EPIC Minecraft Villager Trade! 😱 Must-Watch!

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you’re having a good day this isn’t the usual lovely outside pastoral setting that I usually do my intros in we are down here in the spider farm which we constructed in the

Last episode and just to prove that this thing is actually pretty effective I’m gonna switch off the minecart to bring in the last of the resources that’s gonna unload and as you can see we have gotten ourselves quite a lot of string and you can hear the spiders are still

Dying in the background by the way if you ever happen to afk next to one of these spider farms with the minecart going and everything there are two things you want to turn down in your music and sound options one is hostile creatures because the sound of spiders

Constantly screeching and dying will get on your nerves and the other one is friendly creatures because apparently a minecart is a friendly creature speaking of all of this string we actually have quite a lot of it here this is the result of me staying here afk at this farm for probably about an

Hour and a half in fact that was half of that was me editing the last episode if you can believe that so we got the first layer of this chest full of string when I was editing at the previous episode where I built the spider farm in the

First place so I left minecraft running in the background and it paid off in a big way so what are we gonna do with all this string you ask what is the point of having this spider farm in the first place well there are a couple of things

We can use it for number one if you put all of this string together in a crafting table it turns into wool so we can easily get lots and lots of free will that way imagine getting a triple spider spawner in a mineshaft and getting the amount of string from that

You wouldn’t need a sheep farm ever again because you could just make white wool as much as you want it there’s a spider up there who’s probably probably happy that he didn’t spawn inside the spawner the other thing we can do with all of this string is trade it with

Villages and let me hop over to our neighborhood village to see if there is a Fletcher or a fisherman around so I don’t recall if we for sure had a fisherman or a Fletcher around here but we do have this Shepherd and so if I turn a bunch of this string into white

Wool I’ve instantly got some stuff I can trade with him without having to worry too much about repetitively farming sheep over and over again so that’s already Emeralds we’ve got from him his traits are going to hopefully refresh are you not gonna refresh are you kidding me are

Okay well maybe we should buy some of the more fancy colored wool how about that I’m gonna buy one black wool just to unlock the trade again so I can trade with him a couple more times cuz it will really benefit us to get a few more

Emeralds right now there are a couple of things I want to do in the near future that will require a few emeralds to come through the pipeline looks like that’s it for his wool trade again for the minute let’s see if we can track down a cartographer there we go

You need more paper okay cool it sir a cartographer we’ve already traded with there’s one guy in the corner there let’s go and talk to him and see if I’ve already traded with one of them because one of the things cartographers can sell you is maps to rare locations and looks

Like I still need to trade with him okay I should go and get some more paper then let’s see if our paper trading friend is in hey buddy you’re a 35 paper trade that’s not the best but it’s still okay let’s see what we can unlock from you

I’ve also crafted a couple of compasses in anticipation of what we might get here because a compass will get you some emeralds and I need to give at least one to this guy so we can unlock the next tier of his trades now let’s see if we

Get any okay 10 emeralds for an empty map or we could just trade some more paper I feel like that’s probably preferable before we get into trading for stuff that I don’t really want right now even though mapping some stuff would be fun Oh looks like he has reset in the

End what do we have yes fantastic this is what we’re after friends right here so 26 emeralds for a woodland Explorer map but 12 for an ocean Explorer map I will take that trade I will absolutely take that trait because this map is something very special and it’s really

Cool that cartographers can trade you this especially in a world where you don’t want to mess around with mapping tools like the ones we’ve covered in previous videos like a midst or mine outlets or anything like that what this will show us if we hold it in our hands

Is the direction to an ocean temple which we’re not going to explore today because that would take at least an entire episode and we need to prepare a little bit before we do we’re gonna have to raid one of them and we’re gonna have

To do a lot of work on one of them because ocean temples are the only place give or take a couple of things that have been added in the most recent update where players can acquire a resource called prismarine which is just a building block it’s not necessarily like a an

Essential resource for crafting or anything like that but it is a really nice block to have fits in very well with the aquatic update the most recent update we’ve had to the game and I think it’s gonna be really cool to explore that so I wanted to make sure that

People knew that was on the horizon we are getting a an ocean map here and it’s not gonna tell me exactly where that is in terms of its position in the world but if you look on the thing let me take the shield out of the inventory here so

You can see the marker on the bottom right is our player indicators so we know that if we head Northwest we’re going to run into that temple sooner or later and it will have some of these islands around it in fact the fact that it’s quite close to what looks like a

Decent-sized island is quite good because it means we can set up a base there before we go and attempt to attack the ocean temple but I’m not gonna go there today that’s just something that we have laid in here for the future let’s pop that in the end chest for now

So I can keep that safe hot back through the portal and today we are going to spend a little bit of time over at the spider farm so our first task is going to be digging this whoa no no no no oh goodness oh not expecting you hello sir get out

Of here do we take that guy out did he just get punched back okay you got punched back there we go so our first task oh my gosh our first task is going to be disabling the spider spawner and digging this whole place out because I

Do want to decorate the place a little bit better even though we’re not gonna be seeing it all that much I do want to make sure that we have ourselves a little bit of decoration around the place it’s gonna be nice to come back and visit so we’re gonna dig out a

Little bit more of this area just so we can replace the walls with some kind of material like I said in the last episode that it’s going to be distinguishable from the cave around it so we know if we end up mining into this by mistake that we’re mining into something that we

Don’t want to touch so I feel like something like black wool or maybe even black concrete might be a good start for that so that it’s very obviously this is the spider farm it’s also gonna be a fun way of introducing concrete to the series because I don’t think we’ve touched on concrete

We made it it’s quite a modern material and I’m not too worried because the spider spawner is going to be buried in a cave down there it’s not exactly going to affect the above-ground aesthetic of my medieval settlements so building with a material that doesn’t necessarily fit

With medieval times isn’t too much of a problem when we’re building something that’s largely going to be a technical thing now to make concrete what you need is gravel sand and some sort of dice so let’s see how much sand we have we really don’t have all that much right

Now so I think a quick sand gathering mission might be a good idea but let me at least find some dye yes thankfully with this River being nearby I’ve actually acquired a quite a decent amount of squid ink at this point in our adventure and it’s quite rare that you

Find a good source of squid ink these days so it’s actually quite useful to gather squid ink as you go but there’s the recipe all you needed to do is place for gravel for sand and one die in the crafting table in any orientation and you get yourself black concrete powder

Now concrete powder is the first form of concrete and if you place it in water if it comes into contact with water in any way whether it’s a full water source or a flowing piece of water you’ll be able to convert it into concrete which is a completely separate material black

Concrete powder has the same kind of properties of concrete powder in general I should say has the same kind of properties as gravel or sand it is affected by gravity and will fall if you place it without a block underneath it concrete on the other hand can be placed

Anywhere and is a solid building material now the best way I have found of converting concrete without creating some kind of machine that helps you gather it all up is to place concrete powder in your offhand and place a pickaxe in your main hand and hold down the left and right mouse buttons

Standing looking at a block underneath the water line like so and standing on the block directly in front of it because what you can do that way is place it from your offhand mine it with your main hand and if you hold down both mouse buttons it just does this over and

Over again and while this will fling blocks around all over the place you can see we have to gather them from the river and the shore here it’s actually a really great way of converting concrete in fact if you set up a section of flowing water

A sort of inlet that will redirect the blocks back towards you this becomes exponentially easier it means you don’t have to fling all of the concrete powder to either side of you anyway so let’s create a quick inlet over here like so I’m digging down super far because my

Shovel is very efficient there we go so creating something like this I’ve found actually works pretty well because then the water will redirect the concrete back towards you and if we place a few blocks around the sides that’ll make sure that it doesn’t hop up onto the

Banks over here so the main thing we have to worry about at this point is whether or not it becomes night but hold down both mouse buttons like this and you’ll end up with the concrete just flowing back towards you whenever it has the opportunity there we go that’s one

Stack and a little bit of extra concrete to convert it I think we will leave this here for now but we will probably change it up in future because this doesn’t necessarily look particularly natural so yeah we’ll leave that for the moment now I haven’t got enough concrete to

Complete that spider spawner area but I should at least make a start on there now so let’s start off by swapping the entire floor that’s gonna be covered in water for black concrete’s like so you could even actually considering we’re going to cover this in water you can

Even just place down the black concrete powder and have the water streams convert it all when you replace the water sources in here but that’s that’s not gonna be a huge issue to do and it’s nice to fill this entire thing with the material that is really obviously not

Going to be naturally generated by this cave it also looks super smooth it’s like white like that as a design I think we will include that in the rest of the decoration of this area and I’m mainly taking inspiration from the spiders themselves when it comes to how to

Decorate this place so it might be kind of fun to include some red in there as well because the spiders have got red eyes maybe a little bit of dark grey considering the spider texture isn’t completely black it’s it’s gonna give us a little bit of inspiration here I think

But making a lot more concrete is going to mean acquiring a lot more sand and there are a few places we could get sand locally but only in small quantities places like rivers streams swamps lakes that kind of stuff we’ll all have sand included in the makeup of the the bottom

Of them there but I kind of want to get my sand from somewhere I can acquire a large amount of it and for that purpose we’re gonna try and find ourselves a desert today I’m gonna grab a little bit of extra food because this is going to be

Quite a long trip I imagine so having a decent stack of food on me will help and we’ve got some cooked fish here in the cupboard now I don’t want to take you too much with me if I want to fill up my inventory with sand I want to bring an

Efficiency shovel probably a shelcha box to collect some more sand in but deserts are absolutely full of sand so we’ll be able to gather quite a lot of it without doing too much harm to the natural environment aside from that I might leave the concrete here we’ll pop it in

This chest for now with the kind of processed and sandy materials and if I remember correctly which it’s been a little while and I don’t want to look it up just for the purposes of this episode but I seem to remember when we looked up the biomes here to find ourselves a

Village on on mine atlas I think there was a desert biome sort of to the southwest of where we are here which means traveling over the mountains kind of past the swamp in that direction but it will be worth exploring there’s a lot of cool stuff to find in a desert

Potentially so let’s be on our way and it feels like it’s been a while since we did any serious exploring in the overworld and loaded in some new chunks so I’m kind of excited to see what’s out there as usual it will help to bring a little bit of wood with you

Which I haven’t done right now but I’ve got a crafting table and I can make myself a boat from any of these if it turns out we need to go oversea for a little while but there are a few biomes out there that we haven’t even touched

On in this series yet and a desert is one of them deserts can be home to a number of structures including villages and desert temples so hopefully we’ll be able to see a one or both of those and the desert villages look a little bit different from the regular planes and

Taiga biome villages that you might see out there and they are another thing that is getting a complete redesign in the next update to Minecraft but for more news about what’s coming to the game I recommend it checking out minecraft net and going to the news section where they quite frequently

Release change logs of what’s happening in the snapshots and little sneak peeks at new features alternatively you could listen to my podcast the spawn chunks which is a show I do every Monday with my good friend Jill Duggan where we talk about minecraft and all of the new stuff

That’s coming to it and it usually have a discussion topic each week like in the last episode we spoke to fix it from the realm of vast and server the episode before that we ended up talking about the Enderdragon quite a lot because I just fought the Enderdragon in this series so

It seemed like an appropriate discussion to have and yeah we talked about a lot of different stuff and we usually have a quick rundown of the news for that week and what’s happening in the snapshots so it’ll be worth checking that out you can find that on the iTunes Store or any

Other kind of places where podcasts are available that’s a bit of a shameless plug for this episode I guess here’s an interesting fact about the way minecraft generates terrain a lot of the time it will try to group together biomes that have a similar temperature so right now

We’re in an extreme Hills biome or a mountains biome I guess they called now and they’re alarmers up there on the hill yay llamas and for the most part this is meant to be a cold biome it’s meant to be high up there is snow generating on some of the upper slopes

The grass is this kind of cooler blue-green kind of color and it you’ll find that biomes like this generally generate next to other cold biomes or biomes with a neutral temperature like plains or forests that kind of thing likewise swamps I think swamps are meant to be a slightly more lukewarm biome but

Ultimately you’ll find that deserts and jungles and the other hot biomes like savannas tend to generate close together because the game likes to pair them together so if you find a savanna or a Mesa or a jungle chances are there might be a desert bordering on it somewhere so

That’s a little tip when you’re exploring your own worlds if you’re not using the same world seed as I am so you’re not looking for exactly the same locations that I am it’s usually a good idea to start out by trying to locate one of the warm biomes and then the

Other ones will probably snap into place somewhere around the borders of your desert or your savanna or whatever you happen to find it looks like we’ve actually stumbled on another village this is fantastic oh that’s good stuff right this is right next to the dark oak forest here it’s actually a Plains

Village that’s generated in this kind of clearing it looks like it’s more or less surrounded by wow that’s a big lava fall okay oh oh dear this guy’s house seems to have been taken over by lake generation this is a problem with Minecraft this is a bug that happens

Where lakes will generate after villages and will often kind of override the spaces of village houses so it looks like these poor chaps are a little bit waterlogged oh dear well never mind I wonder if there are going to be some useful villages in here let’s see what we’ve got in this guy’s

House because this guy is a white coat here’s another cartographer can you believe it the amount of cartographers I’ve encountered in this series and so few librarians oh well not to worry what’s this guy err in the field doing you’re a Fletcher fantastic this guy would be pretty good to trade string

With although that seems like a pretty high string trade but that’s not to worry is that another brown coat over there or does he have an apron on I think yeah he’s a blacksmith or a a tool Smith of some kind yes there we go good

Stuff well great to know that there is another village hour here once again this village doesn’t look like it has a blacksmith house around there are occasionally blacksmith houses that will generate in these villages that will have loot chests in that you can occasionally get some really nice

Resources from so sometimes I take a look in those blacksmith chests just to see if there’s anything good to have but unfortunately it looks like this village will not have too much to offer us that we haven’t got a good librarian or a farmer just yet but no worries we might

Come back there and I’m not gonna bother lighting this place up because chances are I will have run away and gotten out of render distance by the time the Sun set and any monsters come out to try and attack those guys but just so we’re clear that village is there let me

Quickly take the coordinates actually before the Sun fully sets and it would’ve been a good idea to bring a bed with me as well it’s unfortunate that I didn’t do that but not to worry we can soldier on coordinates here are minus 926 8:06 having taken a screenshot of

That I’ll be able to get back here anytime I like so that’s not a problem let’s make our way a little bit further to the southwest yet we’re still going in the same direction very good and let’s see if we can stumble upon that desert I’m looking for is that what I

Think it is over there Oh excellent it is good let’s let’s talk about donkeys because I didn’t cover these guys in the episode about horses and skeleton horses donkeys are a variant of horses that will spawn in Plains biomes and they are good as pack animals but they’re never

Going to be as fast or as like jumpy for one of a better word as horses will be donkeys are pretty good solid animals when it comes to taming horses but they’re not going to be as fast as your average halt so yeah you contain one if you want to

They taming it in exactly the same way as horses you can also breed a horse and a donkey to get a mule which is something that happens in real life but mules are sterile I might be able to provide you with any more any more donkey children

So something to bear in mind there there are sheep here that I could potentially kill to make a bed which I think I might do right now because I’m not really that interested in fighting monsters all night and here is yet another plains village we are over a thousand blocks in both

Directions from our settlement now so this is this is getting out into quite distant territory here but I wonder if this village is gonna have a blacksmith or maybe some fun people to trade with let’s take a look at least now we’ve got a bed we can make sure that these people

Are safe we can sleep through the night and not worry about their safety here let’s take a look oh and there’s some horses hanging out in the village – very cool got a priest in there Oh another waterlogged cartographer of course it’s a cartographer oh goodness me right

We’ve got a couple of people chatting in here in fact who are you you’re a shepherd very good this entire village actually seems to be kind of floating on pontoons which is what happens if minecraft generates a village and then generates one of these large lakes a cartographer with a good paper trade

That’s a rare we’ll take a look at you yet why is every librarian in this world a cartographer I swear it’s it’s terrible getting no librarians whatsoever all of the white-coated guys are cartographers and yes I know I talked a lot about map making in the

Early stages of this series but this is a little ridiculous now oh my days right we have one more librarian who I think was in here who are you you are a librarian and you’ve got a mending trade for 10 emeralds oh my gosh okay right this guy’s gettin preserved we need to

Preserve this guy’s health he is going to be the most important villager in our lives I’m so excited oh yes we found one okay right this is right oh this this guy is this guy’s coming back with us I wanted to find a desert and I haven’t I

Hear a zombie I will kill that zombie with extreme prejudice if it comes anywhere near this librarian I swear this guy is now my number one priority let’s take a fencepost from here and make sure that nobody can get to this librarian let let’s break the village

Well if we have to because we need to preserve this guy like our life depends on it yes yes we have a mending villager Oh superb right well there are a couple of things we can do at this point when it comes to preserving this guy one

Thing it would be to keep him here set up a nether portal like we did with our other village and it use him too and use that nether portal to travel around and visit him we have another librarian here with an impale entrain okay looks like there are librarians in this place after

All very good I think either way it’s going to be in my best interests to set up a nether portal in this village so that we can either try and transport this librarian back to our base or we can have a nether portal that we can visit this village regularly to visit

That librarian in particular so I’m gonna go and find a source of obsidian there might be a surface lake around here or we can probably dig down and find some lava all we need to do is convert some of that into obsidian and we should be good to go okay folks so

This is actually the day after I recorded all of the footage you’ve just seen and let me tell you I I wanted to make this all into a single episode but so much cool stuff happened after I left that village in search of some obsidian that I figured it would be better off

Splitting this episode kind of into two parts splitting this whole recording session into two separate episodes instead of cutting out a bunch of essential information that I thought we had included in the earlier part of this episode or making this like an hour-long episode basically so what I’m gonna do

Is split this up and we’re gonna end this episode here I’m sorry this is a little bit weird I don’t normally figure out videos this way but this is just the way it happens so much cool stuff happens in the next episode that I’m sure you guys will understand why but

That’s gotta be it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide thank you so much for watching and don’t forget to leave a like if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now