How To Break Bedrock! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 102]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide hope you guys are having a good day today I’m feeling a little bit nervous because we got to be doing something I have never done in survival minecraft before it’s happened on

Servers that I’ve played on in the past but I’ve never done this myself I’ve never done it in a single-player world or anything like that we are going to be going to the roof of the nether the above of the bedrock ceiling in the nether and we are going to be breaking

Bedrock so that we can get up there whenever we want to you might wonder why I’m tackling this this early in the series because I mean obviously we’re on episode 102 here but it seems like quite an advanced thing to do considering that we’re still only farming a few resources

And that we haven’t got super advanced stuff set up yet the reason for that is quite simple right now I’m playing in Minecraft version one point thirteen point two and at the time of this recording minecraft 1.14 the next major update also known as the village and

Pillage update for Java Edition is on its way it’s not gonna be coming out right away but they are in the bug fixing phase all of the features of it are pretty much done and for all I know it could be coming out as early as in

The next month therefore I think it’s possible that the glitch that we’re going to be using to break bedrock on the nether ceiling could potentially be patched out of the game and so I’ve decided it makes more sense to go ahead and break the bedrock on the nether

Ceiling now so that we can get up there in future than it does to wait around to do this later in the series when it may not even be possible to do any more considering that it is technically speaking a bug that we’re exploiting to break bedrock it’s potentially going to

Be patched out of future releases and there’s going to be a different method to break it or it’s not going to be possible to break it at all so what I’m gonna do today is go to the nether ceiling break some bedrock and do that all in the current version of

Minecraft 1.13 point to before there’s any chance for it to be removed from the game entirely and we’re gonna do this in two stages the first step is just going to be getting up onto the nether roof and establishing a safe way back that does not involve us breaking bedrock at

All because the most important part of this is making sure you don’t get trapped on the bedrock ceiling and there is every opportunity for that to happen so we’re gonna need a little bit of equipment to bring with us to do that we’re going to need a minecart we’re

Gonna bring some obsidian and a flint and steel so that we can light a nether portal up there and we’re going to need some ender pearls which I should have in here yep okay I will grab those I’ll grab a flint and steel which I think I

Should have in my backup gear nope not in there there must be one in the farmhouse though so I will grab one from there not a problem let’s grab the fortune pickaxe as well just so I can have that with me and I’ll put away some of this other stuff we’ve got ender

Pearls now fantastic next up we will need a little bit of minecart rail and that flint and steel from the farmhouse so let’s talk a little bit about where bedrock can be found in the world and why you might want to break it because in the overworld of course we don’t have

A bedrock above us like in the nether we just have bedrock below and towards the bottom of the world it’s not strictly necessary to break bedrock most of the time you don’t really need to do it for any particular reason unless you’re building something right at the bottom of the world and for

Whatever reason a redstone mechanism you’re building won’t fit but it’s just the most convenient for it to be placed at like y equals four or something like that around the areas where bedrock will start to generate at the bottom of the world that is probably the only occasion

On which you’ll need to break bedrock in the overworld it’s also worth noting the breaking bedrock in the overworld at the very bottom of the world can potentially open a hole into the void which is basically like falling into the void in the end it’s pretty much an instant

Death if you fall through it you don’t want to see that so it’s it’s really kind of for your own safety that you don’t tend to break bedrock on the floor of the overworld and the same goes really for the floor of the nether like

You don’t tend to see much of the floor of the nether in any case because there’s no reason to build down there and most of the time it’s underneath a lava lake or there’s a lot of lava generating down there so the main place we’re going to want to break bedrock and

Make sure it stays broken so we can get up there again is the nether ceiling now to get to the nether ceiling I have brought the following supplies some obsidian so that we can make a portal once we’re up there and a flint and steel or something at least that you can

Use to light it a minecart a piece of rail and some ender pearls that is in theory all you will need to get to the roof of the nether now it might help us if we bring some building blocks and some ladders just to make it easier to get up that high

In the first place let’s bring some andesite because I’ve got a lot of that hanging around in this chest and we’ve only got a few ladders but I will bring some extra ones as well there we go got a stack of ladders that should be enough

Let’s go to the nether hub and while we’re here let’s briefly consider the structure of the nether because in the overworld you have bedrock at the bottom of the world at about why is zero and then build height in the overworld the maximum point at which you can build and

In fact the maximum point that any terrain can generate is why 256 now that’s a hard limit above that minecraft will not generate any terrain you will not be able to place anything and it’s basically the utmost point of the world it’s possible to fly higher than that

But there’s no real reason to there’s nothing there in the nether however we have a slightly different structure because the nether is a giant cavern and it has bedrock at the bottom of the world and at the top of the world the thing about that is that the you’ve

Bedrock at the bottom is at y0 much like it is in the overworld the bedrock ceiling is at Y 128 or I think more accurately it’s around Y 127 but effectively it is half the space of the dimension of the overworld however the nether dimension the build limit for the nether actually continues

Up to Y 256 much the same way as it does in the overworld so it is technically possible to build on the ceiling of the nether it’s just not really possible to go there or perhaps more accurately it’s not intended for you to get on to the

Roof of the nether the bedrock is there to stop you doing that but we are not going to be stopped by the bedrock today we are going to pillar up to the nether ceiling and we are going to make it happen now I need to warn you in advance

Obviously about digging up in the nether you’ll probably don’t to find a pocket of lava here and there that might end up falling on your head so just be very careful when you do this and make sure you have blocks on your hotbar or alternatively ladders because ladders

Are kind of useful for blocking liquids and I’m actually going to build up here using ladders and prevent any lava from falling on me that way although hopefully we should get lucky and not have to deal with lava at all have some ladders in your offhand and use a

Pickaxe in your main hand and you’ll be able to place ladders just by holding right click and break blocks by holding a left-click you hold both of them together you can actually make a path directly up to the nether sealing like that and the ladders will block any

Lava falling on you from above that’s usually a pretty good way of doing that until you can make sure that you can neutralize the lava source and not have to worry about it so here we are we are up at Y 122 we want to be standing ideally at Y 125 to

Find the thinnest point of the nether ceiling that we can get through using the equipment I’ve brought with me so I’m gonna do a little bit of digging around here just to see if we can get up a little bit higher there are only gonna

Be a few spots in the nether where we can do this that is at y 124 that is not going to be good enough we will need to do a little bit more searching around here for a spot that’s at Y 125 and here I think I’ve got one okay great that’s

Really not too far away from here the nether ceiling by the way the bedrock in the nether ceiling always generates exactly the same at least I’m pretty sure this is still the case the bedrock algorithm was changed recently so that some areas of it were like different

From what they were in previous versions but I’m fairly certain that if you have the coordinates in one world you have the coordinates in all of them when it comes to finding spaces where the bedrock roof is thin so right here we’re going to be using this space at 9:22 and

In theory if I can step up here like so we have a space that is at Y 125 this is going to be perfect for our needs now exactly what we do here is going to be a little bit tricky and I might need to potentially block myself in here we’re

Gonna place a nether AK block there and we’re gonna be able to place a minecart rail on top of this now what we’re about to do is gonna be dangerous it’s gonna lead to me taking a little bit of suffocation damage I’m gonna try and

Explain it as best I can before I do it because this is a method for getting on to the nether ceiling first we need to make sure that we’ve got the supplies we need to double-check that we’ve got the supplies to get us back home again we’ve

Got some obsidian we’ve got a means to light it we can create a nether portal on the roof of the nether that’s going to be fine next we need to place a minecart on this rail here so the minecart is actually sitting at head height when we are at y 125 the

Coordinates are very important here now I’ve got some ender pearls in my hotbar and this is what I’m about to do I’m going to right click to get into this minecart I’m gonna start taking suffocation when I do that but as quickly as possible I’m gonna press shift to exit

The minecart and I’ll just be standing straight up on this block once I’ve done that I should be able to jump in order to see the nether sealing and I can throw an ender pearl on to the nether ceiling from there this is all going to happen quite fast too so I recommend

Trying this in like a creative test world or something first just to see if it’s possible for you to do this it’s gonna take a little bit of quick thinking a little bit of quick reflexes but hopefully you guys should be able to handle it so I’m gonna get into the

Minecart gonna press shift to stand up oh that’s pushed me back a little bit okay that shouldn’t be a problem if you need to you can I think break the rail underneath here and that will prevent the minecart from rolling around too much if you’re in the same space as it

So let’s get into the minecart let’s stand up there we go if I jump I can see the roof of the nether I’m gonna ender pearl and I’m up there and not only took a little bit of damage and that was only because I was explaining it to you guys

As I went so that was not too bad that was pretty clean as it goes only needed one ender pearl but bring a stack with you because this can go wrong very quickly and then you’re suffocating in bedrock now comes the important step of making a nether portal back home right

Now our coordinates are roughly the same as the portal to the overworld that I first established when I came into the nether the portal that leads to the farm where the farmhouse is and my base is if they build a portal up here on the roof of the nether it’s going to lead

Directly back to that farmhouse portal as long as I build it within range and so effectively considering we’ve basically just dug straight up from where that portal is all I should need to do is make a portal up here light it and this will take me back to the

Farmhouse so let’s give that a try shall we fingers crossed that this all goes well and nothing has messed up with the maths here we are we’re back at the farmhouse we’ve come here from the roof of the nether and everything has now been established on the roof of the nether

That’s perfect okay now when we go back through this portal it’s not going to lead to that nether roof portal anymore even if this was the only portal around even if this portal was broken it would not lead to the portal on the nether roof the nether roof is not meant to be

Accessible by any means therefore even if you built a nether portal at world height if you built it up at y 252 and that was like the highest possible that you could build a nether portal in the world you would not get onto the roof of the nether with

That portal nether portals are only ever meant to take you within the 128 block bounds of the main section of the nether so a nether portal is not going to be a permanent solution to get to and from the nether it’s mainly just there to

Make sure I can get home in the event of an emergency and while we need to gather the supplies that we need to actually break some bedrock okay so spend a little bit of time gathering supplies and this is going to be a very very weird process this is not

Something that feels at all natural but it is something that I think right now is gonna be essential for us to do so we’re gonna go ahead and do it I have gathered some supplies here we’ll need a few mine carts some TNT to go in the

Minecart these are actually gonna be TNT mine carts I may as well craft those now we’ve got some redstone blocks and some redstone dust we all need a minimal amount of that some rails here as well of all different types we’ve got regular rail powered rail detector rail and

Activator rail we’ve got some obsidian which is going to be very important to have because it’s a block that cannot explode on top of the nether and as you can tell from the TNT we’re going to be doing a little bit of exploding stuff we also have a bunch of pistons some

Regular Pistons some sticky pistons both are required for this we will need a slime block or two we’ll need some levers and we’ll need some building blocks and specifically building block slabs so make sure you bring at least a crafting table that you can use to make

Slabs out of some material that you’ve got with you I think according to the tutorial I’m watching which is by a guy called a raging donut that will be linked in the description this should be the bulk of what we need and now at least we’ve got the nether portal up

There we can rest easy and come back to the overworld if we need anything else so let’s get back over to the roof of the nether let’s find the same place that I came up before and let’s see if we can do this and here we go there is

Our minecart again now one important thing I think is going to be to take the coordinates of this block in particular or that block there but once I get up to the nether roof and I end a pearl away I’m not gonna know exactly where I came

Up and in order to break the bedrock what we really want to do is break a block that means there is a complete hole bound to the nether itself so we we don’t want to end up breaking a bedrock piece there and then have to break two more

Underneath it in order to to achieve our goals we want a hole clean through the nether roof there and we can break a little bit more around it as we go we don’t have to get this right first time we’ve always got that nether portal back

To the overworld if we need it but it is always better if you can get this thing right first time basically so I’m gonna f3 and take a screenshot of the coordinates we want 922 is the coordinates of this block here that is ideally the block we want to break if

We’re gonna be breaking any bedrock block at all it’s gonna be this one so let’s do the same trick as before getting to the minecart stand up and ender pearl there we go fantastic now 9:22 is this block here so we’re gonna be aiming to break that one there the

Next big step I believe is to find out which way north is because we’re going to be placing some stuff in very specific directions here we need to find out that that is north so north east towards on there the portal that’s nice and easy to remember and that we’re

Going to be facing south for this trick which is it’s weird if the tutorial doesn’t really go into exactly why this stuff needs to happen but if you’re okay with the explanation of just it’s a glitch then hopefully you should be fine with this so let’s get out our box of

Stuff let’s grab some redstone dust because facing south if you want to place a redstone piece they’re basically like on the western side of the block that you want to break it’s gonna start there now let’s grab some of the rails and stuff as well that’s going to be the

Next step of this we want to put a detector rail there want it to curve around the corner with a regular rail into first and activate a rail and then a powered rail like so we’re going to grab a couple of redstone blocks out of here I can take the F three coordinates

Away now and we’re going to power those two like so we also need rails on these two redstone blocks for some reason and I think these rails need to be straight so maybe we should place that independently of the powered rail there we go now we’re gonna be placing some obsidian

Blocks here and here that one’s going to have the minecart pushed against it and this one is just there to help us place the next thing where we’re going to get a sticky piston and a regular piston now the sticky piston needs to be facing down here which is a little bit tricky

To do if you look at the corner the top right corner of that you should be able to place that one facing down and you can also place a regular piston facing down on this side like so so sticky piston there regular piston there these textures are a little bit

Difficult to tell from the sides which is which but the sticky piston needs to be directly above the block that you want to break and the other piston needs to be on the side here now we can get rid of that block that’s just there for

Placement we need to put two rails on top of these and then on top of that we’ll place two redstone blocks and then two rails need to go on top of that one as well so two regular rails on top of there and this is the point at which we can start

To detonate things so we’re going to take one of our TNT minecarts place it on this powered rail and then step back because that’s going to break the heads of these two pistons and they kind of look really weird for the moment because as you can see it’s like the entire

Piston body is still there but the head texture of the Pistons is gone we can now clear up all of these extra blocks and rails over here because we won’t be needing them anymore and you can salvage those to break another bedrock block if for whatever reason the one you wanted

To break the first time around doesn’t work out for us the next step is to realign ourselves with north and place a sticky piston there like so so if the piston had extended it would be underneath the head of the HEA sticky piston if we just

Blown up the piston head from we should now also be able to remove this redstone block and rail here and by activating this sticky piston there we go they sort of swap piston heads and that rail goes away there as well so that isn’t how an

Empty piston head there and we can get rid of this piston entirely so we can recollect that one and as you’ll see this one here is still missing a piston head this one here is now missing a piston head as well that right there should be the bedrock block that we are

Planning to break now the tutorial has us come around so we’re facing south again that build a block on top of that add a lever to the side of it which I should have a couple in there and switch that lever on which as you can see

Doesn’t do anything to the piston it doesn’t even register the fact that this is a piston anymore we should now be able to take out this redstone block here the rail on top of it and the rail on top of that piston making sure that you don’t break the piston itself next

Up facing north we’re going to place the sticky piston against this missing piston head here so that we can have it face outwards like that it should be pointing south like so we attach a slime block to it there we’re going to put a block of any kind

Underneath and this is where we will need the slab as well we need to grab a slab from the Shilka box we’re going to be placing the slab against the side of this piston head so that we can use our Electra to duck under it remember the electric crawling technique that I

Showed you guys previously we can crawl underneath it like that and the last thing we’re going to do is place a piston directly underneath there so it’s facing down like so there you go a little bit tricky to place that and it is possible to push that into place with

Pistons before hand if you don’t have the electric crawling trick but by this point in the game you probably have a lighter anyway so it’s nothing too much you need to worry about now I think we can remove this slab and now with that slab gone the last thing we want to do

Is place a piston facing this way and it should activate so it is pointing north and we’re gonna place a final building block there I think that’s where we place it okay on the opposite side from the lever there and when we do this a few weird things are gonna happen we

Should see a piston pop out of the center here and when we flick this lever there we go that should have broken the bedrock block directly underneath this piston let’s see if it worked and it did we have ourselves a hole in the bedrock ceiling how weird is that folks that’s

The weirdest method of doing something I’ve ever seen and the people who’ve come up with this stuff in the first place are incredibly clever I feel like I only understand a fraction of what went into this I have a little like inkling of an idea I know sort of what’s

Going on and so I can try my best to explain this to you guys but it will probably be pretty wrong but before I do that we have a hole here in the nether ceiling so now I can just dig all the way down to whatever area that comes out

In the nether we can establish a ladder straight up and from now on we will have access to the nether ceiling whenever we want it now like I said I’m not immediately going to go and build like an Opie gold farm up here just the fact

That we have access to this area is enough for now and that bedrock breaking trick might be necessary to do in future so maybe we will end up doing that at some point maybe if there is a new method that comes out for 1.14 we’ll be

Able to cover that maybe if this method even still works 1.14 that would be fine there are a couple of other ways you can break bedrock right now but they’re also they’re reliant on a couple of things that I feel like aren’t quite as reliable for you as a player so that’s

The method I’ve got for you today I hope you guys enjoyed that so what I’m now gonna do is fill this hole in with nether heck so that I can perform basically the same process again using this block here and I will try and explain how I think this is working to

Start off with we need our detector rails circuit around here we need this curve and we need this powered rail to go here obviously the two redstone blocks here are powering the rail I still don’t have much of an idea of why they want these rails to be here on top

Of it but it’s probably something to do with the minecart position obviously this obsidian block is there to have the minecart placed against it this one here is there for placement of the Pistons in a moment but it also prevents explosion damage I think destroying the entire piston

Here so we’ve got a sticky piston facing downwards we have a regular piston facing downwards and the point here is to destroy the heads of the Pistons that is done by a weird system of block updates because there is a stage where this went wrong for me and testing that

I think I now know why because if you peel her up standing on this block here when you destroy the block that you’ve been pillar in with it gives these pistons an update from the redstone blocks that you place above them here so these Pistons because of the rail being

There are technically powered and if you give them a block update right now they will actually extend and that’s kind of what’s going on with the TNT minecart here I’m not certain quite what the rails do but they seem to sort of isolate you from explosions a little bit

So I think that’s sort of what’s going on with the rails being on top of all of this stuff now the reason I pillared one block to the side is that that’s not going to update these pistons whereas if I place a block in that space right now

Both of these pistons are going to extend because they receive a block update the thing the TNT minecart does is effectively activate this detector rail the redstone there updates and what that does is update the pistons at the split second the TNT minecart explodes so a weird kind of glitch happens where

The piston heads get completely erased from existence but the piston blocks do not and that happens like so there you go we have ourselves two Pistons with missing piston heads or invisible piston heads perhaps that’s also incidentally destroyed all of the nether act that I put down there because TNT minecart

Explosions are big they’re actually I think bigger than a TNT explosion but you’re also putting five more iron into the recipe so that sort of makes sense now we place a sticky piston here and we remove this redstone block before we do anything else so effectively whoa okay

Let me peel a backup from that effectively we remove any chance this piston has of updating through the redstone power there and instead we power this piston here so it swaps over that piston head because it’s updating this block turning it back into a regular piston at exactly the same time

This one extends stop me if I’m getting any of this wrong because I feel like I am then the next step is to come round here apply the lever to this block there and then we basically because the lever is activated there it’s now powering this piston and this piston which

Effectively keeps them extended if they had piston heads which right now they don’t so that’s actually what keeps them in this state where the piston head is invisible and allows us to remove all of the redstone sources around the outside of them then we place the sticky piston

There which activates because there’s a lever powering that block we placed the slime block on there the building block on here and a piston facing downwards into the area underneath this and that is kind of an important step because the slime block is going to drag this piston

Into this space but then we also place another piston facing out of that way and it deactivates at the same time as this one gets pulled across this is the bit that’s a little bit weird to me this is the bit that I don’t quite understand

As far as piste and updates goes but once again if we pull this block now the piston pops out like so and we have another hole in our bedrock directly underneath where that minecart was so the method itself just seems so weird and esoteric but it works perfectly so

Like I said this has been a weird episode this has been an episode that I didn’t expect to insert it this early into the series I expected breaking bedrock to be a very far future endgame kind thing but in a way you also kind of have

To take advantage of this stuff when you can because you never know when glitches like this are going to be completely removed from the game by a new update or new features being added or something like that up until a recent update I think it was the 1.13 update that broke

This it was possible to break the bedrock using dragon eggs and duplicating dragon eggs was a really important part of the game now it’s not really possible to do that method anymore as far as I’m aware so this is kind of the the best method to do it

That I’ve seen there may be other methods out there and I’m pretty sure in a recent episode of hermit craft impulse SV had a very interesting way of breaking bedrock which we might end up exploring in a different episode but for now I think that’s gonna be it I hope

You guys have fun I hope you guys enjoy this and it’s gonna be really interesting to see what we can do now we have access to the nether roof but we got to cover that in far future episodes I’m sure thank you so much for watching this episode of the

Minecraft Survival Guide my name has been picked Saurus don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now You