Bubble Columns and Dye Crafting! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 49]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a great day today we’re starting off in the skeleton and spider spawner that we converted in the last episode I hope you guys enjoyed that on I am so

Glad that we have this whole thing set up I’ve been killing skeletons for the bones for the XP I’ve got 53 levels all of my tools are pretty much repaired except for the ones that don’t have mending on them right now and I have more arrows and bows than I know what to

Do with the bones I absolutely know what I’m gonna do with those so I’m gonna take uh some of those away with me and look at that some old bows are creeping into the system I’m just going to try and keep those slots of this chest

Filled up with bones so that no other items can get in but sooner or later that’s kind of backlog the hopper down there so we might have to expand the storage in here as you can see I’ve been doing a little bit of decorating I’ve been just kind of peppering the ceiling

With like textural block stuff that gives this place hello but a flavour kind of makes it feel like it’s all run down I actually kept the supports from that abandoned mineshaft which is still behind here and we could still go and explore a bit more of that at some point

If we want to over here I’ve actually kept a bit of line-of-sight for that spawner just so I can check that the lights are off and everything is working well I also couldn’t really work around the redstone being there leading up to this block and there are probably ways

Around that but I didn’t feel like doing it I felt like it was justified to kind of keep that gap up there open and nothing should be able to get through there anyway unless it’s a cave spider which shouldn’t be spawning outside of this room and then one beyond this wall

Anyway but for now I’m gonna switch the skeleton spawner off and once we got outside of this mossy cobblestone area it probably wouldn’t have given us any more skeletons anyway but I think now is the time to leave this place much as it is kind of awesome right now in fact I

Might work a little bit on the entrance and exit to this place before we go because right now all I’ve got is a ladder and ladders well they are kind of good well it is nice to have it ladders to kind of control getting in and out of

A place it does tend to make things a little bit slow like as far as as far as transport in Minecraft goes ladders are useful for what they are but they’re not the best way of getting in and out of something the best way is probably to

Use water and you saw in the last episode that we could create these bauble columns that now you to transport vertically very very fast or at least they can transport you upwards very fast the other columns using magma blocks will transport you down they’ll kind of suck you down into

Wherever the magma block is taking you but the problem with those is that you can take damage on the magma block if you’re not holding shift or wearing Frost Walker boots which creates a completely different problem for water and it’s actually not as fast as you can possibly fall because you can fall

Basically at the Minecraft equivalent of terminal velocity very very easily and there are very simple ways of making sure you don’t take damage at the bottom of a fall so before we go anywhere we are going to start off this episode by arranging a bubble column in here and

That getting ourselves a nice safe water drop for that I’m actually going to leave my fireworks because I’m gonna fly out to a place where we can find an ocean the main reason for that being so that we can find some kelp kelp is a really useful thing when it comes to

Creating water columns oh by the way I can show you a nice trick with ladders if we’ve got our fireworks on us if you’re moving downwards on a ladder and you’ve got a lighter on press space and you will drop very very fast because your wings will open and you’ll actually

Kind of fly down the ladder a little bit but you can use ladders as a take-off platform that way it’s kind of cool anyway let’s let’s quickly find an ocean so that we can track down some kelp which we won’t find growing in the swamps in the same way that we’ve got

Sea grass and stuff growing around here you actually need an ocean biome for kelp to be present so I’m not certain where the nearest one is actually let me see if I can fly out this way because I think this might lead towards an ocean sooner or later yeah here we go there’s

One a little bit further away than I intended to go but that’s not a problem so these large plants you’ll see growing up from the bottom of the ocean here are kelp and if we take out one of the bottoms of these they all break all the way up to

The surface much in the same way that things like sugarcane and cactus do so having cleared some space in my inventory I need to get about a stack of this stuff and we’ve got to be able to farm this later in fact farming it is probably gonna be a really good idea for

Reasons I will explain in future but for now we’ll go with about a stack I think that should be enough to get us up from the skeleton and spider spawner to the surface so to create our bubble column leading upwards I’m actually going to stand on top of these ladders and take

Them all out as we go down because we won’t need these anymore once the bauble column is in the problem with the bubble columns primarily is that you need a little bit of space at the bottom here to block the water off much like we did with the

Blocking of water in the spawn as themselves we need to put a couple of blocks around here hello what is a what are you doing outside of the spawner come here you I think that guy may have wandered in from the section down here that isn’t completely lit but here we go

We need to block off some sections of this here to make sure the water doesn’t flood out into the hallway here and that’s gonna be fairly simple to do we can do that with some blocks like fences for example when it comes to the last two blocks the blocks per as a player

You will have to step out of I like using a pressure plate and a fence gate on top of it because you can walk onto the pressure plate like so the gate will open allowing you through or you can step in through the side like so but

Both of these blocks will block water the pressure plate is one of the few things that as a redstone component will not actually be washed away when you place water next to it so that’s a good one to remember now as far as creating a column up here goes you’re

Gonna need a lot of water sources for that and that is why we brought the Celt because kelp has a very interesting property which I’ll explain in just a second once I found the source and yes there we go kelp has the interesting property of being able to convert

Flowing water into a full water source so take for example here this section here I’ve got a single water source there that is flowing downwards and if I were to create a soulsand bubble column underneath this it would not be possible to use this as a bubble column because

The downwards flowing water is preventing this from converting into a bubble column remember a bubble column has to have water sources going all the way up I’ve actually removed the sole sand for a second and put the block of stone back there because kelp has to

Grow on full-size blocks but once we put the kelp up here you’ll see that the water texture is still flowing downwards but when we remove that it should all convert into regular source blocks and now I’ll pop the sole sand under here as an example there we go we have a bubble

Column and that didn’t look like it converted in towards source blocks but it did so now to place water sources up the entirety of this shaft here what we need to do is get back up to the surface and place a bucket of water there which is gonna flow downwards into that place

We just reserved for it we need to swim down which a little while but luckily we’ve got respiration so we don’t need to worry too much about that the water finishes flowing to the bottom here and is contained by the blocks we’ve placed around it and all we got to

Do is swap out this soul sand for kelp and then build a tower of kelp all the way back up to the surface from here and that’s nice and simple to do we just need to swim upwards holding down right click as we go to place more kelp and

Now we dive back down to the bottom here take that kelp out and replace the bottom block here with a block of soul sand and then after that what we have is a bubble column that will take us all the way up to the surface very very

Quickly now next to this I have actually started digging out a tunnel for a safe water drop and for that we are going to need a sign and a bucket of water and that is it so let me quickly take the coordinates of this so we can head back up to the surface

28 and 604 okay cool let me head up to the surface really fast and you’ll notice this is much faster than climbing a ladder right at the top and we collected up all our kelp again brilliant so 10:28 and 604 that is coming down about here so we will need

To block this off where the block of grass for example and then we’ll dig straight down if we can now I do want to be a little bit careful that we don’t drop into lava here with digging straight down it’s always a bit of a problem so let me just quickly grab a

Bucket of water and we will keep our wits about us as we dig down remember lava lakes don’t just generate at the bottom of the world they can generate a little bit higher up so when you’re digging down like this you’ve got to be very very careful that you don’t end up

In a cave with a lava lake or anything like that or there’s some iron here you know what we may as well do a slightly safer method and dig down whilst standing on the Block next to it and that way we can basically fill this back

In as we go just so we can make sure that we don’t fall down into lava or anything that we’re not supposed to fall down into there we go we’ve managed to get our fall and I can probably take these last few blocks worth of full

Damage not to worry now to set up a safe fall all you really need to do is place a sign there before the entrance to this little spot here and place a water bucket on the block above that like so the sign should contain the water and

What the water will do is slow down your fall as soon as you drop through you don’t need to hold any buttons you don’t need to be holding space or anything like that but then it will basically negate all of the full damage and reset the full damage that you would take

Meaning that all you have to do is fall these last three blocks that sine will keep the water in and you won’t take any full damage let me demonstrate that because some of you guys may not be familiar with this tactic at all and let me just quickly drop off some of this

Stuff so I can collect some of the items right here we are back up at the top here this is our entrance to our skeleton spawner all we need to do is take that leap of faith drop down into the water and as you can see we just

Fell probably about 40 blocks maybe I think we’re at why yeah we’re at why 19 here from sea level at about why 63 we fell an entire distance and took no full damage thanks to this single block of water and this sign holding it back so

There you go that is two ways you can use water to get in and out of places like this very very easily back up here on the surface it’s probably going to be a good idea to signpost where exactly the spawner is because it’s a little bit

Subtle right now the entrance is not looking like much and even though we should know where it is based on the location from this portal I have a tendency to forget these things if I’m not too careful so I’m probably gonna put a few logs up in here and maybe we

Could make some bone blocks out of these bones because bone locks are not a thing we’ve had the luxury of making elsewhere in this series so if you break some bones down into bone mill you get three bone meal per bone and nine bone meal in

A 3×3 crafting grade it makes one of these these are bone blocks and you will find these occurring naturally in the world underground in some areas where fossils are buried but generally speaking those are quite difficult to come across you don’t tend to see them naturally all that much and

So it’s usually more likely that you will make bone blocks yourself some folks pointed out in the video I made about choosing materials for your builds that bone blogs actually make a really nice medieval wall texture because they’re kind of flat and they don’t have too much texture to them but they do

Have a very slight kind of darkening of them around the sides there this kind of like there’s a glow in the middle and then darker areas around the sites which can look really nice when you use it as a wall and I definitely agree with that I think those blocks actually look

Pretty great but we could probably make a few more of them over here there you go you can see that as an example quite a nice looking medieval wall obviously it’s not connected to our having yet and I don’t know if I plan to connect it to anything right now but as

You can see between the dark oak logs it really doesn’t look all that bad and it occurs to me that in making the spawner down there making this entrance and so forth I’ve actually used up pretty much all of the dark oak I harvested before we came down here like

These eight logs are the only stuff I’ve got left from the dark oak farm that I was setting up over here with all of these saplings and there’s my original tunnel town which will probably close off at some point but for now I think it’s probably time to head back to the

Base because now I have a decent source of bones I have enough bone meal to grow all of these dark oak trees at home and nice and quickly so our tree farming operation just got a whole lot easier and with all the bones we brought back

From the skeleton farm we have two and a half stacks of bone blocks which is actually a great amount and would be not too bad for a build but today we’re actually going to use it for a couple of other things the tree farming setup is

Not the only thing that we need there’s a bone meal for in fact we can use this bone meal to acquire a whole bunch of dies if you remember in the last episode I mentioned that grabbing those rose bushes from the cave was a good idea we’ve actually already got one out here

In front of the house but you may remember that being able to bone meal these two hi flowers gives you a whole bunch more which you can then convert into dye and in fact these are the best things to convert into dye because each one will give you to die instead of just

One that you would normally get from one of the red flowers that grows naturally around here one of the poppies there are actually three others of these to block tall flowers and we don’t seem to have any in here right now there are lilacs peonies and sunflowers

Which we can use to get a variety of other dice now let’s see if we can go out and find some in our local area I have a feeling the forest over here might be a good place to start yep immediately there is a full field of

Lilacs so let’s take a couple of those and these are actually the ones that you get magenta dye from so if we just take a couple of these back we should be able to bonemeal them on mass and get as much magenta dye as we could want let’s see

In the forest around here if there are any other peonies lurking in the trees there we go got some peonies as well and if I remember correctly yes these guys make pink dye fantastic stuff now the last one is a sunflower which occur in sunflower Plains biomes which can be

A little bit tricky to find but I have a feeling we’ve probably got one or two around here here we go and some flowers can be a little bit tricky to spot because from the back they don’t look like all that much they’re actually quite well camouflaged if you look at

Them from the air but from this side they always face east so if you’re heading if you’re heading west you’ll probably see the heads of these quite clearly we’ll take a few of those home and these are a source of yellow dye which you can already get from

Dandelions but it’s just nice to have something that you can bonemeal and get an absolute ton of later now by simply flooding these flowers out of the back of our house and spamming them with bone meal we can get a ton of flowers which we can convert into a few different

Colors have died but unfortunately these flowers aren’t enough to create the full range of dye colors so that’s something we can go into a little bit more right now there are sixteen colors of dye in Minecraft and at present not all of them can be acquired through flowers that is

Actually about to change because there are a few colors that you’ll be able to get from flowers in the next update minecraft 1.14 but as of 1.13 there are a few things that you absolutely have to get from other sources for example black dye can only be acquired through ink

Sacs which get from squids and that is also the way that you make gray and light gray dye alternatively some of the flowers will actually give you gray and light gray for example the oxide Daisy and as your blue it here will both give you a light gray dye but since those

Aren’t flowers that you can spam with bonemeal you actually have to go out and farm them out in the world you have to bonemeal some grass hope that they grow and gather them and there are fun ways of doing that in an automated fashion which we’re not going to get to in

Today’s episode but it’s something we can explore in future now as I’ve mentioned cactus green is required to dye anything green and that includes lime green so by combining bonemeal which is the white dye and a cactus green you get yourself some lime green the characters green can be used to dye

Things in its own right we also have cocoa beans which if you remember you have to grow on jungle woods but can also be bone meal that repeatedly to grow them quicker so that’s actually relatively simple to do now and the key to unlocking the rest of the dyes is

Lapis lazuli which is the blue type but it can also be used to make cyan and light blue dye to get cyan tie you mix lapis lazuli and cactus green getting you to cyan dye and cyan is one of the cooler colors in the game in my

Opinion so I think that’s probably worth investigating you can also get light blue by combining lapis and bone meal now you might think lapis lazuli is kind of difficult to get hold of and for the most part it is you need to go mining for it you can fortunate to get a whole

Bunch but even so you also use it for enchanting so it might be a bit of a pain to sacrifice all of that lapis in favor of just dyeing some stuff but don’t worry because if you have a villager set up if you have a villager

Trading set up anywhere if you have a priest you can trade with they actually trade you lapis lazuli now in this case this one is trading me one lapis for one emerald which isn’t much once you’ve got a decent way of farming emeralds either through a librarian for a paper trade or

Through a farmer with crops then you’ll probably be able to acquire lapis in large enough quantities that means you don’t need to go mining for it and personally I’ve got a stack of lapis lazuli blocks just from what I’ve been able to mine and we’ve still got some

Oil left over here which we could probably get a ton out of for blue dice so generally speaking once you’re a little bit further advanced in the game it’s not that much of a hassle lapis is also required to make purple diet using rose red and lapis lazuli it’s also used

To make magenta if you don’t have any lilacs because you can still make it using a lapis lazuli to red and a bone meal and remember that once you’ve made yellow dye you can combine red and yellow to make orange so who actually got the full range of dyes just with a

Few of these plants in swamps you’ll find these blue orchid flowers like the one I put outside my window here which can be turned into light blue anytime meaning but if you want to farm a bunch of light blue dye and you don’t feel like wasting your lapis you can always

Head over to a swamp in Minecraft 1.14 you’ll actually be able to farm blue dye from corn flowers as well although lapis lazuli will still convert into blue dye if you place it in a crafting table now I’m actually gonna start organizing as some of the flowers and some of the dyes

In that these two chests here so we’ve got flowers on the left and dyes here on the right and one last crafting recipe to share you can actually make magenta dye by combining pink and purple dye in a crafting table if that recipe just won’t pop up until you have them all in

Your inventory so that in brief is all the dyes in Minecraft and you can use each of these to create and credibly colorful display in a chest for one thing but also to create all different colors of wool and concrete and anything else that you can dye with

These colors now one last thing to cover before we wrap up today’s episode it’s actually possible to automate the growing and collection of these two tall flowers using a dispenser but some bonemeal into a dispenser and activate it using a redstone signal and it will actually bonemeal the flower itself

Popping off another identical flower naturally if you’re just standing here doing this with a lever it can get a little bit tiresome and it’s not going to do a bunch of flowers at once for you so one of the things you can do is set up a redstone clock which is very simple

To do using two observers facing into each other like so that’s actually going to start a clock which will just keep taking redstone until it has run out of bonemeal in this dispenser but you will do very fast unfortunately once this clock is on it’s not going to turn off

By itself and that dispenser will continue making this terrible ticking noise so one of the things you might want to do is add a sticky piston underneath one of these two observers facing upward like so and then activate it with a lever any time you want to

Turn it off which will just push it the observer up out of the circuit and then each time you bring it back down the dispenser will continue ticking like so it actually works a little bit faster if you pull it back in here with a sticky piston you’ll see that’s actually moving

A little bit faster than it was before set up one of these circuits behind each of your two tall flowers and essentially you’ve got a mass production farm for pink magenta red yellow and in fact orange dies because you can always combine the red and yellow if you want

To of course that’s going to require quite a lot of bonemeal but now we’ve got a skeleton farm it should be pretty easy that’s gonna do it for today folks thank you so much for watching this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide my name has been pixel rifts don’t

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