How to Control Lightning! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 67]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day and surprise surprise we’re back here again at the villager trading Hall which is now pretty much complete as far as the population goes I’m working a little bit on the

Decorations I’ve kind of evened out the side added in another flag-draped from that corner and I’m starting to think about how I can get around this place and one of the things I thought I might do although I’m not gonna do a tutorial on this yet because I’m still not

Certain if I want to use these in here is to make these kind of slime block bounce pads slime blocks have this great property whereby if they’re pushed with a piston and you’re standing on it or if there’s an armor stand or a player basically any entity or a villager and

Mob you know whatever it happens to be and you’re standing on it it will actually propel you up into the air like so and this also counts for like sideways movement as well you can kind of bounce around using slime blocks pretty pretty easily it takes a little

Bit of adjustment a redstone timing and that kind of stuff but what I figured we might do is have the slime block bounce pads to kind of take us from floor to floor in this place and then maybe have a staircase if I didn’t want to bother

Or if I wanted to get up to the top floor a little easier something like that but I’m still not quite certain how the layout of this place is going to work so I’m a little bit unsure about whether I want to install slime block bounce pads on the next floors up and

They’re also a little bit unreliable even in single-player the timing is a little bit difficult to get down so it works maybe like 90% of the time and then the other 10% either you don’t get sprung up like that or you end up like glitching through the slime block and

Falling into the redstone mechanism and then you get suffocated by them and it’s a little bit awkward so I’m not certain if I want to do that or not but up here this final row of villages has actually been a really great addition because not

Only do we have this guy who has the best carrot trade which is 15 the probably the best pumpkin trade for eight and a pretty decent melon trade at nine in fact I’m probably going to trade a few things to him so we can unlock that pumpkin trade again this guy has

Gone as is basically gonna be a really great source of emeralds for the next little while and I think all of his trades are still locked okay except the melon one so I guess we’re gonna have to I don’t know to get some apples or a cake from him or something like that

Let’s unlock that last trade there we go we should be able to grab a another set of pumpkins there we go fantastic and it’s that trade yeah that trades all locked up again but it might unlock again so that guy’s been a great source of emeralds have been getting a few more emeralds

From him not only that but down here the very last villager who I added to the villager trading hall is a librarian he’s got a reasonable paper trade he’s got an efficiency three book which is not all that bad but I thought you know what I might as well look through the

Rest of his books this one is not back – yeah this one is channelling we finally have a channeling book to put on our Trident which I’ve now amended thanks to all of the experience I’ve been getting from trading over here and we can get the channeling Trident on which means

Today’s episode if we can catch a storm it’s gonna be one all about lightning let me see if I can grab one of these books off of the guy real fast and we should only need one ideally you’ll only need one channeling Trident in your world unless you lose the first one in

Some kind of accident but I think this is going to be a great episode if we add channel into this so let’s hop down to the anvil and add it to the Trident this might actually break it but we need a catchy name for this Trident now that

We’ve got channeling on there so what do we think I think we’ll just go classic and name it storm bringer there we go and we broke the anvil in his fate storm bringer shall bring lightning to the world now the thing about using channeling is that unfortunately it

Doesn’t work unless there is a storm you can’t just bring down lightning on anything that’s around you but oh you can see that there you go the loyalty enchantment returns the Trident to you when it has been thrown basically any distance so it’s right the way over

There and then it comes back to me in the blink of an eye it takes a couple of seconds actually it’s it’s a little bit slow at times which means you are leaving yourself vulnerable to attack but remember Trident are one of those things like bows that can also be thrown

Or fired from the offhand which means you’re still free to fight with your left hand at once the until the Trident comes back now it’s not going to come back directly to your hand as the other thing so this is definitely a last-ditch move whereas if you’re holding it in

Your hand like so and it’s gonna come back to an empty hand but the rest of the time it will return to your inventory one thing you’ve got to be very aware of though is having a full inventory when you throw a loyalty Trident let me fill my inventory up with

Other items to give you a quick example so let’s see if I if I throw this trident and then very quickly fill up this spot with another item like so the Trident is gonna return to me but it’s just gonna kind of hover around me like this it’s

It’s gonna have a bit of a tough time returning to my inventory it wants to return but it needs a space in which to do that and as soon as we create a space it goes back in there but just be a might be you know bear in mind that if

You have a ton of stuff in your inventory and you’re throwing a trident if there is a likelihood that you’re going to pick something up again after that then you might not get the Trident back so just just be very wary of that but considering there is no way to

Really force a storm to happen on the world aside from using commands which is something I really don’t want to do I think I’m gonna stay up for a few nights thankfully these villages are all pretty well protected I tested this out in a creative world and even if a baby zombie

Is standing on this trapdoor in front of them like this they can’t actually be attacked because the baby zombie actually attacks from about its head height and the head height is just above there they can’t get in there with the villager or anything so all these villages are perfectly safe except

Ironically enough from a lightning strike because occasionally lightning will strike villages and convert them into witches which is something I think we might be able to demonstrate in this episode if we get ourselves a storm but for that to happen we are gonna have to

Wait a couple of days so now I don’t have to worry too much about the safety of these villages I can let them be and wander around here until a storm happens or I could even take a little trip further afield wait for a storm to

Happen and then we can have a little bit of fun with lightning because I don’t want it to cause any damage to the stuff that I’ve already built around here which means we will probably end up going to a different area and trying to channel the lightning there so I’ve come

Out to the village where we originally found our mending villager Mendelson and I figured this would be a good opportunity to run around and show you guys a bit of combat with the Trident in the first place I’ll be able to defend this village from zombies if they happen

To wander into the area and you can see how a trident works now unfortunately as I said before Trident are not all that great as a weapon against other mobs in fact this one is having trouble even hitting this mob in the first place but

There we go a couple of whacks with the Trident has nine attack damage it’s not too terrible there we go we managed to get the throwaway joke advancement for hitting this creeper the spiders hitbox just doesn’t really like the thrown trident but there you go you can see a couple of

Hits with the Trident 3 throne hits with the Trident was enough to take down that creeper we’re normally just two melee hits would be enough to kill it so that the throw isn’t all that great using a trident is also pretty slow because you have to take into account

The time it takes to draw it back and throw it and then the time it takes to come back to you by which time if you’re facing down a hoard of zombies then you kind of want to switch to a sword and use something a little bit more

Efficient but it’s fun it’s fun to use I’ll give it that it’s not something that I plan to use all the time in this world but for these other little occasions like when we have a little bit of fun out here waiting for a storm to

Start then it’s it’s a bit of fun to have it a little bit of variety into the game and I think it also has a bit more like weight to it I think it can be thrown a little bit further than the average arrow like if I take a full-on

Throw over there I don’t know quite how far that’s gone I don’t know if I could shoot an arrow further than that but it’ll always come back to you in the end as long as you’ve got the loyalty enchantment that is and speaking of the

End by the way don’t throw one of these things into the void because you will lose it it doesn’t have a block to rebound off of in the void and if you throw it just down into the bottom of the world it will disappear the problem

With the loyalty and charmin is that it has to get stuck in a block and return to you from there and that’s that’s the limitation of it so if you’re fighting the ender dragon with one of these you think that might be a fun idea be very

Very careful that you don’t throw this thing into the void because you won’t get it back the whole reason I’ve come out to this village in the first place is that the Trident has a couple of advancements associated with it one of which we have just got for throwing your trident at

Something and it says throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea so why is advice there the other achievement that I want to get the other advancement here is to strike a villager with lightning and that doesn’t count this zombie villager that I’ve just managed to trap

Sadly he won’t pick up any blocks though so I don’t have a nametag on me we’re probably not gonna be able to preserve him all that well but I just thought it was funny to paint him here in a hole while I was waiting around for a storm

To start yeah once lightning starts we are going to have to strike one of these villagers to get that advancement sad though it will be to see one of them converted into a fairly useless which I think it’s probably a good idea to get that advancement nonetheless what kind of survival guide

Would this be if I didn’t show you guys how to get the advancement say so I think I think we’ll stick around here for a little while it’s probably gonna be a lot of time spent off-camera fighting mobs and just kind of chillin here waiting for a storm to start

Because you’re not guaranteed to get a storm whenever it rains I do sleep in beds quite frequently when I’m working around my base so I think it’s probably going to be a little while before we get any rain much less a storm ok I’ve been

I’ve been here for a little while and a storm hasn’t happened I actually had to log out because I had some other stuff to do I had to do a live stream and I was really hoping that I could keep that achievement in this in the chat so that

You you guys wouldn’t know that I hadn’t like used a command to start a storm when it started and having logged back out that is no longer in the chat but I kind of want to see if I can get the advancement for killing a skeleton from

At least 50 meters away by killing the scales and that’s underneath that tree which I assume is probably about 50 blocks away let me see if I can get that guy with a bow is that landing near him I kind of hope it is no we’re way short

And I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to reach him underneath the tree with the trajectory of this arrow I don’t think it’s actually gonna yeah I think that one might have landed as far up as like in the tree thank goodness I have an

Infinity bow so I can basically do this all day but it looks like he might just be too sheltered oh we have rained we have rain now is this gonna mean a storm this is actually gonna be a storm right now the the thing you notice it’s a

Storm before the Thunder even starts because mobs starts spawning around and that which was already there so that one doesn’t count but the light level during thunderstorms gets down low enough that it is possible for mobs to spawn and it’s also possible for you to skip

Through the night but this is the first rainfall I’ve had all that skeletons despawn now nevermind we’re only not gonna get that advancement right now but yeah this is the first rainfall I’ve had since coming out here and rainfall doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to develop into a thunderstorm either the

Thunderstorms kind of happen fairly randomly they normally have between one and a half days and seven and a half days according to the wiki between them but because I’ve been sleeping to reset the weather cycle super often I don’t know exactly when a thunderstorm is going to happen so I’m

Kind of just left to just hang out out here and wait for a thunderstorm to occur so we’ll see if one happens I will do my best to get an advancement or something in the chat just so I can prove to you guys that I haven’t entered

A command because the text of a command actually having executed successfully would show up in the chat and that would kind of indicate that I’d done this the Chiti way I want you guys to know that I am actually legitimately staying out here for a little while and not cheating

In a storm when it happens so if I cut to it suddenly I will try and have some sort of proof in fact let’s see if there’s any other cool advancements that I could get in the meantime I am one away from killing one of every hostile

Monster and I don’t know what that last monster is I don’t think it’s an endermite because I think I have killed an endermite even though I haven’t actually shown them on camera yet I am one biome away from discovering every single biome which is something I’ve

Never done and I don’t have any totems on dying on me but if I had an ender chest I could do that obviously the end ones I can’t really do what’s left to do in the overworld basically nothing aside from some secret advancements which we’ll get to later I haven’t eaten all

That many varieties of food and the serious dedication one is still something I need to fix with the data pack breeding all the animals seems a little bit too far-fetched so it’s pretty much just the skeleton one I kind of loved the fact that that mountain

Over there looks like a dinosaur I’m not sure I’m not entirely certain what that is supposed to be it’s like a dinosaur with a speech bubble next to it like a cartoon speech bubble like it’s saying something except what it’s saying is I have eight blocks of coal ore in there

That you’ll probably never get I know what I can do I can timestamp this with a screenshot so I’m actually recording this the day before the episode goes out and this is at about quarter past 9:00 in the evening for me there you go that’s gonna stay in the chat so that

Will be the proof even if we don’t get the skeleton sniper dual advancement that’ll be the proof that I haven’t summoned this storm in using a command once a storm happens it will happen and in fact I’ll probably be taking a couple of screenshots in the storm Thor like

You know thumbnail purposes so I’ll at least be able to illustrate quite how long I’ve been waiting for the storm through the timestamps on that screenshot I think that guy might count yes there we go oh we nailed it yay oh I’m so happy I got that and once

Again that is right after this screenshot that I took is proof so yeah we got the sniper dual advancement that is that is kind of difficult to get because not only does it mean you have to get an accurate shot on a skeleton 50 blocks away from you but it also it’s

One of those things where skeletons will despawn if they’re more than thirty two blocks away from you they have a chance to at least they’re not gonna instantly despawn but they have a chance to de-spawn so sometimes you’ll be shooting at a skeleton you’ll hit it once you’ll

Need to hit it a second time especially if you’ve only got like a you know an unenchanted bow you’ll need to hit it multiple times but even with a power four or power five bow you’ll need to hit it a second time and quite often the skeleton will despawn by before you’ve

Landed the second shot so that’s actually quite a tough achievement to get and I’m pretty pretty proud that we got that right here on camera still no thunderstorm though so back to waiting I guess well all this time and a rainstorm still hasn’t turned into a thunderstorm

But we get to see another rarity of Minecraft life that over there is a spider jockey hey skeleton riding a spider and they are so rare they only spawn very very occasionally and if you kill either one or the other than the other just behaves like a perfectly

Normal mobs so for example if I try and get rid of the spider with the Trident from a distance as you can see the spider basically begs with no regard for what the skeleton is doing but the skeleton will just pop off the spider and behave like a normal skeleton after

That but jockeys like that are not super uncommon in the grand scheme of things because you’ll also find things like baby zombies riding chickens and even zombie pigmen riding chickens in the nether it’s incredibly rare but it does happen from time to time well as you will be able to tell from

The timestamp here if I take this screenshot it has been about four hours still on this rooftop and we finally have a thunderstorm conditions and I know this because I just created a charged creeper we’ll get to that in a second but first of all I want to show

You guys the effects of lightning strikes on villagers because this is something very very cool we’ve got our nitwit down here our little experiment there’s thunder and lightning this is gotta be a proper Frankenstein moment because if we hit this guy with our Trident he turns into a witch can we get

The very very frightening advancement so this is a legit thunderstorm thankfully I hadn’t had to cheat it in but my gosh it’s taking a while for this to happen so that is one of the effects of lightning on things and know that you have to actually hit the subject with

Your Trident you don’t you don’t just get to throw it like nearby or something like that you actually have to strike an entity for it to work and I’m sorry for that horse but you’ll notice that the thunderstorm the lightning doesn’t affect anything that it hits like it doesn’t turn this skeleton into

Something different I’ll turn that horse into a skeletal horse it will only affect specific things like that villager that we turned into a witch or this villager that I’m also gonna turn into a witch because I feel like just destroying the population of this village right now the other thing you

Can do with lightning is transform pigs into zombie pigman if I can hit that pig in the distance watch of course I can’t because it moved will be able to do that now where did my yeah there it goes my trick I was moving a little bit too fast

My trying to catch up BAM there we go zombie Pigman in the overworld thanks to a bolt of lightning now lightning will still strike randomly it has a small chance to strike within a chunk and it will usually pick higher up a blocks or entities that are higher up

In the world in order to do that but most of the time it will just calculate a random X and Z value to strike with lightning now the third thing lightning can do that will happen sometimes at random but can be controlled when you have a channeling Trident is turned creepers

Into charged creepers and this makes them infinitely more dangerous because then their explosion radius is now something akin to what you would get out of an end crystal it is very large explosion and it gets even worse if you’re on hardmode which personally I’m not we’re playing on normal mode still

And I do plan on upgrading this world to a Hard difficulty in future we’ll go over the changes to that in a in a future episode but if I bring this creeper over to another creeper or a skeleton or a zombie then something very very special happens because charged

Creepers are unique in that they have the ability to make mobs drop their heads if they explode nearby and that is only really true of creepers charge creep world that is only really true of creepers zombies and skeletons but down here somewhere if that worked yes we

Have a creeper head now this is this is actually something that is quite difficult to get in survival normally because it relies on a random a lightning strike and look at this crater by the way this is the crater caused by a charged creeper but it normally used

To rely on a random lightning strike hitting a creeper in order to create a charged creeper and as you can see lightning strikes regularly but not always in the surrounding area so not always in the area where you’re going to have mob spawns and stuff like that is

The storm actually over now I think it is if I throw yet that Pigman over there just despawn if I throw my Trident and anything else I think we are actually out all that lightning right now so I’m glad I was able to to kind of demonstrate all three of the things

Lightning can do with our channeling Trident here but if I hit that creeper yet looks like we are all done with lightning and apparently throw tons of babies on these around and when I say this effects skeletons I also mean wither skeletons as part of that so if

You have a charged creeper blow up a wither skeleton there is a 100 percent chance that that wither skeleton will drop its skull which is probably the best odds you’re ever going to get it it doesn’t get any better than that but it does mean you have to be able to farm

Charged creepers somehow which involves collecting a bunch of creepers in a large enough area and striking them all with lightning and then introducing the wither skeletons to them one at a time for exploding because one thing that’s worth bearing in mind is the regardless of how many affected

Mobs are in the explosion radius you will only ever get one skull to drop at a time meaning that even though we blew up two creepers with that charge creeper explosion we were only ever going to get one creeper head and that counts even if you’re also surrounded by skeletons and

Zombies you only get one type of head which I’m pretty sure it just chooses at random either that or it’s like the closest to the epicenter of the explosion is the one that’s gonna drop its head but once we’ve set up a mob farm and we can set up a separate

Holding area for creepers all we need to do is wait for a thunderstorm and we can get a mob head factory together thanks to being able to charge these creepers and blow them up in controlled environments so thank goodness I was able to actually get a lightning strike

And get this episode out to you guys because it is already an hour past the time I would normally upload this so obviously this episode is going to be going out a little bit late and I’m sorry about that that’s just the way this thing had to be I wanted to get

This thunderstorm legit I didn’t want to have to cheat it in with commands or anything like that and in future I might revise that because I don’t want to be putting out episodes late all the time just because I’m waiting for natural occurrences in Minecraft sometimes the tutorial nature of this

Series has to take a little bit of precedence over the Let’s Plays series and I hope you guys are okay with that but that is gonna be it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed if you did don’t forget to

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