Crazy Exploit in 1.17 Hardcore Minecraft!

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the hardcore survival guide i really need mending mending is basically a must-have enchantment now that we have a decent set of diamond tools and armor and of course we’re going to go for more netherite which means more durability but mending

Is pretty much going to be a must-have and so at this point our villager population has been maxed out in terms of jobs there are no unemployed villagers left in this area and so we need to start thinking about breeding villages now i don’t intend to rely on these villagers

For our entire run of hardcore here i will probably end up moving out of the village at some point and moving on to other project areas and so i’m not going to worry too much about making a permanent villager breeder we are going to do that in a future episode but probably

In a different area for now what i tend to prefer doing is working with a free range village and the best way to do a free range village in terms of expanding the population is just to throw down a few more beds and make sure they are well fed and luckily for us

Feeding villagers is dead easy does this have fortune it does awesome let’s use that to farm some of these crops because a fortune hoe used on crops like carrots or potatoes will give you more of the carrots and potatoes there we go from just those few patches i ended up

Getting 28 carrots some of which we can replant here and we’ll work on getting some sort of farm set up for the carrots a little bit later but for now we can throw a few of these to villagers they’ll start redistributing them amongst each other and hopefully that will end

Up with some babies being made there are only a couple of factors that make villagers willing to breed one of which is trading with them a whole bunch which we’ve clearly done with most of these villages the other one is making sure they are well fed so carrots potatoes bread

Any of that stuff if you throw it to a villager will make them in the mood to breed provided they have enough food by the way the reason i’m not including the beetroots and wheat in this equation is because if you fortune any of the beets or the wheat they actually come with

Seeds separate to the crop itself so obviously with wheat you get wheat seeds with beets you get beet seeds and what that ultimately means is fortune multiplies the amount of seeds but only gets you one of the actual products so for seven wheat i got seven wheat sheaves and then about 30

Wheat seeds for the beets i got four beetroot and 18 seeds so generally speaking i don’t like to use them as crops they’re really not all that great to replant you don’t end up multiplying the crop itself you end up multiplying the seeds and i don’t find that very useful and i’m

Also going to stash away some of the other produce that i brought back from the nether we might get into potion brewing a little bit later as well but i think the focus of this episode is going to be breeding some villages up getting hold of mending for our equipment

And then focusing on some early game farms and a couple of bone meal per crop here will expand our carrot farm to the point where i can harvest a bunch of these with my fortune hoe like so and now we have enough carrots to basically replant this entire field

I’ll toss the remaining carrots to these villages hopefully one or two of them will pick them up and once the work day ends and the meeting time begins you’ll see them all start to mill around the village center over there by the bell and sooner or later the ones that have

Been given food might show some heart particles indicating that they are willing to breed if we don’t see any hard particles soon then chances are they just haven’t had enough food yet and we need to farm a little bit more food and give it out to the villagers

Population but if we want to expand the village’s population the basic equation is food plus beds equals baby villages once they’ve had enough food the village should try and expand the population until all of the beds in the village are filled and at that point they might

Still try to breed but you’ll see the heart particles turn into storm clouds which means they can’t breed right now because there’s not enough room in the village right now though it looks like we aren’t getting any hard particles which probably just means the villagers don’t

Have enough food yet so i’m gonna go and farm some more carrots and i’ll see you guys in a second and a short time later i wasn’t even around when it happened but we have a small newcomer to the community and of course young villagers look more or less like a

Scaled down version of the adult villagers and they will run around in the village causing havoc jumping on beds and generally having a wonderful time naturally they can’t get a job for a little while and so we’re going to be waiting for this mischievous chap to grow up into a full-size villager

Before we can assign him an occupation but for that we all need ourselves another lecture because he’s going to be a second librarian and just so he takes the hint once he grows up because i’m not certain i’ll be around to watch that we are going to place

Another lectin right there and hopefully once he grows up he’s going to immediately pair to that workstation he’s already getting kind of an apprenticeship from the librarian here and in the meantime i’m going to take down my temporary sugarcane farm from up here on the hill because this farming area is getting a

Bit chaotic and it’s getting in the way of the other stuff that i want to do i’ve been farming a few extra trees on my live streams and that’s pretty much all i’ve been doing on my live streams actually which is why my axe is in such a poor state of repair

But what i would really like to do is expand this area around the village into an area that looks a little bit more like the shire since we’ve gone with the hobbit hole idea i feel like we can probably make more hobbit hole facades for other things

That i want to build in this area like for example a sugarcane farm and rather than work our way up through a variety of sugarcane farms until we arrive at the lossless one we’re gonna skip straight ahead to building a lossless sugarcane farm right away and i want to build the sugarcane

Farm across from our hobbit hole which means we’re probably going to finally have to deal with this cave and i’m kind of happy at this point that i have enough gear that i can just shoot these creepers from a distance with a bow take down the remaining zombie with my

Sword and it looks like we are all good in here actually we’ve got a little bit of dark space to light up but for the most part this cave is going to be relatively safe and looks like it is getting dark outside so we’re going to have to go and sleep

One danger of increasing a villager’s population above a certain size is that it can trigger a zombie siege when night falls and just after the sun dips below the horizon a ton of zombies will spawn at near the village perimeter and potentially try and attack the villagers they will also

Try and attack you of course at which point you can try and fend them off but it can be a little bit overwhelming on hard difficulties so i’d prefer for that not to happen if at all possible so we’re not going to breed up too many villagers here today

We should be okay with a couple more but aside from the mending librarian we don’t really need that many the good news is there’s plenty more iron in this cave if i need to come back through and replenish my stores of that although this sugarcane farm that i’m planning to

Build should not really take that much iron in fact the main thing that’s going to require iron here is the output mechanism because it’s going to require hoppers to get all of the items into this chest but we can basically split these in two directions we’ve got one going

This way we’ve got another line now going this way and attached to alternate hoppers here we’re basically going to have machines set up to farm sugarcane for us back to back and it looks like our junior villager has taken after his father in his complete inability to get out of this house

But he has become a librarian and he is currently trading sweeping edge one okay we’ll do something about that but we’ll do that in a second so the way we’re gonna set up this farm is as follows we’ll need eight powered rails and one regular rail we’ll need the

Sugarcane and some sand or dirt to grow it on we’re gonna need a little bit of redstone dust a repeater and some observers now this can be as few as two observers for this design but you might wanna have an observer for basically every piece of sugarcane you’re gonna grow here we’re

Gonna start out by placing one powered rail on top of this hopper a regular rail next to it and then seven rail along the side here ending at the wall of course we’re going to dig down below this and place a lever on the underside of one of these blocks

So that the rail is powered you could obviously do this with any redstone power source you can bury a redstone block in there if you want to but right now we’ll just use a lever because they’re cheap and easy next thing we want to do is place eight sand

Along the top of those powered rail and the regular rail leaving a space at the end here and that’s where the mine cart is going to return to every time it gathers some sugarcane next up we’re going to dig a trench behind this sand and that’s where we’re going to place a single

Water bucket going in any direction we’re going to have it going from this end down this way it should run to a total of eight blocks and then stop and now that’s going to allow us to place the sugar cane sugar cane doesn’t have to be placed next to a water source

It can be flowing water as well across the back here we’re going to be placing a row of solid blocks can be any solid block you like but i’m going to put two shroom lights in here as light sources to make sure the farm is nice and well lit

Next up we’re going to grab a bunch of cobblestone and we’re going to craft eight pistons well i got nine from that but we’re only going to need eight we’re going to hop up here and place the pistons along the back row facing inwards towards the sugarcane now behind this of course

We’re going to place a row of observers facing in towards the sugar cane we grab a little bit of redstone dust and behind the pistons here we’re going to be placing a row of solid blocks with the redstone dust traveling across the top of them so that

The entire back row here is filled up like that and we’re not going to get anything spawning in this space so don’t worry if it’s kind of dark the last thing we’re going to place on this row is an observer facing downwards which are always a little bit tricky to place

But there we go we’re going to put one last piece of redstone dust on top of that we’re going to make sure there is a block directly underneath that in the form of this set of oak planks for now we’re going to leave a space place another set of oak planks there

We’re going to put some redstone dust on top of that turn around and place a redstone repeater set to three ticks right clicking on it a couple of times we’ll extend the duration that that redstone repeater stays on for now we place our minecart hopper on the end here and the

Farm is basically ready for action give or take the fact that i want to put a piece on the front here to block any sugarcane from falling out of it basically how this is going to work if i can grab a couple more sugarcane i’ll be able to show you

Is that every time a sugarcane grows up in front of the observer all of these pistons are going to fire thanks to the fact that they’re all connected by redstone dust at the back at the same time that redstone dust triggers this observer here which triggers the redstone repeater powering

That rail and sending this hopper mine cart off on its collection cycle as with the hopper minecarts collecting stuff for our storage system they will pick up any items that are above this solid block that they’re running over so as you can see right here it picks up the two planks and the

Shears that i’ve left up there and those end up in the output chest along with the sugar cane that i’ve been using to demonstrate and so now with some glass that we’re gonna buy from the librarians we can just wall this off and then start another farm immediately opposite it so

That we’re using as little space as possible to create a decent sized sugarcane farm one added bonus by the way is that in 1.17 rails are no longer affected by water in the way that they used to be so even if you end up breaking this

It’s no longer going to break any of your rail meaning it’s much easier to fix farms like this if the water gets out and building up another layer of the farm is basically the same process repeated again except this time we have a little bit more room to work with

Because we’re not carving out the wall of this cave and copying the circuit over to the opposite side is just a matter of mirroring the entire thing it’s worth bearing in mind that this observer here is going to power this block which means that hopper underneath

Is going to be locked but that will be temporary the redstone pulse is very brief and it should allow the hopper to unlock again very quickly we need a couple more hopper minecarts but aside from that we are pretty much good to go here and honestly you could remove

Most of the observers from this and just have one sugarcane be detected by the observer if you wanted to save on materials the rest of those could just end up being solid blocks but at the end of the day it’s worth it just so that as soon as

Any piece of sugarcane grows it immediately gets harvested some of them like this piece on the end here might not have fully grown by the time the machine ends up harvesting all of the other pieces but at least you’re going to make sure that as soon as one grows to a certain height

You’re getting as much sugarcane as you can from that cycle and we’re going to close off the ends of the machine here with glass just so it’s nice and contained and no sugarcane escapes we’ll probably end up putting some kind of organized roof over the entire thing as well so i

Can do what i want with the layer above and make sure the machine here remains preserved but this looks like it’s just about ready to fire just so the whole thing looks a little bit neater i’m going to basically fill in the glass wall at the

End here and put a little bit more filler material around the outside which shouldn’t disrupt the running of the farm at all just going to make sure everything looks nice and neat from the outside and while we’re waiting for this to complete its first harvest i’m actually

Going to start on the next one over which is going to share a redstone line with this one here we’re going to save on resources by doing that and while these pistons will fire at the same time as these ones which might mean we occasionally get an unnecessary

Harvest it is going to mean that the entire module stays a little bit neater and honestly it doesn’t matter if these things fire too often because they’re not going to prevent the sugarcane from growing by firing once and then retracting again and there we go it

Looks like that part of the machine just fired and hopefully the minecart should have retrieved yes there we go and it produced exactly nine which means we can turn that into nine paper and that’s gonna mean three books and it sounds like the other half of

The machine just went and you could see that one there got collected and it looks like we’re gonna get another nine sugar cane fantastic so that’s gonna make for 18 paper in total and while it may not feel like a whole lot right now that’s gonna run in the

Background while we do a ton more work around this area and that’s gonna be basically our sugarcane farm for the rest of the series i expect all that’s left to do is copy the circuit over onto this side and we’ll have twice the amount and you can

Basically make this as large as you want depending on whether you have the resources to do that now that’s taken care of let’s go and check in with our brand new librarian villager because he was selling me a sweeping edge book but now he can break and replace his lectern

And the second one comes up mending although that’s pretty expensive for amending trade so i’ll probably try and re-roll to get a slightly cheaper price i don’t know if it’s still possible to get it this cheap but i have seen mending go for six emeralds before they may have changed

Some of the weighting of the prices but honestly i think it’s worth re-rolling this a few more times until we get a better mending trade oh mending came up for 36 emeralds again so i do wonder if maybe they’ve changed the price of this or maybe i’m just getting appalling luck

Finally 16 emeralds it’s not the cheapest i’ve seen but it’s definitely sounding better now all i need to do is go and grab some more sticks so i can trade with the fletcher he should keep that trade until i come back to him though it’s not a big problem

And boom there we go we have one mending book locked in with that trade fantastic now i should be able to get at least one more if i can trade the rest of these and where’d the guy go there he is my new best friend two mending books

Well the first one of those is going on this axe immediately because it is on its last legs but then after that i think one of the pickaxes is probably due for that there we go mending goes on the axe for two xp levels and i think we’ll put

It on the fortune pickaxe for now because it doesn’t have on breaking yet and then it can basically heal itself as we mine stuff like coal redstone quartz etc oh i’m so happy that we finally have mending in this world it’s probably an enchantment that i’ve been

Holding off for too long on getting hold of but now we have our set of tools that will hopefully last us for the rest of the play through provided that we survive and i just need to get a few more mending trades under my belt to get it on the armor

And the rest of the tools as well but we may as well finish what we set out to do i’m not going to do the facade today but we’re at least going to get the rest of this sugarcane farm built out so i need to go away and get some more redstone dust

Craft a few extra observers get some more sand and finish off this whole project and we return to a fully operational double module sugarcane farm and i like the way this came together it does look kind of like a koala to me i don’t know

If it looks that way to you guys but i just see two big eyes and nose there little mouth with a red tongue and then of course 18 sugarcane left in the chest i’m actually going to leave that in there for now because we will probably

Want to do more stuff with that a little bit later but i wanted to talk a little bit now that we have mending about sources of xp because a question i often get is how i end up using mending on my tools that have things like silk touch where

Typically you don’t end up harvesting resources that heal your tools as you go because you’re not getting xp from all blocks the same way you are with fortune and i think this question comes a lot from bedrock edition players because a lot of the time on java it’s

As simple as putting whatever tool you have in your off hand and mending will still work there mending works on any equipment that you currently have equipped so whether it’s in your offhand your main hand or your armor slots any xp you gather will go to any of the items that have

Mending before it starts accruing in your xp levels bar but bedrock edition players unfortunately do not have the luxury of holding anything they want in their offhand it’s limited to only a few items and so you need some alternative ways of getting xp well one good way of doing that is

Through furnaces blast furnaces smokers any furnace variant anything that smelts items will then give you an output once you take the items out of the output then that’s going to give you some xp and depending on how rare the item you’re smelting is the more xp you get so iron gold and

Copper are all good examples of ores that are going to give you some pretty nice xp on the output and an interesting factor about this is on bedrock edition furnaces are actually kind of bugged and if you set them up with an automatic hopper output but you put a lever on the furnace

Or you know put a lever near the hopper that allows you to lock it with a redstone signal any single item that you take out of the blast furnace or furnace or smoker or whatever it is will actually give you the xp that that furnace has accrued over its entire lifespan

Every time you take one item out of the furnace that only works on bedrock edition so java edition players don’t worry too much about that there are other ways that you guys can get xp but if you play on bedrock that’s a really important trick because

You can hold whatever item in your main hand without having to worry about the offhand stuff and that’s going to repair your silk touch pickaxe or axe or whatever item you use now don’t get me wrong furnaces are still a reasonable source of xp on java

Edition and there are farms you can set up like for example a cactus farm which will allow you to put items through a furnace almost constantly allowing you to accrue xp in the background and once you’re ready to collect the xp you simply grab an item out of that output slot and

It gives you a ton of xp pretty much mending your tools in their entirety you’ll notice my diamond x right now has 205 durability once i take the iron out of here all of that goes to the axe and i have 223 durability it’s

Not a whole lot for 12 bars of iron but it’s still a little bit of repair another option could be to domesticate one of the mob spawner dungeons that you find throughout the world and we might end up converting this zombie spawner dungeon at some point into something that we can

Use as a more permanent xp farm but frankly i find them a little bit slow compared to the output of a general mob spawner that’s just a dark room in the sky generating a ton of mobs at a time and a lot of people like to use those as their first

Basic xp farms there are of course a few renowned xp farms for late game like a zombie pig man gold farm on the roof of the nether or an ender ender in the end dimension but i think in the meantime there are some better sources of xp in the overworld

And frankly once again it is villagers if i trade with this fletcher once again durability on my axe right now 223. i’ve got a decent inventory full of sticks with my axe in that hand if i trade my way through all of these sticks that’s back up to 379 right away i trade

With another fletcher that’s going to leap another 150 or so durability yep we’re back up to 551 there and that’s definitely more durability regained than it takes to chop down enough trees to trade that amount of sticks so ultimately we’re gaining xp pretty fast now i don’t know what either of these

Suspicious stews are but it’s worth giving them a try just in case and if i eat this one we are about to get a completely random status effect let’s see what that is okay that one was weakness good to know that was the first one he traded

How about the second one that is poison okay good this guy sells weakness and poison stews wonderful just gonna throw both of those into the well and probably never speak of them again back on the cookie and apple diet for me but once we get to one of the later trades

With this farmer we should be able to trade golden carrots from him and that’s really what i’m after from this guy i’m gonna do a few more stick trades to get some more emeralds and right now we’re on 911 durability with our diamond x this guy is now giving me discounts on

Cookies which is wonderful and now he’s through the expert phase into master he is now selling us golden carrots for two emeralds and he’s giving us three golden carrots per trade let’s see what we’re at 939 let’s see how many durability we come away from this with

There we go we traded 36 golden carrots and we now have 1055 durability so with a few villager trades there and some very useful stuff that we got gotten hold off give or take all of the cookies which are called biscuits because i play with the uk language pack that’s kind of hilarious

With just a few quick villager trades my axe is two-thirds of the way repaired from where it was before almost completely broken before it is now a very functional axe once again and i think that’s another thing that makes villagers very much worth keeping around in the early game we’ll obviously step outside

Of the village at some point and go and make some better xp farms elsewhere but i think in the meantime these guys are fantastic to trade with and i’m going to spend the rest of my day repairing these tools but now i’m on the golden carrot diet we have renewable food pretty much

Permanently as well and i need to find something to do with all of these cookies but for now i think in front of our sugarcane farm here that is where i’m going to leave it for this episode of the hardcore survival guide folks i do hope you’ve

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