How To Farm Froglights! ▫ Minecraft 1.19 Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [S2 E114]

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day today we’re going to take these little hoppy friends on a new adventure we’re going to take them through to the nether where we’re going to set up a

Frog light farm and before the episode started i’ve been gathering a few resources that are going to really help us get this frog light farm set up nice and easily we are going to go over to a treasure room bastion one of the big bastions that you can find out there in

The nether and well first of all we’re going to make sure that that’s cleared off all other dangers like piglet brutes and stuff like that we’re going to have to make sure that we have some gold armor on which i haven’t left in here but i’m pretty sure is in my backup gear

Shulker box here in my ender chest yeah we’ll bring the unbreaking helmet with us and i believe i do know where a treasure room bastion is that we’ve raided in the past so the first thing we’re gonna do is head out there and make sure everything is secure so this

Right here is i believe the wall of our treasure bastion let’s dig on in here probably probably in the wrong place at first but yes this is definitely the one the pigeons are patrolling peacefully i don’t know if there are any more pigelum brutes left in here we’re going to find

Out soon enough if there are but what we really want is down here so you have two options effectively when making a frog like farm because the main thing we need to do is have frogs eat magma cubes and one of those options is of course to set

Up in a basalt delta where magma cubes are going to spawn naturally the other is right here in this piglen bastion where a magma cube spawner hangs from underneath the central bridge that is always a magma cube spawner and it is always in the same place and it operates

Much the same as other spawners do in the overworld if you get within a 16 block radius of it it’s going to start spinning up and magma cubes will appear as long as there are not too many magma cubes already in the radius of the

Spawner so in order to turn this into a frog light farm we need to make sure that we can break down the magma cubes to their smallest type so that we end up with the small magma cubes which the frogs will just naturally eat and since magma cubes don’t attack frogs it’s

Gonna be pretty safe to just leave the frogs down here and have them attack the magma cubes whenever they pop up but really the first thing we need to do is make sure that magma cubes aren’t going to spawn while we’re working on the farm because there are already a bunch

Spawning around here and they can get very large they can hit very hard and even the small ones will still deal damage to you unlike slimes naturally since this is a very well-lit environment with all the lava around lighting the spawner up it really isn’t going to do anything and magma cubes i

Believe can spawn in basically any light level so the solution in this case is going to be to block off everywhere that a magma cube could potentially spawn around this spawner and this is going to be a pretty straightforward thing to do we just need to go four blocks out from

The spawner in each direction we’re going to connect each of these four at the corners so we end up with a nine by nine square centered on the spawner we’re gonna fill all of that in and then we’re gonna do exactly the same thing one block above and one block below and

You can do this with any material that you want to but i’ve decided to do it with dirt here for a couple of reasons the first one really being that dirt is nice and easy to get in such large quantities and the second being that

It’s a material that you use a shovel to get rid of not a pickaxe so there’s no risk of you breaking the spawner accidentally when we come back and take all of this away later allowing the magma cubes to spawn again uh that’ll do there’s still a little bit of room over

Here i can probably fill that in with extra blocks if i wanted to but the fact is magma cubes have to have a certain radius of air blocks around them in order to spawn so as long as we have most of this area covered we’re pretty

Much good you could end up doing kind of like three block tall pillars every couple of blocks and that would probably be okay but it’s kind of a pain to arrange that in the grid when there are magma keeps spawning all around you so i just block the entire thing in for good

Measure i’ve set up inside of the central treasure room box for now because it’s a place that i can open my shulker boxes and chests and stuff without the piglens getting mad at me but when we pop back out here the first thing we are going to do is mark out

This 9×9 area and outline it with some other kind of solid block i’m probably going to be using deep slate bricks for this because they look a little bit different to the blackstone so i think it’ll be nice to contrast that with the blackstone in the surrounding area and

Once we’ve got that area outlined the first thing i’m going to do is throw down some gravel to see quite how deep this lava lake is and in some cases it may not be all that deep and in others it may be a little deeper but the

Majority of this looks like it’s only two blocks deep at which point we have a couple of different options either continue to drop gravel in from above and this should be a fairly straightforward task seeing as it’s a fairly shallow lake alternatively what we can do is throw some scaffolding down

There and scaffolding will actually allow us to clear out the top of a lava lake like this layer by layer pretty easily the best part about this is you can get further than six blocks away from the base block of the scaffolding this block here that’s kind of holding

The rest of the scaffolding up and it’ll just fall downwards but it’ll fall downwards the same way gravel does meaning it will erase the lava underneath it and once we take all of this away some of it’s going to get burnt in the lava but it’s okay we can

Farm scaffolding pretty easily we all find that it’s actually pretty straightforward to remove that second layer of lava and we’re left with a pretty empty tank it’ll also allow you to clear the lava out from underneath some of these blocks that still have lava below them meaning you don’t need

To worry about lava flowing back into the space once you’re done and what we end up with after that is this indented tray of black stone here but this is where the other problems begin because these sections here are not as shallow as the previous ones they actually go

Down into the lava lakes that generate below a certain height in the nether and it seems like these are each about seven or eight blocks deep minimum so we do need to be a little bit careful and once we start breaking out this layer of black stone you’ll find that that is the

Case basically all the way around this unless you get lucky and your treasure bastion generates above a solid chunk of terrain you’re probably always gonna find lava underneath this area as well so this is where having some fire resistance potions or a whole lot of gravel is gonna come in handy i didn’t

Bring too much gravel with me but luckily the nether landscape has a few patches of it lying around as long as you are careful that it doesn’t fall out from underneath you when you break it and now we’ve got the outside of this square boxed off in gravel we can

Probably do the same thing either with gravel or scaffolding and fill in the remaining pockets of lava here and once you’re done with that you should end up with a pretty tall pit into which the magma cubes can fall and meet their end at the hands of a frog

Well if frogs have hands they’re just gonna get eaten by frogs anyway now we’re gonna return to our shulker boxes grab a bunch of the stuff that we need to make a collection mechanism we’ll put a line of redstone blocks across the center here to power all of the minecart

Rails our last three blocks of which here are going to be hoppers that will output into a collection chest that we’ll put there or perhaps even a dropper pipe that’s going to feed back up to the top here just so we don’t have to worry about diving down into lava to

Collect all of the drops this track should now allow a hopper minecart to go back and forth on it collecting all of the frog lights as they are produced we can reconfigure the rails at the start here to have a single piece of regular rail in between the powered rails and

That way we can turn on and off this powered rail here to shut down the collection mechanism when we’re not using it the floor above this is gonna be some sort of solid block and it will need to be a full solid block for reasons i’ll explain a bit later once we

Have that floor in place we’re gonna head back down here with all of the buckets of powdered snow that we brought with us so we’re gonna set up scaffolding on alternating blocks one block out from the edge here and we’re gonna put down a block of powdered snow

On top of each one we can remove the scaffolding afterwards and if we walk into this you’ll notice that frost vignette starts to build up and will start to take freezing damage and so with exactly 16 buckets of powdered snow we have this 4×4 grid of powdered snow

Blocks one block out from the edge and one block up from the floor now just as a quick experiment we’re going to remove some of the dirt blocks from underneath here so that some magma cubes should spawn and fall down into this pit what happens now is that the magma cubes will

Fall down into this pit and if they’re the smallest type of magma cube nothing’s really going to happen to them but if they are the largest or medium sized magma cubes their hitboxes will overlap with the powdered snow block and that’s going to cause them eventually to take unavoidable freezing damage at

Which point they will end up splitting up into the smaller type of magma cubes with the large ones it’s pretty much unavoidable you’ll see them start to shiver and pretty soon they’ll take a couple of points of damage and split up into the medium-sized magma cubes see

That one right there is doing it this other one will follow suit in just a second and even though they’re jumping around eventually they will start to split up now only happens to the medium-sized ones because they are ever so slightly taller than a block and if

You ended up making the floor here out of something more convenient like mud or soul sand which could just drag the items through onto a grid of hoppers below unfortunately that gives the medium-sized magma cubes enough leeway to avoid hitting the powder snow and taking any damage but as you can see

Already we have so many of the smaller magma cubes that are just gonna get eaten up by any of the frogs that we leave inside of here and then our hopper minecart once that rail is powered it’s going to go around this whole circuit picking up all of the frog lights and

Potentially magma cream through the floor as it goes now i’m going to fill in a few more of these dirt blocks again because unfortunately there is still a little bit of work to be done here and we want to make sure that we can avoid too many magma cubes spawning while

We’re working around here while we’re setting up the collection area for the frog lights or whatever dropper pipe we want to use to get them all back up here to this area which i’m probably going to turn into a control room or an afk box

Of sorts for the farm we are also going to have to make sure that we can get the frogs here and that’s going to be the hardest part of all of this really we need to set up a tunnel through the nether that we’re going to be able to

Drag the frogs from from various breeding sites around the world because we want each of the different types of frog lights to be generated by this farm and that means getting frogs from a cold biome a temperate biome and a hot biome but it’s only been about a minute and

Just look at the amount of small magma cubes that are down here these are all going to produce frog lights for us and that means we’ll need to bring quite a few frogs over here if we’re going to match these kinds of rates for now at

Least we can pack up our supplies here we can bring some of this stuff home with us and we need to go and start breeding some frogs Do So after a bunch of travel time i have got the nether tunnel dug out to the bastion and i brought these seven green frogs back from the mountain biome to spawn and then as i was most of the way through digging the nether tunnel i realized i’m kind of

Approaching this the wrong way and we’ll talk about that in just a second but we’re gonna make good on our original plan to take these seven frogs through the nether and then we’ll probably get the other ones there a different way but the first challenge really is going to

Be getting them to come through the nether portal with me in the first place i think i’m gonna have to break out some of the blocks on the other side of the portal and drag them on through and that only half worked so we’re gonna tie up a

Handful of them here while we rescue the other few but now we have all seven of them on leaves we can drag them down this netherax staircase and down a two wide tunnel that i’ve built which only really starts over here on the other side of this crimson forest so i’m gonna

Have to watch out for hoglands in the meantime and while most of this is going to be pretty plain sailing down these tunnels we do need to make sure that the frogs don’t walk off the edge of any of these bridges and also we only have six

Of them right now so i think i may have left one of them back there the trick seems to be to keep moving though because even though they’re pushing each other around a little bit up there they never seem to quite get to the point where they’ve walked off the edge the

Handrails are definitely a must though i can’t see the frogs staying on this bridge if we didn’t have the guide rails on the sides but that in front of us is the broken out wall of the bastion and that should lead straight down into the pit where these frogs are going to be

Gathering frog lights so let’s hop on down looks like we have all of them here and thankfully they survived that fall frogs don’t take as much full damage as other mobs because of how much they jump so it looks like we have now installed our froggy friends right where they need

To be and even though the powder snow blocks are here the frogs will hang around at ground level for the most part so while they will occasionally jump into the powder snow they’re only going to have that freezing effect for a very short moment and that’s not going to be

Enough to actually cause damage to any of them so now i’m going to hop out of here myself and try not to hit too much on the way up i don’t want to leave any scaffolding or anything like that just in case any of the magma cubes are able

To jump on it instead of falling on in and while i think i am going to keep this tunnel here because it’s frankly a pretty convenient connection to the nether hub i’m not going to bring the rest of the frogs over that way because there is a glaringly obvious way we

Could have done this smarter but it looks like our frogs are already going to work there’s a couple of verdant frog lights just hanging out on the ground down there as they eat some of the smaller magma cubes that are filtering in from the sides here and that bigger

Magma cube is already down there it’s paying absolutely no attention to the frogs whatsoever instead it’s gonna take a little bit of freezing damage in just a second it’s gonna split up into medium-sized magma cubes they’ll all split up and the frogs will be able to eat them as it’s glaringly obvious from

The coordinates hud that i have on the screen right now this bastion is about a thousand blocks out in the nether which means it’s close to 8 000 blocks out in the overworld it was going to be quite a trek to get everything over to an overworld nether portal but getting

Stuff through the nether is always a little fraught with danger so the obvious solution to both of these problems was to do a bit of thinking with portals and set up a nether portal out here which we could hopefully connect to a decent location on the surface in the overworld or

Alternatively inside of an amethyst geode wow that is one of the cooler locations that i’ve spawned in a nether portal and checking the biome data on our f3 display it does seem that we’re underneath an ocean so digging up to the surface right here might not be the

Easiest idea however if there is a flooded cave around here which the bubbly noise seemed to indicate there was there might be a way of swimming up to the surface and if not there’s always the opportunity of staircasing out through this geode once we’re on the surface we can assess our surroundings

Which looks like the middle of nowhere to me but the middle of nowhere is a perfectly valid place for us to breed some frogs so we’re going to plug up all the holes in the ship so the tadpoles can’t swim out and we’re going to release six of

Our tadpoles in here to grow up into whatever type of frog we get from a deep lukewarm ocean which fortunately is either going to be the temperate kind or the hot biome kind so we’re going to get either white or orange frogs from this and once they’ve grown into fully

Fledged frogs we can drag them back down into that geode portal and take them straight to the bastion from this location seven or eight thousand blocks out in the overworld now obviously the environment you come out into the overworld is going to vary dramatically and we got really lucky that there

Wasn’t a cold biome here like a snow plains or something like that because we just brought over all of the cold biome frogs that we wanted for the frog light farm however it seems a little bit more straightforward taking them from an overworld location directly to the

Bastion than spending a bunch of time faffing around building all the tunnels in the nether maybe do it like i did and do it once just so you have a tunnel there from your nether hub but beyond that dragging the frogs around is some of the more precarious work that you

Have to do to get this farm in motion well it turns out they’re orange frogs which is great there’s a jungle over there which should hopefully help us breed some of the white frogs as well so we really don’t have that far to go after all i could do without being

Attacked by a trident though let’s see if we can get some sleep here but that’s not going to stop the drown from attacking me so trident number two maybe oh just some rotten flesh never mind doesn’t look like i missed any of the babies growing up there’s another one

And it’s very useful that the boat has so many fences on it because we needed something to tie them up to so they didn’t just swim away but now with all six of them grown up let’s try getting them down into that geode which i’m pretty sure was back over this way just

To the right of the ocean monuments and i did mark it with a couple of shroom lights so we know where we’re going just got to avoid running into either puffer fish or guardians in the process now let’s see if we can get them down under this is this another geode oh my

Goodness oh no maybe that’s the same one it’s just kind of tall i guess so maybe we can dig down from the top and drop them into the nether portal from above yeah we got one down here but i think a lot of the leads just broke yep they’re

All just kind of floating to the surface i guess maybe it’ll be a little easier if we widen this out some let’s go retrieve this last one the rest of them might just hop into the nether portal in the meantime well they’re certainly going to hop around it anyway but we can

Drag them through one by one if we need to and let’s just hope that the ones you’ve already gone through haven’t decided to hop into lava well looks like a handful of them are still here at least the others are wandering on through but we need to drop on down here and make

Sure they don’t take too much full damage and in the meantime we can collect up all of the verdant frog lights that have dropped down here because there are a bunch of them and at least one of our frogs has already gone exploring i have no real sign of where the others

Are so it looks like they might unfortunately have gone in the lava but at least we know we can get rid of the top layer of lava in here and that will give us plenty of opportunity to bring more frogs back through the portal and in the meantime we can set this farm

Running afk here for a little while and see how many frog lights we get hold of we’re getting some ochre frog lights now as well from our orange friends we’ve already got nearly a stack of the verdant frog lights and that’s just from the first batch of magma cubes these

Ones were able to eat up so i think with a few more additions we can call this farm a roaring success and if i dig on down here to the bottom of this patch of gravel we’ll find the area where that hopper output is we can put a chest

There we can put a switch to turn the minecart collection mechanism on and off and i think this will all go swimmingly oh amazing i came back through and two of our frogs were just sat here like they’d come back through the portal after i’d gone in well not to worry

We’ve at least got two more of these frogs that we can bring over we’ll take them off the leads and give them a quick nudge into the pit the powder snow is even gonna break their fall a little bit and there they go making frog lights but

With the ladder down to our collection area a lever to turn the minecart collection on and off and the magma cubes merely freezing away inside the farm i think that’s probably where we’re going to wrap up this episode of the minecraft survival guide i need to get

This thing edited and out to you folks and we’ll get the white frogs moved in in the near future but that’s where we’re going to leave it for today thank you so much for watching this episode of the minecraft survival guide my name has been pixel riffs don’t forget to leave a

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