Ultimate Smoker Upgrades & Chorus Plant Farm!

Hello everyone my name is pick Soros and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide hope you guys are having a good day we’re starting off today’s episode of here at the super smoker that we built in the last episode and I gotta say I like the way this thing is

Performing so far we’re the one exception which we’ll get to in a second but if I climb the scaffold over here I can show you that the the cart is still working pretty well it’s managing to clear out the contents of this chest and that is ultimately draining the kelp

Supply we have up here my main concern after I built this was that the backlog of kelp was too much for it to handle even with the double smoking speed that we have with these things I was a little bit worried that the system was going to

Become overloaded and the kelp farm was gonna produce more than this system could handle but happily even though those two hoppers up there were backed up at the time we actually built this thing it looks like it’s actually draining the supply and anything that’s new that’s coming in isn’t going to

Completely overwhelm the smoker the problem comes with the minecart distributing all of these items around the smokers because the hoppers are actually pretty full they are completely full in fact all the way around and while the smokers are obviously cooking stuff at twice the speed of a furnace

They aren’t getting rid of these items nearly as fast as we are delivering them so what I’ve decided to do is expand this set up and add eight additional smokers to it in the hopes that the minecart distributing things around 16 smokers instead of eight not only doubles our output but hopefully it

Reduces the amount of time the minecart is just idling in this circuit ready to drop off one piece of kelp everytime the smoker is done with it to my estimation it takes about three whole circuits before the smoker is ready to receive another item possibly even four so yeah

We are actually seeing a little bit of wait time here for the minecart to drop stuff off so what I’m gonna do is lock it up there once it’s ready to return to the station here we’re just going to pop a block of dirt in front of it or

Something like that and that’s going to keep it up there until we can make some improvements to the track and include a few more smokers in the equation so that just requires me to wait until hobble minecart is ready to be refilled it should be any second now there we

And I’ve missed my chance nope there we go that should keep it in place perfect right they’re worried they’re just fallen off the scaffold these things are kind of difficult to stay up on when you’re just building a pillar like that but anyway that should give us the

Opportunity we need to add in a few more smokers and then all we’ll need to do is add in a second repeater to this circuit and move it a little bit further back so it’s still detecting when the hopper minecart is empty but it just delays how

Long until that track switches and it makes another circuit so this should be nice and straightforward to do and yes it does bug me that this whole thing is off-center I’m sorry to anybody else who is slightly tweaked by that but don’t worry it’s it’s all good we can at the

Very least cover this up with a nice-looking deck layer up here and we can probably put in a bunch of other details into the ship that I’ve got to make it look fantastic but the smoker section here is probably just going to stay like this for the foreseeable

Future at least now if we take this away we can move the powered rails a little further down I’ll need a few more of those out of my redstone box so we’re going to need to move these two redstone blocks so that they’re in the middle

Here and the signal reaches all the way to both ends of the powered rail section but that’s fine because we’re moving this circuit over as well it still needs to run into the same point so we can keep this down here we just need to yeah

Move it down a little bit and we can also move it out of the way of the hoppers that way because one concern I had was that the redstone signal here was going to block off some of the hoppers it’s not gonna do that all the

Time though because as you know the the signal is only going to be there for a very short amount of time so we shouldn’t need to worry too much about that so as before we’ll have a redstone comparator here we’ll have a couple of repeaters here and a 4 tick plus a 1

Tick delay might be all we need here let me quickly check that we’ll need a little bit more redstone dust as well but we can send a practice minecart around here before we send the one over around that has the the contents but that’s still feeding into the block with

The redstone torch on it right there we need to move these two guys just to make sure the full section of the powered rail is completely powered let’s put it there and there looks like that’s all functioning fine and we need a minecart do I have one in the register

Books right now I don’t think I do I’ve got enough iron though so I’ll just make another one while I’m in here actually it’s not gonna work like that at all because it was just a regular minecart and it needs contents to be detected by the comparator circuit so you know what

We’ll just let reduce the kelp minecart on here and the worst that can happen is that it goes back to the loading station up here so let’s give this a try go around the circuit once I’ll need to get out of the way yep looks like the delays

Actually perfect we’ve actually got that on two ticks right now on the second repeater and yep looks like that’s doing everything it’s supposed to fantastic good we have here a doubly large smoker set up now now all we need is twice the fuel and some hoppers to go from here

Into the input chest perfect in fact that last hop of air could basically just go straight into the chest in that way it’s not bottlenecking the supply through that hopper in the middle which I don’t think it would I don’t think we’re quite gonna be outputting that

Much here but you never know at least I’ve now got enough dried kelp from the other smokers that I can turn some of that into fuel blocks which is the whole point of this exercise to begin with and I’ve already started fueling some of these smokers with the

Dried kelp blocks we’ve been creating here so let’s get this thing started I can probably put a little bit of coal in each of these to begin with just to get the ball rolling as it were but remember each kelp block is going to smelt twenty

Items so we have a pretty reliable fuel source there we can take the coal out of these furnaces once we’ve produced a little bit more this chest on this side is doing pretty well – looks like we’re in business folks and yes I still need

To add in a fuel line that’s going to deliver the fuel to these smokers as we go but I think I might even be able to do that with a bunch of hoppers and some chests considering how much fuel kelp blocks actually provide to these furnaces it would be simple enough just

To fill up a double chest of kelp blocks attach that to each of these smokers and then it would be providing kelp in perpetuity we might even in the fullness of time need to add in a few more storage modules to this add in another couple of

Hoppers and chests going down into the into the ground underneath the ship just to make sure that we have enough storage for the amount of kelp this thing is going to be producing I think point the bottleneck would really be how much kelp the farm itself is making

Considering how fast this system could run if we let it but in the mean time at least we know that these hoppers have been able to burn off a little bit of the backlog here and the system is actually delivering less kelp than the furnaces themselves the smokers

Themselves are burning so that’s perfect that’s exactly what we need because eventually it’s actually gonna run out of kelp in here and the system will be delivering fresh kelp every single time there’s probably a balance we could reach mathematically where the timings are perfect enough and the capacity of

The hopper minecart is perfect enough that it would be smelting 20 new kelp perc health block every time and no fuel would be wasted but considering the amount that these things can produce I’m not too worried about waste at this stage I think we should be able to get

On just fine making a little bit more kelp block than we actually need I mean just while I’ve been fiddling with this and sat here it’s actually delivered enough help to make another stack of dried kelp blocks so we can fill up this next furnace perfect okay I think it’s

Time to move on for the remainder of this episode we’re gonna take a quick look at Corus fruit farming because this is something that I mean meaning to cover since we went to the end but I haven’t really found the right time so feels like we may as well cover it today

Coris fruit is actually pretty easy to farm all you need are Cora’s flowers and end stone and they can be farmed in any dimension it works in the overworld the end or the nether so pretty easy to get a hold of the recent farm chorus fruit other than for teleport a surprise food

Is to get yourself some purple blocks because popped chorus fruit can be crafted into purple blocks which themselves aren’t used all that often but if you want to build with something kind of pale purple especially considering the helots slightly revamped textures in this new update it’s probably worth knowing how to farm them

In particular there is a change in this update that makes it slightly easier for players to farm chorus fruits the main thing being that chorus flowers were previously quite difficult to obtain if you recall how chorus fruits grow in the end you end up with a plant that grows

Out from a single chorus flower and it’ll grow quite frequently there are ways to speed up this process but they are far too complicated for this tutorial instead we’re going to plant a few of these probably a couple of blocks apart to allow them room to grow and as

The stems grow you will see them split off into several different chorus flowers that start to reach out in various different directions in fact the most effective way to farm these is probably in a slightly offset grid in the same way that you’d build something like a sugar cane farms so instead of

Building them in a straight row like this you probably want to go two steps to the side and then one step back to allow for those arms that reach out and grow in different directions to branch out slightly more effectively so let’s do that with our next set and once these

Have grown a little bit further than we can kind of have them follow suit now if you’re just after growing chorus flowers then one thing you can do is place a block a couple of blocks above the chorus flower head as it grows and it will end up growing around that into

Usually two or three separate things now the main thing to avoid is to block off a chorus flower because once it realizes that there’s nowhere else for it to grow the flower will close up and it will stop growing and once they get to a certain height they will often close up

Automatically because the plant doesn’t want to grow any higher but if you want chorus flowers to grow in large numbers then it’s usually a good idea to build a farm something like that as you can see this plant here has started to sprout off in two different directions it’s the

First of our plants to grow a second flower looks like that one over there has done so as well it’s completely random when they do this aside from occasional circumstances in which you can manipulate it so it’s usually a good idea to just grow a bunch of them and of

Course if you want to harvest the chorus fruit as well what you’re looking for is these stems because if you break a chorus plant like so it ends up dropping a bunch of chorus fruit what it doesn’t drop is the flower from the top so up until this update the flowers have had

To be harvested manually but as of the 1.14 update a really neat quality-of-life feature has come into play where you can shoot the chorus flowers down with arrows which i think is a fantastic addition this can also be done with a trident if you want to do

This with a trident that has loyalty attached to it so that you can just recall the Trident to you and that this way it’s it’s a lot of fun actually using these things as target practice but primarily it’s a way to avoid the painful business of having to

Pillar up and harvest those high reaching chorus flowers if you’re building them in a farm like this but this mechanic allows us to make chorus farms a lot more automatic because all you really need to do is shoot down each of the chorus flowers which can be fun

Target practice and has you completely with a shot like I just did and then all you need to do is pour a bucket of water or get a water streams activated via dispenser or for a let out from behind trap doors and you can harvest the fruit

That way so what we’re going to do over here is we’re going to make a relatively small-scale chorus fruit farm that we can use both as target practice and as a means of harvesting these flowers infinitely okay so this thing is looking a little crowded now but this is the

Setup I’ve got and some of the chorus plants are still growing a few of them have reach their their preferred maximum height and they are withering the flowers actually you can see in the subtitles it says that the flowers wither instead of closing up but anyway

What we’ve got here is kind of similar to the setup we had with the nether walk farm we’ve got a set of water sources back here being held back only by iron trapdoors the main thing be using iron trapdoors is if you happen to hit them with an ax or something like

That you’re not gonna break them and then flood out the entire farm but you probably won’t need to be swinging your axe much in here because the whole point of this is that the water will flood down this section we’ve got a platform that seven blocks long here allowing the

Water to flow down onto the next section which is eight blocks long leading finally to these two water streams directing the output of the farm into a single hopper into a single chest now obviously in the grand scheme of things we might have to enlarge the storage of

That chest but it kind of makes sense to do it this way for now so in order to get some of these higher up flowers if you if you don’t want to shoot them all from the ground I recommend using a bit of scaffolding because it’s nice and

Easy to place a temporary platform up here get a high enough vantage point and then from here you can just systematically shoot down all of the flowers using your projectile weapon of choice whether that’s a trident a crossbow or just a regular bow in fact it might even be possible to automate

That our a fashion so that you could use dispensers to fire maybe downwards onto the flowers here to make sure that you actually hit them all instead of like firing across which would be guaranteed to miss a few potentially if you just had like a square of dispensers up here

Firing arrows downwards at once or maybe even if you wanted to do some fun stuff with mobs you could trick skeletons into firing at you or at some kind of other mob whether it be an iron golem or a snow golem or something and they could take down the chorus flowers for you

Considering how accurate skeletons are on hardmode it might be kind of more precise to do it that way I don’t know I mean I’m interested to see if it’s possible to do stuff like that in future but for now we can keep taking all of these down manually and then once we’ve

Done shooting down all of the flowers ideally this is gonna take less than five minutes to do because otherwise some of the flowers would start to de-spawn once they’ve just been sat there on the ground for a while but we can just flush the system out by

Flicking the lever at the back there and that would sweep all of the flowers and all of the chorus fruit down into that water stream to be collected in the chest and we can replant the flowers from there I might actually take the scaffolding tower over to the other side

Because I feel like that’s getting a little bit tricky to spot some of the the flowers that are on this other side and the the chorus plants just grow in such a tangled way which looks very cool especially when you’re out in the end but can be a little bit difficult to

Spot the flowers once you’re trying to shoot them all down there we go I think we got pretty much all of them I think it’s probably just time to flush the farm out if we missed a couple that’s fine because we can always just replant these and grow some more flowers a

Couple of the flowers ended up on the back here so you could probably build a larger kind of structure around this thing if you wanted to keep them all contained but all we need to do is flick this lever and the water breaks absolutely everything and washes it all

Down into hang on a second oh I know what I’ve done because that technically counts as the eighth block so it’s not gonna flush it all the way down well done I need to rebuild some of this for now let’s just sweep some of this down manually with a bucket of water oh

That’s that’s slightly embarrassing should probably have checked that before I showed it off on camera but yeah we can sweep all of this into a water stream down the end and then hopefully it’ll collect up we can replant the farm and we can resize this first platform here and instead of

Moving all of this section that way all I did was move this section this way a little bit and shorten this platform here so that’s now seven blocks including the block the water source starts on so a six block long platform here and then we still have an a block

Long platform there because that just needs to get flushed down into this system right there there we go and from that first harvest we actually got quite a few chorus flowers and chorus fruit so we’ve got plenty of stuff that we can replant and if you wanted to size this

Up all you need to do would be to just make the area of n stone a little bit larger in fact if you wanted to plant this kind of a little bit more systematically you could probably just put in stone blocks here and there there’s a lot of N stone out there so

Don’t worry about like not being able to use enough of hit the heads there’s plenty more to go around but if you wanted to make this a little bit more organized you could just plant individual blocks of n stone here and there that are definitely the spots you

Would plant the chorus flowers on every time personally I’m going for a bit more of a random approach I’m just kind of placing them wherever I want to at this stage because farming all of this stuff is not super necessary to me right now but who knows I might want to use some

Purple blocks in future so it’d be nice to have a renewable supply of them this should work a little better this time let’s take out all of the flowers from the top here I put a semi-permanent scaffolding tower here at the back and if you go up a little bit higher you can

Get a better vantage point on some of these flowers some of them have closed up a little bit prematurely simply because they didn’t really have any room to grow they do that typically when you’ve got stuff on either side of them so it is possible to force them to close

Up but for the most part they’re not going to grow any higher than that if you want them to grow higher then you need to make sure they have a nice open space around them so in the grand scheme of things maybe this farm needs to be a

Little bit wider and a little bit less crowded if we want to get the maximum amount of flower output from these as well as the maximum amount of Korus fruit and specifically for this farm it might be a good idea to have a bow with mending seeing as the other enchantments

Wouldn’t really count but doing this over and over again is running down the durability on my bow a little bit and if I want to save this one for combat and not have to reproduce it so often then potentially a bow with mending and no other enchants would probably be a

Good idea one more flower to take care of over there I love the fact you can shoot out of scaffolding Lee’s scaffolding is such a minimal contact block it’s actually really useful for stuff like this one more flower over there there we go okay I think I got it

Now all we need to do is reach out of here and open the trapdoors and all of that stuff floods down into the collection system fantastic I think I do need to put a set of stairs over the top of the chest there and around the outside these walls probably need to be

A little bit higher maybe we need something to kind of shield the redstone over here from from the the stuff popping off onto it but in the grand scheme of things we have ourselves a pretty neat little chorus farm here and yet all of the stuff is flowing in we’ve

Got plenty of course fruit coming through perfect here’s something weird I discovered though you can’t actually cook chorus fruit in a smoker like it won’t let me shift-click that into the smoker interface I can place it in there manually but if I try to cook it it does

Nothing which seems a little bit weird considering that the chorus fruit is a food and the smoker is meant to process food however the output of smelting chorus fruit isn’t a food it’s popped chorus fruit which you can’t eat you can only use it to turn it into building

Blocks into end rods into purple blocks that kind of thing so that’s probably the main reason you would want a chorus fruit farm in the first place by the way is for end rods but even so it’s not possible to smelt them super fast like

It is with the kelp you will need a regular furnace setup for this and while that might seem a little strange because the fact that these are food when they go in the smoker only processes things that are food when they come out if that makes sense so just to clear up any

Confusion about that because the rules of the smoker might seem a little bit strange if you go into the creative mode inventory by the way chorus fruit doesn’t even show up under the food section it shows up under miscellaneous so if nothing else that should be your guarantee that chorus fruit is not

Intended to be a food that you smoke in the smoker and I hope that clears that up for you hope you guys enjoyed this episode a little bit of Korus fruit farming a little bit of something different a few technical projects this week I think should be a lot of fun

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