BoxBlair – Slime Farm Preparations Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 – Evolution Ep49

All right guys welcome back to another beta Minecraft episode episode 49 in fact um can you believe it I have something very special um planned for episode 50. so you’re gonna have to stick around um stick around to see that for the next episode um but today we’re building a slime farm

Um and in order for us to do that we’re gonna need to mine out a big big flat area below minus 40 minus 40 below y40 um and then hope to find a slime chunk and then we’re gonna have to use sort of trial and error to deduce where the uh

Where the exact chunk is now we’re gonna grab a bunch of TNT and head underground and make a big area for the uh for the Slime to spawn in a bit um but first I want to show off this door design which um some Keen Eye

Viewers might have seen in some of the other episodes before this one um now this is a a sort of hidden piston door um that you can kind of completely hide and have no um no indication of an entrance now I didn’t really show this off until now

Just because I wanted to incorporate it with the uh with the slime farm eventually but this is basically this is a boat piston door basically a boat at activated piston door which Ethos Lab came up with some years ago which I can I’ll link the video into the into the

Description as well so that you guys can check out the original video but basically how it works is you take a boat and then you place it in uh in the wall here and then you can walk through and then the door closes behind you now the way this works is pretty simple

Actually you place the the boat in there it gets put into this block and one corner of the boat is stuck on this this uh pressure plate here which opens uh opens the piston door and also um brings a redstone signal up here to retract this piston and then the lava starts to

Flow down and another corner of the boat is here and is broken by the lava when the lava hits it so you could put the lava kind of as high as you want to make the timer of the door open uh like the time the door is open longer but here

It’s about I think it’s about like three seconds or so for the lava to flow down um which yeah it’s quite quite an interesting door um to say the least so yeah there’s the boat put down on it as you can see oh I let me show that a bit better let’s um

Grab the other boats so I put the boat in there there it is on that corner there and there it is there and it just got destroyed so um yeah it’s a pretty cool pretty cool random random system here and yeah the only indication that I

Guess there is a door here is uh is the leftover scrap that kind of gets left outside but um yeah I mean it’s not a big issue in our uh single player world I don’t think anyone’s gonna gonna notice that so um yeah I think I’m gonna

Incorporate this into our uh slime farm have this be our uh our our door to our slime farm maybe um but yeah let’s uh let’s get down on the ground let’s grab some TNT and I think it’s about time we start uh blowing an area up for our slime farm

Okay so here’s a bunch of TNT and here we are down by our Railway we’re gonna take this track um over to our boat Road and Old mine um because I think this is where I’m gonna have uh the slime farm over here now this this track I think one day will

Go we’ll probably connect to the uh to the spider farm all the way uh all the way out that way and uh yeah and obviously the slime farm which I’m going to build around here um so I think so this kind of goes down to just this must be just above Bedrock

Yeah 11 here I guess this is like a bit up but slimes can spawn around here now I do have um over a bit further here this is where I used to um do a little bit of redstone and stuff with that uh with that old exploit and a

Bit of coal so I’m gonna keep this intact because um yeah you know Nostalgia so I think on this side is where things are going to be uh are going to be um blown up just out this way we’re gonna obviously keep this intact so probably down in here and then out this

Way is um is where we’re going to blow stuff up and hopefully we’ll find a slime chunk um a usable slime chunk um and uh yeah I think let’s uh kind of just get used to it actually ironically I will say ironically um in in the railway basically in the

Middle of this Railway section here there’s a slime chunk because slimes do spawn in here occasionally so yeah but obviously we can’t use that because it’s uh in the middle of our uh our Railway so yeah we’re not going to be using that um but yeah let’s uh let’s get to work

On blowing this area up okay and just a quick update before I stop blowing things up um I made uh basically perimeter it’s like a hundred by a hundred blocks and uh all of this in here is going to be blown up and that’s uh that’s where

We’re hoping a slime chunk will be I have no idea but that’s where I’m hoping one will be so I’m gonna get blown things up let’s go Foreign Foreign Thank you All right so here we are quite a bit later we have mined out this whole area using TNT in our pickaxe and it is a huge area that uh could possibly hold slime chunks which is kind of cool and this took a while but uh not as low as

You’d think I mean TNT kind of did uh did most of the work um yeah it’s kind of cool though now obviously I’ve been in this area quite a lot and I have seen some slime spawning which is great but I’ll get to that in a

Sec so I have seen some slime spawn over here in this corner as well now I’m not sure whether it might be just the very corner of the box I’m not sure but I feel like it might dig into this wall here so I’m not gonna touch that but

Luckily there is a slime spawning over here and I did Mark just with a little uh little wood block where I saw the the Slime spawning and there’s another one so we definitely have a slime chunk somewhere in here which we need to kind

Of figure out so this is where I saw the first one spawning and here’s the next one so and then there was another one over there so yeah we’ve got we’ve got a slime chunk here um and I don’t know how I don’t really know how to determine

Where exactly the slime chunk is and how the slime chunk is I’ve got this grid pattern with the Torches you might have noticed I’ve got this grid pattern it’s like you know five blocks between each torch I don’t know if that really helps me at all

Um but yeah I’m gonna do some research and figure out how how you might find a slime chunk um just randomly you know because I feel like yeah it’s kind of weird you kind of don’t know and there’s another wait there’s a slime over there surely that’s too big to be one chunk

Unless the chunk is here it’s like a s and there’s another whoa okay so we might have a couple of a couple of slime chunks here okay wait I wanna I wanna Mark these areas where I find the slimes because honestly it’s pretty cool that that there’s slimes over here

Because if there’s a slime chunk in the middle here that would be kind of more ideal than all the way over there but oh and there’s some there okay this is I don’t know I don’t know how big the area could be but like there’s slime spawning here

Good thing is we’ve got slime spawning I’m gonna figure out how to how to find the slime chunks and uh yeah I’ll show you when I’ve got those areas kind of marked out okay so quite a bit of time later a bit of headache and some trial and error and

Figuring it out I do have an idea of where these slime Farms are so get destroyed you’re dead give me your slime okay so I know for a fact that there is a slime for a slime chunk here and one over here some kind of areas around here

I think they dig into the wall um because I think the perimeter must be like very close to here and same with that one there so we’re going to ignore those ones because they’re very close to our infrastructure now you do see a slime over here but he actually spawned

In this area here which you might be able to see I’ve marked out with some wood here so this is a chunk right here that is a slime chunk as far as I can tell now this guy yeah he is over there but I’m I’m pretty sure he just walked

All the way over here um rather than actually spawned over there I don’t know what he’s on a mission for but um he’s gonna die get dead Okay um now that one’s probably the most convenient one um and I think I’m I’m happy to try and

Use that one but there is another one over here in fact there’s another two slash three over here um which is kind of cool so uh this bit of wood here so this is the slime chunk here right in the middle here which is kind of good like it’s it’s a quite a

Bit of a distance away though but this is actually a double slime chunk right here so um I kind of like blogged up this area and they were spawning in here and I was like okay cool like this is a slime chunk and then they were spawning over

Here and I was like what is happening okay is it like move slightly over or whatever and then I moved it and then like slides were spawning out I was like I don’t understand and then I was like wait it’s probably a double slide jump so double slime chunk which is pretty cool

Um so this might be the best one to use because um obviously you probably get double the Slime right so yeah but the annoying thing is it is kind of over here and it does dig into the wall just slightly um but yeah I’m not entirely sure

Um what the best strategy there so double slime chunk there slime chunk over there and then I I also found that there was another one just down the end over here yeah here we go just in this corner just outside our initial perimeter um just over here so we’ve got quite a

Few options there they are spawning in elsewhere uh we’ve got quite a few options to work with this one seems to spawn the most I don’t know if that’s just coincidence or uh or or what I don’t know if they they have specific spawning rates or anything like that but

Um yeah as you can see these guys definitely all spawned within this uh within this perimeter actually they kind of spawned look like they kind of spawned next to it huh okay and that guy there’s no way that guy walked all the way over there I

Don’t know I I’m I’m almost certain that this right here is the uh is the spawning chunk but there’s also some over there I don’t know I don’t know this has been a been a been a headache a headache and a half to try and try and narrow down where these

Where these slime chunks are they do move quite fast so yeah but yeah anyway there’s uh yep there’s a lot of slime spawning they definitely traveled out from there I think there could be one in that corner just you know just thinking of it but um I

Think that’s kind of kind of the most I’m gonna try and find these slime chunks other than this I think I’m I’m done looking for them I found quite a few you know viable options I don’t need to need to look for anymore so um yeah

Okay now I know I said I was gonna build the Slime farms in this episode at the start of the episode but this actually has taken quite a long time obviously to mine out this area and to uh to find where the slimes are spawning so I’m I’m

Gonna call it there for this episode this is uh this is our preparation for slime Palm episode um and then not in the next episode because that’s episode 50 I’ve got um something else planned but in the episode after that episode 51 we will most likely be building slime Farms so

Stick around for that um let me know what you think of this video If you enjoyed leave a like And subscribe and uh yeah I’ll see you in episode 50. lighters