Auto Pumpkin & Melon Farms! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let’s Play) [S2 Ep.24]

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day today we’re going to continue our streak of expanding our farming over here by doing some automated melon and pumpkin farms which are going to work in

Similar ways to the redstone that we put together for the sugarcane farm over here and it’s going to be a little bit more advanced than growing all of your crops in a field although this has been going spectacularly well another thing that’s been going spectacularly well actually that’s happened between this

Episode and the previous episode is that i’ve gone caving and without really meaning to i stumbled into a bunch of rare finds and then let’s see what’s inside chest number one oh look at you incredible all right well that’s something to uh discuss in an upcoming episode then

I always don’t want to take it we have to though should we eat it get rid of the evidence deep slate ores can generate like the highest coordinate and the lowest coordinate the stone ores will generate give or take the ones that occasionally spawn with patches of both and we found some

That was that was easy silk touch these lads cheeky little eight vane love to see it it’s so hard to find diamonds in 1.18 that was honestly just a solid fluke right there um yeah now for the deep sleek hole i guess i mean that is the silk touch one cool

Great so that’s ten blocks of diamond or i didn’t have before what is this game now wait a second we came out of my lucky lucky tunnel whatever this was deep slick coal we found it it’s right there chat behind the skeleton creeper no okay very very carefully like we’re defusing a bomb

Silk touch pickaxe we got it one deep slate coal 100 000 bits and i smelt it in a furnace so at this point my ender chest is full of really interesting stuff and i’ve been doing a bunch of caving on my live streams just because we’ve already gone

Through the basics of caving in the world and a lot of this stuff is stuff that you will run into more or less at random so i can’t really make an episode with the intent of going out and finding some of this stuff it just sort of happens naturally the enchanted golden

Apple in particular is a really interesting find because these are unlike the other golden apples in that you cannot craft them it used to be the case that you could craft eight blocks of gold and put them around an apple to make an enchanted golden apple but that

Was a long time ago that recipe has been removed from the game for about five years now and so you cannot make an enchanted golden apple they can only be found and in terms of what they do compared to regular golden apples they give you much more powerful status

Boosts they give you regeneration for a while they give you absorption for a while which increases your overall health they will even give you a little bit of extra resistance and a fire resistance as well but we’re not going to be messing with this enchanted golden apple because there are a couple of

Things that we’re going to do with that later first of all enchanted golden apples can be made into a pattern that goes on minecraft’s banners so potentially we can add a pattern to that but that seems like a bit of a waste of one of the rarest items in the game at

Least for now the other thing we could do is of course eat it and i kind of want to save eating it for a time when it’s actually going to be significant but one of the i think it’s in the husbandry advancements yeah there we go

One of the challenges that you can take on throughout the world is to eat everything in minecraft basically every type of food that it’s possible to eat even as it says if it’s not good for you so that includes things like puffer fish and spider eyes and the stuff that you

Can eat but leaves you with negative status effects and sometimes even damages your health so we’re going to leave the enchanted apple safely in my ender chest for now the deep slate coal ore is a curiosity more than anything else it’s not going to get us any more

Cold than usual but it is one of the rarest ores in the game considering that coal stops generating once you reach the level where deep slate begins generating so once deep slate takes over at y0 you don’t tend to find deep slick coal or anywhere around there you can only

Really find it right at the dividing line between the deep slate levels and the stone layers of the world where a little bit of deep slate starts to get mixed in and if a coal vein generates down there there’s a slim chance that it will generate a block of deep slate coal

Ore and the same is kind of true for diamond ore as well because deep slate diamond ore is the majority of what you’ll find given that you’re doing most of your mining lower down in the world where diamonds will be more common down closer to like y negative 50 or so but

Stone diamond ore is still a little bit of an oddity because it’s still plentiful we’ve found a decent amount of it but it’s less likely that we’re going to be mining for diamonds there in the first place so it was more of a curiosity that

I ran into it as you can see though these caving events have proven pretty fruitful and we’ve got ourselves a decent amount of stuff including some amethyst shards from a couple of fully grown geodes that i’ve found in the area so i’m gonna take all of this stuff out

Of my ender chest now so i can use it for other things i just swore to myself that i would show you folks on camera before i suddenly have all of this extra stuff in my inventory and so with our two remaining rare curiosities taking up

Space here in the end of chest and everything else migrated into storage either here or in the basement i think it’s time to step out of the house and get some melon and pumpkin farming done farming pumpkins and melons in an automatic way is actually a pretty straightforward process i’m gonna plant

A pumpkin seed there and a melon seed here we’re going to grow the stalks up with bone meal although we could just let them grow on their own as they will when they are hydrated it just saves a little bit of time doing things this way

And wow okay that melon wasted no time i’m gonna harvest that with silk touch actually since if we harvest it with silk touch even though it’s a pickaxe which isn’t the ideal tool for that we still get a full melon back instead of melon slices unfortunately we’re gonna

Have to deal with melon slices for the remainder of this exercise an observer facing into a melon or pumpkin stalk will actually output a redstone signal when it detects that a melon or a pumpkin has grown to either side because the stalk actually goes through a block state change changing from the straight

Up stalk like this to one which is connected to the fruit or vegetable in question naturally to harvest the melano pumpkin once it grows we need a piston in fact we’ll need a piston on both sides of this observer to make sure that it harvests whether the melon or pumpkin

Grows to either side here we’re going to make sure that it doesn’t grow there by simply removing the block placing our water stream there if we want to hydrate the crops using that or even placing a non-organic block there something like stone stone brick you know anything that

The melon or pumpkin will not grow onto around the back here we’re going to place a wood plank behind the observer and we’re going to place a redstone dust next to it behind the piston we also need to make sure there’s a piston on this side as well so we can have a

Redstone dust there and i’ll go and craft a couple more pistons and here’s some i crafted earlier actually we’ll put one there and when this pumpkin grows it’s going to grow to one side or the other the observer is going to detect the stalk changing shape that’s

Going to power this block behind it which will power the two pieces of redstone dust on either side now if you swap the positions of these if you put the redstone dust directly behind the observer and the blocks to either side that wouldn’t work because the redstone

Dust connects to the back of the observer and turns it into a straight line like this which means that it’s not going to transmit power to the blocks on either side of it this way though when the pumpkin grows it should grow into one of these two spots the plank there

Is going to power and is going to direct redstone power into each of the redstone dusts which as the plus shape here suggests is going to activate the piston and unfortunately while i’ve been talking it hasn’t happened so we’re just going to wait here for a second until it does

There we go it happened in an instant but it happened and we have one pumpkin on the floor in front of this thing so if we had set this up already we would have a water stream running down here into a hopper that would collect all of

The melons and pumpkins as they grow and deposit them all via hopper into a storage chest and the reason i’m happy with using a water collection system here compared to in the sugar cane farm is because the piston is only breaking the block in front of it it’s not

Breaking a block above it in the way that it does with a three block tall sugar cane and in that case it is much more consistent that it pushes it off the block and into the water stream we might occasionally see some slices of melon lingering on the dirt in front of

This but honestly a couple of slices of melon here and there is not going to break the bank and melons and pumpkins are perhaps a little bit less useful than sugarcane because sugarcane can be crafted into paper which means maps and fireworks and all kinds of other stuff

In the future whereas melon slices are useful for potion brewing and melons themselves can be crafted into blocks traded with villagers and built with if you feel like building a wall out of fruit but frankly i don’t see them being quite as useful long term so it’ll be

Nice to have them but we don’t need to worry too much about losing the occasional slice but just like before i don’t plan on setting up this mechanism right outside of my house so we’re going to find another place for it maybe over by the sugarcane farm in fact yeah i

Kind of like the idea of it being down here so the sugarcane farm and the crop farms are all on this side it makes sense to have the melons and pumpkins over here as well but we’ve also got this kind of hollow space down here that

I feel like filling in a little bit just so there aren’t all these pitfalls and lakes right outside of my front door so i think i’m going to clear out some of this area maybe flatten it out and we can terraform a cliff over the top of

This farm once we’re done building it now one of the things that’s really going to help me with terraforming that is to have a slightly more efficient shovel and we have on breaking three coming up in the enchantment table what are the odds of me getting unbreaking

Three on a shovel twice in a row oh we got fortune three oh gosh okay that’s a bit of a dilemma because i don’t really like having fortune three on a shovel a lot of the time i end up using my shovels to dig up gravel and

Fortune 3 will always turn the gravel into flint which isn’t all that useful beyond making the occasional flint and steel so i think we’ll keep this one around and we can still use it to dig up dirt we’ll just have to be a little bit careful about where else we use it the

Other cool thing though is that with efficiency 4 on this shovel that is actually the luckiest enchantment that i think i’ve had the entire time efficiency 4 will allow us to instantly mine grass and dirt blocks only efficiency 3 is required to mine dirt but efficiency 4 on a diamond shovel

Will mine grass as well instantly and so once you’re doing slightly larger scale terraforming projects like this having an efficiency for shovel is pretty much essential it is really useful to be able to just take out blocks that quickly and while we don’t have ways of doing it

Quite yet there are even ways that you can mine stone that quickly later in the game as well that’s a long way off though so we’ll get to talking about that in a far future episode for now we’re just going to fill in this lake with dirt blocks and hopefully that

Should give us a large enough area that we can set up our pumpkin and melon farm so with the inside of this hill hollowed out a little bit we’ve now got two rows of dirt with two blocks between them and two water streams running in between and that’s where our collection hoppers can

Be so the water is just gonna flow all the way to the end carrying the melons and pumpkins into this space here where they’ll get collected and transported into a chest and on the opposite side here leaving one dirt block empty we’re gonna put a farmland there a farmland

There farmland there and one there and that means we have four spaces on which to grow the pumpkins or melons and we’ll have alternating patches onto which they can grow that means we’ll need pistons behind each of those we need to dig out a little bit more space so that we can

Place the redstone components and i think i’ll probably use my fortune pickaxe to dig all of this out replace it with cobblestone and that way if i dig into this from another angle i’ll know that there’s redstone here now thanks to all the cobblestone we gathered in the previous episode i can

Finally make some more observers and having grabbed another handful of pumpkin and melon seeds along with some more redstone dust we can put the observers in facing this way we can alternate redstone dots and planks dot plank dot plank like so and i think we’ll make this module here pumpkins

Then make a bunch of noise growing them up with bone meal naturally we’re going to be doing the same on the opposite side and we’ll probably put pumpkins over here as well we will need to make sure there’s some light in here so that these things can grow although they seem

To have adequate light just from the angle of the sun right now and there’s our first pumpkin look hey it grew right in front of our eyes and we built the same thing mirroring it on the opposite side and a pumpkin grew in the time that

It took me to go and craft more pistons so there we go we got another pumpkin out of it as well now the cool thing is we can stack these farms on top of each other and it used to be the case that melons and pumpkins would need a block

Of space above the stalk here for it to grow thankfully no longer the case so we can actually build our next row of the farm right up here and make it a four block tall farm that will grow melons and pumpkins inside the same space which

Is going to mean i need to waterlog this slab here for the water source for the farm above because it just ended up flooding half of my redstone but i haven’t even finished building this farm yet and it’s already given me five pumpkins so i think it’s going pretty

Well so far now naturally the second row here is going to be too high up for the melons to be hydrated by the water streams down there so we’re actually just going to hoe the farmland plant the melon seeds and leave it unhydrated because once the stalk is fully grown

Water hydrating farmland will not actually affect how fast they grow the melons themselves or the pumpkins if you organize the farm that way round so in theory if we just grow this stalk artificially it’s gonna produce a melon just like it would if the farmland was

Hydrated which means we can go ahead and put the observers in here now although i’ll probably have to place the pistons from the other side once i’ve done all the redstone wiring and yeah things are getting a little cramped in here i think i’ll actually need to place alternating

Blocks in here for redstone dust to go on like so so we can activate the pistons that way and then a plank behind there like so so we’re just gonna have to work our way down the line zigzagging these and making sure we put redstone dust on all the lower blocks then once

We break out at the end here and collect any more pumpkins that have popped out of the farm we can pillar up on this side and place all of the pistons one there one there one there one there and one there perfect and if you really

Wanted to since all of the redstone is actually tucked away behind these pistons you could place a water source block behind one of these melon stalks and that would hydrate the rest of the melons around here while leaving the redstone intact for the remaining circuitry in the farm not entirely

Necessary it’s just some players like the aesthetics of fully hydrated farmland whenever they’re building farms like this now we’re gonna do the same thing on the opposite side growing the melons before we place any of the observers and you know what i think the farmland is actually being hydrated from

The water source we placed over there since they don’t need to be connected by blocks in order to stay hydrated looks like our first melons just got farmed pretty much proving that you don’t need headroom in order to grow some of these things and we got five melon slices out

Of that which is almost that’s five nights at the way to a full melon supporting blocks are in we just need five pieces of redstone dust and five pistons facing in from the other side and our melon and pumpkin farm is functionally complete and all within a

Very compact area now this farm is going to be producing fruit and veg for us around the clock we do need to make sure we can collect some of that produce and so i’m going to dig out a little area at the end here we’re going to have this

Come down one more block and that does mean filling in one little section of the lake here but with one water source placed in this corner we can have the drops flow around to a collection hopper that will place right here and here comes some more melons now fantastic

Timing all right let’s get a couple of hoppers in place we’ve still got our little underground lake under here so i’m gonna try and patch up some of this there’s our collection harper we can put a block in there and to stave off the water we’re just gonna plant a sign

Right there as long as the block isn’t a full water source placing a sign will hold back the water making sure that all of the drops flow from this water stream directly into there without the rest of this area being waterlogged and there comes a pumpkin now straight into the

Hopper and into the chest brilliant i’m going to leave some of the produce in here and we’ll check back in with this farm in future to see how much we’ve got for now though this farm is looking a little bit messy from the outside it’s this checkerboard of blocks and redstone

And exposed components i think we can do better than that and so we’re going to do a little bit of terraforming over the top of this to make it look a little more natural for that we’re going to grab a little bit of the natural stone that we’ve

Acquired and we’re going to probably grab a little bit of andesite here as well for just kind of dressing the area up a little bit making the cliff feel natural whilst also giving a hint that it’s a little bit artificial we’ll build up a stone wall around here shaping it a

Little bit outwards as we go to make sure that there is room for our collection mechanism in here whenever i do some terraforming like this now i like to build larger areas of stone like this and then have them overlap slightly kind of like the scales of a fish i

Guess and that way you can create sort of interesting shapes and overhangs out of full blocks without having to go too heavy on the detail when we want a little bit of that detail though we can turn to the stone cutter and with this we can directly make some natural stone

Stairs and slabs as well as all of the stone brick variants in order to shape this area into something that feels a little bit less blocky if you want that kind of vibe we can blend it a little bit with the terrain so the terrain doesn’t look quite so grassy all the way

Up to the side of this and we’ll mix in a little bit of andesite material here and there just for a bit of added detail try and make the andesite appear in patches or veins so it feels like it’s kind of a streak of andesite through

This thing and you’ll find that it ends up looking a lot more natural that way we can do the same with the andesite as well making stairs out of the natural material like that and finally i think one more block of andesite up there and it will kind of look like a coherent

Part of the wall instead of something that you’ve just stuck in there at random and at this point we can probably block off this part of the entrance give or take the area where the water has to run through we could fill in some more

Of this area if we wanted to just to tidy things up a bit and then we’re going to build out a platform of dirt from over here at the farmland over the top of this cliff so it feels like it’s naturally overhanging the scenery basically we’re going to build up part

Of the hill to make it look like this cliff was always here and we’ll try and leave a few more organic shapes in the terrain as well but we can have a little bit of the dirt sort of overhanging some of this cliff here we’ll use a bit more

Dirt to add some bulk to the top section here so it doesn’t just feel like a flat area and it’s already looking a lot more natural but you might be wondering how are we going to get into this farm so that’s where a little bit more redstone

Magic is going to come in along with some of the slime balls that we’ve picked up while we’ve been looking around caves because with these two pistons from my storage system we’re going to make a couple of sticky pistons and we’ll install a redstone door that

Will allow us to get in and out of the farm as we please i think this area here looks like a good place to do it we’re going to break out these two andesite blocks like so and we’ll be able to install a door here by having these

Attached to sticky pistons and have them retract into the wall we’ll place the two sticky pistons in a vertical line like so we’re going to have the two andesite blocks there and we’ll need to have a button on the outside that’s going to retract this door for us now

Using a single piece of stone in the crafting table i’ve crafted myself a stone button and what i want to do is have a pretty discreet stone button on this wall you can barely see it’s there if you step away but if you know it’s there you can press that it’s going to

Open the door using the two pistons here so what we’re going to do is hop up so that we can see the top of that block and i’ll craft another button so i can show you how it works from the inside as well we’re gonna place one a redstone

Dust right there and then when we hit the button on the outside that redstone dust is going to light up now if we just had this trail down to the two pistons like so if we press that they’re going to open and close the door relatively quickly but the problem is the blocks

Will stick to the pistons so if we have them open the door for us they don’t actually close the door again however on minecraft java edition there is a trick to this and we’re going to use an observer to make it happen because if the pistons receive a short enough pulse

Even though they are sticky pistons and they’re designed to pull blocks as well they should detach the blocks that are attached to them so if we place an observer in that second redstone dust spot and we have redstone dust there and there we should now be able to press this button

And you’ll notice the blocks attach from the pistons because they move too fast so now if we close the door completely the door opens for a second and then closes again and it works the same from the outside if we press this stone button the door will open very briefly

And close again so all we need to do is walk up to this hit the button walk through and it’ll close harmlessly behind us while i’m in here i probably want to make sure there’s a platform i can stand on so that i can leave very

Quickly without it closing on top of me because if it does if i stand in here i’m going to end up getting kicked out and taking a little bit of suffocation damage when i do if you’re confused about why powering this block here is activating both of these pistons then

Don’t worry so am i it’s a confusing aspect of redstone that is called quasi connectivity and it basically allows a piston like this to be powered diagonally by a block in this space here activating this lower piston there isn’t really a satisfying explanation i can

Give for how this works as a footnote to this larger episode so don’t worry we’ll get into the mechanics of that another time but it’s a very useful aspect of java edition pistons which unfortunately isn’t the same on bedrock editions so on bedrock edition we would have to design

This door a little bit differently a more regular bedrock edition player would probably be able to tell you a little bit more about that but it’s something about which i know tragically little right now though we have a working door to this farm it’s nice and

Discreet and we can check in on our melons and pumpkins we’ve almost got a full stack of melon slices and we’ve had 23 pumpkins total from the output of this farm which i think is pretty good going so far we even managed to fit a fun little redstone door design into the

Farm as well and it’s slowly but surely growing over i think a few extra bushes around here maybe a bit more greenery on the top of the hillside and this is going to look right at home but that’s where i think we’ll leave this episode for today folks thank you so much for

Watching this episode of the minecraft survival guide i hope you have fun building melon and pumpkin farms in your own worlds in the meantime thanks for watching my name has been pixariffs don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if

You want to see more and i’ll see you soon take care bye for now you