Can 1 Sponge Drain an ENTIRE Minecraft Ocean?

Sponges are considered the worst blocks in minecraft but i want to change that opinion and try the impossible with just one i’m going to drain a 2.8 million block ocean but how on earth would i do that it’s working we’re making history here now that i had a plan i would slowly

Start to chip away and drain this ocean block my block it wasn’t the quickest method but it was effective by segregating the water like this it allows the sponge to drain the correct amount of water without the ocean instantly fill it back up again i’m probably about 2.7 of the way there oh

Wait you see that that’s what we call deep ocean and this was a problem because i kept i keep drowning so i needed some way to breathe underwater for at least a few more seconds while still being able to move around there is one solution i could try and now we wait

I’m pretty sure by doing this i get scoops under my scoots i can make a helmet and this increased the time i could spend underwater by 10 seconds so with that we started trading more and more of this ocean i have to admit this is taking a

Lot longer than i thought and because of that it’s time i really push the sponge to its limits we’re gonna build a version of this thing it’s called an automatic water remover it works by moving along by itself to replace water with air however the setback is that the

Sponge has to be incorporated into the design so that i can still technically say the sponge is draining the ocean but how would i do that almost all designs include slime observers and sticky pistons and they remove huge chunks at a time but none include a sponge then an

Idea hit me thanks to some complicated minecraft mechanics this design looks like any other but it actually can’t work because of the water around the back therefore if i use this sponge let’s go unless there is a solid object stopping it it will consistently go forwards and

Remove two rows of water and because they were automated i was able to leave it running while building the next one look how much quicker this is at this point everything seems to be going perfect that is our first row now done we have drained an entire 16 of

This ocean but i didn’t know that i was about to run into my first of many major design floors i’m having a bit of an issue let me introduce you to minecraft terrain it’s remarkably bumpy and incredibly difficult to maneuver especially for a water machine that would just completely stop if any block

Gets in the way of it and unfortunately in this ocean i was draining it was particularly awkward so i need to find a way to almost like fill in so everything is on the same side or like remove these holes to mean more water but it will

Actually speed me up this would be extremely difficult however i had no other choice i then discovered another problem i’ll fix my first issue what where are you going back where are you going oh did you catch what happened then the device ended up going through

The wall but that wasn’t the problem the problem was what it stopped on in this ocean there is 750 000 seagrass whenever my machine would hit this or any other block in its way it would completely break i’m not sitting here and breaking every stem of seagrass i need to think

Of a new idea so for now i decided to set up a row system to allow the water machines to work effectively each row has a five block gap and they’re extremely long however this is cobblestone cobblestone takes ages to mine away compared to this block by

Using sand i could place the torture that any stack can destroy all pieces in seconds and as far as i knew there wouldn’t be any problems for me doing this so i honestly could not tell you how much sand we are using in this video it’s got

To be well into the thousands but before i knew it i had placed all the sand for this entire ocean this looks insane i cannot wait to see what it’s done and i really wanted to find a super cool way to destroy all the seagrass but

I couldn’t so i had to manually break every piece All seagrass is gone i’ve somewhat leveled out the ocean floor a bit more we’re making good progress 20 done so i’m now in a single-player world because i wanted to look at these islands the other two shouldn’t be an issue but this one this one might be a bit of a problem

I think my best bet is probably just to kind of remove the entire thing somehow i could mine it but that was it forever so why don’t i will this work maybe am i gonna do it anyway yes run run run did that work i don’t think it worked again

I don’t know if this is really working as well as i hope so thankfully though while i’ve been busy doing that my water machines have drained even more ocean and we were now 30 finished and these machines actually reminded me a lot of the machines mark grover and mr beast

Are using to help remove 30 million pounds of trash out of the ocean the only way they’ll do that is by you and me donating to help the course to clean our oceans to anyone who donates or has donated thank you you genuinely are making a difference 47.7 of this ocean

Is now done which equals to around 1.3 million blocks of water that has been drained thanks to this one sponge and that’s been done in 23 hours i’ve built for war machines and i can count and currently we have a really good rhythm going look at all the sponges conquered

Already despite my progression i was worried about the potential obstacles coming up later in the video but this sponge had already broadly outperformed my expectations so i was trying not to think about that especially since it’s now time for some fun we’re gonna remove

All of this sand three two one oh my god look how quick this is my battery is full already i can’t even pick up all the sand i’m probably going to complete each row within like 30 minutes and while i’m doing this my water machines are still working away as well this is

Amazing wow so this is what the ocean floor is looking like at the moment this is crazy imagine what look like once everything’s drained this is too good something surely has to go wrong soon we’ve now been doing the social flight 50 hours i’ve only got a few euros left

To go but then as i was mid build of one of my water machines huh it was weird what is going on why why is ever dying the server i was using to drain this ocean had just completely died i would not start back up again why

Is it just gone down then maybe their server’s been updated after leaving it for a couple hours i still couldn’t get in if i could work out to fix it that 50 hours that i’ve spent would be all for nothing i went as far as to contact the

Server admin he thought it must have been too little memory that was causing the crash so right the server now has doubled the memory it had before so it should let’s go it’s working again wait hold on is my entire world just gone somehow the world i was playing on

And had done all this work on just vanished i’m beginning to think the sponge is actually cursed i checked the server files and thankfully the world was still back oh my god thank god so i downloaded a backup switched the world back to its original one and then

Decided to try and launch the world in single player okay that literally just completely crashed my minecraft and my computer everything’s froze whatever the problem was in this world it was big because it crashed my minecraft as well it had to be the world that was the

Issue what could that issue be one thing i did notice was when i was building these wart machines i always noticed an fps drop and at the point where the world crashed i had around 30 wart machines moving at once but how can i remove them when i get kicked almost

Instantly that was the key the word almost before getting kicked i had around four to five seconds where the server and game would run fine so the plan would be getting mine as many blocks as i can before i get kicked it’s doable and that’s what i did for three

Hours and even that did not fix our problem so at this point i was completely lost if i can’t work out how to overcome this problem the entire video is ruined i really didn’t know what the issue could be but then as i was looking over some of my b-roll

Footage i noticed something wait a minute do you see that there has to be like thousands of pieces of sand just their float i’m sure that has the potential to completely crash my server and i know for a fact i had a full inventory while i was breaking those

Sand walls as well this meant only one thing i’ll have to go back into the server and try to collect up all of this sand this will take me ages but if it fixes my problem it will be worth it so that’s exactly what i did all right i’ve

Managed to follow up what that my inventory is worth and empty that off and we go again and after 12 whole journeys of this of getting kicked making my way over to the chest to unload all the sand the lack had almost completely gone and i fixed this problem

We have just four rows to do now and then this ocean has been completely drained i have to find a way to do this as quick as i can as it’s been over a month since my last video i came to the conclusion that i didn’t want to rescues

In my machines instead i chose to finish this ocean off manually we’ve come so far now i’ve drained so much ocean i don’t want to risk anything else let’s just do this as quick as i can i’ve managed to get rid of another row of

Sand just using the sponge i do have to carry this furnace around me at all times to keep drying off which is fun all right we’ve got less than three rows to go coming up in a minute is that island that i destroyed it doesn’t really look like i

Made it any better in fact i’m pretty sure i’ve made things more difficult for myself but despite this i plowed on until i made it to the final row this is the last row the last strip of water the sponge has done it incredible surely nothing else would go wrong right

I trade out that entire row remove the sand and i have now drained this entire 2.8 million block ocean using only one sponge hopefully made you think of the sponge as a useful block in minecraft please donate to tncs if you can you will make a difference