How to Farm Nether Wart! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 115]

Hello everyone my name is pick Soros and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day today here we are day 3 of the castle builder here at founders forge and I still have a few changes I want to make but we have been making some

Progress a little spoiler over there oh that the top of the wall I have done a ton of stone mining on the recent livestream and I’ve started to be able to put together the sections of this castle that I wasn’t able to do in yesterday’s video because of running out

Of stone every so often and being a little bit down to the wire release wise so now I’ve been able to build up that tower I’ve taken out the Terra Cotta over there and built it up to a slightly taller height it’s probably going to go even taller than that but in the

Fullness of time right now I’m focused on a couple of other things namely what I want to do about the roofs of this castle and I have settled on a color scheme that sort of was in the back of my mind but it did surprise me a little

Bit when we decided exactly how this was gonna come together because I want to build roofs out of red nether brick but red near the breaker on its own or red near the brick with some other kind of red material didn’t quite work until I came on this combination and I didn’t

Expect the regular nether brick to fit with the red nether brick quite so well they’re quite contrasting obviously the regular nether brick has this kind of red undertone to it but it’s more of a dark block and really when you get further away from this it starts to look

Almost grey in comparison to how bright the red nether brick is and shiny it’s got all of these light hits and stuff in the texture which a kind of there with the regular nether brick but it’s not meant to be a super shiny material it’s meant to be dark and brooding like the

Nether itself but in combination the two of these together actually look really quite good for the roofs of this castle I didn’t expect it to be a full brick texture the entire time I thought we would want to have a little bit of a little bit of like a blank block in

There to give us a little bit more rest for the eyes but you know what from a distance the regular nether brick actually does kind of provide that in and of itself so I think what we’re going to do is make a few roofs of the castle out of this combination and maybe

We’ll see if we need to vary it in there perhaps we might even add some slabs and stairs in the regular nether brick for now and then add the red nether brick slabs when they’re introduced in the next update because red nether brick is actually getting

Slabs I’m so excited for that and we could maybe even introduce some wood into it here and there as well if not to overcomplicate things but just to add some some variety and a couple of touches of detail here and there to stop the roof from being entirely like full

Blocks we kind of want to introduce a little bit of height variation with slabs and stuff here and there a little bit of detail now the problem comes as I mentioned the other day from crafting a decent amount of red nether brick blocks because they are quite an expensive

Thing to craft what you need is a combination of nether bricks which you smelt from netherrack and nether warts and the nether wart is quite difficult to farm in large quantities as you can see here I have repurposed the nether portal room here so that we can grow a

Bit of nether wart there’s no reason in particular that it’s needed to be around the nether portal it was just a large open space that I knew I was going to be around while we continued working on the castle walls because the problem with nether wart is that unlike other crops

It cannot be bonemeal to grow it faster at least not on Java edition I don’t know how that works on bedrock console edition but you can’t bonemeal it on Java it cannot really be grown automatically it cannot really be replanted automatically much like other crops the player has to be present to

Plant it and it is possible for you to harvest it using water buckets if you want to just pour a bucket of water over it like that and actually let the water flow out you can harvest a bunch of nether wart that way but you have to

Wait until those fully grown for it to do that and the timing of that is something that is a little bit difficult to predict because like other crops it grows based on random game ticks meaning that it’s going to take a little while for it to grow to its full size

Where harvesting it will actually get you more of it the purpose really of this video is going to be to focus on how we can farm large quantities of nether wart and then start to introduce them to the roofs here as red nether brick so idea number one option number

One is to make an area of soul sand as large as you can possibly bear to in this case I’ve got about six stacks of soul sand and six stacks of nether wart all planted here and it’s gotta be one of those things where you have to propagate netherwart

From usually the amount that you can find in a nether fortress which is usually only about 40 or so growing around along the staircases in a nether fortress and the cool thing about nether wards once it is fully grown is that it can be multiplied a little bit by using

A 14-3 tool or any tool with fortune but 14-3 is obviously going to have the greatest effect like other crops if you brake near the water using a fortune tool it will give you more let me take a quick example of this let me throw some

Of this nether wart over here on the ground because I don’t have a shelter box with me right now a regular piece of nether wart when broken if it’s at its full size will give you about three usually three or slightly less nether warts from that if you break it with a

Fortune tool that time we did not get as many so that probably wasn’t a great example but the more you break it with fortune tool there we go we got seven from that one so as you can see breaking it with a fortune tool is still adding

In an element of randomness but it does ultimately result in you getting more nether wart than you would have got otherwise so for tuning this whole section over here obviously I’m going to be breaking a few of these that aren’t fully grown yet and the ones next to the

Nether board will have a chance to go through into the nether because item entities can still travel through portals like that but there you go we’ve already got like nearly four full stacks of nether water in the inventory so that’s going to be a an effective way of

Harvesting it if we want to harvest it on mess like this unfortunately this is not as automatic as you’d like because you basically have to babysit this field of nether wart while you’re doing something else in order to get the most out of it so what we got to explore

Today is a little bit of nether walk farming strategy considering the restraints of nether wart it has to be somewhere close by the player has to have the chunks loaded in around them in order for the nether wall to grow and unfortunately even if it’s planted in

The spawn chunks of your world without a player nearby nether wart will not grow on its own like it won’t grow even if it’s in the area of the world that stays loaded in the rest of the time like other crops it needs to have a player

Nearby in order for the random game ticks to actually make this thing grow in the first place so we are limited in our options for how to farm nether wart you’re probably going to have to be around it most of the time but I think

We can come up with a couple of neat little farm designs here so after a little bit of work and a couple of cups of tea here is one option for a little bit of afk and nether walk farming now this design I’ve actually seen done before by tango Tech and set

Off on the hermit craft service so shout out to those guys they’ve probably pioneered this design or at least seen some variation of it that they have iterated upon this right here is a farm that allows you to afk to plant nether warts and the concept behind it is that

You can stand in these water flows and be kind of pushed around the farm with something weighing down the right mouse button so that you’re constantly planting nether wall as you go around or alternatively rebinding the right mouse button key the action key to something on your keyboard that you can put a

Weight on and then you can walk away from the computer obviously with this case it’d probably be best to build it inside so that I wasn’t out in the open and in danger of getting attacked by creepers or skeletons or whatever spawns out here at night but in the meantime

What I can do is show you how it works so we’re basically floating around here I’ve got the right mouse button held down notice that I don’t have anything in my off hand so I’m not gonna be using my shield or anything like that and anytime I come across a soul sand block

I’m interacting with it by placing the nether wart now there isn’t any kind of collection mechanism at work here because I don’t intend to actually use this design but you could imagine putting in some Pistons underneath the soul sand to sort of push them up and displace all the

Nether warts on a hopper clock timers so maybe it had grown like fully in a certain amount of time I’m not sure exactly how long it takes a nether wart to grow but it probably takes a few minutes and then all here’s a fun part hey we are headed back to the beginning

Of the course now because after a couple of minutes if you imagine this course is kind of gonna be quite long you could have the entire thing pushed up from below by Pistons or maybe pushed from side to side and everything that had grown would pop off two to four nether

Ward’s each time and allow you to collect it all as you go round like it would be within you know the range of the pick up radius of a player that the items would all just come into your inventory you wouldn’t run out of nether

Water if you had a decent amount of it on you and you could just replant it over and over again eventually after enough afk time you would be able to collect a whole bunch of nether wards and of course you would have some sort of hopper system underneath the water streams here

Make sure that that would pick up anything that you weren’t able to now the layout of this farm has to be quite specific and it’s mainly because of the amount of drift you get from being pushed around in a water stream I’m also not wearing my depth Strider boots

Because putting on depth Strider actually slows you down in water and means that when you hit these patches of blue ice in between the water streams that you wouldn’t drift along all the way notice here I’m drifting a little bit slower I don’t have enough momentum

As I get into this blue ice block and then I stop whereas if I take the depth Strider boots off and I walk onto here I can actually have enough momentum when I hit the blue ice to continue into that other water stream now the water streams

All have to be a maximum of about five or six blocks long because notice we’re here we’ve got a water stream that goes to its fullest length as soon as you hit the last couple of blocks of this water stream as soon as the water gets real

Shallow over here yeah about half way through the sixth block you start to really slow down to a crawl and at that point you definitely won’t have enough momentum to be pushed over the ice blocks so I’ve kept each of these water streams five blocks long where they have

To turn a corner you’ve got to make sure that the block before the corner has the water source on it and as it curves around in this sea shape you hit another block of blue ice and that’s where you carry the momentum through to the next

Part of the farm and as I mentioned we’re not gonna build this farm up anymore right now because we kind of want a little bit more netherwart to grow than this and you probably need quite a large surface area to have this farm operational 100% of the time it

Also requires a decent amount of afk time which I don’t really want to put in right now here comes the zombies I was talking about popping up here in the middle of the night but yeah I think we are probably going to take this farm

Down it’s not really going to be a super useful thing for us to have right now and a larger-scale farm would definitely be preferable if we were going to do this long term but as this farm goes unless you had a mod like inventory tweaks that would refill the netherwart

In your hand you’re basically limited to placing a stack of it at a time before the collection mechanism fires and you need to collect more otherwise you would end up running out of nether water in your hand by the time you got around to the end of the course so this can really

Only work a stack at a time unless maybe you’ve got some dispensers underneath here firing nether warts at you so that you can get a little bit more once you get to a certain point around the course it’s a little bit more complex than we want this farm

To be at this stage so I’m gonna take this whole thing down and I have a location in mind for a slightly different and slightly easier nether walk farm the farm design I’m actually going to use takes advantage of a spot in founders Forge that we haven’t

Actually been to for quite a while this little alcove section underneath the area where we built the high-class shops up there which I still haven’t really done anything with down here we’re going to use this whole area to grow near the wart on these rows of soulsand here to

Rows of soul sound this is 25 blocks long and with a row of stone bricks every so often so that we can walk along it and place the nether wart here on the soul sand and let it just grow naturally without having to deal with the slowdown

That you get when you were walking on soul sand you might want to occasionally space this out a little bit differently like right here you could use this stone brick path to plant a row here and all of the nether wart here and then from down here you could probably reach three

Blocks out and do all of this so this row of stone bricks wouldn’t really be necessary I just put it in for esthetic purposes because I kind of like the way it looks in neat rows like this and eventually what we’re going to do is

Have a row of water sources that when we activate something with a redstone current like a lever here or probably leave a closer to the middle because it can restrict thirteen blocks in either direction with a redstone current it’s going to release water sources that

Travel all the way down here to a row of hoppers and for that I have brought my my redstone box here we’re probably going to put a chest at the end here and a bunch of hoppers can channel all of the nether war into a collection chest

Down here you could just as easily rig this up to a drop a circuit like the one we’ve had before use a bubble column transported up to a storage chest on the surface if you’re building this underground for example so let’s grab these hoppers that are in here and let’s

Have them all come out on this side like so actually thinking about it it might be worth going one block further down with these hoppers because remember soul sand doesn’t actually have the full height of a block it is 0.125 shorter than a full block therefore some of the

Nether wart might get stuck on the edges of the blocks if we put the hoppers on a level with those blocks let’s actually put the hoppers one block further down to try and circumvent that problem now if I place the row of hoppers here this should be fine it’s also looking a

Little bit dark down there so to prevent mob spawns let’s grab a stack or two of C lanterns and not a moment too soon because it looks like the Welcome Party has arrived now none of these mobs have actually spawned on the soul sand because the soul sound is not full block

Height for mobs to be able to spawn on it but I think the stone brick around here is spawn abour enough so yeah let’s take care of this and let’s light the place up using the sea lanterns I’m gonna bring the box of nether wards over

Here we got to plant a little bit of that in a second but first we need to use this ice to place down our water sources now at first this isn’t gonna seem super logical because at first we’re just gonna have this row of water sources up here some of which will start

To form automatically now that the lighting is in place it’s going to melt the ice and cause this all to flow down there we go you will need one water source per block here because it’s all going to start flowing downhill in a straight line because remember the water

Is going to take the path of least resistance it’s gonna flow immediately downhill it’s not gonna spread to either of the blocks to either side so yeah there we go that’s going to be a complete near the wharf on there how do we stop this from cascading down here

The entire time so that we can actually plant the nether wart well there is where trapdoors come in we’re actually gonna be placing trapdoors here in water logged forms so we need to go along this entire row here placing trapdoors and we’re gonna close them as we go and watch what happens to

The water sources as we do all the way along here you will start to see as we close these trapdoors which is a little bit difficult to do when you’re standing in the water there we go you’ll notice the water sources start to drain away because waterlogged trapdoors are actually

Capable of holding back water sources until you open them and then they can actually have a single water source flow out of them like that once you close the trapdoor again it will actually completely dry up again meaning that you can plant the nether walls and then all

We need to do is place a row of blocks along the top here with a redstone signal transmitting from somewhere in the middle and you can activate the entire thing at once instead of having to flip all the trapdoors down manually there we go 24 redstone dust and one

Lever dead center we flip the lever and flip it back again and all of the trap doors will open at once because a non redstone signal will actually close up the trap doors so when the redstone there is on all of the trapdoors will stay closed

And switching it off opens up all the trapdoors allowing the water to flow down so let’s plant a bunch of nether wart let’s wait for it to grow and let’s see what we can get in terms of a yield here so 15 nether wart per section here

Because that’s two rows of 25 each that should be 250 nether wall planted total and on average it’s going to give us 3 now the water remember it gives you between 2 and 4 plants so we’re probably going to end up with about 750 nether

Wart when we get a full yield and nether what will grow reasonably quickly it’s just all based on random ticks again it doesn’t matter what kind of conditions it grows in as long as it is placed on soul sense so even with the lights around here even though we’re sort of

Inside it doesn’t really matter either way what conditions it grows in as long as it’s allowed to grow for long enough and then we’re going to sweep it all away with the water and get the output into this double chest that I’ve placed down here Okay so that is about as long as I’m willing to let this stuff grow it’s just taking a while it always looks really promising at first when it starts springing up from nothing but somehow even after waiting for about a half an hour I think at this point there are

Still some that haven’t grown at all it’s just luck and random ticks and all that kind of nonsense so let’s pull the lever and let this stuff fly I might I might actually have to reposition the lever on the outside of here just so I don’t stand in the middle of the water

Streams and collect all of the broken netherwart here myself but hook there we go look at it all look at it all cascade down there into the water and and once we close this off again it should all drop into the hoppers go on let me just

Throw those last few in there as well okay no no apparently that was not gonna happen fair enough well we got a little bit left up on the side here just a couple there but the rest of it should all be filtering down into the chest now and

We’ll see how many we get 601 I’d say that’s a pretty respectable amount for having 250 plants hit we’ve at least doubled our nether warts we can plant half of this and take the other half over to the castle to turn into red near the brick and then oh the one problem

Now is I’ve got to worry about opening up those trapdoors by mistake but we can keep replanting this and pretty soon we will have enough supplies to make some more castle roofs and that is gonna be the start of castle week episode number four where we all probably get away with

Making a few roofs for the castle that’s gonna do it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide folks thank you so much for watching I hope you’ve enjoyed this episode about farming nether wart if you did don’t forget to leave a like on the episode subscribe if

You want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now You