Hocus – Hocus Plays Minecraft – Episode 4: 20w19a [Let’s Play Minecraft]

What’s going on guys it’s me again hocus back with hocus plays Minecraft this is episode 4 of the series and if you’re with me for the last one you’ll remember we did a bit of enchanting we did a bit of exploring and overall we had a great

Time so just to remind you guys if you do happen to enjoy this video today please drop a like if you enjoy it and you’re new to the channel then make sure to subscribe to stay tuned to this series and finally any questions comments queries anything that you want to say

Please pop that down in the comments section below alright let’s kick today’s episode off so we have this guy who just hopped in our boat here so I figured that uh we should probably get him out of it and get him back into the base if that’s achievable

I’m sorry dog I’m sorry come on let’s go all right poor guy he got a bit beaten up in the process there so between episodes we’ve been doing a few things and bits and pieces I Enchanted some armor once again you guys are you know you know everything there is to know

About enchanting so I didn’t really need to do that on camera with you we also made a few I guess improvements you guys can form your own opinions on that uh we added some detail to the base you can check it out right now take a look let me know what

You think added some different uh textures into the floor as well just to uh just to change things up slightly uh yeah I don’t know I’m still undecided on it but you guys as I say can can let me know what you think and then as for

This episode we have updated to the latest snapshot which is Minecraft 20w19a and I’m sure that you guys are aware that this is in fact another snapshot another update snapshot I should say and that means that today we are going to be going and checking out

The nether now I’m not gonna make it too in depth and I’ll make it as quick as possible because we’re gonna have plenty of time to check the nether out and I’m sure you guys have been watching tons of other videos that uh explore the nether

Kind of take a look at what’s new and everything else there is to know about this update so yeah as I say I’m not going to go too in depth with the exploration mainly what I’m going for is to grab us some blaze rods because we

Are going to be preparing to fight the dragon sometime soon so I can get my hands on some elytra because that would make things much easier for us so where is I flint and steel maybe I haven’t made one yet that’s probably the likely scenario grab some bars craft it up

Perfect let’s light the portal and I’m hoping for a decent spawn here as well maybe one of the new biomes would be quite interesting I do also want to prepare in a few other ways I will be taking a shield with me I feel as though

That is a good decision switch that out with the food just because there are some new and scary mobs in the Nether and I don’t want them to kick my butt as soon as I arrive so let’s hop through the portal and see where this takes us

Oh is the dog gonna come with us I hope not I’m not sure how that works okay so it looks like there are a few of the new areas around us so this I believe is called a Crimson Forest we can check that in the F3 screen here they’re in

Nether wastes and then if we progress this way slightly yeah Crimson Forest and this is one of the ones that I’m very uh very intrigued by it looks really cool right with the uh the ash floating through the sky this guy coming to kill us immediately thank you very much that was a

Straightforward kill I’m surprised by that but yeah this is this is awesome right this looks really really darn cool the new trees they have an animated block texture I believe yeah look at that that’s real cool rims and stem that makes Crimson planks which look something like this oh

Hey those are real nice they’re gonna be some pretty nice uses for those that’s for sure and then can we strip this wood oh my okay you guys this this just got so much better I didn’t realize you could strip the wood that looks so cool right let’s uh

Compare the planks and the strip wood together oh yeah I’m really liking that especially if we get some nether brick on the go it’s a similar color but just slightly darker I’m sure that would make an awesome combination this really this really does open up a lot of different

Combinations and color palettes and that kind of thing all right so we can harvest the tree the tree leaves as well which are netherwork blocks they don’t craft into anything by the looks of it and then I think you can get the vines as well maybe with uh some shears

But yeah this is awesome right and by the way I think the tool for these blocks is actually the hoe so the hoe does have a bit more of a use now I didn’t craft one before coming here but that is the correct tool to use on these blocks

Something is wrong with the dog is it just me or his color is really dark right now I’m pretty sure when I tamed him he was a lot brighter than that so I don’t know what’s happened to him but uh we are just at the base real quick to craft up

A hoe I’m gonna take a hoe with me and I also just wanted to grab this guy as well because we will gather some some courts and I think there is also now a gold ore in another which I’m kind of interested in now I was slightly

Hesitant at first to upgrade to the snapshot because I know that sometimes they can be a little bit unstable but I think that moyang have confirmed that they are completely done with feature updates which means that thinking that from this point out it will just be bug fixes

So I’m hoping that they flattened out most of the bugs already and we’re in a good position or a position at least that allows us to continue playing without any hiccups because this early into the series it could be a little bit of a bad idea to

Upgrade to a snapshot just because if something does go wrong it might result in some sort of reset or having to load a backup and then we lose a bunch of early game progress but as I say I just thought why not this is this is too cool

To pass up I can’t wait I really can’t wait and I thought that you guys might have wanted to see see uh See a little bit of the new Nether and also hear my thoughts on it so I did notice that there was some quartz up here as well

I’m gonna grab some of that although this is definitely not what we’re here for as I say we’re mainly here to to begin the process towards making some Eyes of Ender which means that we’re looking for a fortress in reality oh there’s a new there’s a new uh a new

Zombie pigman skin as well by the way if you guys hadn’t seen it they have like an ear flap now their Skin’s a little bit more 3D they have a snout as well if you can uh stay still stay still stop looking at me oh you guys can probably tell they have

A 3D snout is that which is pretty cool and I think no I think the loincloth has stayed at the same but yeah pretty pretty cool looking looks a lot better than the old skin in my opinion anyway I’m gonna try and move on here because I’m getting really really

Sidetracked and I don’t know how far we are into this episode but we probably made quite a dent already and we really haven’t done anything hey he’s back and welcome to the basalt Delta now this is another awesome looking biome I almost forgot the word for it

There but look at these Lava Lakes or lava Rivers even they uh oh dear not these guys again these guys are starting to annoy the hell out of me they just they’re they’re just so rough oh and here’s some gold or as well let’s uh take a look at this I haven’t mined

Any yet okay so it appears to give you nuggets which isn’t bad I guess I mean if you’re getting uh batches that big I suppose that translates into quite a few ingots but uh yeah back to the basalt Delta and once again it’s kind of got the ash

Floating through the air which I really love that’s uh that’s really cool makes things a lot more interesting there seems to be a lot of magma cubes here so I’m guessing this is one of the biomes that they spawn more frequently in and just overall to be honest I’ve seen a

Bunch more of the magma cubes around the area so let’s take a look at this like what what kind of blocks are we dealing with here this is basalt okay now I don’t know what you can do with basil can you craft this directly into anything okay polished basil now what does that

Look like oh that looks uh that looks very similar to a wood texture to me but I like it that’s pretty cool and then we’ve got another block type here which I have no idea what it is this is Blackstone and that also translates directly into polish Blackstone

Comparing the two blocks side oh okay it does function like logs that’s uh maybe a reason why it looks like them but side by side these blocks look pretty cool like look at that yeah this is nice connected textures as well on the uh on the basal here and the black stone just

It’s these are both extremely usable very very usable textures I really like both of them that’s cool now I don’t think there are any other textures I’m missing here just the base on Blackstone by the looks of things but as I say once again Mo

Yang have done an insane job I mean look at this it’s uh it’s almost like a modded a modded biome right just look at it we finally found what we came for more importantly this guy right here I need blaze rods and he is going to give me

Some when I make my way down there but this this basal Delta biome has got me feeling like a parkour professional I mean some of the jumps that you have to complete to get around this place and that’s without mentioning that there are pockets of lava amongst these pillars

And just all in all it’s a death trap it’s insane anyway I’ve got a feeling that we can make this leap so let’s check it out yeah looks looks doable to me let’s go yeah come on you’re kidding me you’re kidding me that I shouldn’t have died all right guys comment down below

If I got you with that one that was a copy world I thought I would just play with you guys just a little bit just to make you think I killed myself but I didn’t we are back Atop The Basalt Delta and as I did mention we look at all of

These slimes just committing suicide well not necessarily because they do survive the fall but we desperately need to get down there and get some blaze rods and I have to be honest I really am not looking forward to the trip back because this has been

I was gonna say hello on Earth but we’re in Hell aren’t we it’s just being held to get here the terrain that we’ve had to cross the enemies we’ve had to fight off it’s all been a little bit too much for me so I’m gonna work on getting down

There grabbing some blaze rods and then that trip back is going to be a nightmare and I’m dreading it now this is the part that could be disastrous because we are being attacked for one and for two we’ve somehow gotta make a leap down there and this Blaze just will not leave me

Alone fortunately when I Enchanted my armor I did get some fire protection on it so we should be pretty good okay we’ve made it and we get the a terrible Fortress advancement which is pretty cool now I’m not sure how to tackle this because we’ve got

A few Blazers you’ve got this guy right here that I kind of want to just draw attention yeah come on I’m gonna get it oops all right you okay he’s not going to I’ve got to be careful though I’ve got to be careful all right he’s down perfect let’s eat up

Take a bit of shelter behind this uh behind this base salt pillar I think will be a good place put out some of these fires as well because they will get me killed now this is a pretty sweet little find so we’ve got a blaze spawner there and one right

Here that I’m using just to farm some of the mobs right now and I think these two might be close enough to have a dual blaze farm so we should probably take the coordinates down so far we’re on four blaze rods I’m gonna try and get as many as possible

Because I don’t want to come back here until we have a lighter this place was too difficult to get to and it’s going to be too difficult to return from so I don’t want to keep making trips without the wings with that said I better not forget anything I think

That blaze rods are the only thing that we need just to be able to craft Those Eyes of Ender and I’m gonna use some villagers later in the episode to get the Ender Pearls I believe that clerics sell ender pearls if you give them enough experience so that’s the way

We’re going to uh get around that situation but uh this is probably the last of the nether for this episode you guys I’m just gonna finish up getting some blaze rods and once I’ve got a suitable amount I’m going to head home and we will continue on with uh the

Villager side of this episode we’ve made it back to base safely and it was actually quicker than expected luckily when I left the Fortress I was on about uh what would have been I think it was Zed I was on zero on the Zed coordinate so it was basically just a straight line

Back to back to the portal which was nice and straightforward so now that we’re back let’s do a quick overview of the inventory that we gained from being there and I wanted to kind of see how many ingots we get from this so we got nine and of course that does

Include some kills on pigment and is it piglens are they the new Mobs I believe they’re called piglins so that’s a combination of the aura and some mob kills which isn’t too bad right that didn’t take us long to acquire that we didn’t really go for it

Um in any way but some quartz which I’ll pop in the corner there a bit of extra coal and that’s pretty much it for that chest we ended up with 12 blaze rods I got a bit overwhelmed in the area so I just bailed out of there because I

Thought I was gonna die and then we got some magma cream and then a bunch of the new blocks really really like the look of the new wood there is another word type as well which I didn’t find it’s a blue colored wood uh warped I believe it’s called warped wood which looks

Pretty pretty nice but as I say we’ve got some of the new block types and we also made it back with probably enough Blaze Rod so the next step in the episode is to take our boat head over to the village and see if we can catch one

Of those guys to bring back to the base ah so this is how I plan to get the Villager into our base how efficient this is gonna be I don’t know probably not very efficient but we should probably start by getting him out of the boat

A little bit easier said than done okay come on villager off you go follow the path to your new home I order you I guess villagers don’t take orders very well come on that’s it keep moving and every time he makes in progress you can just block him off from behind so

That he can’t go back on himself we should probably go ahead and take the door down as well so that he can make his way in and I also blocked off the back corner so that he couldn’t Venture down into the caves that would not have

Been a good time Mr villager was a rather compliant actually maybe it was just because the cameras were on him he didn’t want to uh appear easy to convince but we’ve got him in the base he’s safe and secure we need to give him a few things though so bed I believe is

One of them and a brewing stand to give him the cleric job now where am I gonna put this stuff I’m figuring we just build back a little bit like so pop the bed down there and then I want him to move forward again come on Villager come forward

Come to me there you go stay there give him that and there we go we’ve got ourselves a cleric at the moment he’s a novice so we do need to change that that can be achieved via trading so let’s uh let’s see what he’s got here grab our emeralds I don’t think we’re

Gonna have enough zombie flesh rotten flesh where is that stuff oh okay we will we’ll have a little bit hey dude come here okay so we can complete that trade that’s a good one so we need to level him up I think uh I think he needs to go

Up roughly three levels to get where we need to be so I’m buying Redstone it’s it’s not a good price man we’re getting uh we’re getting ripped off here in my opinion but we must do what has to be done and now we give him a bit of a chance to

Uh level up that should unlock some more trades so one Emerald for one lapis this guy is on some crazy drugs okay ORS we’ve got some gold and now that we know that we can go into The Nether and get this stuff pretty easily I’m happy to trade

It away I’m happy to trade it away plus that bulks up our Emerald stocks as well now we haven’t leveled this guy to the max I think you can go at One More Level but we have unlocked the end of pro trade so he wants four emeralds at the

Moment we’re in good standing with him via trading a lot of items which is cool uh so I pretty much just sold a bunch of gold for emeralds so I think we’ve got more emeralds than we began with um I would say so anyway Let’s uh grab some

Of these guys and that will level him up to the final level I believe let’s just see what he offers at that level okay this is a pretty cool trait so uh Nether wart for emeralds netherwar is pretty easy to come by once you find some I should have grabbed some of that

When we were in the nether that’s a mistake that is a huge mistake anyway uh we can go back it’s it’s it’s a massive problem all right two emeralds for a bottle of enchanting that’s uh that’s okay I guess but really what we’re after at the end

Are the Ender pros and we can combine those with the blaze powder this stuff to make eyes a vendor and this will allow us to locate the stronghold open the portal and fight the dragon which is uh you know something we need to do as soon as possible in order to get those

Elytra wings well I guess this is my punishment for being a dummy the first time around I’ve had to make my way back to the Fortress this time on the hunt for something slightly different and you guys have been watching closely up until this point even if you haven’t

Been watching closely let’s be honest you could probably determine what we’re here for and that is some netherwort so you can find it naturally generated in these fortresses hoping that we stumble across some sooner rather than later because I really really don’t want to be here I

Want to get out of here to be honest uh looks like there may be some off in that direction the lava is in the way however so we might have to mine up some blocks to get over there or choose a different route maybe this way would be

More beneficial maybe not I don’t know we’ll find it in just a second now I’m sure [Applause] thank you oh it’s a relief to finally have some netherwort in our inventories and then just before we do head back to base I figured I’d show this to you guys so

This I’m not sure what this biome is called actually I don’t know if we’re in it just yet okay warped Forest is the name but uh this is that warped wood that I was talking about so the blue rendition of the Crimson trees um yeah not really accessible from here

So I’m not gonna go try cut any down to show you guys we will eventually get some of that in our inventories and uh I can showcase it for you but uh as I say there are many many other videos out there on YouTube at the moment that are explaining displaying showcasing

Exploring the new nether update so you guys can get it from there if you don’t get it from me anyway let’s get back to base once again I’m really not looking forward to this trip but uh you’ve got to do what you gotta do all right guys

Made it back from the nether once again and this time with Soul Sand and netherworts in hand and I will say I almost forgot the Soul Sand so I did have to uh do a quick 180 when we got to the portal and head back into the

Dangerous nether but you know it wasn’t as bad as having to go all the way back to that Fortress so let’s get some of this down and allow it to start growing because this stuff right here is going to allow us to make potions and when we go into

That dragon fight we’re not going to want to go into it without potions that is something that I’m very sure of so that’s why we had to go back for the netherwork I believe that this guy is also ready to trade again yep his trades

Seem to have reset so let’s go ahead and make ourselves some emeralds from him okay and let’s take these guys see how much uh he wants four for an ender pearl at the moment not too bad I suppose all right and then we can take some of

This we’re gonna need one more Blaze Rod here and I did actually grab another one whilst we were in the nether I ended up killing one blaze in the Fortress which is pretty cool all right graph those put those together to create some more Eye of Ender and at the moment

We’re on 14 I mean that’ll probably be enough but uh I want to go the extra distance and have around 20 once we make our way over to the stronghold so I’m just gonna keep messing around with this guy probably between episodes I’m not going

To make you wait till I finish that up but I just thought I’d bring you back in to indicate that we went ahead and planted some netherwort finally we are on our way to securing a good amount of ice vendor and I’m thinking that we probably will go ahead and wrap up this

Episode right now all right guys welcome back to episode 4 for the last time this has been Hocus Pocus with another episode of the Hocus plays Minecraft series I hope you enjoyed it I had a bunch of fun the nether update is gonna be awesome I can’t wait for its full

Release I mean we’re pretty much playing it right now but still it’s super fun makes the nether that much more challenging gives uh gives exploration another a different meaning and overall it just it ramps things up because the nether the Nethers needed changes for a while now

But uh we finally got them so all is good if you did enjoy this episode please be sure to drop a like down below that would be much appreciated if you happen to be new here and you enjoyed this episode then please consider subscribing that will allow you to stay

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Have a great weekend if I do end up posting this on Saturday and I’ll see you all in the next one bye for now