Empires SMP Season 2 ▫ A New Beginning! ▫ Minecraft 1.19 Let’s Play [Ep.1]

In a long lost age before records truly began our world was built by titans beings of impossible size whose bodies fell to earth and became the biomes we know their bones became the rocks shaped into vast caverns by the arches of their ribs their blood ran downward into the

Darkest depths of the world imbuing it with untold riches magic and danger and from their fallen forms civilization flourished what little we can piece together of the past tells a story of its own the titans were forgotten as their successors began to shape the land to their own desires

Great cities were founded rose ward with one another and fell alas history is told by the victors and none of them emerged victorious just like the titans before them they vanished soon enough new nations would rise to take their place and perhaps it is our destiny too to one day vanish

But until then there are still secrets of the past yet to be uncovered and it is here that our tale truly begins around a campfire as these stories often start and while many of these stalwart leaders are looking towards the future one man has set his eye firmly on the past

Yeah solid okay cool cool cool there’s an empty seat whoever will we use to fill this seat we can’t have just 11 of us this is crazy this is madness we need an even number if only there was someone there hello one of you is going to have to change

Before the end of the season welcome to empires thank you this is the chaos great debate now we go to war run away yeah goodbye okay good luck everybody well as expected the first group recording of the season turned into absolute chaos wouldn’t be empires if we didn’t welcome

Back folks it’s been a minute welcome to season two of empires and you might be wondering how come i already have a bunch of pretty cool stuff i’m looking at a bundle with a whole bunch of neat little items in there and we’re about to

Use some of those to make some of our first diamond tools and diamond stuff of the season i’ve been setting up a little bit here i was actually on the server a couple of days before most of the others were the server was set up earlier than

Most people were able to log in or most people wanted to log in so i decided to hop on and just do some simple stuff first of all just set up this wheat field and everything but once we started going once we got that group recording

Session together i had the itch to go caving and get some diamond stuff i reached out to the other folks on the server just in case anybody had some spare time on their hands and wanted to do their first caving in a collab way and wouldn’t you know somebody answered the call hello

Oh my god i’m trying to get so close are you here to raid my wheat fields my poor little i mean i could use some food actually i mean i could make some mud bricks out of that yeah that would be great all kinds of options with a wheat field

It’s a good start hey hi how you doing requests to get geared up have you gotten any good caves mine is a ward in a fight all right it’s a little slower okay yeah no i can i can i got some gear already but i definitely want to get my

Hands on some diamonds i don’t want to be stuck in the the iron phase here for too long there’s one kind of over there you see where the nether portal is on the ridge there there is a little a little pool in here and then it drops

Off in a big way i really need some iron because i don’t even have iron armor yet honestly if we can find a huge iron vein we’ll be good for a while though like i’ve seen how much iron comes out oh yeah it’s been so long since i’ve done early

Game minecraft i know and this is why i wanted to do collab caving because like you get to watch each other’s backs it actually feels relatively safe considering this is what we’re dealing with right here i’m gonna grab a bit more coal while i’m here because i need it for

Torches we’re gonna need a lot of those oh i went to get copper and there was one piece ah it still feels weird to me ignoring copper but hey new season new rules right copper king who yeah don’t know that guy i was expecting it

To go lower than this but it seems like it’s pretty flat from this point maybe we just grab up all the coal in here pick this stuff up and then we move on cause then we’re loaded on torches sounds like a great i got a whole stack

Of logs so i feel like i’m gonna totally load up on copper and use my pickaxes if i’m not careful hey the other great use of the bundle stuff like glow lichen i always grab one or two of it and then i can just stash

That and bone meal as much as i want of it later oh yeah yeah i’ve got some shears like i can i can chuck you some glow-like and i got i got two i can give you one takes up less room in the bundle that way my one glow

Like it and my one gunpowder in the bundle maybe it goes down on the other side oh yeah no it does oh this one does that does okay there’s a little offshoot right back there that goes down pretty far too oh yeah wait what’s down here oh yeah

Follow that water down nice nice okay yeah no this is looking solid promising uh there’s a little bit more iron down here which we may as well oh no oh it takes a it takes a right turn unexpected and this goes down to a mine shaft okay cool oh gold nice

Whoa okay uh don’t yeah the iron was a trap the iron was a trap the whole time i almost fell for that too okay don’t die step one dying i’m gonna be taking notes i think a little bit of redstone as well first redstone of the season

So it begins it does so it begins i never thought i was gonna be the kind of guy who would get excited by finding redstone in minecraft but you know what it’s happened to me i don’t know if it’s bad but i consider you a technical player nowadays i mean what that’s

That’s the weirdest part of all of this to me i i don’t know how you got there but you did it yeah you somehow you did it oh okay uh just spotted something a little bit skulky at the bottom of this cave so we a little skulky oh yeah yeah

Okay so we be careful oh but i found diamonds oh there you go there you go oh and this opens out this really opens out the battle horn That’s that’s the yolo horn oh wow oh oh everything’s on fire oh my gosh no no no no oh my god it shouldn’t be burning it must have started burning before the settings were even set oh i see some streakers yeah i’m not going anywhere near those

Right now i brought a hoe with me just in case and it’s honestly not a bad source of xp but like yeah probably not the smartest move but i’ve never claimed to be a smart minecrafter oh i i see my first diamonds i’m going for those they are down here

By the lava but you know i can i’ll take my chances i didn’t even see mine i was breaking open an iron thing oh there’s diamonds behind it there’s four here there’s at least four heck yeah nice nice nice so happy so happy one more and i can honestly say i came away

From this with what i oh i wanted some lapis that’s probably pretty smart for real though the the deep dark is down there i’m not seeing any structures but it looks it looks larger than i can see from here basically well the problem is is even if we’re full now the right all

That means is you get two shot versus uh one shot i’m not even worried about the warden i just want the tools to collect some of this stuff you know like i want to be able to dig up all of the skulk and everything you know i’m making some use

Of some skulk sensors this season that’s all i’m saying oh i’m coming to you many times i have many traps i mean um redstone contraptions in mind that i don’t know how to do i mean you can’t stop i can’t do without trap you can’t spell contraption without exactly exactly i

Was just jumping ahead of myself there just gonna slowly inch my way down oh my pickaxe broke oh no i didn’t turn around and run away you know they can hear when that happens right ah see look professional just gotta stay safe one oh there’s nothing in here oh good okay

Well this could be stuff behind the walls that’s the other thing i’ve i’ve seen situations where there is stuff behind the wall oh do you need silk touch to pick these up yeah you need silk touch ideally on a hoe but on anything will do

It yeah may as well get the xp i was gonna say this is how we get to level 30. yeah yeah yeah yeah do i make the diamond hoe as my first diamond tool oh don’t you just no don’t you dare oh my goodness okay right uh be careful there oh

Because there’s definitely some strikers down there that’s a shrieker for sure i think we start climbing up that right in that mine shaft sounds like a great idea that’s that’s what i’ve been saying just one glowberry and then i can begin my my glowberry empire is that is that what it’s going

To be for you is the globe area oh yeah yeah the k the cave empire only exports glowberries yeah i think we uh we head up this waterfall and we explore what’s on these burning platforms yeah that seems like a really safe bet you said fly spread was off right what’s

The worst that can happen oh yeah yeah no we’re all good it won’t go anywhere why do i just want to sit here and gather up all of these chains the chain the chain love is real i’m doing it nothing can stop me except the fact that the chain fell down the pit

Yeah and that’s the creeper behind you yeah well uh time to save that stuff from the fire and unfortunately the fire is not helping a great deal with the fact that there’s a cave spider spawner down there so i guess it’s time for plan b plan b

Is of course harvest the cobwebs because you never know when those might come in handy oh hey and i have a pickaxe on the ground i wonder where that came from yeah oh my lord all right uh i earned that i shouldn’t have went for the chains terrifying

Oh my shield oh i’m sure i could uh preserve the goat horn because that was clearly the most valuable part of your whole setup where’d you find that thing anyway was that a pillager out poster was that just like yeah yeah yeah i rate it like three

Pillars outpost now this is the first one with the horn i got a name tag from that but it just had lapis and torches in it otherwise and some melon seeds but like to be fair i’ll take it at this point there’s another chest down here though and oh golden apple

Still no glowberries though man i was almost level 32. oh it’s the worst oh it was up to 27. uh that just means you need to go back down to the uh the deep dark and farm some more y’all go visit those guys again that sounds like a smart call oh geez

Speaking of smart calls things are you know what that whole body system you were right about that that was very important yeah that’s very important to keep in touch here i’m always watching your back right i watched your back when that creeper blew it up watched it as it

Fell down to the bottom of the cave wait these two can totally activate together you see this yeah yeah no those two are really close together those are super close yeah i might as well take the chords of this just in case they’re a lot easier now that lighting works the

Way it does wait i think you might have a triple spawner potentially oh there’s one right out here too there sure is okay yeah now that that could be that that seems legit that seems legit afk spot right here in business with that hey okay yeah this is still under

The banana over where i am yeah you’d get three of them yeah i was really hoping there’d be some diamonds over here but nope yeah i think we’re too high up for diamonds now yeah the lower we go the problem is deep dark is down there so i’m like

Where’d you go i couldn’t see any diamonds though i got some redstone here i might as well take this i think there’s a couple of areas that don’t have deep dark in them that we could probably give a try if we want to find deeper caves and potential diamonds

Yeah i heard somewhere they’re supposed to not be deep dark underneath but i haven’t found it yet oh copper vein oh no now you’re talking [Laughter] we’re going to be here a while well i mean we’re going to be here until it turns out this is flooded this is the

Smallest copper vane i’ve ever seen now i think it carries on this way no because that opens up again right over there i’m trying to get a music i thought i thought that’s what you’re gonna do i was like why hasn’t he killed him yet oh okay i’m trying i’m getting

Close the creeper is like one hit yes nice which one you get i got 13. uh the worst one yeah the worst one and you know what i think i can sell it to jimmy yeah mine shelf down here might not be the worst golden apples rails more bread oh dang oh

Okay i don’t know where he was he said he found a cave spider so he must have been near the spawner i just really want to go and find his stuff oh that’s not good uh it’s me it’s fine uh i don’t know where you were i think it

Was over here yep i got it okay fantastic oh thank god now i’ve been i’ve been fighting more caves by the spawners and lighting them up and it was like you mentioned a cave spider so i think you know where is this one right next to

Me i got my diamonds so if anything we still have those nice oh my lord it’s been a day it’s been a day for you it’s dude it’s been a day i was like this would be a nice chill caving session i’ll go get some gear

It’s been all deep dark in cave spiders and creepers [Laughter] Sorry that was a misclick [Laughter] at least i know which direction you were coming from at that point that was actually kind of useful like if if we get separated seriously blow that thing and i will at least know more enough yeah this has got to be diamond

Territory right surely i know i’ve been scanning everywhere i think this cave over here is non-deep darkified which is nice i mean yeah compared to whatever else we’ve seen i’m i’ll take it It is surprisingly effective when you do that oh my god i just saw i think i just suffered the warden oh no are you serious uh it started flashing i don’t know if that’s him here or not oh how many screams did you hear one one scream one screaming you’re good

It’s four is the when the warden turns up okay there’s nothing to worry about i like the fact that you set off a skulk shrieker and your first instinct was to blow a goat horn [Laughter] i ran away diamond number five and i think i might leave it there oh

Oh i really want to have fortune for this but you know what i’m coming i’m coming where are you where the heck are you dude wait is that a geode okay all right we’re we’re at least getting this yes okay i can hear you i thought i’d lost you my boy

Oh my god oh are you okay i can see you dude stop blowing your dang trumpet i got two things you might enjoy though oh good okay i’m looking forward to that part hi how are you doing yeah yeah i’ve got two very good things you might enjoy uh-huh

First off oh slime chunk yes oh my goodness so have some slime balls yep second i found some glow berries oh very very good okay um i found i have eight diamonds now which i’m very happy about i also found some amethyst have you got

Any amethyst yet oh i do not all right have some amethyst shards i at least want to make a spyglass i’m like entirely about this place right now um okay probably amazing i can probably craft some of this lapis into blocks and that will take up a bit oh actually

That’s a very very i kind of forgot that was the thing in this game oh and then you can put that in the bundle holy cow the bundles can hold so much yeah absolutely they can oh i don’t want to go down there i do not want to

Go down there i mean if you if you’re done finding places you don’t want to go down i’m basically done here if i have this many diamonds yeah i got seven diamonds i think i’m pretty set for now too yeah i think we probably need to call it before one of

Us gets killed again i guess we follow the burning trail of mine shaft to get back to the other side i’ve got this dude please i’ve done this run so many times i know exactly where to go oh out into the sunshine the golden sunshine and it’s it’s it’s really weird how much

Happening just inches away from where i’d set up my wheat field it’s all grown pretty much well thanks for hanging out man this was great i’m i’m so happy that we got to do some caving and it’s uh thanks for covering for me on the the double creeper incident new creeper dust

Yeah i mean i think i would have learned oh well yeah well uh plenty more to learn from i think and if you want to if you want to go poke around that cave under your place uh maybe you let me know yeah yeah for sure for sure we’ll see what happens

It’s a spooky one all right thanks i’ll catch you around my friend have a good one And so now here i am returning to the farming life i actually just want to breed up a bunch of these cows so we can get some leather for an enchanting setup because that’s of course where a couple of my diamonds are going to be going but

I think it wouldn’t be a good series without starting with a diamond pickaxe so let’s uh unbundle some of this stuff into a chest probably let’s throw all of that in there until we get to the diamonds there they are let’s make ourselves a diamond pickaxe and i think

To be honest we’re probably also gonna have to go with a hoe and a shovel and that’s going to get us enough diamond tools to leave us with two diamonds for an enchanting setup but at least with the pickaxe i can go and mine some

Obsidian and i think i’m going to set up an early storage system just dug into one of the hills around here because i’m honestly not sure what i plan to do with a starter house i also need to track down some sugarcane which doesn’t seem

To grow on the banks of this grand lake near spawn there we go finally found some gosh it’s taken forever there’s a little bit more down the river here but while i’m getting some of this stuff set up here it’s probably a good time to start talking about my theme for this

Season because it might not be what you expected see first of all we pretty much all agreed that we were done with characters from season one so i’m not gonna be the copper king anymore i’m probably going to be getting copper here and there but it’s not going to be my

Specialty right i’m not going to be exporting it to the other empires and making it my whole deal and i’m pretty sure every other empire on the server is going to be a brand new thing new characters new locations new exports all of that kind of stuff so expect

Everything to be different from season one it’s a sequel in the same way that home alone three was a sequel it’s the same concept but with completely different characters but my theme for this series is also gonna be radically different from what most of the others

Are gonna be doing because a lot of them are establishing characters and kind of telling that characters story through all of the stuff that they build for their empire they’re kind of positioning themselves as the central character and honestly that’s one of the things that i

Didn’t want to do when we came back for season two in a series where there are 12 of us all trying to tell our own story of which we are the hero it kind of gets a little bit confusing and collaboration can be difficult for somebody like me who tries to keep

Everything straight in the head and that’s part of why initially i wasn’t sure if i was going to come back for season two of empires at all but then i had probably one of my favorite ideas that i’ve had in minecraft for a long time and where it really started was

Hearing fwip talk about how he wanted to take a more dungeons and dragons approach to the series this time and what he meant was in terms of like character archetypes and leaning into the fantasy element of it plus all of the role play stuff that happens in a

Dungeons and dragons game but my thought was what if there was a dungeon master what if there was somebody whose job it was to steer things behind the scenes a little bit and take charge of the lore of the world the world building and stuff that happens around something as

Big as this and i pitched the idea to whip and he seemed like he was on board and then i pitched the idea to the rest of the group and they seemed like they were into it so while everybody else is out there telling their own stories telling the story of their empire’s

Present and its future i am going to be telling the story of the world i like doing this world building kind of stuff a little bit more than i like the role play side of things and acting as a character so the character stuff is

Going to take a bit of a back seat for me but my empire is going to be the past and this is a really high concept kind of thing so i’m still trying to work my head around what all of it means but i’ve decided that i am effectively going

To be building the past of the world around everybody else i’m going to be seeding ruins and dungeons and relics and cool stuff throughout the world for people to stumble upon as far as my own base goes because i will want to have a base i want to have some place to store

All of my stuff i am going to be mainly building around this savannah because honestly i kind of like the aesthetic of the savannah for something that is old and forgotten we’ve got some good mountains around here the grass is kind of a little bit withered looking i think

It kind of makes sense for what i want to do but i’m planning on building some stuff around spawn especially at this lake i love the lake so much i think it adds so much to this area and here and there throughout the world in areas where the other empires aren’t building

I’m going to be leaving kind of dungeons and a bunch of really cool stuff for them to find as though it has been left behind as a relic of a civilization’s past now the fact that i’m not really participating in the role play and character building side of things does

Not mean i won’t be showing up in other people’s videos because i really want to participate as a group here so if i have a character of sorts they’re probably going to be like a historian or an archaeologist or somebody who is really out here to dig at the roots of the

World but i’m not going to necessarily be building that character over the course of the season and having them go through an emotional arc what i want to study is the emotional arc of the world itself how it came to be the way it is

And so i’m kind of like a lore keeper or dungeon master for the world itself and i’m not necessarily going to be dictating what’s happening in everybody else’s series as the dungeon master potentially would instead i’m just going to be working on world building and making this world more alive and

Interesting so that’s really why getting set up getting a strong start here is going to be a priority for me because i want to make sure i can get to decent level tools pretty fast maybe even get hold of a beacon so that i can go mining

For stone because i’m going to need a lot of stone to build all of the ruins and stuff that i’m planning here anyway hopefully now you’re all caught up i’m gonna go and farm some sugarcane and some leather and hopefully we’ll get an enchanting set up together oh yeah one

Last thing i decided it was probably gonna be a good idea to have a different skin for this series and have one from the start this time so i commissioned sec who made my copper king coat from the last season to make me a new skin

That’s going to fit in with the vibe of the empire of the past a little bit more so here we go tada pretty good right i really like this it’s kind of got an indiana jones uncharted kind of vibe that i really dig i’ve even got a little backpack and

Everything which is kind of adorable and even though it’s going to be under my armor for some of the series we’ll do our best to show the skin off when we can after all if we’re going to be digging into the past of this world we

Might as well look the part finally an enchanting setup has come together and all i need now is the last couple of levels that’ll take me to a level 30 in chapman but efficiency 4 is waiting for me in the enchanting table so i am hoping with crossed fingers that we get

Something a little more than that but it’s kind of traditional for me at this point to do my first enchantments on camera so i think i’ll do a little bit more caving maybe come away with some coal or something if we can and we’ll see what we end up with all right 30

Levels and a spyglass have been acquired i did end up getting a fair amount of copper which is really useful for xp actually let’s throw this in here and oh let’s bring some lapis with us when we do it and let’s see if we get anything more than efficiency for

Unbreaking three all right i’ll take it because honestly this pickaxe is looking a bit the worse for wear as it is now you may notice that there’s a couple of differences with the enchantment glow that’s all a resource pack that fwip has applied to the entire server it’s why

Leaves look bushy it’s why the sugar cane and wheat look a little bit different and it’s why even though the tools are enchanted you’ll only see those occasional glowing lines i think some people have some texture packs and models planned for their equipment and stuff further down the line and that’s

Kind of why we want the enchantment glow to be a little bit less we don’t want that to take over the look of people’s hard work on the custom tools and everything like that but while it’s no fortune this does at least mean i can go

Mining for a little bit longer and i think if i try and get some more enchanted books i will hopefully come out with fortune 3 or silk touch oh and i have a cow’s head from all of that yes we have a mob heads data pack on the

Server as well but something tells me cow archaeologist isn’t quite what i’m going for enchantment number two this time for the ho let’s see if we end up getting or almost i really wanted silk touch on that and at least now this pickaxe is good i can explore some

Alternative ways of getting experience oh fortune 3 if only that had been the diamond one still i think in the interests of keeping the history of this area alive why don’t we go and restore that ruined nether portal up there and in the interest of keeping ourselves

Alive how about we gear up properly before we try and go to the nether all right let’s do this oh looks like ah near the ravine crimson forest okay not too bad plenty of quartz around that’s really what i’m looking for so that’s xp sorted for the minute

At least uh i really don’t like getting fortune on shovels sharpness on swords though that i don’t mind and in times like these there’s really no substitute for some good old-fashioned mining especially if i run into a mob spawner and especially if i run into some

Diamonds so let’s at least get the sword out of the way oh sharpness three though perhaps another shovel yes oh that’s good that’s very very good oh someone’s getting in trouble oh cheeky diagonal vein oh yes and more i’ll take it now that’s more like it

Pretty good and we are right next to a patch of the deep dark but i don’t care because i found the last diamonds i need we’re up to 30 that should be good so fortune 3 is showing up on an axe then that means theoretically it’s showing up

On a pickaxe as well yes fortune three on a pickaxe fantastic and efficiency four hey not too bad we just need unbreaking for that one and now we can finally make some diamond armor preparing an anvil for this just in case hey protection three not too bad oh oh

Come on now come on now there’s a fortress right here okay okay i’m sure somebody has found this by now but we might as well go take a look blaze spawner number one blaze spawner number two fantastic trade with me piglet friends yes oh first try thank you i’m

Just gonna rearrange bits of this so they have a slightly easier time spawning three minutes of fire resistance only two blaze rods Welcome to the goblin cave empire oh my goodness around a few of you and uh i found the end stronghold um it’s open the portal’s been opened and i went to a bunch of you and y’all said you didn’t go does anybody know what happened there no no idea

Okay well um do you want to go investigate with me see what the heck’s going on in there i think we’ve been ahead yeah wait we’ve just started no should we go is this safe if it’s a trap somebody’s done that very quickly fair enough but then again yeah you built all

This this sounds like a lizzy trap i promise this time it wasn’t me how can we tell with that big brain in your massive head well um it’s in the mines this way let’s go all right let’s go okay okay let’s do it very grand mine entrance i swear secret pass

Secret mine’s very cool i don’t remember where the portal is because it’s better but it’s sorry time to look around uh everyone’s spread out i know it’s up it goes it’s up it’s just find a staircase up and then it’s right that’s down oh yep yep here we go here

We go i remember this now i told i knew exactly right nope that’s not it yeah here it is no way you did it tell us you did it no way yeah why is that confusing to you oh yeah i guess jerry is there let’s go let’s be careful here let’s be careful

All right i got this i got this let’s go sausages got this wait don’t worry about he’s hungry i’ll defend oh my gosh where’s where’s the dragon guys you