure. Nice little nod to the greats that came before.
I have just started a new world in 1.20 on my Nintendo Switch with a friend and named it Switopia. The seed for my new world is Switswit and it spawned me in quite an amazing looking Cherry Grove biome. Where we spawned was too perfect to not build a base, so I ended up building it. It feels "different" starting over back on the Switch. This Survival Guide series has given me some cool helpful tricks especially as a builder with the use of the Pick Block function I only just noticed recently that the builders of Hermitcraft uses. If you wanna know how to use it, you need to assign a button prompt to it in the Controls. Whenever you run out of building blocks in Survival mid build and have that exact block in your inventory, just use that button prompt on any block that you're looking at and the exact block from the inventory will pop up on any empty slot in your main hand.
On the topic of melon and pumpkin farming, it might be true that they grow most efficiently if they are surrounded by grass/dirt on 2 or more sides (I’m not certain, someone can confirm or deny that if they have any knowledge on it), but i tend to do things a bit differently. I’ve always tilled alternating rows with slabs in between, which forces the pumpkins/melons to grow EXACTLY on the space i want them to, which results in them growing in perfectly straight lines, and always growing on the same side. You can even use the rows with slabs as the rows of water as well, similarly to how he used the trapdoors on the water blocks. Again, I have no idea if this affects efficiency, but I’ve never really worried about that so much as i just like aesthetically pleasing farms. The alternating rows with slabs is definitely one of the most pretty ways to organize melon and pumpkin farms, and you can even place posts on top of the slabs with lanterns, torches, or the light block of your choice, both to light the area and for design purposes. For a visual aid, I tried to recreate below what I’m talking about lol: SLABS (WITH WATER): XXXXXXXXXX TILLED SOIL (WITH SEEDS): XXXXXXXXXX GRASS BLOCKS: XXXXXXXXXX SLABS (WITH WATER): XXXXXXXXXX TILLED SOIL (WITH SEEDS): XXXXXXXXXX GRASS BLOCKS: XXXXXXXXXX ETC.
It might be worth pointing out that if you don't want pumpkins and melons growing to one side or another, you can block that side with a wall, fence or other block that prevents the pumpkin or melon fruit appearing there. If you place a continuous trough of water along one side, the fruit will be forced to appear on the other side. Furthermore, if you don't want the fruit to appear at either end of the row, you can block that. By sowing the plants to either side of a water trough and blocking the ends, you'll end up with neat rows of fruit when they all mature, and it's a lot easier to harvest them that way without breaking the plants.
You can also make a sugarcane 'roof' farm. You waterlog the stair blocks and run a layer of dirt/sand alongside the stairs. The waterlogged blocks are enough to grow the cane. You get complete coverage of the farming plot without wasting space. The downside is the drip animation Stop burning coal and make a sustainable lava farm. I mostly just use coal for torches. I cook fish on a campfire while I fish, but I mostly use golden carrots for food. I also slaughter animals with flame weapons to get cooked food. Brown mooshrooms are the perfect animal to farm. They provide meat, leather, and mushroom/suspicious stew. You can sheer them into cows for brown mushroom and milk.
I've been playing avidly since beta and I didn't know about diversifying crops to speed up growth 😭 It's insane how much depth this game has and how much I'm STILL learning about it
I havent played since 2014 and started in 2010 playing a cracked beta. Its amazing whats been added and little improvements to quality of life that have been done. So much has changed its almost like a new game
Nicely done Pix. This series is like Minecraft class and I love it. I haven’t played Minecraft as much as you and this has been a great way to test my knowledge. There are times when I’m “I know that!” And others where I’m “oh, I guess that is what’s happening”, and I’m sure very soon there will be “I didn’t know that!”,
So, I also plan on playing with this world, so, I've decided to note as many Cords as I can, to help my fellow players using this seed. So far, all of these have been ones shown in the "Finding diamonds" episode, as I haven't gotten around to playing in the world or recording the cords from other episodes. If you have other cords, please let me know, so they can be added to the list. Seed:787419271612053211 Mountian base: -775 100 -180 (roughly) Skeleton Spawner Location (XyZ): -188 -39 22 (connected to cave, past and below amethyst geode) Huge Iron Vein: -203 -25 12 Diamonds: (Mine in the area around -135 -58 26. Exact Location unknown) -264 -23 -41 (another is likely somewhat near by, next to a pillar.)
I'm not entirely sure why I'm watching this... I've been playing minecraft since 2010, I've pretty much learned nothing new except the origins of the enchantment interfact alien text. Your videos are just entertaining and very nice to listen to on the background. Certainly looking forward to more!
I’m liking the slow pace. This video seemed like a pause for me. I can catch up with the building of the starter home. I’ve learned so much so far. And I know where the copper field is going!😂
Hi Pixlriffs ! Will you explain the proper way to combine enchantements ? Because I see too many youtubers adding single enchantments one by one on their tools until it gets very expensive, instead of combine some books first, and it tilts me every time^^ (Let's say you have one tool T and seven books from most (A) to less (G) expensive 1st step : T+A B+C D+E F+G 2nd step : TA+BC DE+FG 3rd step : TABC+DEFG) Gnembon made a video on this a few years ago (How to properly use an anvil)
I started a crop farm in the snow biome and couldn’t keep my water from freezing. I saw the trapdoor trick you did in 1.13 and here and it has helped a lot. No more breaking ice to save my crops. Thanks for the quick tip.
They should add an enchantment that makes things fire proof or atleast last longer when we drop them in fire or lava. And hey how'd you pick up two diamonds from four at 2:52
I sort of fell out of touch with Minecraft shortly after the Aquatic update. It was beautiful but I never truly got the full scope of what I could do. Then, as I'm sure happened for many, the pandemic hit, and luckily so did YTs recommendation of Pixlriffs SG s1. He was preparing his world for the 1.16 Nether update. Then bam! I started my new world and watched his SG from the beginning! This single content creator led me to a ton of other CCs via his HC weekly recap! Now.... Who needs Netflix, when I can MC & chill, laugh, be inspired... So happy for that recommendation!
14:53 You shouldn't have done that in your hunt for exp. Even though smokers are twice as fast, they only yield half as much exp. Same with the blast furnace.
@@Togethicc468 Yeah, turns out it was the Mojang web content people who claimed blast furnaces yield half the XP. They did not repeat that claim for the smoker, and honestly I have no idea where they got that information from, considering that post was made years after the blast furnace was introduced. Both specialized furnaces indeed never (publicly, as far as I'm aware) produced a different amount of XP from regular furnaces on Java edition.
I will once again advocate for my slightly less efficient area wise but still quite good farm of a line of water, surrounded by sugar cane, then a line of beetroot and wheat next to the sugarcane, then carrots and potatoes next to the wheat and beetroot, and finish off with a line of melons and pumpkins and an empty row for those to grow on, for a nice all-in-one 11x9 plot(or 13x11 when you include fences). Also, since I'm old fashioned, lily pads on the water.
I stumbled on an older pixl riff, his attitude has matured well over the years... He's a holy man for sure. I tried to follow some other's guidance, but I prefer this guys views. I hope he has many children ❤
Thank as always for this series, really feel it's helping me learn to love the game all over again. I hear you were doing enchanting next during the stream so I got my little setup done in the top of my house and first pic Id rolled was Fortune 3 XD, seems your luck is blessing others :D
Hi pix its me again. The 100 sub kid. Just wannted to thank you for replying on my comment as it made me so happy cause you are one of the first person i subscribed to on youtube when i was about 7 years old. You also inspired me to name my youtube channel 'Little Pixel'.
Hey Pix, when you're doing an automatic sugarcane-farm you should use mud over a row of hoppers instead of a full block over a hopper minecart - you'll save on entities and you can make the pistons break them individually ☀️ Love the series - the mountain is beautiful ✨️
Love that your back to the survival guide! This is how I found the channel and will always be my favorite. Will you cover cow crushers vs keeping them all in a pen? IMO a cow crusher is an essential early game farm (well for me you seemed fine lol)
Great video, the only input I have is that smokers and blast furnaces have a downside and upside. The obvious is that they smelt resources or cook them faster. However, you get less total experience from using them.
thank you so much for there videos. i just started to play minecraft with my kid and apparently i dont know sheesh for this game. sometime many moons ago i did play it for a while but now it has a new meaning to me. thankyou.
speaking of smoker's it bears mentioning that Campfires cook slower than smokers but have the advantage of not needing fuel beyond the initial coal and cook four meat at a time
This series poppingup on my yt has gpt me back in to minecraft! Awesome series! Also i just got unbreaking 3, fortune 3 and efficiency 4 on my first try!🤪
Your narration is impeccable! I dropped by your stream and after that hung out in celery's, and i'm waiting for you to start incorporating some of your other narration voices into the series! No pressure of course. (Also, a lil tidbit you forgot: copper is actually far more likely to spawn in dripstone caves, it's irrelevant, but nice to know regardless)
Dude I've been playing since 2012 I have nearly 3,000 hours in just PlayStation Edition alone so with Xbox Edition and PC probably about 5,000+ hours and I never knew that alternating crops made them grow faster, that blew my mind I love to farm and I can't believe I've been doing it wrong this whole time.
I decided to play along on your map for the new update. I guess you are aware that there is an igloo with cellar just around the corner of your base? When it comes to zombie villager healing you got yourself the perfect opportunity
"We only need 4 obsidian to craft an enchanting table but we're going to bring back 18." ^Pix is a corners Minecrafter. It does look a lot better when the corners aren't covered up by something else.
Something to note about the bookshelf count, while 15 bookshelves does max out the level requirement it's not actually the max enchanting power. I believe with twenty-something bookshelves you can get, say, Fortune 3 much more commonly than just with 15 bookshelves
Can you cite where this "greater than 15 bookshelves does anything useful at all" comes from? Is that going to be this season's version of the false "blast furnaces give less XP" myth
I always like to plant pumpkins and melons in the same configuration as your sugar cane (which I also plant like that), that way every melon/pumpkin plant has 4 places to grow a pumpkin or melon :D
You forgot to mention 2 pretty important things about Smokers and Blast Furnaces: 1) Their 2nd drawback is that they only give back half the Exp one would get from smelting in a regular furnace. This makes using them a bad choice when raising your Level to 30 was your goal all along. 2) Smokers only smelt food, and Blast Furnaces only smelt ores. So you will still need to keep some regular furnaces around to smelt some items that don't go in neither, like stones variants or turning sand into glass. I guess while being at it, this was a good point to mention Campfires as well, that lets you cook only food items without burning any fuel, with the drawbacks of giving back no Exp at all, and taking more time to cook. And needing to keep an eye out so cooked items won't despawn.
The first point is incorrect. I just posted a short demonstrating they give equal xp, and suggesting how this misconception may have occurred. I mentioned 30 seconds into this video that smokers only cook food, and that the blast furnace is just for smelting ores.
@@Pixlriffs Ok, I'll give you the first point. Apparently it's my mistake for trusting something written on the Minecraft Wiki >.< But as for the second one, the point I was trying to make was that this was a great opportunity to clear up another common misconception. The one that many players believe that if you have both a Smoker and a Blast Furnace, any smeltable items are covered by either one of these two. I think it's important to clearly mention that some items won't smelt in neither, especially in a survival guide. Every single one of my nephews came crying to me at one point or another wondering why they couldn't remember how to make glass, all of them were trying to smelt their sand in a Blast Furnace >.
First video of you I ever saw and I just subscribe in the first 10 seconds wow. Amazing video! So simple to understand. One question out of the game - what program you use for editing of your videos? Also keep the good work dude!
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I'm a veteran player, but I started a new world for 1.20 and this series is encouraging me to take it slow and enjoy the early game again instead of rushing through and getting op asap
me too, normally id have fully maxed gear by now and just be starting to build. im just chillin with some iron gear now tho lol
@@ashe_xoxsame, there's no point in rushing through the game
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I already have several thousand hours in Minecraft and I've learned a few tidbits from this series, but even beyond that i'm genuinely impressed from the sheer quality of your videos in how you're able to articulate your every move. No doubt this is an invaluable resource for new players, heck even veteran players.
Me too I didn't know that alternating crop trick and I've been playing since 2012 and have 1,000s upon 1,000s of hours.
I don't need any info from this guide, I just love watching it for the fantastic production quality and his positive attitude :)
Pix's commentary has come so far from the original survival guide :D Glad to have been with you all the way!
As someone who played a lot of alpha and beta minecraft and sort of clocked out when villages were first added this has not only helped but gotten me really keen to get back into the game. You explain a lot of information very quickly and very clearly and your love of the game makes me want to love it again too
Love your comment! his passion passed on to others & rekindling it for so many!!
You jumped off the bandwagon at VILLAGES?!?!
Holy Mother! I thought _I_ was gone for a long time! (Jumped off just before horses were added)
I dont know what but there is something special with pix's series. Whenever the notification comes, a feeling of relief come for a second
I've been playing this game for about 12 years now, yet I still learn small details from these videos! I never knew crops grow faster if you put them next to other types of crops!
I literally just learned this today 😂😂. I was so mad trying to figure out why my wheat was taking an hour to grow
Love the casual playstyle and focus of each episode. Minecraft is if anything full of distractions. This kind of focus and ambling pace really contrasts with the race-to-the-End mentality. Each step is full-filling in and of itself. And Pixlriffs has thought out each 'phase' to build on the next.
If you are following along with Pixlriffs, be aware that the nearby cave he enters is part of a very large cave system. You can easily get lost if you don't take care. It connects the dripstone to not only the big cave system East but also the Deep Dark areas under the West Cherry Tree Mountain.
This makes this is a very interesting seed to me. It's one of the most crazy caving maps I've personally seen. Those into exploration and unafraid to push into the unknown will find a lot of fun above and bellow the ground with Pixlriffs' Survival Guide season 3 map.
There are multiple abandoned mine shafts in these cave. I'm pretty sure that Pixlriffs will be covering at least the mine shafts soon. And how to live-off-the-land in them with things like using fences as fuel and how to make torches from the support pillars.
And don't dig straight down. (Unless you want to fall through two caves, a huge geode and a skeleton spawner right next to the house.)
I like to use leaves in Minecraft 1.19+ for waterlogging for sugarcane and other farms. You can see through them like the trapdoor but you won't accidentally open the trapdoors when trying to collect crops.
I think mangrove roots are even better (once you achieve that tree). Like with leaves, the water doesn't flow out in any direction (possibly not true in Bedrock, though?), but you can also place a torch on mangrove roots, which I don't believe you can on leaves, and if you tend to harvest crops with a fortune hoe as I do, you also won't accidentally break the roots with that.
Composters too!
These videos are helping me through a tough time, it’s the highlight of my night. Keep up the great work
Season 2 did the same thing for me, keep your head up 🖤
My favourite TH-cam series is back with a bang. The first few episodes have been great
As someone that just stepping back into Minecraft after not playing for years, it has been refreshing watching your series as not only has it been extremely informative with regards to the 1.20 update but also a much easier watch than most of the other MC TH-camrs as they are obnoxious and predominantly geared towards children. Thanks!!
This series is very helpful. I play Minecraft but don’t understand 1.18+ mechanics too well so this helps a ton
An alternate take on the rows of crops thing is that some crops actually thrive better when planted together. It's called crop combination. Unlike in minecraft this isn't universal, but it can be really effective.
Sadly, he didn't cover the other big secret of Minecraft farming: the bees from the hives on the mountain will "pollinate" crops as they fly over with pollen on their rears. This action bonemeals crops and is very very fast.
If you can setup behives by your crops and put flowers on the other side, you can get lots of free bonemeal from your bees.
@@waveclaw He'll probably get back to that when he talks about bees. This is the basics.
@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 ...And now I'm trying to wrap my head around the thought of Pixlriffs talking about the birds and the bees...Minecraft-style. :-)
These videos so inspired me that yesterday I have started a new game on 1.20.1 with the seed from the first survival guide world. I was curious to see how those terrain has been changed with new generation, but in general expected to start new game in those lovely valley between those awkward mountains. I was so disappointed to see completely irrelevant terrain on a coast of cold ocean. No features from previous terrain were preserved! Finally I found solution: generate new world with this seed in 1.16.5, walk a little bit around, and them update this world to 1.20.1. I know the rest of the world will be completely different but at least my spawn will be at old good Pixlriffs cozy valley :)
So I have no idea how villagers and trading halls work, so I wanted to watch those vids, but I don't like jumping into the middle of series, so I started from the beginning. I've been listening to these early episodes in the background since I figured I already knew the basics, but I had no idea about the alternating crops! Goes to show there's always more to learn
I found this video very interesting as I didn’t even know an enchantment table can’t detect book shelves that are 2 blocks above the enchantment table. Keep it up Pix!
Something I learned from this is that the table can detect shelves on the corners even behind the back and side shelves.
I know 98% of what Pix is teaching, yet i enjoy the series so much, Sir Pix, you are a service to Minekind!
I’ve been playing Minecraft for more than a few years now, but thanks to this video, I finally understand enchanting. This series has proved to be very informative and easy to follow for newer players. Thanks Pix!
Im a relatively new minecraft player, but im not a novel minecraft enjoyer. I have been watching minecraft for years, but its annoyingly difficult to apply what ive seen to actual game play, seeing as im am avid hermitcraft watcher and all hermits tend to do is say "i did some resource gathering" and then build the largest most detailed bases known to man. These videos have been incredibly helpful and i always feel so inspired and comforted when i watch them. Thx pix!
I've never watched this series (I'm more a hermicraft-recap/empires/afterlife/newlife viewer) but this is super friendly and extremely helpful to newer players! I also like that you explain your thought process as you play and what things you're going to do in each episode.
Even though I'm a veteran player, I still find it relaxing to start a fresh world on a update with the knowledge I know now. 😊 and I always learn something new by either watching you Pix or any of the other hermits out there. Whether it's building tips to Redstone advice. Thank you so much 😁😁
Thank you so much for this series and this video specifically. I'm too old for online games and shooters, so I've tried to get into Minecraft. But it just felt so tedious. I've tried to watch a few different videos on enchanting, but they were either too basic to help or too advanced for me to understand. Yours was perfect. Gave me what I needed while still allowing for experimentation. Thank you for this excellent series.
You're posting almost daily! I'm in my happy place... all is right with the world. I've missed your videos while you took a break and while Empires is lots of fun, I miss your more informative Survival Guide videos, so I'm glad you're back at it regularly. Very excited about all the new stuff in 1.20, Looking forward to auto-farms and your take on all the new things to explore. I've watched every episode of the past two survival guides and often refer back to them for technical builds as well as architectural inspiration. Big fan!
One should *always* check what enchantments would be added to books after each table reset.
Morning coffee, a bit of mining for resources for my next build, and Pix’s Survival Gide. There’s no better start to a day.
This is such an enjoyable way to learn how to Minecraft! I have been playing for years and it does not get old!
If I may suggest tho, you could touch the subject of UNenchanting in the next episode. There are many times where the enchanting table gives you none of the enchants you want, so it is common for people to enchant a random item to reset the list available; but then you have an enchanted item you do not want. Plus, when you eventually find a villager trading enchanted tools, you can reset whatever enchant the tools you buy have to better ones. Always useful for the newer players to know that.
EDIT: I wrote the wrong name for the block, only noticed it now. Oops 😅
Yep, I expect we'll be looking at the Grindstone soon enough :)
I call this method of planting sugarcane "The Sugarcane Knight" because that is how a Knight in chess moves! 😂
Yes agreed!
I remember it like that too
That's how I remember it. Wow, I guess Minecrafters like chess.♟️
@@CieJe.Alexander Of course! Chees is awesome 👌 ♟️
Also just my personal opinion, But if you water-log Tree leaf blocks ,to me , makes the sugarcane farm look much more natural.
@@ozzyodd591 Haven't thought of doing that thnx a lot!!
Did you know fortune also works on crops? For carrots and potatoes you get more of those, for wheat and beetroot you get more seeds.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to that detail once we get fortune tools
Thanks for this! It’s a great help - both for not constantly being yelled at (or put in a hole) by a nine-year-old and for my own amusement and bravery. 😊
I think you could've mentioned copper being more common in dripstone caves, given how much you got from the one you found
I had no idea about the crop alternating concept and I’ve been playing for years! Haha
It's a new mechanic after (Not in that update) the Bee update.
You are genuinely the best survival minecraft youtuber
I have played Minecraft for years and also followed along with both survival guides, and I still learned something new with that safer method of mining obsidian. Totally awesome!
So enchanting is my specialty so here's a bit more of a midgame tip.
When going for feather falling don't use a full set of books. Rather remove one so you're enchanting at LV28 since that has a very high chance there but not at level 30
This has been very informative! I'm still relatively new to MC and have only really seen people use the villagers to get enchantments they want, so I'm happy to see that you can use the enchanting table as well! Im really enjoying these videos!
This was so good! Thank you for explaining the enchanting table mechanics! Even playing for a couple of years I still just kind of wing it when it comes to enchanting and books. I kind of know fortune is good and mending...but I didn't know the details of efficiency and unbreaking! Unbreaking! Gah! I knew it was harder to break but like...🤷♀️ I had not clue how it worked! Just enchanted and hoped for the best! Great episode once again! And thank you for sharing how long your farming and breeding took. I think it might be helpful for newer players who are starting out as they don't know that this game can be both exciting (caving!) and relaxing (farming) but also frustrating (roofs....I struggle there). Thank you and again, AWESOME episode!
A little tip for anyone using smelting for xp and wants to conserve their coal- use a block of coal instead of individual pieces. One block of coal will smelt 80 items= to 10 individual pieces. The only thing you have to do is have a full stack of 64 plus 16 extra. I usually put my full stack in first. Once the first 16 are done, I then remove those from the smelted side and then add the remaining 16 pieces and go about doing something else while they smelt. Alternatively, if you have a lava bucket, that single bucket will smelt 100 pieces. When I have large amounts of smelting to do, I always use one of these two options as they're more fuel efficient, especially early game when fuel might be a bit tighter. Once you make the renewable lava source (dripstone), it's even more efficient yet. Freeing up your coal to be used as torches to light up all those treacherous caves.
Holy cow! CMDR Keen. That game got me into video games when I was a kid. So awesome knowing that others know of that game as well. I thought that's what the writing was but wasn't sure. Nice little nod to the greats that came before.
Hope everyone is having a great day & Night!! ❤😊
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I appreciate you having a frequent upload schedule for this series
I have just started a new world in 1.20 on my Nintendo Switch with a friend and named it Switopia. The seed for my new world is Switswit and it spawned me in quite an amazing looking Cherry Grove biome. Where we spawned was too perfect to not build a base, so I ended up building it. It feels "different" starting over back on the Switch. This Survival Guide series has given me some cool helpful tricks especially as a builder with the use of the Pick Block function I only just noticed recently that the builders of Hermitcraft uses. If you wanna know how to use it, you need to assign a button prompt to it in the Controls. Whenever you run out of building blocks in Survival mid build and have that exact block in your inventory, just use that button prompt on any block that you're looking at and the exact block from the inventory will pop up on any empty slot in your main hand.
On the topic of melon and pumpkin farming, it might be true that they grow most efficiently if they are surrounded by grass/dirt on 2 or more sides (I’m not certain, someone can confirm or deny that if they have any knowledge on it), but i tend to do things a bit differently.
I’ve always tilled alternating rows with slabs in between, which forces the pumpkins/melons to grow EXACTLY on the space i want them to, which results in them growing in perfectly straight lines, and always growing on the same side. You can even use the rows with slabs as the rows of water as well, similarly to how he used the trapdoors on the water blocks. Again, I have no idea if this affects efficiency, but I’ve never really worried about that so much as i just like aesthetically pleasing farms.
The alternating rows with slabs is definitely one of the most pretty ways to organize melon and pumpkin farms, and you can even place posts on top of the slabs with lanterns, torches, or the light block of your choice, both to light the area and for design purposes.
For a visual aid, I tried to recreate below what I’m talking about lol:
SLABS (WITH WATER): XXXXXXXXXX
TILLED SOIL (WITH SEEDS): XXXXXXXXXX
GRASS BLOCKS: XXXXXXXXXX
SLABS (WITH WATER): XXXXXXXXXX
TILLED SOIL (WITH SEEDS): XXXXXXXXXX
GRASS BLOCKS: XXXXXXXXXX
ETC.
I don't think I've learned anything new from this series yet, but it's very enjoyable as a let's play series.
Can't wIt for the introduction to David. Lol. Love this series, and am glad you did a season 3.
It might be worth pointing out that if you don't want pumpkins and melons growing to one side or another, you can block that side with a wall, fence or other block that prevents the pumpkin or melon fruit appearing there. If you place a continuous trough of water along one side, the fruit will be forced to appear on the other side. Furthermore, if you don't want the fruit to appear at either end of the row, you can block that. By sowing the plants to either side of a water trough and blocking the ends, you'll end up with neat rows of fruit when they all mature, and it's a lot easier to harvest them that way without breaking the plants.
You can also make a sugarcane 'roof' farm. You waterlog the stair blocks and run a layer of dirt/sand alongside the stairs. The waterlogged blocks are enough to grow the cane. You get complete coverage of the farming plot without wasting space. The downside is the drip animation
Stop burning coal and make a sustainable lava farm. I mostly just use coal for torches. I cook fish on a campfire while I fish, but I mostly use golden carrots for food. I also slaughter animals with flame weapons to get cooked food. Brown mooshrooms are the perfect animal to farm. They provide meat, leather, and mushroom/suspicious stew. You can sheer them into cows for brown mushroom and milk.
I've been playing avidly since beta and I didn't know about diversifying crops to speed up growth 😭 It's insane how much depth this game has and how much I'm STILL learning about it
I havent played since 2014 and started in 2010 playing a cracked beta. Its amazing whats been added and little improvements to quality of life that have been done. So much has changed its almost like a new game
Nicely done Pix. This series is like Minecraft class and I love it. I haven’t played Minecraft as much as you and this has been a great way to test my knowledge. There are times when I’m “I know that!” And others where I’m “oh, I guess that is what’s happening”, and I’m sure very soon there will be “I didn’t know that!”,
Even though I’ve played Bedrock for over 3000 hours I love the inspiration I get from watching all these videos
So, I also plan on playing with this world, so, I've decided to note as many Cords as I can, to help my fellow players using this seed. So far, all of these have been ones shown in the "Finding diamonds" episode, as I haven't gotten around to playing in the world or recording the cords from other episodes. If you have other cords, please let me know, so they can be added to the list.
Seed:787419271612053211
Mountian base: -775 100 -180 (roughly)
Skeleton Spawner Location (XyZ): -188 -39 22 (connected to cave, past and below amethyst geode)
Huge Iron Vein: -203 -25 12
Diamonds:
(Mine in the area around -135 -58 26. Exact Location unknown)
-264 -23 -41 (another is likely somewhat near by, next to a pillar.)
People like these are the best players around! Thank you!
I'm not entirely sure why I'm watching this... I've been playing minecraft since 2010, I've pretty much learned nothing new except the origins of the enchantment interfact alien text. Your videos are just entertaining and very nice to listen to on the background. Certainly looking forward to more!
“I hope you are having a great day…” now I am because there is a Pixelriffs upload!
I’m liking the slow pace. This video seemed like a pause for me. I can catch up with the building of the starter home. I’ve learned so much so far. And I know where the copper field is going!😂
Pixlriffs ilike the Bob Ross of Minecraft. Such a great teacher!
So exited to watch your videos every time
It's interesting watching this side by side with the S1 playlist :)
Hi Pixlriffs ! Will you explain the proper way to combine enchantements ? Because I see too many youtubers adding single enchantments one by one on their tools until it gets very expensive, instead of combine some books first, and it tilts me every time^^
(Let's say you have one tool T and seven books from most (A) to less (G) expensive
1st step : T+A B+C D+E F+G
2nd step : TA+BC DE+FG
3rd step : TABC+DEFG)
Gnembon made a video on this a few years ago (How to properly use an anvil)
I started a crop farm in the snow biome and couldn’t keep my water from freezing. I saw the trapdoor trick you did in 1.13 and here and it has helped a lot. No more breaking ice to save my crops. Thanks for the quick tip.
Always a pleasure because these videos are always of a clear pedagogy and a good training to learn English for the youngest. Cheers from Normandy. 😉😁
It sounds like David is coming to your survival guide world again.
fortune will also help with farming carrots and other crops, i like to use this to have more to trade with in the early game^^
Haha, for some reasons I guessed this is what is going to happen in this episode earlier
They should add an enchantment that makes things fire proof or atleast last longer when we drop them in fire or lava.
And hey how'd you pick up two diamonds from four at 2:52
Fire protection - iam a joke to you?
Right-clicking on a stack splits it in half, so you can pick up two items from a stack of four
@@Sonheught Bruh I meant by the things that u throw from ur hand not the things u wear.
@@Pixlriffs Ohh thats pretty handy trick
I sort of fell out of touch with Minecraft shortly after the Aquatic update. It was beautiful but I never truly got the full scope of what I could do. Then, as I'm sure happened for many, the pandemic hit, and luckily so did YTs recommendation of Pixlriffs SG s1. He was preparing his world for the 1.16 Nether update. Then bam! I started my new world and watched his SG from the beginning! This single content creator led me to a ton of other CCs via his HC weekly recap! Now.... Who needs Netflix, when I can MC & chill, laugh, be inspired... So happy for that recommendation!
14:53 You shouldn't have done that in your hunt for exp. Even though smokers are twice as fast, they only yield half as much exp. Same with the blast furnace.
Not sure where you got that, because XP should be the same.
@@TheRealWormbo Honestly, I don't know where I heard that. Been playing like that for years...
@@TheRealWormbofun fact, they yield the same xp.
@@Togethicc468 Yeah, turns out it was the Mojang web content people who claimed blast furnaces yield half the XP. They did not repeat that claim for the smoker, and honestly I have no idea where they got that information from, considering that post was made years after the blast furnace was introduced. Both specialized furnaces indeed never (publicly, as far as I'm aware) produced a different amount of XP from regular furnaces on Java edition.
I will once again advocate for my slightly less efficient area wise but still quite good farm of a line of water, surrounded by sugar cane, then a line of beetroot and wheat next to the sugarcane, then carrots and potatoes next to the wheat and beetroot, and finish off with a line of melons and pumpkins and an empty row for those to grow on, for a nice all-in-one 11x9 plot(or 13x11 when you include fences). Also, since I'm old fashioned, lily pads on the water.
I stumbled on an older pixl riff, his attitude has matured well over the years... He's a holy man for sure. I tried to follow some other's guidance, but I prefer this guys views. I hope he has many children ❤
Thank as always for this series, really feel it's helping me learn to love the game all over again. I hear you were doing enchanting next during the stream so I got my little setup done in the top of my house and first pic Id
rolled was Fortune 3 XD, seems your luck is blessing others :D
I reported that reply as spam, wasn't sure if there was a way to let you tube know the content creator was being impersonated :/
Hi pix its me again. The 100 sub kid. Just wannted to thank you for replying on my comment as it made me so happy cause you are one of the first person i subscribed to on youtube when i was about 7 years old. You also inspired me to name my youtube channel 'Little Pixel'.
Hey Lil, I subbed you b/c of Pix.
thanks
Have to say that I love your music choice for the ending!
Hey Pix, when you're doing an automatic sugarcane-farm you should use mud over a row of hoppers instead of a full block over a hopper minecart - you'll save on entities and you can make the pistons break them individually ☀️ Love the series - the mountain is beautiful ✨️
Love that your back to the survival guide! This is how I found the channel and will always be my favorite. Will you cover cow crushers vs keeping them all in a pen? IMO a cow crusher is an essential early game farm (well for me you seemed fine lol)
I'm new to minecraft and your guide is really helping me to make sense of it. Thanks!
Great video, the only input I have is that smokers and blast furnaces have a downside and upside. The obvious is that they smelt resources or cook them faster. However, you get less total experience from using them.
thank you so much for there videos. i just started to play minecraft with my kid and apparently i dont know sheesh for this game. sometime many moons ago i did play it for a while but now it has a new meaning to me. thankyou.
speaking of smoker's it bears mentioning that Campfires cook slower than smokers but have the advantage of not needing fuel beyond the initial coal and cook four meat at a time
Pix showing us early on why hes the copper king
Love to play along in bedrock rtx seeing ways I can make cool tweaks using the light
I'm learning heaps. Thanks for the educational videos 😊
This series poppingup on my yt has gpt me back in to minecraft! Awesome series! Also i just got unbreaking 3, fortune 3 and efficiency 4 on my first try!🤪
I'd suggest using a campfire to cook your food once you have set up a base. As long as you don't wander off for too long the food won't despawn.
Pix really has that beef with skeletons early in the series
Hey pix, why not make a video on a starter farm maybe? Something that doesn't require too much redstone or too many materials?
That is the plan for this series yes
Your narration is impeccable! I dropped by your stream and after that hung out in celery's, and i'm waiting for you to start incorporating some of your other narration voices into the series! No pressure of course.
(Also, a lil tidbit you forgot: copper is actually far more likely to spawn in dripstone caves, it's irrelevant, but nice to know regardless)
Dude I've been playing since 2012 I have nearly 3,000 hours in just PlayStation Edition alone so with Xbox Edition and PC probably about 5,000+ hours and I never knew that alternating crops made them grow faster, that blew my mind I love to farm and I can't believe I've been doing it wrong this whole time.
I decided to play along on your map for the new update. I guess you are aware that there is an igloo with cellar just around the corner of your base? When it comes to zombie villager healing you got yourself the perfect opportunity
Always a mile stone when you start a world 😊
"We only need 4 obsidian to craft an enchanting table but we're going to bring back 18."
^Pix is a corners Minecrafter. It does look a lot better when the corners aren't covered up by something else.
Something to note about the bookshelf count, while 15 bookshelves does max out the level requirement it's not actually the max enchanting power. I believe with twenty-something bookshelves you can get, say, Fortune 3 much more commonly than just with 15 bookshelves
Can you cite where this "greater than 15 bookshelves does anything useful at all" comes from? Is that going to be this season's version of the false "blast furnaces give less XP" myth
How many people know this stuff but love watching his videos anyway?:)
Your videos are my favorite minecraft videos thank you so much for posting !!!
I Learned the water to mine obsidian from you! :-) Before this. :-) Enjoying this refresher course and still new stuff to learn.
I always like to plant pumpkins and melons in the same configuration as your sugar cane (which I also plant like that), that way every melon/pumpkin plant has 4 places to grow a pumpkin or melon :D
commander keen! I had no idea,...ahh memories, nice research!
Thank you pix :)
Always Great content.
I hope life is treating you well!
You forgot to mention 2 pretty important things about Smokers and Blast Furnaces:
1) Their 2nd drawback is that they only give back half the Exp one would get from smelting in a regular furnace. This makes using them a bad choice when raising your Level to 30 was your goal all along.
2) Smokers only smelt food, and Blast Furnaces only smelt ores.
So you will still need to keep some regular furnaces around to smelt some items that don't go in neither, like stones variants or turning sand into glass.
I guess while being at it, this was a good point to mention Campfires as well, that lets you cook only food items without burning any fuel, with the drawbacks of giving back no Exp at all, and taking more time to cook.
And needing to keep an eye out so cooked items won't despawn.
The first point is incorrect. I just posted a short demonstrating they give equal xp, and suggesting how this misconception may have occurred.
I mentioned 30 seconds into this video that smokers only cook food, and that the blast furnace is just for smelting ores.
@@Pixlriffs Ok, I'll give you the first point. Apparently it's my mistake for trusting something written on the Minecraft Wiki >.<
But as for the second one, the point I was trying to make was that this was a great opportunity to clear up another common misconception. The one that many players believe that if you have both a Smoker and a Blast Furnace, any smeltable items are covered by either one of these two.
I think it's important to clearly mention that some items won't smelt in neither, especially in a survival guide.
Every single one of my nephews came crying to me at one point or another wondering why they couldn't remember how to make glass, all of them were trying to smelt their sand in a Blast Furnace >.
Been playing Minecraft all these years and either didn’t know or completely forgot the enchanting tables could only sense bookshelves one level up
First video of you I ever saw and I just subscribe in the first 10 seconds wow. Amazing video! So simple to understand. One question out of the game - what program you use for editing of your videos? Also keep the good work dude!