How to make an Evil Lair in Minecraft!

With halloween just around the corner i thought i’ll get into the spirit of things and build something just a tiny bit spooky so today we’re going to take a look at how to make an evil lair in minecraft now this is going to be perfect for plotting out evil plans

Building disgusting creatures and well doing all the other things that evil people do i mean to be honest with you i couldn’t really think of that much i mean what do evil people actually do on a daily basis let me know down in the comment section but while i was planning

This thing out i was thinking to myself what biome should i build this in will it be a jungle no that’s a little bit too tropical could it be like a standard forest that’s just a tiny bit boring then i remembered the mushroom biome but as you can see this isn’t any old

Mushroom biome this is an amplified mushroom biome and i have to say it does not disappoint this thing is absolutely perfect and we’re going to be building our evil there in this area right here as always with these sorts of builds the first thing that we got to work on is

The entrance and i personally think the best way to enter an evil lair is to fly in so we’re going to be doing this with the lead trait if you’re playing on console or in pocket edition or something like that then unfortunately you’re just going to have to sort of

Fall in i guess but the elytra seems like a pretty good option to me so we’re going to create a 3×5 opening right here which is going to be where all of our trip wires and all of our door is going to be going then we’re going to have to

Clear out a little bit extra space to make way for all of the redstone now due to how fast you actually fly with the elytra we’re going to have to set this door back just a tiny bit so our trip wires are going to be going around about

Here and we’ve got to go four blocks back from that point so that’s two there and then we’ve got three and four i’m going to clear out all of this space and then i’ll catch you guys in a little bit this is the area that i’ve created specifically for door constructing so

The first thing that i’ve got to do is i’m going to throw in all of my tripwire hooks and i’m going to connect up all of those tripwire hooks and what this should mean is is if you fly in with the elitra you should trigger at least one

Of these tripwires if you’ve managed to go past all of the tripwires without triggering any of them then you’ve managed to do something fantastic but anyway to hook up all of these and then i’m going to place some redstone down at the bottom some redstone up at the top

Some redstone right here and we’re going to connect up all three of those by using this redstone here now what that means is is that whichever tripwire you activate it will always give an output through this redstone right here we’re actually going to invert that using a redstone torch now that redstone sort

Signal is then going to run directly into this sticky piston on this wall which is going to extend outwards we should probably start chucking in the pistons for the piston door itself so this is the side one and we’re going to have another side one over here and

Another three up at the top facing downwards so you should end up with an area that looks a tiny bit like this now this is all well and good i mean we’ve got one piston extending but we do have another seven left to go so we should probably get to work on

Connecting those up so the first thing i’m going to do is i’m going to take out a few blocks right here i’m just going to run a redstone line down across it next to all of these pistons now i know what you’re thinking how on earth is this redstone going to power those

Sticky pistons there well actually we need to pop down a few blocks take out a few extra blocks down at the bottom and then we’re going to place in redstone torches beneath all of the sticky pistons and the good news is is because sticky pistons are transparent the redstone torch doesn’t actually power

This block here then power the redstone and cause that crazy burnout clock because that’ll be bad news okay that wouldn’t work but thankfully this is a pretty good solution to the problem then we can run a redstone into this block and then some redstone and some redstone

And then there we go we’ve got half of the door fully extended in fact more than half of the door fully extended now we just have to link up our top pistons now the way that we’re going to do that is we’re going to have to clear out a

Few blocks right here and we’re going to take a redstone torch output from this block now this works because this redstone gets powered by all of the tripwires and then it runs up like this this redstone is actually powering that block which means that we can actually

Take an output from this thing and we’re going to run it along this line make sure that it goes past this sticky piston right here and we’re going to run it up like this now i have to say it is getting a little bit tight up here so

I’m probably going to have to clear out a few extra blocks place those blocks across like this redstone dust next to all of those pistons there and then we’re going to carry that output down and across into the redstone torch and there we have it we’ve got ourselves a

Fully functional 3×3 piston door that is going to be perfect for use with the elutra but there is one slight problem it’s really very ugly so we’ve got some decorating to do right here i’m just going to throw in all of my stone and then on either side i’m just going to

Place in stone bricks going across like that because of course this is a three by three door we don’t want visible pistons or anything like that then we’re going to place in all of the blocks in the center there it is super fast three by three door so now we’ve got to clear

Out a bunch of space behind this thing because we’ve got to create a catching area obviously if we fly in at high speed we don’t want to travel through the door and smash straight into a wall because that’d be pretty bad so we’ve got to create an elytra catching zone

Before we actually drop down into the illegal layer itself so this is the space i’ve taken out i have to say it’s probably not the prettiest thing in the world but we’re going to be creating a big water catching zone just behind the door right

Here so the first thing i’ve got to do is i’ve got to take out a 3×3 area and just because i want to i think i’m going to fill in all of this with stone bricks as well because if you don’t do it now you’ll never do it and it will forever

Be looking ugly so i’m going to take out all of those i’m also going to throw in stone bricks down at the bottom here as well and of course for the roof we’ve got to do a pretty similar thing now you have to watch out because of course you

Don’t want to be taking out any of your redstone we’re going to be placing in stone bricks up at the top right here stone bricks on the sides and basically stone bricks all over the place you guys know what i’m like i love my stone bricks in minecraft so that should just

About do us and that’s going to be the rest of the roof right there so our water needs to go in all of these sections here and we should get a big three by three cube of water which should take quite a lot of the speed of

Our little entrance okay so we fly in we slow down then we end up on this side and this is where we’re going to travel downwards just because i think it looks lovely i’ve thrown in glowstone at the bottom and the top to light up all of our water

And now it just looks like a water feature i mean you could definitely say that this is just a waterfall or a fountain that you have at the front of your base as opposed to a high velocity minecraft player catcher but anyway we’re now going to start work on the

Evil layer itself you can see i’ve cleared out a few extra blocks right here because we’re going to be placing in a pressure plate an iron door a bunch of blocks around that iron door which is a bit of a humble entrance i know and this is where our drop down chamber is

Actually going to be going now i have to say it is going to be a tiny bit uninspiring once again we’re going to be using a bunch of stone bricks right here a button in case you change your mind and this is where we’re actually going

To be dropping down into the base before you will panic i am well aware of the fact that a lot has changed since the previous clip but this is the evil lair itself and as you can see we’ve gone for a sort of cave design now what i’ve done

Is i’ve dropped down by three blocks right here so we’ve got one two three blocks and then i’ve gone ham with the left click button i’ve just taken out a bunch of blocks and i’ve tried my best to make it look as natural as possible so if you need some inspiration then

Just take a look at the screen right now there should be some pretty good inspiration there then some inspiration there i mean i don’t know why i’m saying this because you could just go into any minecraft cave and look at it that would be plenty of inspiration for you guys

But if you’re wondering how i’ve actually lit the thing you can see we’ve got these little things dotted around here now the cool thing about these is is that they’re actually made of a pressure plate a hopper and then we’ve got some glowstone down underneath that

Appears to be filled with tnt which is a little bit strange we’ve got the glowstone and then we place the hopper on top and then replace the pressure plate on top of that one and one very important thing to do is to run around your cave and try your best to take a

Look at the light level now the light level is at like the bottom left-hand corner of your f3 screen and you can see currently it’s like 10 and then we have like nine and you just want to make sure that the block level is at no lower than seven because

Otherwise mobs can actually spawn now everyone knows that the first requirement of an evil lair is bats we need to have tons and tons of bats in this place so i thought we could build an atmospheric bat dispenser so the first thing we’ve got to do is place in

A dispenser like this now i hate to say it if you are playing in survival mode or you’re building this in survival mode this part isn’t going to apply to you but there’s plenty of other awesome things to come we’re going to run a redstone input into the side of that

Block right there which is going to be powering our dispenser and then all we have to do is create a hopper clock now i’m going to place two hoppers running into one another just like that then we’re going to take a comparator output from that one running into a block with

Redstone dust on top and then another comparator with a block redstone dust on top sticky pistons on either side of that one and then a redstone block over the top like that now we’re going to need to chuck in a bunch of items on the inside of this thing because we don’t

Want hundreds upon hundreds of bats on the inside of our cave right here we’re going to take a repeater output from this thing and then run it into the block and then there we go that should dispense out a bat once you fill it with the bat spawn eggs once again if you

Play in the survival mode unfortunately you can’t actually do that the next most important thing in an evil lair is of course the mission control area the place that has all of the levers all of the switches all of the buttons all the flashing lights that appear to do

Nothing but probably do a bunch of evil different bits and pieces so we’ve got to take out a few blocks and then we’re going to place a long line of blocks making its way across like that now my one’s seven blocks along but of course you can do whatever you really fancy

With this one and then we’re going to place a few redstone lamps going up like this and a few more redstone lamps there and probably a few more redstone labs right there and then we’re going to fill in all of those blocks with stone bricks

Just to make it look a tiny bit nicer so that should just about do the trick and then down at the bottom here we’re going to have all of our levers and all of our buttons and other bits and bobs that are going to be controlling all of the

Various different evil things in the evil layer now these are just for decoration in my redstone build but if you do want to hook these up to things then that would be amazing now as you probably saw a couple seconds ago i have cleared out a rather large space behind

This thing to make way for all of the redstone so i’m going to clear out all of these blocks so that we have access to our redstone lamps and we now actually have to hook these redstone lamps into redstone circuits so the first thing we’ve got to do is place

Blocks down at the bottom here with redstone torches on those then we need to place a line of blocks going across like this with redstone torches right there and a line of blocks across the top like this with redstone torches on the other side of them now this was the

Only way that i could work out that i could independently power all of the redstone lamps without it powering other redstone lamps there’s a chance i’ve been really silly here and missed something very obvious but it seemed like a pretty good option to me so the

Next thing that we’ve got to do is we’ve got to grab ourselves some repeaters and we’re going to run those into all of the different redstone lamps with various different delays so this is what we’ve ended up with we’ve got repeaters running into the blocks which power the

Redstone torches and we’ve got a line of repeaters which power these blocks which run under the redstone torches then we’ve got a line of repeaters which power the redstone which power the redstone torches we should just about do the trick so the next thing that we’ve

Got to do is we’ve got to run redstone lines connecting all of these things up so redstone line right there we’re going to have a redstone line running across like this and a redstone line connecting up all of the top ones and then we actually have to connect up all three of

These redstone lines and the way that we’re going to do that is by using some half slabs so i’m going to run the slabs up like this and we’re going to have slabs going up there and that should just about do it so there we go all of

This is now connected now we just need to run a repeater a comparator and then our two hoppers back and forth into one another then throw any old item inside that hopper and as you can see we now have flashing crazy mission control lamps that look absolutely awesome oh

And of course i’ve missed one very important thing the chair the chair to sit in to admire the mayhem that is going on in front of you i mean if you can decipher that please let me know down in the comment section but yeah i don’t think that’s

Going to happen for me for this next part we’re going to need to clear out a relatively large space once again so this is going to be seven blocks across like this and it is going to go right the way up to the top of the build just

Like that so we’ve got a 5×3 opening once again and then we’re going to go three blocks back and all of this area here is going to be stone brick so we need an area like this and then this is going to be the back end of the stone bricks just like that

And we’re basically going to create a big stone brick cube in which we can build our potion brewing stations because of course this is an evil layer we need to create evil potions and things like that to put on our enemies so let’s quickly do that

Now this is a super simple design that i absolutely love probably one of my favorite designs all i need to do is chuck in a chest down the bottom that’s where our potions are going to come out we’re going to run a hopper into the side of that one and then another hopper

Running off in this direction right here we’re going to place a brewing stand on top that’s where the potions are going to be brewed and then we’re going to place in a hopper right there and a chest up at the top like this that’s where your water bottles are going to go

In then as far as the redstone is concerned we’re going to place in two blocks redstone a repeater running off in this direction a block here with redstone dust on top and a redstone torch right there to power the hopper and that is all of the redstone

Circuitry and then we just need to place in two droppers facing in this direction here take out a few blocks and place in two hoppers running into that chest now i should probably explain where everything is going to go because i’m sure quite a few of you are a little bit

Confused so as i mentioned earlier on this is where your potions come out don’t have to worry about putting anything in there this is where your water bottles go in so fill it up with your water bottles now this dropper right here is for your netherwart and

This dropper right here is for the other ingredients so if you want to make a swiftness potion then you put your sugarcane into that dropper if you want to make unknown instant health potion then you put your glycerin melon in there if that’s the correct recipe it

Basically works a little bit like that and as you can probably tell from this bit right here the next thing you want to do is mirror the design i personally think it looks fantastic and it’s about to get a whole bunch better because the way that you connect it up is by placing

A redstone right there block up like this and then a button and i personally like to place that block in the center to create this sort of design it looks awesome so make sure that you fill in all of the chests and all of the droppers and things and one thing that i

Just want to say is is that if you actually want to open the top chest you’re probably going to need to get yourself some stone brick stairs so i’ll quickly grab those from the inventory and place them up at the top because otherwise these things will stay shut

And well that’s a little bit rubbish isn’t it and finally on to the exit to this place now as you guys know we flew in using the elytra which means that we should probably fly out so we’re going to build a redstone contraption that will launch us out the side of the cliff

Side and off into the valley below so the first thing i’ve got to do is clear out this three by one area right here then we’re going to fill in all of the gaps with this compressed ice now what that means is is that when we get launched across we’ll slide across all

These blocks and make our way out of the accident so the next thing that we’ve got to do is we’ve got to place in an immovable object i’m going to be using a dropper then we’re going to place a sticky piston on top a slime block on

Its face right there a button down at the bottom so that we can actually press that while we’re standing here then from that button we’re going to take a 4 tick repeater output now it’s going to run it across like this and straight into our sticky piston so when we hit that button

This piston will extend and it will shoot us out through that hole but here’s the thing that’s not particularly secretive so i think we have to add in a piston door to hook that up is really quite simple all you have to do is go one block back from the edge of your

Tunnel take out these two blocks right here and place in two sticky pistons like that and then stone blocks on their faces and they will extend out across the front of the walkway here and the only thing left exposed will be the compressed ice which unfortunately we

Can’t really do too much about so obviously that will be visible but that’s the big deal so the next thing we’ve got to do is take a redstone torch output from this block right here on the edge of the button and we’re going to run that redstone out across like this

And into that block right there so that block that is next to the top sticky piston we’re going to run the redstone into that one we just need to do that a bit like this so as you can see those pistons are currently extended but when

We hit our button they will retract and be launched out onto the hillside and make our way right the way down to the floor and if we had a lytra that would be amazing so we have it ladies and gents that is our evil lair all done and

Dusted we’ve got flying piston doors drop down mechanisms mission control centers atmospheric bat dispensers we’ve got potion brewing stations and also player launchers that shoot the player out the side of a cliff now i personally think that sounds like a lot of fun let me know down in the comment section if

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