EthosLab – Etho Plays Minecraft – Episode 563: Lava Lawva Larva

Behind the scenes hello hello how’s it going everybody this is etho and welcome back to another episode of the let’s play series and scene all right scene transition we’re gonna be moving crew over to set location number two scene name the donkey get the donkey in frame next to let’s

Get him next to the crewmate okay and do we want the frame on or off hot on off um uh let’s go head on that way we can get right into the action that way okay three two one and so check it out everybody i i got myself

A donkey the other day i was going around exploring we finally have donkeys back in our world amazing and see okay that was a little weak a little weak could have done a little better on that one we’ll keep it though after editing hello hello how’s it going

Everybody this is etho and welcome back to another episode of the let’s play series so check it out everybody i i got myself a donkey the other day i was going around exploring we finally have donkeys back in our world amazing getting a little late guys we’ll resume filming tomorrow

Take a break for now all right let’s get back to it yeah so the other day i spent a bit of time doing some stuff around our pumpkin farm here and i checked the chest they were totally full of pumpkins down here so i did some trading and guess what i discovered

We have this like villager here that’s been here for forever and apparently he’s a cheating villager i didn’t know that so we can trade infinitely with this guy without having to wait for him to refill that’s kind of nice right i like that aha pretty cool pretty cool and the

Other thing i found i i looked around here around the beacon and apparently there’s like something weird going on here there’s a giant hole right underneath the pumpkin farm if i can find it somewhere yeah over here look at this oh where did this come from i dug it obviously okay everybody so

Here’s the plan you can see i got ourselves a temporary drip stone farm set up trying to grow some more of it because we are going to be building a lava farm today underneath the pumpkin farm there or larva or lava or la hava whatever however you want to say it okay

I say it my way you say it your way it’s all fine just like the rest of the world uses celsius and some of you use fahrenheit you know i use fahrenheit and that’s the only right way to do things because that’s the way i do things yeah so in 1.17 a

New feature got added to the game where you can actually farm lava out of thin air basically you just need a lava source a block drip stone under that block and you can see it’s dripping lava particles into the cauldron after about 20 minutes it’ll fill up and

You’ve got yourself a brand new source of lava which is pretty cool now the way this works you cannot in any way totally automate this like if you have a dispenser with empty buckets in is this gonna it’s gonna cook it so the only way to harvest the lava

After it fills up here is to right click it yourself so you can right click it with a stack of buckets and boom it goes in your inventory but if your inventory is full like i saw then it just shoots out into the world so whenever i’m designing something in

This game i like to have a clear goal in mind for what i’m trying to achieve and for the lava farm here my goal was to try come up with the simplest like repeating pattern i could think of for making a lava farm so i thought about it for a bit and

Basically there’s two approaches to this number one you either move the lava to you or you move yourself to the lava if you want to move the lava to you the only way of doing it i think is with the cauldron tape like this so or something similar so basically you

Would move the cauldrons around which one do we go next this one here in a loop sort of thing and as they fill up they get delivered to you so you would stand in one spot and they would get moved to you and you just hold right click and they’ll fill up your

Inventory the problem with the piston tape method is redstone is complicated to to in a certain extent and piston tapes kind of need a fixed size so if you want to make like an infinitely repeatable pattern this really isn’t a good approach so instead

I figured out we got to make it so we moved to the lava now there are a lot of different ways of moving around in this game though so we have to pick one like are we going to be walking it getting pushed around with water streams riding

A horse what are we doing here well i figured we got to pick an automatic method of moving would be ideal and it needs to be consistent and also we need to set up a collection system with this farm so i figured let’s combine our collection system

With our movement system to try to create an even simpler pattern and we’re gonna basically just do this we’re gonna have water water needs to flow at least two blocks so that it has a flow to it all right and then we’re going to take advantage

Of the fact you can now put rails under water like this and then we will ride along here in a mine cart our heads above water it’s all fine oh i’m actually getting pushed wait a second that was weird i thought i’d have control here still look the rails i didn’t know that

So if you put a minecart in flowing water it has a preferred way of moving weird anyways i’m getting distracted yeah so basically as we harvest the lava it’s going to shoot off into here go underneath the slab here and then we’ll just have our next row of cauldrons

Right over here so it’s a three block wide pattern so then our lava buckets are going to go underneath the slabs here under the cauldrons and land into another water stream below that’s going to bring all the lava buckets over to one end of our farm they’ll get

Collected together go into the shulker loading system and we’ll have shocker boxes full of lava buckets waiting for us when we’re done harvesting here which will be pretty cool now it’s trying to figure out how should we actually do this water stream below because i kind

Of don’t want to put break points in our farm like between the cauldrons i would rather have break points in our water stream here because you can’t like merge two eight block water streams together right you need a break point at some point and if the lava bucket was to fall down here

Well you just lost it so the way i usually would deal with like having a continuous water stream is you double layer it you have like another layer over here that goes over the dead points on the lower one and then if an item lands here

It will fall between the crack there no problem guaranteed not to land on a dead point or if it was to land like at this fence gate here it would go to the one below as well so there’s like no point in the water stream where items can get lost

I was just trying to think like is there a better way of doing it and yes there is basically i i tested this out it seems to work if you have like uh it’s set up like this only a single layer is needed actually oh let’s put that

We’ll have the fence gate here water goes over the pressure plates and it seems like no matter where the item lands as long as i think like if it fell far enough down here i think it would get stuck but you see if it lands on the ice there

It still has some momentum it can actually carry its way through oh i’m a bad thrower oh it just barely makes it you see that but i think maybe if it fell through that water fast enough it would get stuck but as long as we don’t drop the item too

Far it seems to work like this no matter where it lands aha so yeah it’s been announced guys officially the next updates 1.18 is coming out november 30th which is pretty cool i was thinking about it today about this patch and uh it’s pretty crazy what they’ve done

Honestly like you think about a lot of older games what happens what do they do well the patches get simpler and simpler as time goes on you know they might add a couple new content things here and there a few bug fixes but rarely rarely do old games touch like their core

Game engine right and what emoji do with this update it’s like oh you know what we’re gonna completely redo the terrain generation we’re going to completely redo our file format probably some network code have to be adjusted like all this nasty main engine stuff that you don’t want to

Touch with a 10 foot pole mojang are like nope we’re going to update it we’re going to improve it people’s computers are getting better they can handle it and uh it’s pretty cool i like to see that uh as far as like what the update is

Going to do to our world here i still am not entirely sure i think they changed the mob uh spawning right so a lot of our mob farms are kind of going to be affected by that i think and from what i’ve seen there’s going to be caves underneath my bedrock so like

64 blocks below our bedrock is gonna have new caves and we’ll probably go down there and explore and you know open up the underworld is is kind of the plan at the moment i love that sound it’s so good uh this stuff grows very slowly like

Very very slowly we only need 288 of it that’s how many cauldrons we got set up that’s like over 10 shulkers full of lava after a full harvest but uh it’s been hours hours hours hours and this stuff is taken forever i just did a little test here

Because i wanted to make sure we only have one lava source at this block here right above and then it spreads out the ones it spreads to does not create lava just where the lava source is this one has filled up three times in a row none of these have filled up so

We’re gonna need to fill this all up with lava the whole thing there’s no cheating oh yeah and with the mine cart it seems like it’ll prefer to go east but if we nudge it the other way it will just keep going that way as well so it

Just uh keeps going the way it was going right but i think this is gonna be too slow so i should probably just use power rails all right so i got a little bit lucky on this actually i think power rails would have been too fast like every so often

We would miss picking up the lava buckets as we passed by but it seems if you combine power rails with water it actually provides a bit of resistance and this is like the perfect speed all right everybody so i’ve been hard at work here working on this lava farm and

I’m very happy to say i think it’s totally finished now i just gotta go show it off to you guys maybe explain a few things and we’ll go for a test run of it as well so to begin with we have this opening here right and i thought this kind of

Works we need some way of getting down there and i’m in a mine cart so we just have a minecart track at the top here we hit the button and bam we’ll get taken down into the farm and then we end up on the other side and then if we go down on

The other side we end up on the side kind of thing we have empty buckets there for picking up the lava when we head down and it’s just like a little minecart track tunnel thing nothing too fancy we got mushroom walls but then oh baby we get into the heart of the

Operation here and honestly like i kind of like how this looks i i built this underground because i thought it was gonna look really bad and i didn’t want to see it all the time on the surface right but uh yeah it kind of turned out cool i

Like it uh so we got six rows of 48 cauldrons each row each one has lava over top each one has one of these uh drip stone which took forever to farm that was the very last thing i did and just finished it some of these are still filling up

But uh yeah we got the minecart track in we went for power rails uh we got our collection system joining all the rows together here and they end up in the middle they go underneath to a shulker loading system but uh yeah i think we’re ready to go here for a

Little test run so let’s do it this is my absolute favorite part of building something when you you spend all the time building it up and it’s like is it gonna work is it gonna work and then you go for the test run and oh

Baby or else it’s a oh i messed up greatly on this thing time to fix it uh no we’ll see what happens here i don’t i don’t see how this could go wrong though so the idea is we’ll pick up some buckets fill up our inventory and then

Head down we face this way and just kind of hold right click the whole way through and they’ll shoot out of our inventory the land and the water stream below oh yeah and when it fills up uh or when our when we run out of empty buckets then we got a switch too

So this now this farm could be totally automated right i decided not to totally automate it though because i kind of like uh manual farms to a certain extent or i like the idea of having like tons of lava here and we just go for a harvest right

So it’s quick to get it it’s easy but i’m still involved in the actual collection process i think that’s kind of the dream i don’t really like the afk farm now we got to double check that stuff isn’t landing where it shouldn’t here hopefully we’re fine

Oh that’s a scary face oh and i i used up all the buckets pretty much so oh there was another roast oh my goodness okay so we need a lot of buckets i thought i thought that would be more than enough i didn’t count it uh but yeah they’re filling up our shocker

Loader here um and they when it totally fills up oh i guess that was all that had there it goes it breaks it those go down into here we got five uh there yeah i said there would be about 10 right so i guess there was a bit more to go um

But then the minecart goes back up okay we might have a little bit of loss with this and we’ll see but i don’t think it’ll be too bad oh there is one here too one there okay so there is a couple problems nothing major though which which is fine i just want

To double check this as well make sure there’s nothing stuck on these pressure plates yeah i think this worked okay like we were getting a bunch of lava buckets on the very end here but i think if we put glass over here we can still pass underneath that but we won’t throw uh

The buckets out on the side here how did i do that oh i guess if i right click with the full bucket when i’m in the glass is that what happened then happened again wait a second is it a big deal i don’t know i don’t know what’s happening

As long as i’m not actually placing the lava i think we’re fine again all right let’s double check any lava buckets and you’ll have buckets i don’t see any lava buckets very good very good i think they all went down oh boy okay decision time guys do we

Keep the guard on the front of the farm here or do we remove it it’ll look better without the guard i think but it’ll function better with it i don’t know i’ll let you guys decide i don’t really care i think it’s fine either way uh okay

One little thing here i thought was interesting so the whole time i was building this we have a bit of a tragic story here this enderman poor guy he got caught stealing i don’t think i’ve ever seen this happen before so what happened as far as i can tell

You see how we got a brown mushroom down there those grow randomly i think he stole a brown mushroom you see it’s in his hand and then one grew where he was standing and he cannot place that down now he’s stuck because there’s one in the spot

Again so he can’t place that down which means he can’t despawn and he for some reason he can’t teleport out of there either he hasn’t tried to so he’s just like permanently stuck in this hole all right good stuff so i think we’re done with that farm let’s

Move on and i think we’re gonna head to the end next yeah so i thought we would go check out the shulker reactor again today i know a lot of you guys really like this farm and you wanted to see it in full action so we got a few guys

Stored on the sides here we’re gonna send them into the middle and then we’ll we’ll see what it’s like when it’s when it’s crazy i have been using this a fair bit testing it out some more it does have a couple problems but i did i i was able to farm a few

Stacks of shells from it so it like it’s working but it needs some tweaking is kind of where we’re at with it and i’m having trouble flying today apparently okay let’s land so what i’m gonna do i’m gonna send these guys into the middle just by washing them away

But i think what we really need to do for this farm like to make it work well is we need to rinse the sides every so often and and not just when we choose like set it up on an actual timer okay so once the sides are covered in water

They can’t teleport to the trap doors anymore so they teleport to the outside and then the ring of water washes them again and then they’ll teleport inside and then we remove the water on the outside again and they can teleport back over to the trap doors and we end up

With the situation where there’s like a hundred of them in the middle reactor now and things get pretty fun so i guess let’s go check her out here we go i love this farm so yeah there’s there’s a few guys in here at the moment now unfortunately it’s not gonna like

Sustain this in in any way they’re gonna teleport out of here they’re gonna kill themselves they can’t duplicate when there’s this many in the middle um so they they gotta teleport out of here first but yeah it’s pretty fun still oh there’s not that many over here i

Guess this was kind of a dead spot so what i found is if i run this farm for a long long long time like hours eventually everybody thins out in here and they all end up on the outside walls so i gotta do some tweaking with like uh

How much space they can teleport to i think i’m gonna remove some of the trapdoors on the outside there and uh just go from there and then if we set up that rinsing system on the outside i think this farm will work pretty well uh-huh yeah so it’s a little bit hard to

Explain this is a complicated farm but essentially our problem at the moment is when they duplicate in the reactor some of them will teleport to the trapdoors and some of them will duplicate within the reactor and keep the reaction going the ones on the outside are like extra storage they get

Out of the way so that uh there’s not too many in the middle that it stops the reaction from happening but the issue at the moment is too many of them are teleporting to the trap doors and eventually there’s not enough in the middle they all kind of die out

And then the reaction stops and yeah then we have to send them all from the outside back inside but if we just get rid of the middle row here it will probably help things out a lot and though more will stay inside and fewer will go to the trapdoors

All right found something out new here that i didn’t know uh i was removing the middles on the trapdoors right and there were a couple shulkers on the outside still so i had to remove them with my trident and uh i might have missed and my trident went

Into the void and apparently even if it has loyalty on it and it goes in the void uh it doesn’t come back to you so i just threw my trident in the void okay i know this looks kind of bad but just hear me out for a second i have an idea

I want to try out um this hit me when i was building the lava farm and basically for a long time now i’ve needed to build a villager system like a villager trading system a good one too i don’t want just the junky one i want a really

Good one kind of want it to be like something unique as well and i just haven’t really been able to figure out what to do until today the idea hit me had a eureka moment okay uh but it hinges on whether or not this guy can restock his supply the idea is

I’m gonna drown the guy pretty much he’s gonna be in water right this is how i’m gonna keep my villagers the bubble columns will keep him alive though he’s not going to drown and like whenever i do a trade with them and the the inventory you know that’s

The big problem with villager trading the inventory you have stuff flying everywhere right you got to pick stuff up you got to drop stuff off i want the inventory to just shoot into the water stream and go into a collection system and and sort it for

Me and this is a perfect way of doing it if if they just stay in the water stream right because i can just funnel the water stream wherever i want with the items inside and it’s going to be amazing now can he actually restock we got this thing next to him

Uh i think he should be able to right i’m just going to make sure let’s do a little bit of trading here with this guy and we will find out i want all the bricks he got buddy okay he can’t he can’t trade anymore let’s give him a bit of time

Oh snappers all right i think it’s gonna work he was able to restock which is great so yeah the idea is if he’s in water we can deliver all the items wherever we want that way nice and easy plus any xp he creates will get shot through the system as well

Cool all right well i think that’s what we’re gonna go with then i’ll have to do a bit of fine tuning and you know it’ll take a bit to make it look good as well but uh i think it’s gonna work out i’ll try to get that figured out for the next

Episode everybody but unfortunately for today it is that time for the comment of the day it says etho do you know that there are different variations of flight rockets you don’t have to use the level one ones craft a rocket with three gun powder instead of one

So this this is actually an interesting thing that i don’t know if a lot of people have played around with so i used to always use rocket threes like forever it wasn’t until hermitcraft actually i noticed everybody used rocket ones and then i started using them because that’s what people gave me or

What i could buy at the stores and i found out i actually really prefer the rocket ones they don’t last as long it’s true that it’s like less value for the inventory slot right but a lot of times when you’re doing stuff you just need quick little bursts to get somewhere right

It’s not like you’re traveling far all the time and i find rocket threes you just spend most of time waiting for the rocket to run out before you can land right or else you’re gonna conk into the wall and die uh so yeah i much prefer rocket ones

Anyways thank you for watching guys i hope you enjoyed this episode and i will see you again in the next one take care have a good day bye