How To Farm Crops and Animals! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let’s Play) [S2 Ep.2]

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re having a good day today the skeleton is still lurking outside of our door and we’re going to make a little bit more basic progress here in the minecraft survival guide

World i’m going to start out by leaving my front door checking where the sun is in the sky and it looks like we’re already halfway through the day from the last episode so my goal for today is going to be to look for some animals and potentially start a couple of farms for

Animals and crops the first thing i want to do really is find some sheep because as i mentioned in the previous episode the wool from sheep can be used to make a bed and a bed is quite important to surviving in minecraft because a bed will allow you to skip the night and

Basically start the next day almost immediately so we’re going to find and kill a couple of sheep we’re now using a stone sword as our primary weapon and i can also talk a little bit about combat in the process i’m wandering back towards our spawn point over here to see

If the sheep from the first episode are still there and they were i kind of walked past them in the first episode and ignored them but now they are perfect training for our combat skills combat in minecraft is relatively simple you just left click to attack with

Whatever you have in your main hand and in this case we’re going to attack the sheep once with a sword and it’s not going to do a huge amount of damage the stone sword doesn’t do it a whole lot of damage it’s not going to kill the sheep

In one hit instead we’re going to kill it with a critical hit which is achieved by jumping and striking your target on the way down you’ll know you’ve done that right when you see those star-shaped particles appearing all around the thing you’ve hit and since i mentioned the difference last time

Between the stone sword and the stone x the stone x having a little bit of a slower attack but a heftier amount of damage it should come as very little surprise to know that if you crit a sheep with a stone axe you will kill it basically in one shot which

Is why you saw me using the stone x most of the time in our introductory video now we have ourselves three wool which should be enough to craft a bed we’ve left our crafting table back at the house but of course we could make one on

The fly using the wood i’ve got on me if we wanted to the other thing i’m going to do is grab a flower from the area because once you’ve got a bed it’s nice to personalize it any color of wool you use to make the bed that’ll be the color

That the bed turns out and in this case we can dye the bed red using the red dye that we can craft from one of the poppies in the area so if you spot any flowers that seem like the color you want to color your bed sheets then go

For it grab those flowers and as soon as you make the bed you can dye it your favorite color and it’s really the personal touches in a minecraft world that help the whole thing feel like your own we’re back at our little house and it looks like the skeleton is gone it

Seems to have despawned well that’s perfect we can head up into the house and we can make ourselves a bed at the crafting table lay it in here and set our spawn point this is really quite important and this is one of the things i wanted to cover in this episode if you

Lay down a bed and right click on it you will sleep in it if it’s nighttime but you’ll also notice that a message popped up in the chat to say our respawn point was set here you’ll notice that the impending night has now switched to the

Dawn of a new day and we can begin exploring the environment once again but it’s worth noting that even if you don’t have a night to sleep away right clicking on a bed will still set your spawn point i’m going to demonstrate that by moving it one block

Over if we right click on that you’ll see it still says the respawn point has been set so even if you can’t sleep in a bed it’s possible to set your respawn point there and what that now means is if i go out and die somewhere in the

World if i end up falling afoul of some skeletons or other monsters or something like that we will find that i spawn in the house that we’ve created so far instead of at the world spawn point that we started off at in the beginning so i think that’s an important thing to know

Once you’re set up in a minecraft world make sure that you know where your spawn point is it’ll be easy to make some more tools if you leave some supplies in here and that means you can gear up and head out into the world again if you die now

We have a bed i think it’s time to think about crop farms and one of the things i wanted to do with this waterfall over here is use that to hydrate a series of crop farms that we can place over here on this side of the base so i’m going to

Chop down this tree that we planted yesterday and we’re going to grab a bunch of dirt and redirect this waterfall so that it runs into some channels which will hopefully hydrate our crop fields using the stone shovel we’re just going to carve away a few blocks of the mountain site here what we

Really need is a large flat area of dirt so that we can lay out some nice neat rows of crops and we know what’s growing over here you might want to make this a little bit more aesthetically pleasing if you’re that way inclined but personally i think it’s going to be

Easiest if we just lay this out and i can show you the basics you’ll notice that once we start adjusting blocks in this area the water might redirect its flow a little bit and that’s what we’re going to do now actually if we end up blocking off the water over here we’ll

Find that it’s no longer flowing down into the body of this cave the water will eventually start to disappear and will continue flowing down the hillside until it all disappears at the bottom of there and that’s an important thing to understand about water is that it all

Flows from water sources but it’s not necessarily a liquid mass of its own if there is not a water source nearby then the water that flows down into this cave will eventually just dry up entirely so having landscaped this hillside we’re going to carve out a couple of quick

Channels here we’re going to maybe put one there and you’ll notice that as soon as we broke a block near the water it flowed down into this channel that looks perfect we’ll go two blocks over and we’ll carve another one here and then all we need to do is let the water flow

Into that one as well and we already have a couple of rows of grass here and dirt on this side which we can turn into our farmland maybe we’ll bolster this one here as well and that’s looking good we can combine those stacks of dirt and we’ll dip back into the house very

Briefly to craft ourselves a stone hoe the hoe is the basic farm implement you can make a stone one we can make a wooden one or an iron one later but now we have hold of this all we need to do is right click on the blocks here and they will convert

Into farmland so we actually now have an irrigated area of farmland you’ll notice after a while here these farmland blocks will start to change color like those ones did that indicates that they are hydrated and that means that crops planted on them will grow a little bit faster this will happen gradually over

Time as long as there is a block of either a water source or flowing water within four blocks of the farmland so all of this should be nice and easily hydrated we’ve got our rows of farmland laid out but what exactly are we going to plant here that’s the next question

Well for that we need to turn to the grasslands around us and throughout the forest here there are patches of grass which if we break them will occasionally drop us wheat seeds and by breaking a few more pieces of grass around here we should be able to acquire let’s say

10 or so wheat seeds that we can use to start our first wheat farm oh and in the process of that it has started raining and it looks like it’s the sky is quite dark so i’m concerned that this rain is going to develop into a thunderstorm we need to be yep

We need to be a little bit wary of the weather because in thunderstorms the sky darkens enough that hostile monsters can come out to play and i really want to avoid that right now so for the minute we’re just going to return to our bed you can sleep away a thunderstorm and

That will also reset the rain cycle of the world which should mean the rain clears up in the morning and we get a nice clear sky again there we go but i should be extra careful to make sure that a creeper doesn’t sneak up on us after we’ve spent some time gathering

Some wheat seeds in the forest there we go punching all of that grass has finally yielded us 10 wheat seeds so i’m gonna hop back down the mountainside and plant all of this in one of our little farmland rows still a couple of blocks left to hydrate but there we go we get

An advancement for that a seedy place to let us know that we’ve planted our first seeds now that this farmland is hydrated the wheat will slowly begin to grow and once it does we’ll be able to harvest it it will drop more seeds and it will give

Us the wheat crop from that we can start to make bread and other types of food and it’s going to be very useful for our next goal which is getting hold of some animals certain animals like sheep and cows will follow you around if you’re holding wheat so maybe we should go and

Get some more to increase our wheat crop here there we go got a few more wheat seeds to put in and you’ll notice that some of the wheat on this side has already started to grow there are several stages to wheat growth though so we aren’t going to be harvesting these

Until the stalks are tall and pale yellow in the meantime we can just make sure that we are filling up the rest of these rows of farmland and we’ll take a look around for any other animals in the area that can supply us with food and other resources pigs are a good example

Of that pigs don’t really do a huge amount in minecraft other than provide you a little bit of food we can have some more fun with pigs later on you can actually put a saddle on one and ride it around if you want to but for now they

Drop raw pork chops which is a similar food stuff to beef once you cook it restores four points of hunger very very useful food source in the early game right now this waterfall is looking a little bit messy i wonder if we can do something about that using some of the

Cobblestone that i brought with me i’m gonna wander back into the house put the cobblestone into the furnace and we can take out the chicken that i’ve been cooking in there and we’re going to put that in the item slot we’re going to put

A bit of fuel in the fuel slot and we’re going to smelt the cobblestone up that will actually transform it back into the natural stone that we see generating all around our world and once we have that we can transform it into other blocks which will look a little bit more

Decorative around our wheat farm there okay having now smelted up a bunch of stone and got the rest of the food on the go as well we’re going to transform that stone into stone bricks we’re going to craft those in our 2×2 crafting interface we don’t even need a crafting

Table for this one and this is going to make our farm look a little bit more put together over here i think the way we’re going to do this is to create little waterfalls that are cut off from this larger waterfall here and we have to be a little bit careful about redirecting

The water so it doesn’t completely flood the crop field and cause us to plant everything over again so let’s start at the top i usually find that’s a good way to do things when you’re dealing with water and yep no it’s already happened we’ve definitely cut

Off a couple of the wheat seeds in our farm not to worry though we’ll deal with that in just a second we’re going to come around the top of this so we cut off the water as it flows over the side we’re going to make sure that this area

Is cut off so the water doesn’t redirect that way and now all of the water should flow downwards into the farm there and once it goes away you’ll notice that the farmland might get a little bit dehydrated again yeah there you go you can see you can start to see it fairly

Quickly actually dehydrating there not to worry we’re going to fix that in just a second let’s have this come out one more block like so we’ll maybe put a little block around it and then we’ll let the water flow down through this gap here by removing those blocks and there

We go once we fill this in with the rest of the dirt it flows down into this channel nice and easily expands our farm a little bit as well so we can place a couple of more farmland there and i think it’s going to feel quite nice if it’s just

Flowing down from these sort of pipes that we’re building for it we’ll do the same over here letting that flow down there and into the farmland and i think just for the sake of appearances we’re going to add a channel over here as well even though we don’t technically need it

To hydrate this farmland here there we go and we can shore up the back wall of this with a little bit of dirt maybe some stone brick stairs there and that’s yeah that’s looking quite nice i think that’s going to work out for us in the

Process of that i did end up trampling one of my pieces of farmland if you end up jumping on top of a piece of farmland sometimes you’ll find that that reverts back to dirt and in that case we can just hoe it once again with the hoe and

Make sure that we replant whatever was growing there there we go that’s all flowing quite nicely and in the process our wheat is taking a little while to grow but no worries we should be able to wait around for it to finish growing and then hopefully we’ll be able to bring

Some animals in from outside at last we have a few pieces of wheat which are close enough to being fully grown and this is why i don’t go for crops super early in my world it’s because they always take a little while to fully grow but in this case we can

Grab this piece of wheat here which is gonna drop as i said wheat and between one and three wheat seeds usually and we’ll be able to harvest this one here as well which is going to give us much the same thing it gives us more seeds to

Replant so we can propagate our wheat field even more and now we have two wheat which is not going to be able to take us very far in terms of food but is the perfect number when we want to start an animal farm and obviously we have a

Couple of other wheat stalks here which are very close to growing but just haven’t reached that final stage yet now is the time to start thinking about setting up animal farms and i’ve been clearing out and flattening a section of the hill here which we’re going to use

To set up a fenced off area where we will hold our first animals hopefully we’re going to get a couple of sheep or some cows or something like that that will fit nicely in that space i also need to work on a staircase or something because i’m a little bit awkward

Traversing this space in the meantime so we’re going to hop in here we’re going to get whatever wood we have which is not a whole lot right now but i can make a few more fences and a few more sticks out of the birch planks here we are

Going to craft a whole bunch of fences combine them with the ones that we’ve already got and that’s going to be the start of our animal farm there we go we have 20 fences not a whole lot for right now but it’s hopefully going to expand a

Little bit later we are going to set these up along the side of here we’re going to bring this out a couple more blocks and i think yeah by five area of fences should be good enough for now now we need to take our wheat in hand

And go out in search of some sheep or potentially cows which we can lure back into this pen and while i did spend the earlier part of this episode killing some sheep around here trust me when i say that there should be a couple more lurking in the trees somewhere in fact

There are some over here there is at least one hopefully we’ll find another one but for now you’ll notice that the sheep is paying very close attention to me because i’m holding wheat in my hands so actually if i switch to third person you’ll see that that sheep is going to

Follow me at quite a range when i’m holding this piece of wheat and occasionally their attention does wander off so you have to be a little bit careful about it but as long as i walk my way over here we should hopefully be able to lure the sheep back into the pen

There we go it broke line of sight for a second while i was behind the tree and now the sheep is wandering off but you just have to get within range and let it notice you again and it should be able to follow you now if i dance around the

Edge of the pen here the sheep is going to do the same thing but thankfully all i need to do is stand close to it and nudge it down into the pen and it’s going to sit there surrounded by the fences unable to leave the pen and i’m

Gonna go and get another sheep we’ve got some more pigs up here on the hillside but you’ll notice that the pigs aren’t following me when i’m holding wheat and that is because each animal has its preferred type of food for pigs this is carrots potatoes or beetroot for animals

Like sheep and cows it is wheat for chickens it is wheat seeds and there are various other animals we’ll find later which will have their own preferred foods while i’m up here i’m just going to take a quick look around and admire the view because this is the sort of

Lake structure that we’ve been looking at for a little while there are some caves and mountains around here at least that’s a a giant hill i don’t know if it really qualifies as a mountain anymore and from here i should be able to take a

Look yep there we go there is a sheep down there in the field it’s taken a while for me to locate the sheep but thankfully we found one and we should be able to leave this one back to our sheep pen if the terrain is a little bit

Difficult to traverse it’s important to note that animals will follow you across water although they will do that a little bit slowly and so to cross the water here i’m actually going to step back onto land make myself another crafting table real quick and we’re going to craft the boat taking down that

Birch tree for planks we’re going to turn five of those planks into a boat from there we can put the boat in the water or we can even put it on land and when one of the sheep feels like following me we can actually lure the sheep directly into the boat here

There we go the sheep is now sitting in the boat we can right click on it to get in it and simply use the was and d keys to steer and hopefully this should bring it back towards our base i’m going to use my axe to break the boat on the

Other side and hopefully we should be able to lead the sheep into the pen before night falls there we go another quick nudge perfect the sheep is in there and we’ll go back for the other one in the morning for now i need to get

To my bed good morning i am delighted to find that a bit more wheat has grown here in the field so we’re going to harvest a little bit more of that we got one more here i did accidentally break another one of those but it’s fine we

Can just replant it and the field is looking healthier than ever give or take the sections i have already trampled so before we go back for that last sheep i want to point out the mechanics of breeding all we need to do is feed each of these animals their favorite food

And they will breed with each other provided that the two animals are compatible and they’ll produce a child and now we have an adorable baby sheep in our midst and we earned an advancement for breeding two animals together now let’s take to the water once again in our boat we’ll be able to

Row down this channel and pick up that last sheep who should hopefully still be waiting over here on the hillside somewhere near my crafting table i’m actually going to pack up this crafting table and take it with me it helps to have one in your base and one on you

Occasionally and let’s row this one back to the sheep pen as well and we will have four sheep so now our four sheep are comfortably in their pen and are eating the grass every so often the younger sheep will do that much more frequently than the adults will and you

Might think that maybe we could just spam them with as much wheat as possible and get a ton of baby sheep really fast unfortunately there is a five minute cool down time between them being able to breed so we’re not gonna be able to breed any of these sheep for another

Five minutes or so but that’s fine it’ll give more of our wheat field a chance to grow which is already doing it looks like and i think we’ll do a little bit more work to make this area a little tidier so that i can have a staircase

And i don’t have to keep hopping around the landscape awkwardly like this it’ll also give our baby sheep a little bit of time to grow up which should take about 10 minutes of real time roughly speaking you can speed this up by feeding it wheat if you want to but the adults will

Start to crowd around and try and get the wheat as well but the idea is that you can breed up as many animals as you want to and at that point you can kill them for food obviously sheep drop mutton which we have in our inventory and we’ve been eating occasionally when

We can but sheep will also drop wool and there’s a way of acquiring a sheep’s wool without having to kill it just like in real life we can shear the sheep to get hold of wool and that is why we’re going to turn to the cave for the last

Thing we’re going to do in this episode which is acquire some iron there is a little patch of iron up there in the ceiling which we might get a little bit later on but i did notice down here on the left hand side we have a couple of

Iron ore blocks in the wall i’m going to break those with my stone pickaxe and we’re going to use the two raw iron that we’ve got here in the furnace to create iron ingots i made a little bit more charcoal earlier but these shouldn’t take all that much to cook so we’re just

Going to put a couple of planks in there we’ll put the two raw iron in there and the first iron tool we’re going to craft in this series will be a set of shears we’ll come back for iron pickaxes and so forth a little bit later but i want to

Do another episode about how to find iron and where it is more likely to pop up because we’re probably going to combine that with a first time caving episode very soon but in the meantime we’ve acquired our first hardware and we’re going to turn that into a set of

Shears we’ll take that out to the sheep pen and with the shears in our main hand we can right click on the sheep not left click notice we are right clicking on the sheep and they will drop their wool this obviously ends up with the sheep looking a little bit embarrassingly

Naked for a while but that is why they eat the grass so often you’ll notice that the sheep end up wandering over to a square that still has the green top of grass around it and eventually they’ll eat it and replenish their wool like so and that’s what the little one is doing

Right now and wow it grew up in front of our eyes ready to be sheared imagine that all right so now each of these sheep has been able to give us their wool and we have 13 white wool which is not too bad i’m going to show you one

Last trick for the animal pen that’s going to make them a lot easier to manage because as you can see we’ve now surrounded ourselves with fences and just like the sheep we’re unable to jump out of here but one thing we can do with the white wool is turn it into a couple

Of layers of carpet carpet is primarily used for decoration in minecraft build but it has a couple of other uses one of which is if you put it on top of a fence post it gives you something that the player can jump onto and then jump over

But the animals inside will not even if we try and lure them over here with the prospect of more tasty wheat they’re not going to be able to jump up onto that carpet at all so that’s actually perfect that’s a very very useful thing to know

And you can spam a couple more carpets on either side here if you want to have a nice easy spot to jump over personally i think i’m going to employ that in here as a bit of a welcome mat like that it’s starting to make a house a home a little

Bit here and i’m going to spend the rest of my time breeding up a few more sheep in here so we have a healthy supply of wool on the go and tending to my wheat field but now we know the basics of crop farming and animal farming i think that

Is probably going to be it for this episode of the minecraft survival guide folks thank you so much for watching i hope you’ve enjoyed this video if you have don’t forget to leave a like on it for me subscribe to my channel if you want to see more and i’ll see you guys

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