Defending my Minecraft Fortress from a Pillager Raid | Minecraft Timelapse [Download]

Hello everyone welcome back to another building video today we are going to be creating this medieval fortress in minecraft and then we’re going to attempt to defend it from those pesky pillagers let’s get started with the building process right now starting on this plains biome we’re

Going to be mapping out exactly how i want this fortress to look i’m using a little bit of reference art a little bit of inspiration and i’ll link those images down below we’re starting by marking in exactly where i want all of my towers and all of my walls planning

This out saves me a lot of time later and keeps me from making too many mistakes once it’s all marked in we can start slowly building it up starting with the front area and that very important front gate this is going to be our main center of defense so i want to

Surround it by a lot of towers and then a lot of tall walls then we have the back section which has even taller walls and even more sturdy gates and the big structures that are so important that our villagers are going to actually live in actually need to be very elevated off

The ground to be a little bit more defendable and we also have our taller towers back there but there is no entrance into this area only through the front you have to enter two gates to get through to this main area and this one that we’re building right now is the

Most sturdy of them all it has big iron bars coming down and a nice gatehouse up on top to control raising and lowering that all-important gate then we’re going to add some details to a few more towers and then we’re going to turn our attention up towards the sky

And the highest part of these towers getting these ribs right really makes this feel a lot more epic and at first i thought i wanted to do another house shape up here but i ended up going for a more castle feel with a big flag and i think that really ties the whole

Fortress atmosphere together then we’re turning our attention over to the courtyard here where we’re kind of smoothing everything out making it a little easier to move around now we’re adding some functionality some walkways along the inside of our walls staircases to go up and down some stables and small

Houses on the inside and we’ll eventually add some paths and different items just to add a little bit more interest in this area same thing towards the back adding just a few more details to all the walls and then i’m going to go in off camera and finish everything off

Once this final shape is done it’s time to test it against the pillagers i’m really excited to see how that turns out let’s go there now All right everyone i am on my ship ready to enter my fortress i’m gonna do my best to show off the new defense mechanisms that i have put in since building it and i’m gonna have some fun defending it let’s go shall we we have the effect bad

Omen 5 on us so this is going to trigger a pretty hard raid and i haven’t fought a lot of raids before so i’m excited to see how my fortress builds turns out obviously normally when entering a fortress like this in survival you’d probably just close the gate to defend

It but i want to have some fun so let’s uh go ahead and get up on our walls and see if we can see this raid spawning in i can hear the horn oh my goodness there they are oh goodness they’re coming straight for the gate and my aim

Sucks so much wait they turned i wonder why that is it looks like they’re coming straight for the gate i’m gonna get the lingering potion splashed down let’s see if i can see where they are from up here i don’t want to get shot down okay it looks like

My berry bushes are working so they’re not coming straight inside let me get down with my sword this doesn’t look like it’s been too bad or a raiding party right away but they’re attacking my villagers and they’re taking damage from the poison i need to take the attention off my villagers and quickly

Strike at them with my sword come here you evil things sun is setting and the next party is coming toward us this time i’m gonna try to mainly use the crossbow i’m really enjoying the crossbow even though it is a little bit slower see if i can hit these guys before they

Get here oh goodness oh goodness i have literally the worst aim ever okay i gotta fire some potions down there let me get down off of my wall and go defend it with my sword sounds like they are taking a good bit of damage as they walk through there that’s perfect come

Hear you these pillagers are such a pain with those crossbows and that one’s got multi-shot oh oh dear oh okay i’m really hurting after that one so i’m gonna actually head inside this tower and get a little bit of regeneration going Oh that feels better all right i made it today so that you guys on video can see a little bit better but look at this there’s a beast down there time for me to shoot at it it doesn’t have a rider hopefully that’ll come a little bit later or maybe

Hopefully not but i would like to see it and see how my fortress does against it now these guys are over here there’s no entrance over this way i’m not sure why they’re pathing that way it looks like they keep testing up against the wall so

I do have berry bushes all along there i’m not sure if that works but i should dissuade them from going right up against the wall too much so i can shoot at them it does seem to be working let’s make sure nobody’s getting inside nope no one’s going through the gate but they

Are making their way there okay it’s time to launch our gate defenses there we go and let’s just shoot at them from up here there they are there they are okay now they’re immediately going for me instead of my villagers which is perfect and they’re taking all of that poison damage

This seems to be working out fairly well so far all right there are two raiders remaining i’m not sure exactly where they are i don’t see them through here seems fairly safe along that path that’s wonderful i can see still hear my villagers they’re inside that house there so they are safe

But where are the last two raiders alright i’m gonna leave my walls again oh there she is it’s a witch okay i’m heading back up top for the next raid that’s incoming i’m gonna stay by my entrance this time there they are oh my goodness and they

Are riding a ravager oh that is terrifying and they’ve got an evoker i’ve gotta get that guy before he spawns vex too bad i suck i’ve hit him twice oh my goodness okay i need potions down there really badly let me start with the bow this is a massive party

Oh this is going to be challenging especially if vex starts spawning in i’ve got to get that evoker asap Oh no my villager no i’m jumping down this might have been a mistake but i’m doing it oh no no this was definitely a mistake i made these walls for a reason i should be using them okay let me run up here i gotta get away from the sky Here he comes up the path up onto my wall with a pillager on top okay the pillager is dead come here you beast oh goodness that hurts i’m gonna eat a golden apple emergency golden apple now the problem is i hope my iron golem is taking over because that was a big party

And i’m up here dealing with these guys which means i’m not down there with my villagers okay it seems like they’re mostly over in this area and they’re not running towards my villagers which is perfect i should be able to just pick them off right from here

And fall off my own wall let me get that witch right away so she stops buffing them look at this door oh my goodness they’ve been inside this house oh no my poor villagers i’ve done such a bad job of defending this time oh no the last two were inside this house okay

That’s that wave over with it looks like we’ve got another one coming though i need to get way better at this this is really hard when you’re alone i think it would definitely be a good idea to shut this fortress gate in the future this is challenging it’s a lot of fun

Though i’m really glad i did it oh no here comes the raiding party i can see them coming okay fire all of the potions down get ready to defend my villagers two ravagers this time oh my goodness okay i’m not sure who i should take out first they’re destroying my bushes i’m definitely

Gonna try to get rid of these guys but i of course do need to make sure that i get rid of anybody who’s coming in through here okay i’m gonna hop down and eat a golden apple as i come down because i’m gonna take these guys head on with my sword

This is really intimidating i’m just shooting them through this door it’s working they seem to be very focused on me however i am getting super low thankfully though i do have a regeneration station in here so i can pick up some of my regen potions and continue shooting these ravagers they’re so mean

All right there we go i’ve gotta come outside now a little bit it looks like there’s some witches running around and evoker oh no don’t spawn vex okay Now vex are going to be super challenging because they can go through walls no problem at all so all of these defenses that i’ve spent so long building up are going to be very useless once the vex spawned in if i had seen that evoker i should have taken him out first

Okay two raiders remaining where did they go i really hope they didn’t get inside my village in here my iron golem seems completely unfazed so that’s probably good it probably means they didn’t go in there there he is right outside of our gate their pathfinding is a little bit funny i did it

Oh my goodness i’ve done it i completed the entire raid and there are some villagers alive to show for it even out here let’s see the villagers in here yes there they are hello villagers so now we have the hero of the village which means these guys have super low trades for us

And look at that fireworks over our beautiful fortress in celebration thank you villagers alright everyone thank you so much for watching this video i had a lot of fun defending my fortress against pillagers and playing in the new 1.14 update i hope you did too definitely give me your

Ideas and suggestions down in the comments down below what would you do to defend a fortress like this one i’m going to put this world up for download so you can try this for yourself i hope you have fun with it and love it as much

As i did thank you once again for watching this video and i hope i’ll see you in the next one bye bye everyone