Finding a Mushroom Island! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 47]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guy Heder hope you’re having a good day today this episode was starting out on the cobblestone generator that we built in the last episode I hope you guys enjoyed this design it’s been running a little bit in the background

I’ve done a little bit more cobblestone mining but it’s just there is a fun example of what we can do without damaging the terrain too much we’re actually not gonna be spending much time over here at this farming district at all I just wanted to briefly pop over to

The storage system to explain something that happened in the comments of Wednesday’s episode because a lot of people were a bit confused about the filtering system and why I didn’t put more filter material in there to limit the amount of items stored elsewhere in the system and there is a very good

Reason for that which we’re gonna start off this episode by hopping into a creative world so I can explain a little bit easier so here we are in my creative test world where I do a little bit of behind-the-scenes work for some of my series and I thought I would use this as

A chance to give you guys a bit of an explanation about what’s going on with the item filters that I installed in that episode because a lot of people are a little bit confused about why I didn’t put more filter material into the system when dealing with bulk storage like this

So let me give you a very quick rundown of what’s happening here if I put some gravel into this we’re going to use gravel and diamond blocks because they look completely different to each other and because having 64 diamond blocks in your inventory it’s always a bit of fun

So we’re gonna filter that down until it’s got 41 gravel in it and this comparator out the back here is giving off a signal strength of 3 so the redstone signal only reaches this block here and doesn’t reach that block there and that is what ends up basically

Preventing the content of this hopper from overflowing this is the hopper where we’re going to be filtering through our diamond blocks as an example right so most of the time this would not be a problem to add more filter material to because as people have pointed out

The more filter material we put in here the more stuff we end up shuttling through this hopper until we end up with a ton more materials in this chest but the problem comes when this chest starts to fill up with gravel see this hasn’t affected the hopper on this side yet and

If we add a little bit more filter material in here up to 11 blocks in each space you’ll end up with just one gravel left in the system and it hasn’t affected this hopper at all the problem comes when this hopper here starts to fill up with more gravel because say for example

That we add stacks of 64 to every slot in this hopper and then we end up with another 64 gravel filtering into the system the gravel doesn’t have anywhere else to go because it’s being fed along a hopper feed line like so and it falls into this

Item filter now the problem is with there being 11 items in each slot here an additional stack in fact anywhere over about 25 items I think should do it we put 26 there we go you’ll notice this is now the comparator giving off a signal strength of four and it’s

Activating the circuit next door which means all of our items are going to drain out of this hopper so normally speaking if you’ve got a hopper feed line kind of directing gravel into this chest for the most part unless this system completely fills up it’s not

Going to be an issue but when the system does completely fill up you risk basically ruining the storage cells to either side of it because that overflow problem is going to happen it’s going to activate the redstone torches to either side of it causing all of this to

Overflow and for all of the items to end up in the chest ruins your item filters and then whatever comes into this hopper here won’t be filtered anymore so you’ll just get all of the other junk that’s going into your storage system ending up in this chest I hope that makes sense I

Hope that kind of clarifies things for you cause I did get a few comments on that episode kind of wondering exactly why that happened and maybe I didn’t explain it super well in the episode why you only needed one filter material item in each of these slots but hopefully

That kind of clarifies things ok back to the episode and if you’re thinking well that’s unlikely to happen in a survival world where you’re just gathering resources it’s already happened to me I’ve actually collected enough gravel to completely backfill the system because of the amount of gravel that’s around

Here and the amount of it I’m storing in these chests two double chests of gravel plus the inventory of several hoppers was apparently not enough and any more gravel I put in the system has started to filter into the overflow chest here but that at least has meant that the

Overflow chest is receiving it and it’s not completely draining and messing up the item filters to the circuits too side I’ve actually started keeping some of the gravel in this chest above because you can’t really craft a huge amount of stuff out of gravel so it sort

Of makes sense to keep it all in there and we’re gonna pop that in the chest from now for now on but I think yeah I think it’s probably best if we keep the filters kind of the overflow protected way for now because I’m absent-minded you know I’ll chuck stuff in here not

Noticing the level of items I already have in the chest and before I know it the entire filter system or at least this little section of the filter system could be completely messed up and I don’t really want that to happen so that explains it now if we have cells like

This where they are all stored you know a couple of a couple of blocks apart if there’s at least one block gap so the redstone doesn’t cross over and interfere then yeah it is absolutely fine to include in our filter material to only leave one item in the hopper and

That’s what we’ve done with these systems over here but for this bulk storage system where the cells are all side-by-side it’s kind of an essential thing but yeah just wanted to clear that up because I’ve got a lot of comments from people asking can’t you just stuff

More filter filter material in there the other thing that involves by the way is just renaming a bunch of items which can if you’re working on a larger storage system it can really drain your levels and right now without any kind of really good solid automated XP farm I’m

Actually having a hard time getting hold of levels regularly and I haven’t really been able to repair my tools all that well the last trip to the end meant that I repaired my mending shovel a little bit but it’s not quite been good enough so one of the priorities for the near

Future is definitely to get a decent XP farm up and running but today we’re gonna do something a little different we’re gonna be heading out on at one of our exploration journeys and I’m actually not gonna sleep through the night for once because I want to see if

We can demonstrate something while I’m there but today we’re gonna head out on a flight and we are going to find a mushroom island now I think a great place to start for that is going to be over at the ocean monument nether portal that we’ve established previously

Because it is pretty far north on our world it’s actually quite close to where the ocean monument is and so if I can remember where the portal is over here in the nether we should be able to head over there I think it’s right behind this ridge of nether right believe it or

Not I’m actually getting quite good and navigating around this nether just Landmarks there it is perfect stuff yeah we are still going to create a bridge out to this at some point but I’m working on that I think it’s probably best to save a lot of the stone that I

Was using for the nether hub design here for some of our builds in the overworld because I’m not using the nether quite as much but here we are I may as well take this bed with me just in case we need it but we are headed out to the coordinates

– 970 which is pretty close by and 2020 which is also not too far away from here so this would be a good jumping on point for looking for this mushroom island and I’ve also brought some obsidian and a flint and steel with me so we can establish a nether portal connection

There if we want to but 500 blocks in one direction and a couple of hundred in the other it shouldn’t take too long to find this place and here it is coming into view right now ladies and gentlemen this is a mushroom island one of the most unique biomes in all of Minecraft

And it’s one of my favorites actually I really enjoy a mushroom isin’t so this is actually mushroom ions are actually called mushroom Plains now or mushroom fields and there’s a good reason for that is because they’re not always Islands sometimes they will actually generate connected to landmass but the

Main thing about mushroom islands where they generate is that you will always find them next to a deep ocean biome they’re always kind of in the middle of an ocean generally speaking is just that sometimes other biomes and they’re in the middle of an ocean as well and they

Tend to connect a little bit but mushroom islands as the name suggests are covered with giant mushrooms and regular mushrooms which will grow freely on this substance here this is mycelium and this is kind of a variant of dirt in the same way that grass all pods all are

A variant of dirt we’ll get more into the mechanics of mycelium in a moment but for now let me also introduce these guys these are mushrooms which is a great pun and also these guys are a variant of cows they can’t breed with carrots they’re their own distinct mob

But they are these kind of red cows with mushrooms growing on their backs and I think personally that they’re kind of adorable the idea about these guys is that they are supposed to be kind of infected with these mushrooms that grow on their backs and here’s a fun fact if

You brought some shears with you and you right-click them with shears you can actually turn them back into a regular cow and get a few red mushrooms for your trouble now you might be thinking if a regular cow gives me milk what does a mushroom

Get me good question let me open up a crafting table craft some planks and will craft a few wooden bowls because instead of buckets these guys need wooden bowls for you to milk them because they don’t actually give you milk at all if you right-click on one of

These guys with a wooden bowl they give you mushroom stew which is a non stackable item see you in Minecraft doesn’t let you stack it presumably because it would get kind of sloppy with all of the bowls stuck on each other but you end up with a lot of individual

Mushroom stew and that can actually be a really nice food source if you decide to set up a base here on a mushroom island now this is kind of an unusual site right here we’ve seen a couple of Enderman walking around the fun thing about mushroom islands is that mobs

Don’t naturally spawn in a mushroom island biome and it may be that because we are the only thing around like we’re the only player on this world and because like there’s no other areas loaded to spawn in mobs they might have actually spawned on these grass blocks here because where

You see grass blocks that’s actually the start of an ocean biome that is generated kind of sloping up into this mushroom fields but the majority of the mushroom biome like anything that’s marked mushroom fields or mushroom fields sure when you press f3 will not be affected by the usual mob spawning

Rules it can be as dark as you want here and in fact it is completely nighttime right now and you’ll notice that no other hostile mobs are spawning on this island there’s no creepers there’s no zombies skeletons witches and so forth none of that exists and I think the main

Reason these Enderman are running around so much is because they are capable of teleporting so they can just kind of wander around anywhere they want to really the fact that there are no mob spawns on these islands actually makes them a really great place to start a

Base if you can find one and if you’re keen on not having any mobs be part of your world because you don’t need to worry too much about lighting you don’t need to worry about monsters coming out at night you can just relax and build

Here if you want to if you can put up with the strange plants being everywhere because you won’t find trees or anything like that on a mushroom island unless you get lucky and one of the ocean biomes over there has generated a tree but I’m fairly certain ocean by

Don’t even generate trees even if they start to slope up onto land like this so you’re probably gonna have to bring some saplings of your own if you want to make one of these your base now the fun thing about mycelium is that it will spread to

Dirt in much the same way grass does meaning that if we take a few blocks of mycelium back with us using our silk touch shovel we can actually grow this in greater supply at our base why would you want to grow mycelium you ask well it’s actually got some at unique

Properties as far as blocks go that are shared with pods all in that you can place a mushroom down on it anywhere normally mushrooms need a low light level in order to be planted on grass or anything like that in fact if we go over to that grass over here on the other

Side of the island I won’t be able to place mushrooms on that grass but you can place it any way you like on mycelium so you check it out where right clicking here and I cannot place this mushroom down on the grass whereas with the mycelium I can place it

Absolutely anywhere and there’s no difference between here and here in terms of light level in fact even if we put down torches next to the mushrooms here the mushrooms won’t pop off the mycelium where they would if they were growing somewhere with low light on grass or stone or anything like that an

Environment where you can put down mushrooms anywhere is actually also a great environment for bone mailing them to grow them into large mushrooms which you can do pretty easily after a few shots of bone meal it grows just like a regular tree mushrooms still need quite

A large space in which to grow though because they’ve got quite large caps and so I think they need at least 7 by 7 blocks around them to be free however once you grow them they are actually kind of fun to have around and if you’ve

Got a silk touch tool you can harvest the camp blocks the axe is the one that will harvest them the fastest and you can end up building with these things it’s possible to obtain both the cap blocks and the stem blocks as individual blocks using silk touch and if you place

Down one of the cap blocks and you place blocks around either side and then take them away you also get this third texture is the kind of underside spore texture and that allows you to create some really nice custom mushrooms if you know how that only works if you place

Other mushroom blocks adjacent to them though if I place these planks on here and then remove the planks that doesn’t convert it to the spore texture it so connecting mushroom blocks that allows you to do that yet another advantage to having mushroom islands as your base is

That you can go caving underneath them without worrying about any kind of hostile mobs because anytime you’ll go caving down here as long as you’re staying within the boundaries of the mushroom island nothing is going to spawn the biome continues all the way to bedrock so wherever you are in the world

If you’re standing at sea level if you’re standing up in the air if you’re standing at like y equals four like right down at the bottom of the world you’re still going to be in a mushroom field biome as long as you’re directly below the surface island which allows

You to cave without worries without cares without even having to worry too much about hostile mobs although still make sure that you stay away from lava now there are two exceptions to mobs spawning within the boundaries of a and mushroom island one of those is if you

Find a mob spawner because if you find a dungeon with a mob spawner in it the mob spawner is still going to obey its usual rules if you get within 16 blocks of it it’s going to start spawning monsters so if you happen to be caving below a mushroom island biome and

You hear zombie noises or skeleton noises and you’ve checked the f3 screen to make sure that you’re still within the boundary of the island because you could have just wandered out into a cave underneath the ocean if you’re still under the island then chances are you have found yourself a monster spawner

And that’s gonna get some pretty good spawning rates because there is less chance for hostile mobs to be spawning on the surface at night they’re not gonna take up the mob camp when I say mob camp by the way is a concept I haven’t really explored in this series

Before there is a limit to the amount of hostile mobs minecraft can spawn at one time it’s mainly a performance thing it just so it limits the amount of monsters that appear so it’s not like having to process too much information at once for lower end systems to make sure that they

Can still run the game without crashing typically mob spawn as will ignore mechanics like that because once you have moved the monsters out of the range of the spawner it will just keep spawning more of them but it’s usually a good idea to light up the surface and

Any nearby caves to make sure that minecraft isn’t having to deal with a bunch of other monsters nearby now the other exception to mob spawning in mushroom island biomes is phantoms and phantoms since they spawn in the night sky will spawn regardless of which biome

You’re in so if you spend a few nights here on a mushroom island you will still encounter phantoms in much the same way you any other biome the main solution to that of course is to spend the night with something above your head spend the

Night in a cave or in a house or underneath one of these convenient mushroom parasols if you want to that will actually prevent phantoms from spawning if there is a block above your head somewhere they have to have open sky access to you in order to spawn in the first place alternatively just

Remember to sleep every couple of nights and you won’t have to mess with those if you don’t want to but as with many things there is a twist to the mob spawning mechanics here and that is that normal passive mobs things like regular cows sheep pigs chickens and so forth

Cannot spawn on mycelium in fact the only thing that can spawn on mycelium is these mushrooms not only that but mushrooms cannot spawn anywhere except for a mushroom island biome and they will only be able to spawn on mycelium so if you were to convert this entire

Place to grass which I’ve actually done a couple of times in the past because the grass color here is so bright and cartoonishly green that it’s actually kind of fun to build in you still won’t be able to spawn any new mushrooms on that grass it will they will only be

Able to spawn on mycelium which you can actually use to great effect if you want to farm mushrooms because all you need to do is create an area of land where there is just mycelium and surround the rest of it with grass and you’re always going to get mushroom cares spawning

There so that makes it fairly ideal for creating some kind of automatic farm with these guys but in the end one of the things that makes these islands most interesting is the fact that they are relatively rare you won’t find all that many mushroom islands in your world in

Fact I had to use a biome Atlas program I had to use mine Atlas in order to find this one in the first place because they only occur in deep ocean biomes in large deep oceans and they don’t always occur in every single ocean that you find this

Ocean is thankfully big enough that I have a few mushroom islands in fairly close proximity and I think if I went further to the Northeast I would find another mushroom island and there is another one to the southwest that is connected to a small spit of land now we’ve connected this one to

This nether portal I can just take the coordinates really quick I will make sure that that’s linked up to a separate nether portal in the nether because I have a feeling that one might just connect back to our ocean Temple in space because that’s a little bit

Kind of close by I suppose and this right here is the other example this is the patch of mushroom island that is connected to a forest over here and aside from those two islands and this one the next mushroom island is I think about six thousand blocks away so it’s

It’s very very far from spawn and chances are that you’ll find a mushroom island within a few thousand blocks of your spawn point but unless you have a large enough ocean it’s not always going to be possible so keep that in mind in future if you’re looking for a mushroom

Island you will probably have to struggle a little bit to find one if you’re exploring naturally expect to do a lot of ocean exploring and if you’re looking for one on mine atlas or any other kind of biome finding tool then expect to find one several thousand

Blocks away from your base but this should now hopefully be a nether portal connection to that mushroom island we just established perfect so there we go okay we’re all set up here and we can come here collect mushrooms collect mycelium pretty much whenever we want to

And we might even return here in future to harvest some giant mushrooms convert some patches of this into grass or just explore the ocean from where we are but for now I think let’s head back to base and I’ll show you a couple of more fun things about giant mushrooms before we

Wrap up this episode giant mushrooms can be grown anywhere they don’t just have to be grown on a mushroom island and as long as you have some pods all awesome mycelium it should be nice and easy to grow them anywhere out in the open not only that but harvesting these blocks without silk

Touch will net you more mushrooms so if you happen to be running low on mushrooms but you have one and you want to convert it into a bunch more this is probably the most time effective way of harvesting some more mushrooms it is possible to grow mushrooms in dark

Conditions if you have an area that has a light level below I think 11 or something like that it should be possible to grow mushrooms say in a cave for example but in this case it’s a lot faster just to yet there we go we’ve got 16 mushrooms just from one brown

Mushroom that we planted and a little bit of bone meal if you’ve got the bone meal to spare it’s definitely worth your time and thankfully in the latest version of Minecraft Java Edition two by two spruce trees when you grow them manually generate this area of pods all around

Them making acquiring pods all fairly trivial in the early game of Minecraft normally you had to find either a mushroom biome or a mega taiga wet pods all generates naturally in order to grow mushrooms just freely wherever you wanted to even on stuff like coarse dirt

You won’t be able to plant a regular mushroom unless the light level is low enough and that was the key to growing mushrooms without pods or mycelium for a while the trick was to create a hole like so pop a water bucket down and the water bucket would actually create a low

Enough light level on the block below it that you could plant a mushroom on there now in recent versions that has been patched but at least you should be able to get some pods all fairly easily alternatively you just need to create a dark enough environment to be able to

Place a mushroom in the first place and if we create a kind of plus shape over the top of this hole like so it should still be possible to place a mushroom there and while you’ve got the mushroom in there you can probably take away all

Of the blocks and grow the mushroom in time but bear in mind that if you do that and then the block next to the mushroom gets updated at all once the light level has returned to normal it’s gonna pop off straight away because it realizes that this block needs to be

Updated so that’s actually a neat way of growing giant mushrooms without the need for pods alure mycelium at all which might work for those of you who are playing in older versions of Minecraft Java or maybe even on bedrock so let me know bedrock players if that one works

For you or not but I think that’s gotta be here for this episode I hope you enjoyed this it’s been a bit more of an explorer 1 and we’ve even brought back a few souvenirs let me know if you enjoyed this episode in the comments leave a

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