Farewell to Season 2! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S2 [FINALE]

Hello everyone and for the last time welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide season two because we’re moving on we are going to be moving on and doing a season three of the Minecraft survival guide and I recognize that this Series has not been around for a little while

And so today I thought I would do an episode just talking a little bit about why and what’s prompted the decision to move on and restart the Minecraft Survival Guide for season three but if you just want the basics season 2 is ending season three will begin with the

Launch of Minecraft 1.20 we’re gonna do an episode zero in which we actually show the seed for the world and we’re going to talk about the process of picking a world seed for a new Minecraft world so if you’re into all of that and you’re excited for 1.20 look out because

On Wednesday when 1.20 is hopefully going to be released we should have a fresh new episode for you and we can get started with season three so now for The Talky bits season two of Survival Guide has obviously been gone for about I want to say 4 or five months now the last

Build we did for the series was this one over here which was kind of a copy of the museum on Empire’s season 2 as kind of an illustration of how you can work with the shape of a build and re-texture it but that’s been it the only other

Thing that appears in the playlist after that is the tutorial for David the copper aging machine which is a tutorial in the creative sense not in the survival guide sense so there’s a lot of different reasons why we didn’t go any further with Survival Guide season two

The first one honestly being the fact that Empire’s season 2 was going on at the same time it’s always been difficult for me to keep two vanilla Series going side by side but to be honest Empire season 2 has really felt like home for the last year I’ve really wanted to stay

In touch with everything that was happening on that server because it’s a multiplayer server so the minute you don’t spend a week on there you get left behind by the pace at which everybody else is building and a lot of people were just outputting Empires as their

Main series there were a lot of very talented Builders and so so I wanted to be able to keep up with them that is of course burying the lead a little bit because the middle part of that season was a collaboration with hermitcraft and those of you who know that I’ve been a

Fan of hermitcraft and I’ve hosted the hermitcraft recap for probably like six years now understand that that’s kind of a big deal for me it was an opportunity to collaborate with some of my favorite Minecraft creators and it really felt like if I wasn’t putting a hundred

Percent into that series I was going to be you know missing out on a whole bunch of stuff so the hermitcraft collab really kind of took over a lot of my effort at that point and honestly I think the numbers on these two series speak for themselves Empire season 2

Videos were doing a lot better than Survival Guide even after Empires had been around for a little while and it’s easy to take a cynical angle at this point and say that I was just chasing views or looking for whatever made me the most Revenue but honestly I’ve never

Really seen the point of arguments like that they always seem like weird arguments to me because views are an indication of audience interest and of course I want to make more people happy by giving them a video that they want to watch and more people are going to want

To watch Empires than we’re watching survival guide at the time so it really made the most sense both my audience and for me to focus on that series but the flip side of Empire season 2 feeling so much like home was that this series hasn’t felt like home and increasingly

Whenever I’ve come back to this world I sort of forgot what was here and it’s taken a while to readjust to what I’ve actually built in this series I start to feel a bit like a stranger in my own house which is a really strange thing

But just in terms of the way this season started this was our spawn point basically right over there on the sand and I was determined to make the most of this start but the spawn area here has always felt kind of underwhelming to me it doesn’t exactly show the best of what

118 has to offer and it doesn’t make sense for the tutorial aspect of the series to just go looking for the coolest looking mountain immediately that’s not always what people are going to want to do and newer players are aren’t going to know how to survive so I

Stuck around here and I built a bunch of stuff that I’m actually pretty proud of I really love the storage building that we built up there I love our little starter house a couple of the builds around here are kind of cool but honestly I feel like we really didn’t

Have time to make the most of it or I didn’t give it the time to make the most of it because all of the Thematic building which kind of gives the world some character was happening over on Empires and that really took off with 1.19 when 119 arrived we were able to

Find the deep dark in this world we were able to find a mangrove swamp quite easily to get our Mangrove wood but then I couldn’t really commit to Big projects when it felt like Empires had already started and was building momentum and like I said there are a lot of things in

This world that I do genuinely love I love the way the storage building come together I was really happy with the kind of s-curved shape it has even though the inside doesn’t feel entirely complete and we would also have to expand it considering that this is all

The space we left for wood and then another wood type came out and two more wood types are on their way with Minecraft 1.20 on a technical level of the Guardian Farm is probably the thing I’m the most happy with I designed this from scratch we drained the entire

Monument it felt like a really Landmark project for season two of the survival guide and then back over in the drip Stone cave you’ve got David 3.1 you’ve got that Redstone powered elevator connecting it to the lower level I thought that whole area turned out

Really nicely as well it was a fun tent pole project for the series and really felt like that allowed me to develop the copper aging facility in a way that obviously is now built on hermitcraft and I put out a more automated version of it in a tutorial recently but none of

This has really felt cohesive enough to really put this series on the map for me as one of the great and so that’s really part of why I think it is time to move on so you’re probably also wondering why not just keep this world right why not

Continue Survival Guide season 2 and just move into 1.20 and look at all of the new features from there and to be honest there are a lot of small reasons for that rather than one one big reason 1.20 introduces a lot of features that are linked to exploration and generated

Structures right so sniffer eggs need to be found in specific ocean ruins in warm oceans and I need to go out and find one of those that I hadn’t already explored in this world archeology by the same token requires fresh desert temples to unearth and explore and armor trim kind

Of overshadowing all of this requires a bunch of different undiscovered structures to loot for the smithing templates so I’d need to find a Bastion and a near The Fortress that I’d never been to before I’d need to find n cities that I hadn’t raided I’d need to find

Shipwrecks that I hadn’t looted and I’ve already been through a lot of those in this world already not to mention while we’re on the subject of bastions the way you upgrade netherite armor has changed and you now get a netherrite upgrade template from a piglet Bastion in 1.20

So any tutorials in which I’ve explained how to get netherite are now Incorrect and need to be adjusted it for newer viewers and it’s really those new viewers I’m thinking about because while it’s totally possible for me to continue this series and this world to cover all

Of that stuff it still feels like new viewers aren’t going to find the latest information until they reach episode 125 of the series of course the alternative is to start it as Season 3 Episode 1 in a new area of the world or trim areas of this world removal the

Structures so that they regenerate all of that stuff but that sort of feels like erasing this world’s history and in some cases that means erasing stuff we’ve already worked on some people like to move out ten thousand or a hundred thousand blocks even move their world spawn point they’re using commands and

Do a season two or a season three or whatever from there but that’s never really made sense to me because what’s the point in keeping this world if I’m never going to see any of my old builds anyway you’ve also got the problem of the nether because 10 000 blocks in the

Overworld feels like a long distance but that’s only 1250 blocks in the nether that’s really not that far I can fly there using barely a handful of fireworks also one of the things that I really feel like held up our progression in this world is that I wasn’t looking

At a seed map I was exploring entirely organically and it turns out the nearest Desert to me was over 4 000 blocks away at least the significant one with desert Villages and temples and stuff like that and starting a new world gives me the opportunity to get a desert a little bit

Closer because I want to be able to breed camels immediately and you need two different desert villages to spawn in the same desert to have a chance of bringing two camels together in an easy manner we also have no idea where Trail ruins would generate in this world and

I’d love to find one of those close to home it also means erasing the end Dimension if we wanted to start over from the first ender dragon fight and moving a world spawn would mean more explanation for new viewers who would always wonder why when I hit F3 my spawn

Point was ten thousand blocks out and theirs wasn’t meanwhile starting a new world kind of gives me the opportunity to fall in love with it the way I got attached to the Empire’s season 2 world I actually found that seed for for the Empire’s crew in a big voice call where

We were all just rolling seeds in chunk base and seeing what came up and it was love at first sight I got so attached to the landscape we had there the personality it felt like the world already had and I could instantly see projects that I wanted to do there so in

The new season of Survival Guide I’m taking the same approach I’ve actually found a world seed on chunk base already just hitting random a few times and seeing what comes up we looked at it on a live stream recently and I’m pretty committed to starting season three in

This world selecting a seed means I don’t end up with a desert that’s 5 000 blocks from spawn in an update that requires you to find desert temples Villages and warm oceans and part of the reason I’m in love with this seed in particular is it’s got this Landmark

Really close to spawn that I won’t spoil for you it is there on the live stream if you wanted to go and look at the VOD but it’s basically one of those things that you look at and you think yeah I wouldn’t mind looking at that every day

Of my life for the next year or so aside from that moving to a season 3 also allows me to make changes in the way I do these videos and I present the information in these videos and I’m considering changing the format of Survival Guide a little bit starting

With a more concise tutorial for the first chunk of the video and then providing all of the context and more casual let’s play footage in the second half for people who want to stick around and watch the remainder of the video because inevitably there’s going to be some people who complain about the

Length of a video or the fact that I bury information until later in the video so I’m hoping that I can kind of Hit The Best of Both Worlds there I can provide a bunch of information that people are going to need right up front and then they can take that information

Away and do what they want with it or they can stick around for a bit more context for a bit more information why a redstone tutorial works or why we look for biomes in a specific way instead of just watching me going out and doing that stuff honestly yeah a fresh start

Feels good for a lot of reasons so that is what we’re doing but of course after having said all that I expect the question most people are going to have is will there be a World download of this world and honestly what’s happened to the World download for survival guide

Season one at this point Point yeah I have stalled on that for a very long time I always had this notion that I was going to go back to survival guide season one and finish the museum there and do a bunch more stuff that I never

Had the time to do for the same reasons I never had the time to really continue with this series in the way that I wanted to so I’m gonna package them both together and in the description of this video you should find a link to a MediaFire download where I have grouped

Together the survival guide season 1 and season two world survival guide season 1 is available for Minecraft 116.4 it was basically all 16.5 I forget it was the the last version that I opened that world in it is of course perfectly safe to open it in newer

Versions but it will generate a bunch of terrain that didn’t exist in that world before so you’re going to be looking at Deep slate caves and all of that kind of stuff and some of the terrain generation outside is going to blend into 118 plus generation this world survival guide

Season 2 was last opened in 119.3 but then I just reopened it now in 19.4 for the first time so that is available for for more recent versions of Minecraft and both of them are going to be perfectly playable into 1.20 if you feel like starting with my world and

Continuing from there but folks for the last time from this world that is where we’re going to sign off the Minecraft Survival Guide Season Two Season three will be starting on Wednesday and in the meantime I should hopefully have an episode of the new life SMP coming out

This week as well so make sure you stay tuned for that thank you so much for making Survival Guide season 2 what it was and hopefully you folks will stick around to see what we get up to in season three thank you so much for watching my name has been pixelriffs

Don’t forget to leave a like on this video If you enjoyed it subscribe if you’re excited for season 3 of survival guide and I’ll see you folks soon take care bye for now