How To Find THE BEST STRONGHOLD: Minecraft 1.20 Guide

Hello friends it’s me the handsome as there ever was welcome back to Casa Mojo Dojo then more importantly welcome back to the Guide Series in today’s episode we’ll be departing the Mojo Dojo in search Worldwide of a stronghold while looking for a stronghold I got some tips

And tricks I guarantee you didn’t know eventually once we found out boy we’re gonna crack it cold open and jump down into it loot it all in honor of the very final episode on the first leg of the series before we take on the end I need

You to smash that like button it will ensure a smile on bonzo’s face my face and and well I just think it will be mighty nice to you let’s do this last episode we had a busy one we got the building finally at long lasting we actually did

The very final big project that we had to do over at the starter base we built a bring stand with a blaze rather look very similar to that one right there inside of that thing we ended up cooking up a couple Potions all thanks to this fuel right here

Early game mid game late game I don’t care where you are blaze rod and Blaze Potter there are some of the most useful things in all of Minecraft like we talked all about last episode you use them to make potions like we will talk about eventually at our great Minecraft

Journey blaze rods are also one of the best fuel sources in the entire game and perhaps most specifically important for us today if we take blaze rods and a couple other ingredients and smash them out of Sonic Speed together inside of the crafting table we’ll end up with a

Handy little item called The Eye of Ender today the Eye of Ender well it’s really going to be our ticket to everything to be honest if you’re looking to go to the end in Minecraft you know open up a whole dimension Explorer dig out a dragon all

That stuff then you need to find a structure called the stronghold now technically there is a little command that you could run to look something like that to find a stronghold nice and easily run that command inside of your world that if you’re on Minecraft Java

Tap there hit enter and all of a sudden poof you’re sent to the local stronghold another stronghold this is one of the older structures in Minecraft this is essentially the gateway to the next Dimension a stronghold is composed of a bunch of different rooms locked together and by hallways in every single

Minecraft to Java world you will have exactly 128 strongholds spread across those things in a ring formation over at Minecraft Bedrock Edition strongholds are actually a whole lot more infinite now we’ll talk a little bit more about the finer details of this thing once we

Find it in our world but for the first way you could find a stronghold there you go good luck not that you need it if you’re doing that those struggle generation is slightly different on Minecraft bedrock and Minecraft Java actually locating this thing is going to

Be exactly the same if you’re looking to find a stronghold in survival without any commands it’s all I Avenger if you’ve never done this before I recommend getting more than 16 eye vendor if you’ve done it before 16 should probably be fine now getting the Eye of Ender well a couple episodes back

We made an Enderman Farm in the nether that will help out big time after that head over to the nether portraits take out some Blaze get the blaze run and then you’re ready to go other end hunting supplies of course maybe a bed we’re gonna leave the base so you might

Want to be able to like skip nighttime and well really that’s it like I guess a map if you’re if you’re mapping maybe a spyglass if you’re you’re spying to be honest it’s all really in those things right there now Bonzo sweetbone so I know you want to come desperately but

You didn’t join me for grafting the things so that means you get to stay here and watch over the cows again good luck with that this is an emergency Interruption before we get too far into the action today down below drop your number one stronghold binding tip or looting tip ah

The good old-fashioned eye event just like the stronghold itself this is one of the older items in Minecraft it’s also kind of interesting it’s completely unique nothing else does quite what it does we’re gonna use the Eye of Ender in survival to locate the stronghold but also to eventually open the portal too

Step number one to using an eye Avenger is get an Eye of Ender after that after you become that overachiever you’re going to want to find an open space now this open space it could be like a planes biome it could be the top of a

Tree or if you’re situated in a forest like I am a body of water isn’t bad after you find that open space hold the Eye of Ender and use it when you use it you want to keep your eye at it it might go behind you whatever once you throw at

Them it’s gonna go up into the air about 12 blocks away from you and hover in a general direction now I got lucky that time the Eye of Ender went up into the air and like this general direction then popped and fell down if it falls back

Down you’re going to want to grab that thing you got an 80 chance at the Eye of Ender after you throw it will pop into an item form unfortunately and that leaves about 20 percent at 20 chances pops breaks and it’s done so gone forever I threw the All-Seeing

All-knowing Eye and it went off in this general direction the direction that I’m currently backing up that’s the way we need to go at least for now so the eye vendor in Minecraft it essentially works as a locator item almost like m a stronghold Compass if you will the Eye

Of Ender when you use one inside of your world is going to float up into the air and the general direction of the closest stronghold to be honest this is getting into the nitty-gritty details here but on Minecraft’s Java Edition strongholds generate in a ring formation inside of

Your world long story short from World spawn there should be a stronghold in some direction within like a thousand to three thousand blocks somewhere one thousand to three thousand blocks hey it sounds like a lot but I think this will actually probably go relatively quickly

So I’ve been running for a little bit of a ways and I kind of lost my win if you lose your weight no big deal we stop we throw the eye of Bender and I can see that it’s still going in this Direction please pop oh yeah you popped you’re

Beautiful they’re all gonna do that for me today so two things so take into account the fact that you might potentially have to go like 3 000 blocks and take into account the fact that you got a 20 chance of losing an eye vendor although that’s really gonna mean that

You don’t want to span these things instead it’s a whole lot smarter to cover some distance before you throw another one typically I would say like 100 to 200 blocks or maybe like a better way to measure it is use landforms I threw it somewhere like in the forest

Over there and I know this way I could see like I think a village and a swamp I remember you instead of just throwing another Eye of Ender right now to see if I’m still going in the right direction what I’ll probably do instead in fact definitely do is move past this Village

And maybe like over the hill then I’ll try again no so sad and tragic the Wolves they’ve all trapped themselves into a pit in a hole taking out every single sheep friend massacring them along the way how could you do this disgusting Savages oh beautiful beautiful shimmering emeralds that’s wonderful so while

Searching for a stronghold today every couple hundred blocks or so when we get a good clearing like an opening spot where we can see a lot we’re gonna throw at Ivan The Eye of Ender is a very very intriguing item not only is it mysteriously know where the stronghold is but it can also go clean through items check that that thing somehow I have no clue how but it it went clean through the blocks so this is an

Interesting part of the world it looks like we have yet another Village never saw that one before and we have a gigantic swamp bio 100 I’m gonna have to come back over to the swamp album at some point and check it out I like to

See if we have a witch hut inside of it on my to-do list inside of this world a witch Farm is like pretty hot it’s been a long time since I built a witch Farm in they’re actually like crazy useful you can get some really good things

Oh whoa no way no way moving up on top of this hill looking around a little bit that’s another Village over there now that might be one that we went to before but still one Village right over there water right there I don’t know guys I thought they made The Villages generate

Barther away that’s a little very far to me at all I love it Now let’s make it a Villages if you’re playing on Minecraft bedrock and you’re looking for a stronghold all of it’s basically exactly the same use an eye a vendor however on Minecraft Bedrock the stronghold is typically located below a village so that could be a big sign that

You are getting close but on uh on Java it’s not really like that I have Ender you still lead me out this way and off to the great ocean too I hope this isn’t buried underwater foreign so this might be pushing my luck but

Before I get to the ocean I want to see if maybe it’s not gonna oh come on you’re gonna send me still to the ocean oh no and even worse from from the hill over there that I threw it from they will only go about 12 or so blocks but I

I lost my eye and it definitely fell so this is where the whole 12 black thing comes into play when you throw an Eye of Ender it will only travel about 12 blocks or so from you so if you can backtrack to wherever you threw that Aya

Vendor and then kind of like start counting 12 or so blocks you might be able to find a little sneaky lad hiding not so vast and anyways oceans if your stronghold happens to be located under an ocean it’s gonna be good and bad bad because I mean it’s a lot of water you

Might have to swim down pretty deep but also maybe good news because if the ocean is deep enough it might almost be exposed on the the bottom of the water at dawn I guess we sail Now searching for a stronghold in a body of water is essentially the same as it

Is on land however I can offer you this boat trick again have I told you about this before believe this is Minecraft Java only but if you get your fov just right you can kind of see right through the water if you can see through the

Water you can look on the bottom of the water for suspiciously Square land formations if you’re looking around for a stronghold then you start seeing weird square boxes basically popping out of the ocean floor not really seeing any air but if you do that could be a big sign aha

Aha I don’t know if you saw what just happened but the Eye of Ender turned straight towards an ocean Monument no don’t do this to me no you better not all right so I don’t know if you saw what happened though but for the longest time I was heading out like that

Direction I threw the eye and it turned once the eye begins to turn that might very well mean that you are getting closer to your gold destination now once the eye turned and went into the water it probably sunk down to the bottom of the water gotta wait for this

Thing to float back up hopefully any minute now well that’s uh I don’t know I don’t know where the eye went but I want to see if I need to keep going yes I do need to keep going that way okay and this time no that’s what I was talking about no

At this point considering the fact that my eyes a vendor have taken such a sharp turn from the direction they were leading me before I might want to consider started throwing them a little bit more frequently because eventually it’s gonna go the complete opposite direction aha there you are not so fast

So now my eye a bender it has changed Direction but it still went high up into the sky what I’m going to want to do is turn around go back over to where that I went go a little past it and grow it again and see what happens if the Eye of

Ender continuously continues to go up into the sky you’re not too close yet but you are getting closer considering the fact that it’s changed Direction so back in the boat and we’ll move a little bit over maybe this kelp patch over here we throw the eye and it still goes up

Seems like it’s got to be right over here somewhere we’ll go ahead and sail a little bit more and maybe here Uh-huh still okay no no no backtracking one final time this has to be and we throw the Eye of Ender and this time it went nowhere except down once the Eye of Ender goes down that means you’ve found the chuck on Minecraft Jabba if I hit F3 and G it

Might be kind of tricky to tell because we’re red on the border so I’m gonna go ahead and throw another one but I don’t really recommend doing that I throw it and as we can see it’s going right on this chunk border right there that’s why I don’t recommend doing it you might

Lose it when the eye of vendor is finding your stronghold it’s going to actually find the entrance chunk or the corner of the chunk where the entrance should be but did you know there’s a specific way to find exactly dead center on the entrance so at this point no

Matter what what I want to do is not lose the entrance Corner this is going to be a little bit more difficult to pull off because we’re inside of water but we can still do it since we’re dealing with a little bit of water something that might not be a bad idea

To craft maybe have a little bit extra there’s gonna be fence gates don’t make air to find the exact entrance of your stronghold once you’ve found your stronghold Chunk we need to find specific chunk coordinates check out this grade right here you see those parentheses right there those are going

To be the chunk coordinates inside of a different world the land that is slightly more dry we have the exact same thing going on the coordinates inside of those brackets right there are your chunk coordinates inside of every single Minecraft Chunk we have a starting spot

The starting spot is going to be marked and those coordinates by zero a number in the middle and then zero so inside of this chunk this is zero if I start moving this way my x coordinate is going to go up but also the x of the chunk

Coordinate is gonna go up if that makes sense I got one if I move back over to the starting and go the other way that’s going to be the Z coordinate so inside of this chunk that spot right there is going to be zero zero this is gonna be

One zero over here this is gonna be zero one over here this would be one one if that makes sense meanwhile in Minecraft Bedrock the same system might exist but it’s a whole lot more difficult to check out in specific because you don’t have this hook back inside of the guide at

This corner where the pearls seem to have been going to if I check the chunk coordinates we have 15 something in the middle and then zero that’s wrong that means I marked the wrong chunk the eye of enter will always go to a zero zero spot inside of a chunk consider the fact

That this is zero zero that means this has to be the stronghold jump I eventer always goes to Chung coordinate zero zero entrance of the stronghold is always that chunk coordinate 4-4 that means from zero zero if we walk one two three four and then from this spot we go

One two three four if I dig straight down right here that should theoretically be the middle of the entrance another thing you could do is from the zero zero you could just go one diagonal two diagonal three diagonal and then a fourth diagonal that’s where

We’re going to want to dig down now when I dig down because we’re in water here if I put a fence gate that’s gonna stop the water that’ll make it a little bit easier we’ll start it off by digging a couple blocks so you guys like that Lads

We’re set up for potential pure propping now I don’t be a good Minecraft trick or two this trick should work every single time but if it doesn’t work this time that’s going to be insanely embarrassing and we’re gonna forget that I ever said anything just a minute ago it never

Happened at all from this point in the game all I should theoretically need to do is dig straight down or double dig down which is where you stand on the border of two blocks and dig down and that’ll drop us down into the center of the entrance of the stronghold

But I guess we’ll see so now at this point though I’ve lost my fence gate and I’ve hit deep sleep once you’ve hit deep slate it’s not necessarily a bad sign or a good sign or anything the stronghold can generate all the way down to the bottom of the world

So that 4-4 trick that I talked about if I stayed lined up I would be right here if I dig this out or a couple blocks I should fall right down the middle of the entrance of the staircase we’re in Lads Lads we’re in hey hold up real quick

Let’s actually break this fence gate with the fence gate right here I’m going to immediately fall into the staircase but I can set up an easy way at enough now that we’ve made it into the stronghold Champions the tone of the episode of chips immediately I need you

To mark your coordinates where you came in or dig a staircase out back inside of a different world here the stronghold is composed of a couple different pieces we’re gonna have rooms and then we’re gonna have corridors to link the rooms together the chests inside of the stronghold can kind of be

Found all over the place in the rooms but also the hallways however the chests unless you have some kind of weird generation situation going on inside of your world will never be found inside of the staircases you gotta have to be careful inside of your stronghold you’re

Gonna have a lot of long dark hallways I highly recommend moving through this thing and dropping torches down as you go every single time you find a door what I like to do is either break the door or leave it open if it’s left open then I know for sure that I’ve been

There before to help myself later on down the road when I’m trying to leave this place I’m gonna put blocks right there that’s gonna make it really obvious that this spiral staircase is the spiral staircase that leaves the fort now alluded this structure oh boy I

Have so much fun with this I like to explore structures oh boy I’m feeling it today we’re gonna find a library and inside of that Library chest we will find the most beautiful thing in the world so generation of the structure seems a little bit busted a little bit strange

And broken over this way looks like there’s light if you’re looking for good loot or maybe the portal room so you can like oh buddy stop it if you’re looking for a good loot maybe looking for a library a portal room something like that then is a great idea to head for

The light so many mobs down there skeleton spawner at a stronghold perhaps maybe so many mobs so many mobs so many mobs skeletons won’t are at the stronghold no way oh no way okay this is a slightly dangerous situation a little bit precarious precarious if you could

If you would why do you all have a chance to bows You’re Gonna Give Them All to Me one by one I will move slowly and carefully into this room with food on the hot bar and skeleton spawner oh this is one of the best finds that I

Could have ever found inside of the destructor oh this is truly a dream come true and perfect and it’s completely busted up the stronghold generation it shouldn’t look like that but we just Lance I think I’m gonna finally make a stronghold base I think we’re gonna finally make a stronghold base

I’m in awe shock and disbelief all right so real quick we’ll move down here and make sure this is nice and safe considering the fact that I just found one of the literal best strongholds in the world we need to make sure no creepers will go back over to where that

Thing is inside of the stronghold you’re gonna find staircases that will go down and sometimes you’ll find flat walls just like we talked about in the nether fortress episode unfortunately when you find corridors to lead to walls that look like that it’s the most likely a

Dead end if you want to you could like double check mine into the wall is a couple blocks but I mean I can guarantee it the stronghold is over this is done however back this way we have another staircase that goes down a staircase that goes down and Spirals and spirals

Deeper and deeper hmm so back over this way we have a staircase that I went to check done that’s good and then that way checked on that’s good I think I got that whole Wing moving back over this way this is the way to the skeleton spawner I’ll

Mark that like that let’s go over here and see what we got I gotta find an altar chest sooner or later iron doors inside of your stronghold you’re gonna find iron doors sometimes there is buttons on the walls you can open uh the doors with the buttons like that

Jail room this is a room that you could bind inside of the stronghold the jail room has a couple of jail cells but unfortunately unless they’re like coincidentally lucky invite a mob inside of the cell there will be nothing inside of the jail cells and we have another dead end all right

So at this point using the map that I’ve laid out inside of my head of this structure I’ve got it this whole Wing is all dead ends I think that means I can backtrack and go up when running around inside of a stronghold you’re looking for a small handful of things of course

You want to find that sweet loot but it’s not all just loot you’re also probably looking for a specific room the portal room you also should be looking for a library oh we’ve done it I know exactly what’s going to be inside of the library inside of one of these chests

That’s right friends that’s right I told you I would do it eventually armor trim sweet beautiful the Minecraft 1.20 deliciously tasting armor trim and enchantments the enchanted book so you can find inside of the stronghold can have basically every enchantment in the game other than two on them oh these are

Some good books right there look at that one that’s good this one is really really good that’s gonna be wonderful for the Trident actually oh or boots ooh decisions and that’s perfect for the bow that’s going on it speaking of bows these two bows that I found not too hot

And then these books I mean those are nice too armor every single time you bind the library inside of a stronghold in 1.20 you find a chest inside of it there’s guarantee armor Trim in these chests one in both chests when it comes to loot inside of a stronghold there is

A handful of good things that you could find enchant the books and Armature being some of them if you’re a little bit more lucky you could also perhaps find a golden apple and maybe even a music disc too another great thing about the stronghold is the blocks is built

Out of all over the stronghold you’re gonna have a lot of stone bricks it’s wonderful and then inside the Library so many books if you need more books for an enchanting setup well this is gonna be the way to go I will leave the library alone preserve it and come back later I

Love how close this is to the spawner too this is gonna be such a nice Outpost later on I mean like look I feel like with such a good stronghold we legally kind of have to set up an outpost here right what do you guys think so moving

Back over here I I want to Mark the good Wing I mean the bookshelves will give it away but a cobblestone right there 100 that means smaller and bookshelves over there let’s go back over this way down the staircase what do we have another jail and a Crossroads room or at

Least a room very nice gold door a room that I’m going to call the crossroads room I don’t know the technical name but this is an altered chest inside of the stronghold in the altar chest you could also if you’re lucky fight armored trim but the odds are definitely not

Guaranteed whole lot lower chance moving around here this stronghold gets really busted up and broken this is quite strange generation but I think it’ll be fine let’s backtrack and go through this door door number two through door number two we have even more iron doors and a

Creeper oh explosive so stay away from me lad no both of you all of you oh and silverfish let’s talk about those so the stronghold is some kind of strange ancient structure inside this thing you’ll have trap blocks if you break the Trap blocks which are actually kind of

Hard to tell but basically they just break quicker but if you break the Trap blocks they could be stone bricks all over the place silverfish will come out of them these infested blocks are infested with silverfish and silverfish are not exactly nice it’s a bad mob

It’ll deal damage to you but not very much the silverfish gets a little bit more dangerous to be honest in like large numbers if you have like a lot of silverfish swarming you it could be like potentially pretty dangerous so here we have another interesting room this one

Is just like this got ominous Vibes all over the thing to me it’s weird it’s like a strange altar in the middle of the room with torches it doesn’t necessarily signify anything it’s just weird so it looks like down that way with that weird altered thing is just more dead ends unfortunately let’s

Backtrack and go back this way I know there’s more moving back over here I could hear like a million and a half mobs the mobs sometimes could be a giveaway that there’s more The Fortress that you have to check out or it could always just be a giveaway that there’s a

Lot of caves nearby that are dark and mobs have spawned in them hmm alter chest please trim oh oh beautiful trim we’re lucky today oh that’s amazing ah versus The Eye of Ender next up the trayman third up the second library of the day yes Wonderful by the way cobwebs

An uncraftable item it’s not a great idea to break them with a sword instead mind them with shears you’ll get the item then you could use them in a build later on use them in a armor later on maybe tomorrow harm or dream four of

Them that’s a full set now let’s take a look at this flame and great all over the place so when it comes to looting the stronghold taking all the loot home admittedly I didn’t kind of forget one giant component that’s gonna be an Ender Chest at this

One in the game before the end the best way to oh that’s terrifying I hate the door breaking noise zombies will do that sometimes that scares me anyways at this point in the game before the end the best way to expand your inventory is with a little thing called the Ender

Chest I didn’t make it we’ll talk about it later though five but pieces of armor trim that’s gonna mean enough for pieces of arbitrim for a full set of armor and one trim that I don’t even use up like I just hold it later on ah that doesn’t

Wonderful going back up this way that thing marks all of the good stuff that we found which means over this way I should have the staircase to leave the stronghold what I think I want to do really quick yes over here eventually we’ll be coming back over to this

Stronghold then definitely heading over to the end from this thing when I come back over to the stronghold to use what it’s actually here for I’ll pick up all these things so conveniently here it looks like I have a hallway that I never went down and it stretches back towards

Where I just was let’s go down this hallway and see what’s up we get a staircase that goes down we get doors and zombies hmm I wonder if that’s what I was here with the zombies smashing a door down unfortunately this Darkness so never mind I take it back this is not

Unfortunate I was gonna say there’s lava in that room and it makes it really bright oh we did it oh we did it we found the wonderful room it’s gonna always have a spawner be careful but it’s also gonna have a portal with eyes that we need to

Load up into it looks like I need 11. and speaking of 11 oh no way all right anyway silverfish spawner inside of this room it’s potentially dangerous this could cause a large amount of silverfish to break out of the walls so break it if

You want I think I kind of want to save it though after all I’m gonna come back here instead of an elbows for sure and so just like that we’ve done it it looks like straight off from the entrance if I have known and just went straight out

The whole time that’s amazing to know and it’s gonna make it really easy to get back into the portal next time but before next time let’s finish looting this boy let’s go Hello And so at this point in our strongholds run today leaving no door left unbroken no Corridor left unlit and no chest left unbroken I think we just about done it I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every single Corner Corridor in the hallway inside of this entire stronghold all right so for

Our loot run today I mean I didn’t take every single piece of loot here but the good books oh there’s so many good books I think the most important one for me to take home with me is gonna be that armor trim 100 I’m not leaving you here baby

You got to come with me now just to make sure I don’t make any mistakes here next episode and forget to bring these back with me I’m gonna leave all of my extra Eye of Ender right here in a chest inside of the stronghold to break my way

Out of the stronghold I’m gonna need to break that Ben skate which is gonna let water pour down if I break this block right here then let it break these blocks right here and then the fence gate right up here water should only pour straight down and mess up none of

The Torches down below that’s gonna make it really easy or at least a little bit easier for me to get in and out of the structure this stronghold one of Minecraft’s oldest structures but also one of the most important ones as we talked all about today it’s really not

Too hard to find a stronghold pretty straightforward once you find the thing and actually break your way into it as long as you’re careful and maybe use the structures features to your advantage closing doors when you get overwhelmed with Mobs it’s not that bad to loot too considering the fact that our stronghold

Is out here in the middle of the ocean and could definitely get lost really really easily I’m gonna make this pillar I don’t think there’s any way in the world that I lose track of this pillow the pillar signifies that at the bottom of the ocean I got a tunneled up my

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Kind of blew my mind because I always forget about barter with the piglands for fire resistance potion oh that is so smart let’s make this a trend on any of these episodes where there’s a topic put more tips down in the comments I love it anyways it has been me Waddles and I

Will see you all tomorrow goodbye Thank you